Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (place kicking tutorials available at Georgia Tech, where the Yellow Jackets followed up last year’s 3-for-8 field goal follies with an 0-for-3 start to this year in an upset loss to Northern Illinois):
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SECOND QUARTER: THE BIG 12 IS GETTING BIGGER, BUT HOW MUCH BETTER?
As Sports Illustrated reported last Friday, the plundered Big 12 is expected to regroup and add four schools this week. They don’t make up for the loss of cornerstone brands Oklahoma and Texas, but they add strength in numbers and keep the conference clearly ahead of the Group of 5 leagues in terms of football competitiveness.