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Forde-Yard Dash: Dan Mullen, Mike Leach Hit the Sore Loser Trail After Losses

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Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football ("Academic School" T-shirts sold separately at Vanderbilt):

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SECOND QUARTER: TRANSLATING THE LANGUAGE OF A SORE LOSER

When Dan Mullen (11) started his postgame press conference following Florida’s upset loss to Texas A&M, he said the strangest things. He started talking about attendance—and not in response to a question. He went there on his own, traipsing down a well-worn path in college sports—the Sore Loser Trail.

Let’s look at what Mullen said, and then translate what he meant.