Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (confetti sold separately at Clemson, to celebrate finally scoring more than 20 points in regulation):
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THIRD QUARTER: FOURTH DOWN DECISIONS, AND EVERYTHING THAT RIDES ON THEM
Lane Kiffin (21) doesn’t like kickers. He’s an analytics believer who hates to punt and disdains field goals when the numbers say to go for it, which is why his teams annually rank at the top or near the top in attempted fourth-down conversions.