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RBR Reading Room: Third Saturday in October
Since the expansion of the Southeastern Conference in 1992, The Third Saturday in October is a name without a tether in reality. Rather than designate a specific weekend on the fall football schedule when the Alabama Crimson Tide and Tennessee Volunteers would meet on the gridiron it has simply...
Grading Mark Richt's First Ten Years With the Georgia Bulldogs (Part II)
We are halfway through our year-end review of Mark Richt’s performance as the head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs after a decade on the job. In the first installment, we compared Coach Richt’s records against specific opponents to those of his predecessors in the first ten years of each of their...
Alabama's Experiment with the Head Coach In Waiting
Last week, the practice of a school naming a head-coach-in-waiting was dealt a possibly fatal blow with the career implosion of West Virginia's Bill Stewart. The effort to keep the Mountaineers head coach on the sidelines one additional year while his successor waited in the wings crumbled...
RBR Reading Room: Bowl Bama Bowl
In the 119-year history of Alabama football, the Crimson Tide have played in an NCAA-leading 58 bowl games. To a certain extent the team’s 32-22-3 bowl game record presents a history of the program and so it’s no surprise to find someone has already taken that tack to write it. Clyde...
Where Should the Georgia Bulldogs Turn if Greg McGarity Must Replace Mark Richt as Head Coach? (Part Two)
As I indicated previously, we are shelving "Don’t Bet On It!" this week and focusing instead on the topic occupying everyone’s thoughts. I wish to repeat for the record that I believe Mark Richt should be and will be the head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs in 2011; I believe Mike Bobo, like Willie...
Ranking The Last 100 Years of Alabama Football
In 1958 Paul W. Bryant returned to the University of Alabama to begin rebuilding the football program he once played for. He was 45 years old and had been a head coach at three different schools leading them all to new heights of success. But the National Championship had eluded him. He started...
Alabama's 13 National Champion Football Teams
On Jan. 7 the Alabama Crimson Tide football team defeated the University of Texas Longhorns in the historic Rose Bowl Stadium and claimed the school's 13th National Championship. And almost immediately the shopworn complaints about the Tide's claim to that number of titles were dusted off and...
Today in Sports History: June 28th
(Fidrych pads the mound. Photo by William T. Anderson, The Detroit News) 6/28/1976 - Fidrych comes on the scene Tigers pitcher Mark Fidrych was a character if baseball ever had one. He padded the pitcher's mound like a nest, he talked to the baseball as if it was a living creature, and he carried...
RBR Reading Room: Crimson Tide Madness
There is a certain category of Alabama football book that seems to find its way onto every Crimson Tide fan's shelf. These are the generalized titles that are fairly interchangeable in terms of content and packaging. They also are usually pretty cheap so they are usually the product of a moment of...
The 1946 Rose Bowl: Alabama vs USC
Alabama has played in a total of six Rose Bowl games and Roll Bama Roll is looking back at each of those historic football matches. Today we turn our attention to the final time the Crimson Tide appeared in "The Grandaddy of Them All" - the 1946 contest versus USC. Alabama's final Rose Bowl game...
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