Tennessee got walloped by South Carolina. And now the Volunteers fumbled away their college football playoff spot, DanWolken writes.
Basketball season has started, which means Tar Heel fans are no longer beholden to the sport they hold in lesser regard. However, their football team going into championship weekend with a remote chance to make the College Football Playoff would have demanded at least a bit of their attention span during the holidays. No need to worry about that anymore, though.
It’s remarkable to think about how close Stanford came to playing for a national title under Shaw between 2011-2015. With a little luck, it could have happened three times. And as college football was evolving into a more wide-open game, Stanford was a fun-to-watch antidote that simply wanted to beat the crap out of people at the line of scrimmage.
Tucker’s 10-year, $95 million contract, which was earned on the basis of exceeding expectations last season, truly looks like the sport’s version of cryptocurrency: All hype with nothing of substance backing the asset other than speculation that it will grow in value. That shouldn’t be the expectation for Tucker. But part of being a really good program, and having the elite contract that his more accomplished peers have, is producing year-to-year consistency. If Tucker can’t do that better than he did this season, it’s going to be a rough decade for the Spartans.
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