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In 2008, Phillip Fulmer said a tearful and tense good bye to Tennessee, a program he had coached for 17 seasons. Nearly four years later, he's trying to make his way back to the SEC.

According to former Tennessee assistant coach Doug Matthews, Fulmer has been in talks with Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long and is the leading outside candidate to replace Bobby Petrino.

"I know Phillip has had conversations with them," Matthews told the 3HL show on WGFX-FM 104.5 in Arkansas. "And when I say them, all that is going to take place behind the scenes."

However, Matthews, who worked with Fulmer at Tennessee, also said nothing would be done until after spring football concludes Saturday and that administration would be more comfortable promoting within, which could mean Taver Johnson, who has overseen the program since Petrino was first placed on administrative leave on April 5, or defensive coordinator Paul Haynes, who has gained player support.

Matthews didn't say whether Arkansas' hiring in-house would be a permanent gig or an interim position. But the longer Arkansas waits to hire a new coach the more limited their options become. With just three months until fall camps starts, most coaches aren't going to bail on their current team and Long shouldn't want a guy who would be willing to leave his team in the lurch like that.

Jessica Dorrell officially resigned from her job Tuesday five days after she was placed on paid administrative leave from the University of Arkansas.

Dorrell was with former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino at the time of his motorcycle accident on April 1 and had engaged in an inappropriate relationship with the 51-year-old father of four. Petrino used his position as head football coach to hire Dorrell as the student-athlete development coordinator from a pool of 159 applicants, including several who were better qualified for the position.

Petrino's decision to hire Dorrell over other applicants — without disclosing his relationship with her — was the reason he was fired last Tuesday.

"While Ms. Dorrell had a legitimate right to apply for and accept a position within the football program, the circumstances surrounding the former coach's decision to hire her compromised her ability to be effective in such a position," Arkansas athletics director Jeff Long said in a statement.

"She and I

Texas A&M is so new to the SEC that it doesn't actually know who's in the conference or where those particular schools are located.

A Texas A&M SEC shirt hit the Internet today with a picture of the states the Aggies thought were in the SEC and the words, "We may be new to the conference, but we aren't new to the game."

Texas A&M might, however, be new to the subject of geography.

North Carolina does not have an SEC team. The major college football schools in the state of North Carolina are UNC, Duke and N.C. State and they're all in the ACC. Unless, of course, Texas A&M knows something about SEC expansion that the rest of us don't.

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On the same day it was discovered that Alabama's national championship trophy had been accidentally smashed, the university also released pictures of players sporting their new national championship rings (look away LSU fans).

Players were awarded their rings on "Steak, Beans and Rings Night," which is awesome simply because the night actually exists.

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(photo courtesy of Heritage Auctions)One of the oldest college football jerseys in existence is now up for auction and you can take it home for the low, low price of $75,000.

Heritage Auctions is auctioning off an 1895 game-worn Princeton jersey, which features the original Spalding tag. There are several spots on the jersey where holes have been sewn up presumably from game wear and tear (check out the corner of the P and a couple places on the sleeves).

The first-ever football game was between Rutgers College and the College of New Jersey, which is now Princeton, on Nov. 6, 1869. Rutgers won 6-4. The account of the game is worth a read just for the verbiage. Princeton actually won 22 of the 40 first national titles.

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There are now a million pieces of Alabama's national championship trophy to go around.

During the weekend's A-Day festivities, a parent of a current player tripped on a rug that was under the display case and the Waterford Crystal football crashed to the ground shattering into a million little pieces.

The trophy, which was handmade in Ireland and worth $30,000, was in the Mal Moore Athletic Facility where Nick Saban's office is located.

(Photo courtesy of Alex Scarborough via Twitter)Associate Athletics Director for Football Communications Jeff Purinton told AL.com the school is in the process of getting the football replaced.

That undisclosed parent shouldn't feel too bad, this isn't the first time the crystal football has been broken. In 2008, then-recruit Orson Charles broke Florida's national championship trophy while admiring it.

And in 2006, Florida basketball coach Billy Donovan allowed the crystal basketball to slip off his fingertips and onto the stage during the team's Midnight Madness event. Luckily, that was a joke. A

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One of college football's greatest rivalries is on the brink of extinction and few are even noticing.

BYU and Utah have played each other since 1896 — or 1922 if you're a BYU fan — in a game that's affectionately called the "Holy War." It's the only rivalry in college football whose religious undertones create a salty dynamic on and off the field. Because of this, the rivalry has produced many ugly moments, including a full-scale brawl, players climbing into the stands to beat up fans, fans attacking cheerleaders, coaches exchanging barbs and one BYU player calling anyone associated with the University of Utah a "low class loser."

In 2008, Utah defeated BYU in its final regular-season game to go 12-0 and earn a spot in the Sugar Bowl. The Utes' 31-17 victory over Alabama in New Orleans put them in the conversation for the national title and though they were denied a share of college football's ultimate prize, it's fair to say that season and the subsequent protests for equality are part of why the BCS could undergo radical changes.

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That season is also part of the reason Utah earned an invite to the Pac-12, which is what is putting the Holy War in jeopardy.

There's nothing like black and white footage of old football games to get fans pumped up for the unveiling of new uniforms, right?

Right?

Well, that's the route Northwestern went with the uniform teaser it unveiled Monday.

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Unless Northwestern plans to go retro and revert back to some of those grainy footage uniforms, there are absolutely no spoilers in this video. No flashes of helmets or jerseys. No random shots of purple fabric to whet your whistle. Nope, just a guy talking about the past while you watch video of the past en route to the eventual unveiling of the uniforms of the future.