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Brady Hoke's response to Notre Dame getting out of its series against Michigan was to lob some grade-school playground taunts at the Irish.

Notre Dame canceled games against Michigan from 2015-2017, and the Wolverines publicly responded that Notre Dame was solely responsible for that. The schools had previously agreed to not play in 2018 and 2019, and perhaps Hoke is trying to drum up interest in reviving the series after that.

"The Notre Dame game, that rivalry, which they're chickening out of," Hoke said during a West Michigan Sports Commission luncheon, according to MLive.com.

No word on whether Hoke strutted around calling, "Bwack, bwack, BWAAAAACK!" about the Irish (or if upon the mention of chicken he yelled out, "I ate the bones!").

"They're still gonna play Michigan State, they're gonna play Purdue, but they don't want to play Michigan," Hoke said, according to MLive.com. "I don't know how they made that decision ... I really do ... But anyway, that's a great national rivalry game. It's a great game."

Aside from the juvenile taunting, Hoke does have a point. The fact that the rivalry is going away is bad for everyone.

College football has precious few great non-conference rivalries, especially ones that play early in

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Donovan McNabb didn't win a Heisman Trophy at Syracuse, or lift the Orange to a national title. But it's hard to argue that his No. 5 isn't worthy of retirement.

McNabb announced on his Twitter account that Syracuse is planning to give him that honor this season:

At our Trustees dinner it was announced that SU will be retiring the # 5 on Nov 2. God is good.thx to all teammates and coaches from 94-99.

— Donovan McNabb (@donovanjmcnabb) May 11, 2013

There's sometimes a rush to retire numbers before a player's legacy can really be digested, but McNabb seems worthy.

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Bob Stoops took a lot of heat last week by saying the SEC isn’t the best conference in the country and that while the top of the SEC might be stellar, the bottom isn’t nearly as good as the bottom of the Big 12.

And now, another Big 12 coach is jumping on Stoops’ bandwagon.

Kansas coach Charlie Weis told ESPN.com he agreed with Stoops’ assessment of the SEC.

"Do you know the stats? In the SEC, the record of the good guys and the bad guys?" Weis asked ESPN.com in a recent interview.

"The stats" to which Weis is referring have appeared a few times on this blog, and paint the SEC as a league devoid of parity, at least last season. The conference's bottom eight teams went 0-30 against the top six teams in 2012.

"I’m just sayin’, you look at the bottom of our league and the bottom of their league, just going based off the numbers, there’s validity in what he said," Weis said. "I’m just going based off the numbers, I mean, I’m a numbers guy. Just based off the numbers, you’d have to say he’s got a point."

Unfortunately, Weis’ comments might not mean much since he is the coach of a team that went 1-11 last year and has gone 3-21 during Weis’ two-year tenure.

Oregon has been known for some outrageous uniform choices, but this one has to be the most outlandish.

How about an Oregon Duck as a 1973 Volkswagen Beetle?

The Oregon Athletic Department dressed up a white 1973 Volkswagen Beetle with a giant green Oregon helmet and is now trying to auction it to the highest bid, which currently stands at $2,500.

(USA Today Sports Images)These are not good times for Colorado quarterback Jordan Webb.

The Buffs' starter under center for much of the 2012 season is already in jeopardy of missing his entire senior season this fall after tearing an ACL in spring drills. Now he's trying to explain to coach Mike MacIntyre why he was part of a 3 a.m. incident with Nebraska offensive lineman Alexander Lewis, a former CU teammate, that got both arrested on suspicion of second degree assault after Lewis apparently knocked a man unconscious by throwing him into a brick wall and parking kiosk.

Lewis, who announced he was transferring to CU's old, bitter rival on Friday after playing two years for the Buffs, is also facing two counts of harassment.

Before we go any further we should point out that Lewis admitted to police he consumed six glasses of wine, 10 beers and six shots of various other alcohols that night celebrating a friend's graduation. The fact that Lewis wasn't unconscious from drinking so much before the fight ever happened is a marvel.

According to a report in the Daily Camera in Boulder, Webb and Lewis crossed paths with Lee Bussey, a 22-year-old student at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Lewis and Bussey bumped into each other on the street and things escalated from there.

Witnesses told police that both players punched Bussey, but Lewis pushed him into a brick wall several times and into a parking kiosk, which knocked him unconscious. Considering Webb underwent a

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It took less than a week for Kentucky safety Ashely Lowery to defy the odds.

Lowery's car (Doug Stutsman)Lowery was involved in a horrific car accident May 4 where he was thrown 100 feet from his vehicle that flipped multiple times before landing in a crumpled heap.

Lowery was not wearing a seatbelt, which, in a rare twist of events, probably saved his life and enabled him to be sent home last Thursday.

Family spokesman Don Stutsman told the Associated Press on Friday that Lowery had been released from Northeast Georgia Medical Center. Lowery suffered “bumps and bruises” according to Stutsman, but nothing life-threatening.

Lowery, who returned to his home in Cleveland, Ga., could be back on Kentucky's campus as early as next month to resume his workouts with the football team.

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Georgia offensive coordinator Mike Bobo has no intention of letting the last-second fail in the 2012 SEC title game go away.

Georgia had the ball on the Alabama 8-yard-line with 9 seconds remaining. The Bulldogs had no timeouts and instead of spiking the ball, quarterback Aaron Murray attempted a pass to the corner, but it was deflected and landed in the hands of receiver Chris Conley, who slipped at the 5 as time ran out.

Alabama won 32-28 and went on to play for a national title.

Now, let’s pretend for a moment that Georgia would have spiked the ball — or the ball would have fallen incomplete — and the Bulldogs had time to regroup, time to run a drawn up play. What would Georgia have called?

According to the Macon Telegraph, Bobo told a group at last Thursday's UGA Day meeting in Augusta that he had a play for that situation and that it wasn’t from Georgia’s playbook, rather from studying film of Florida during the 2008 SEC title game where the Gators defeated the Crimson Tide 31-20.

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Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen obviously follows the 'recruit the mom' mantra, especially around Mother's Day.

Mullen sent a handwritten card to the mother of Olive Branch High offensive lineman Chase Johnson last week. This was no form letter. Johnson shared the card on his Twitter account.