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Over the years, we’ve seen college players and coaches autograph some strange things, including various body parts, but this has to be right up there.

Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen signed a young woman’s ultrasound during one of the coaching caravans. I guess signing the pregnant belly was already played out.

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Oklahoma's Bob Stoops is a great coach and seemingly a good man, so we hate to have to vehemently disagree with him for a second time this offseason.

In a column by the Tulsa World, Stoops claims that the SEC isn't as dominant and everyone says it is. If you watch enough SEC games you realize that's an incorrect statement, but Stoops went on. His reasoning was that the very best teams are elite, but the entire conference is not.

"So they've had the best team in college football," Stoops said, according to the Tulsa World. "They haven't had the whole conference. Because, again, half of 'em haven't done much at all. I'm just asking you. You tell me."

That reasoning is pretty faulty.

Here's Stoops' long quote on why the SEC isn't really all that, from the Tulsa World:

"So you're listening to a lot of propaganda that gets fed out to you," he said. "You're more than smart enough to figure it out. Again, you can look at the top two, three, four, five, six teams, and you can look at the bottom six, seven, eight, whatever they are. How well are they all doing?

"What'd we (the Big 12) have, eight of 10 teams in bowl games this year? Again, you figure it all out."

This comes down to a pretty simple math problem. For all SEC games, there has to be a .500 record at the end. If Alabama, Texas A&M, Florida, South Carolina, LSU and Georgia are all among

As sad as the video of Marcus Lattimore's gruesome knee injury was, his story ended with a video that can be an inspiration for anyone struggling through adversity.

Many people, including myself, didn't imagine the video at the top of this post was possible last October. It was startling to hear Dr. James Andrews tell ESPN during a pre-draft interview that Lattimore's knee ligaments looked like hamburger meat, and he was lucky he didn't lose his leg. Nobody would have been too surprised if that injury ended his career.

We wrote a lot about Lattimore's journey back from that injury. He is one of the class acts in college football, and handled his injury as well as anyone could. He also worked hard to get in a position to do what seemed nearly impossible a few months ago, and get drafted by a NFL team.

That's why we're very happy to wrap up his story on this blog with the video of the pure joy and relief Lattimore experienced when the San Francisco 49ers called him to tell him he was drafted in the third round.

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There was no way the National Football Foundation was going to get it all right. The organization had just 12 slots for the College Football Hall of Fame's class of 2013 and an absolutely loaded class of finalists.

Our top five snubs don't even include Jerome Brown, Tom Cousineau, Eric Crouch, D.J. Dozier, Rob Lytle, Shannon Sharpe, LaDainian Tomlinson or Lorenzo White. The NFF doesn't include two members from the same school in one class, which explains why players like Brown (Vinny Testaverde got voted in for Miami) and Crouch (Tommie Frazier for Nebraska) didn't get the nod, and the NFF has other guidelines to include a wide array of players from different eras and positions, which squeezed others out. Still, there are more than a few players who cause a serious double take when you realize they are eligible for the College Football Hall of Fame and are not yet in.

From this year's list of finalists, here are the five (four players and one group) that caused us the most angst:

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The announcement of the inductees into the College Football Hall of Fame is usually one of the most controversial events of the spring simply because there are a boatload of great players and only so many spots to be had.

This year, several players who were deserving of a Hall spot because of their fantastic accomplishments finally cracked the code and heard their name called. While all of the nominees definitely deserved to get in, we’re highlighting the five that made the most sense and were perhaps long overdue (note: we’re excluding Frazier since we wrote about him earlier).

Orlando Pace, OL, Ohio State (1994-96): Pace wasn’t already in? That was the sentiment across the country when one of the nation’s greatest offensive linemen (some might claim the absolute greatest) waited 17 years from the end of his collegiate career to enter the Hall of Fame. When his career started, Pace was only the second true freshman to start a season opener for the Buckeyes, was a two-time consensus first-team All-American and won the Outland Trophy as the nation’s best interior lineman. Pace was so adept at putting defensive players on their back that they nicknamed him “The Pancake Man.” He didn’t allow a sack during his final two seasons with the Buckeyes.

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Matthew Thomas was one of the best signees of this year’s Florida State class, and now he wants out of his letter of intent.

Thomas, who was ranked the nation No. 2 linebacker out of Booker T. Washington High in Miami, told the Miami Herald that he informed Florida State coaches he does not plan on being in camp in August because the decision to go to FSU was not his — it was his mother’s.

“What happened was on Signing Day [was] I wasn’t sure who I wanted to sign with,” Thomas told the paper. “I had issues with different schools. But when I told my mom I didn’t want to sign with anybody and wait and give it a few days she said I couldn’t do that. She said, ‘FSU is a good school – pick them. It’s close to home.’ I wasn’t agreeing with it. But I felt like I was being disrespectful to her if I didn’t sign. So I made her happy.”

Thomas also told the paper he felt pressure because his announcement was live on ESPN.com.

Thomas said if he is released from his letter of intent, he’s seeking offers from either Georgia or USC, two schools that courted him during his recruiting period.

But the Florida State coaches aren’t giving up on him so easily. They plan to meet with Thomas and his parents in South Florida to understand the situation. According to Warchant.com, Thomas’ mother has been out of the country for the past couple weeks, but the meeting will take place when she

Dr. Phil (USA Today Sports Images)Here is more proof that the Manti Te'o story simply will not die.

After all the parties went to Katie Couric and Dr. Phil and whatever other media outlets wanted to hear their tales, it seemed to be over. But, Dr. Phil is mad that another media outlet stole his thunder when he talked to the mastermind behind the fake girlfriend scheme, and he's going to court over it.

According to The Wrap, Peteski Productions, one of the producers of the Dr. Phil show, has filed a copyright infringement suit against Gawker Media. The suit says the Gawker site Deadspin.com posted video of the second show featuring Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who impersonated Te'o's "girlfriend" Lennay Kekua, before it aired to most of the country. Dr. Phil's people claim that ratings dropped because the "cliffhanger" was spoiled, according to The Wrap. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Texas.

Good times.

(USA Today Sports Images)It's hard to get college football fans to agree on anything, but almost all smart fans were surprised and mildly outraged that Nebraska quarterback Tommie Frazier hadn't been voted into the College Football Hall of Fame before this year.

One of the best quarterbacks who ever played college football somehow avoided getting voted in on his first two times on the ballot. He was snubbed just two times but it seemed like way more.

Frazier should have been a first-ballot hall-of-fame pick. But that's in the past now, because the Sporting News reported that Frazier finally got the call and will join the 2013 College Football Hall of Fame class. The entire class will be officially announced at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday. Miami quarterback and 1986 Heisman Trophy winner Vinny Testaverde was already announced as one of the new hall of famers on Monday. There will be 12 players and two coaches announced as new members of the College Football Hall of Fame, and the announcement will be broadcast live on WatchESPN.com and the National Football Foundation website, footballfoundation.org.

At least we already know Frazier finally got his just due this year.

Frazier was a four-year starter who led Nebraska to national championships in 1994 and 1995. He was the MVP in the bowl game each of those years. And, in that last bowl game, he gave us a moment for the ages:

Frazier never put up big passing numbers, because that's not what he was asked to do in Nebraska's mauling offense. But he was efficient when he did throw, passing for 43 touchdowns with just 11 interceptions in his career. He rushed for 36 touchdowns, and ran the Cornhuskers' offense to perfection. He finished his career with a 33-3 record as a starter. Nebraska's