Today’s song is the product of two legends that have passed. It comes from the iconic “MTV Unplugged” album from Nirvana in the 1990s and is the band’s cover of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World”. This song has meaning today as we roll into August and the football season. It’s a reminder to stay true to ones
The 2023 season will be the last of divisional play for Southeastern Conference football. Starting in 2024 when Texas and Oklahoma join the league, it will be one non-divided league and the top two finishers in the standings will head to Atlanta for the SEC Championship game. This move was made to make sure the actual top two teams in
We’ve been talking a lot about Forest Gump (the movie and the title character- why wasn’t he an NFL Draft pick again) on the show lately. One interesting personal take on the soundtrack, which is one of the best in movie history, is the use of the song Against the Wind by Bob Seger. It’s used during the scene where
Following this season, Texas, the No. 5 program in all-time wins, and Oklahoma, No. 6 will depart the Big 12 after a single season with the league at 14 teams following the additions of UCF, Cincinnati, Houston and BYU. Plenty of programs on solid footing will remain once the Longhorns and Sooners depart for the SEC. But who are now
We have South Carolina head football coach Shane Beamer on the podcast today. Heading into his third season, Beamer has garnered a reputation for one of the more colorful and energetic coaches in college football. But since it’s late July and we are still at the beach in our minds, we have selected an old Jimmy Buffett tune, Son of
The Bluebonnet Bowl was a minor bowl, but a good one, that was played in Houston from 1959-87. It typically featured a team from the state of Texas against a non-Texas team. The game was played at Rice Stadium from 1959-67, then switched to the Astrodome from 1968-84 and then back to Rice Stadium for the two games in 1985
