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Alabama’s Derrick Henry runs away with 81st Heisman Tropy

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Alabama junior Derrick Henry wasn’t stopped often this season. That includes Saturday night, when he won the 81st Heisman Trophy. Henry had 1,832 points, beating Stanford’s Christian McCafferty (1,539) and Clemson’s DeShaun Watson (1,165 points.) “Since (I’ve been) a kid it’s been a lifelong goal and a dream of mine, I’m just so thankful,” Henry said. This season, Henry rushed for 1,986 yards, the sixth-highest rushing total of any back who won the Heisman and the most since Ron Dayne in…

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Alabama hires Jeremy Pruitt as defensive coordinator

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Alabama has hired Jeremy Pruitt as defensive coordinator after he had that role at Georgia and Florida State. On Friday, Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban announced hiring the former Alabama assistant. Pruitt was on Mark Richt‘s staff at Georgia and fills the vacancy created when Kirby Smart became coach of the Bulldogs. “He did an outstanding job in the six years he was with us and did the same at Florida State and Georgia after that,” Saban said in a…

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No. 1 Clemson celebrates playoff selection with pizza party

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There’s an ongoing celebration at Clemson, and the latest shindig was Sunday’s pizza party at Death Valley for about 20,000 of Dabo Swinney‘s new best friends. The coach had mentioned in passing nearly a month ago that if the Tigers earned a spot in the College Football Playoff he would have a pizza party when the final four teams were announced on Sunday. The comment took on a life of its own as the Tigers continued to win, and Swinney…

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Influence of churches, once dominant, now waning in South

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Prayers said and the closing hymn sung, tea-drinking churchgoers fill Marble City Grill for Sunday lunch. But hard on their heels comes the afternoon crowd: craft beer-drinking, NFL-watching football fans. Such a scene would have been impossible just months ago because Sunday alcohol sales were long illegal in Sylacauga, hometown of both the actor who played TV’s Gomer Pyle and the white marble used to construct the U.S. Supreme Court building. While the central Alabama city of 12,700 has only one…

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College roundup: Alabama defense snuffs Florida offense for SEC title

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The Florida Gators had their moments Saturday, but not enough of them were on offense for the team to win against the University of Alabama. The offensively-impaired Gators lost a 29-15 game to Alabama in the SEC Championship game. Florida managed only 15 yards rushing on 26 attempts, and quarterback Treon Harris threw for only 165 on nine of 24 passing. Alabama, on the other hand, had 233 yards rushing. Derrick Henry carried 44 times (one less than the Gators…

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Florida has faced good backs, but ‘Bama’s Derrick Henry may be the best

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Want to know who ought to vote for the Heisman? Antonio Morrison, that’s who. And Jon Bullard. And Keanu Neal. And Vernon Hargreaves. And Bryan Cox Jr. And all the rest of the Florida Gators. In the year of the running back, it all went through them. Leonard Fournette. Then Dalvin Cook. Now Derrick Henry. Think about it: If Georgia’s Nick Chubb hadn’t been injured, the Gators would have faced the first-, second- and fifth-rated running backs in the nation.…

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Does underdog Florida stand a chance against Alabama?

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Find your old Danny Wuerffel jersey. Heck, he was the MVP of the SEC title game twice, the only man ever to repeat. Put on your orange-and-blue hat. Kiss your framed photo of Tim Tebow just for luck. Hum “The Boys of Old Florida” one more time. Talk about how Jim McElwain reminds you of Steve Spurrier, only without the fun or the gun. Now, can you see any way that the Gators win on Saturday? Any way at all?…

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