Seth Emerson

Judge grants Trinidad Chambliss preliminary injunction, clearing way for him to return to Ole Miss Chambliss, who led Ole Miss to the College Football Playoff semifinals, sued the NCAA last month after it denied his waiver request.

Trinidad Chambliss is granted an extra year by a Mississippi judge.

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Submit your questions for Seth Emerson's SEC football mailbag

Hey let's do an SEC (football) mailbag. If you have questions - or crazed screeds requiring a response - post here:

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More people watched the halftime show than the game. But the game was still second highest of all time, despite not being a great game or great matchup.

Coach Mike Macdonald and sportscaster Maria Taylor were reunited on the Super Bowl stage — both at the peak of their respective professions 🙌

The ending to Bad Bunny's halftime show:

"The only thing more powerful than hate is love"
"Together, we are America"

Yeah that was superbly done.

Only one who got the ball into the end zone was Bad Bunny

Wife: Who in this game went to Georgia?

Me: Hmm I forget I’ll let you know when I see their name called

(Jared Wilson pushed back five yards while giving up a sack)

Me: Yeah that guy.

So we agree he looks like Henry (Vecna) from Stranger Things right?

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SEC distributes record $1.03 billion to schools in 2024-25 fiscal year The 2024-25 fiscal year was the SEC’s first in its new ESPN contract, as well as the first with Oklahoma and Texas in the conference.

The SEC is college sports' first billion-dollar conference. (Or at least the first to announce it.)

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The 5 issues with college football’s calendar, including one with ‘a lot of traction’ Here's a primer on the calendar issues, including momentum for moving the start of the season up a week for most teams.

The college football calendar is going to be a big offseason topic. Here are the five main points of contention - including one possible change that has "a lot of traction."

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FYI, it’s not true that Georgia walk-on London Seymour is charged with 131 felonies for property damage at a UGA dorm.

It’s “only” 11. Apparently some glitch in the jail log web.

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Shirley Povich writing in 1962, with the most immaculate burn conceivable of the Redskins awful, vile owner George Preston Marshall, the last NFL owner to insist on an all white roster: "Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday." RIP WaPo.

Alabama, Georgia and trying to buck the national trend in the transfer portal

The Athletic posted its team transfer portal top 25 a couple days ago. Nine SEC teams were in it - but not Alabama and Georgia.

What does that say about each, and should both be very worried?

I think yes in one case, not as much in the other:

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Crestfallen and f$&@ furious about the closure as we know it of @postsports.bsky.social by an indifferent, compromised owner and a failing publisher — a dept of Povich and Boswell, Wilbon and Kornheiser, Gildea and Sheinin, of poets, authors, Hall of Famers and Pulitzer finalists. A terrible day.

Just terrible on Washington Post Sports.

You want to make some changes? Sure.

The lack of imagination shows a failure of leadership.

My first job out of college was the Washington Post sports section. I worked there four years. This decision isn't just terrible, it's idiotic.

People read sports. The Post sports section has been arguably the best in the country over the last 50 years. Doing this can't be a business decision.

SOURCE: The Cowboys are expected to hire Georgia’s Chidera Uzo-Diribe as outside linebackers coach. The 33-year-old who was a standout at Colorado, has been on the UGA staff since 2022. He’s also coached at SMU, TCU and Kansas. Matt Zenitz first reported the move.

Is the SEC slipping? Players share their thoughts at the Senior Bowl “There’s parity everywhere. There’s no specific conference that’s good. Everybody’s good everywhere now — especially with NIL."

"If they’re continuously trying to attack us, there’s a reason. The SEC is the greatest league in college football.”

I spoke to players at the Senior Bowl last week on the dominant topic: Is the SEC slipping? And is it a blip or a real, permanent thing?

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Got to know the couple when I worked in Albany, Ga., in the early 2000s. Just a regular couple around town.

It’s February. It’s hard to get excited about five star commits anymore at this point, but especially a Georgia team that’s had five star QBs flip right before signing day twice in the past three years.

imagine the thousands and thousands of unbelievable horrors going on if we're just hearing about "regularly kidnapping legal residents, dropping them off in a different state, and telling them to deal with it"

Not sure but this may be a difference between the NFL and college: For as much as coaches want to go to the pros because college recruiting is a grind, we don’t often hear about them missing their kids births.

Showing up back to work a couple hours later, sure.

Opinion | ICE Took Liam Conejo Ramos. His Classmates Have Something to Say. Letters from students living in fear.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Federal immigration agents detained a 5-year-old prekindergartner named Liam Ramos this month. His classmates miss him, so they decided to write letters to the agents who took him. “Dear ICE,” one student wrote, “You are scaring schools, people and the world.”

Legendary Auburn sportswriter Phillip Marshall passes away Phillip Marshall, an award-winning writer and columnist, and the pre-eminent voice of Auburn athletics coverage for decades, passed away Friday at the age of 76.

Auburn people who might not know yet: tremendously sad to share that Phillip Marshall has passed away

an absolute titan of sportswriting in this state and the single greatest storyteller I’ve ever met

learned so much from this man, and he will be incredibly missed

LSU becomes first major target of College Sports Commission investigation

NEWS: The College Sports Commission has opened an investigation into LSU over potential unreported NIL deal(s). The Tigers are the first known program under an inquiry from the new enforcement body.
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'We have rules, but they're not being enforced': Georgia president on NCAA, CSC

“We have rules, but they’re not being enforced.”

Georgia president wants the SEC to create and enforce its own rules on tampering:

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SEC survey results: Fans on the state of the conference, Indiana and the future of the sport By and large, SEC football fans are humbled. However, they’re not in a panic, based on the results of a reader survey by The Athletic.

By and large, SEC football fans are humbled. However, they’re not in a panic, based on the results of a reader survey by The Athletic.

Results of our survey, including outside perception of the conference, and lots of quotes from readers:

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