Apparently Oklahoma's disastrous bowl trip to Orlando wasn't a total loss for quarterback Trevor Knight.
While he was dodging Clemson defenders in the backfield, apparently Knight also had his eye on someone else.
The Oklahoma City paper did some social-media digging and produced this story on Knight apparently dating a Clemson cheerleader.
Looks like they even went back to the scene of the crime:
The two spent Fourth of July together at Disney World, and were together at the iHeart Radio Country Music Festival a few months ago.
A few Tuesday links:
-- Pat Forde of Yahoo! attempts to shake us from our mid-summer slumber with some college football schedule observations.
Alabama's schedule looks potentially brutal.
Toughest schedule, period: Alabama has at least two slobberknockers a month. Every month. In September it has Wisconsin and Mississippi. In October it visits Georgia and Texas A&M – the latter coming off a bye while the Crimson Tide is coming off a rumble with Arkansas. In November it plays LSU, Mississippi State and Auburn – the final two on the road. If anyone complains about the Tide scheduling Middle Tennessee, Louisiana-Monroe and Charleston Southern, tell them to look at the schedule in its entirety and hush.
Interesting factoid on Georgia's schedule:
Georgia is not breaking the bank on travel expenses. All 12 games are played within the state or in an adjoining state – the longest road trip is 300 miles to Nashville to play Vanderbilt. A potential 13th game in the SEC championship game would also be in the Peach State. A victory there could put the Bulldogs in Florida for an Orange Bowl College Football Playoff semifinal. Thus if the season goes ideally for Georgia, its 15th and final game – the national championship game in Arizona – would be the only one that required leaving the Southeast.
-- Florida State is moving its spring game to Orlando in 2016.
The move comes after months of speculation surrounding the annual contest as Doak Campbell Stadium goes through a much-needed upgrade starting at the end of this season. The project isn’t expected to be completed until August 2016, forcing school officials to look elsewhere for a place to play the game.
Orlando was one of several cities being mentioned as a host site.
Entirety of FSU's 2015 spring game.
“The short term construction challenges of building the Champions Club in Doak Campbell stadium has provided a unique opportunity for our 2016 spring football game,” said FSU athletic director Stan Wilcox in a news release. “We are pleased to offer our fans greater access to Florida State football at an exciting and refurbished venue in one of the best destinations cities in the world. Moving the game to Orlando and partnering with Steve Hogan and his staff at Florida Citrus Sports will allow us to platform the game and Florida State athletics in exciting and unique new ways.”
-- Richard Dietsch of SI wonders whether the CFP and ESPN can change their old New Year's Eve habits.
If you were planning the perfect day to air the College Football Playoff semifinals, New Year's Eve would not rank very high on the list. Given Dec. 31 isn’t a federal holiday, plenty of potential viewers will work during the day, not to mention the revelry and bacchanalia that comes after dark.
The lords of college football, however, suggest you will forget such old acquaintances.
"We really do think we're going to change the paradigm of New Year's Eve," said Bill Hancock, the executive director of the College Football Playoff.
Maybe they will, but it's going to take some time. This year’s college football semifinals (the Cotton and Orange bowls) will be played on Dec. 31, a date that does not benefit sports television viewers. The first semifinal is set for 4 p.m. ET; the later game will kick around 8 p.m. (The winners will compete for the national championship on Jan. 11 in Glendale, Ariz.) ESPN said that New Year’s Eve dates for the College Football Playoff semifinals were always part of the framework of a 12-year, $5.6 billion deal, but network officials pushed hard to move off the date this season because they saw an opportunity to take advantage of a free day on the sports calendar—(Saturday) Jan. 2.
-- DESHAUN WATSON UPDATE:
Yes, that's him way back there doing yoga at the Elite 11 camp.
-- It sure seems like Bill Cosby is a terrible person.
Bill Cosby, who has sold out arenas, who has been televised into millions of homes, who lectured America on the virtues of buckled pants, who has spoken at rally after rally, who has served on the board of trustees of a public university, claims he is not a public figure. Or rather, that’s the argument his lawyers make in a brief they hope will convince a federal judge to keep under seal a number of potentially embarrassing records from a sexual assault lawsuit.
The suit is from 2005, when Andrea Constand went to Philadelphia police with allegations that Cosby had drugged and raped her while she was the director of operations for the women’s basketball team at Temple University. Prosecutors didn’t file charges, citing a lack of evidence, and Constand brought a civil case in federal court. It was settled for an undisclosed amount. The parts of the lawsuit open to public view revealed the inner workings of the American celebrity scandal machine: how the National Enquirer quashed the story of another Cosby rape accusation in return for an exclusive talk with the star; how Cosby’s team tried to shame Constand via anonymous leaks to the media; how mega-agency William Morris’s defensive maneuvers included, apparently, a payout to one of Cosby’s “Jane Doe” accusers.
-- And we close with some Dirty Business from New Riders of the Purple Sage:
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