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At 2:30 pm, Paul Johnson held a team meeting with his players. The 10-year Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets coach announced that he would be retiring. http://gty.im/870208194 Georgia Tech Johnson will retire as the fourth-winningest coach in Georgia Tech history with 82 wins. His triple option offense made him famous.  He took the Yellow Jackets to…

RANKING COLLEGE FOOTBALL - THEN AND NOW http://gty.im/504326756 College football rankings and National Champions go back to 1869 when the Princeton and Rutgers were both named National Champions.  The naming of a National Champion has been a complicated and controversial process.     National Champions have been named based on polls, on a…

http://gty.im/460993567 In the summer of 2014, Charlie Strong, the brand new University of Texas football coach, set off on a tour across the state of Texas. The tour, which lasted for a month, was the first opportunity for some of the biggest fans of the Longhorns to check out the new coach of their favorite team. The tour crossed the entire…

http://gty.im/454177459 In our insane thirst for football, we turn every offseason event into a big deal. We analyze every quote, every report that comes out of spring practices, and just about every nugget of information that we can get our nosy hands on. SEC Media Days is different. As Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason made the point on the Paul…