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Sun Belt over Big 12, Notre Dame in the ACC and more from college football's Week 2

TS Episode: College Football Craziness

Nick Saban spent the second Saturday in September coaching a scrimmage, then talking to the media through an Internet connection about a game that's still two weeks away. Dabo Swinney checked in with ESPN's College GameDay using FaceTime on his cell phone -- which, inexplicably, he held, arm outstretched, the whole time -- from his team's training room. Ed Orgeron spent the first Saturday that resembled anything close to real college football doing -- OK, we're just going to assume the coach was elbow-deep in some crawfish. At least that would have offered…

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The case for all 32 NFL teams to make Super Bowl LV in the 2020 season, from the Jags to Chiefs

TS Episode: Will Your Team Win the Super Bowl?

In advance of a 2020 NFL season in which anything and everything appears to be on the table, it only seems right to put together our annual preview of how each of the league's 32 teams could win the Super Bowl. It might seem wild when last year's winner wasn't exactly an upset, of course, but the 49ers went from a 4-12 season with the second-worst record in football all the way to within a play or two of glory. Here's what we wrote then: "The 49ers are probably the best…

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