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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 12h

Eli Drinkwitz jumped on the weekly SEC coaches media teleconference to ask Kalen DeBoer if he plans on wearing the black hoodie on Saturday

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 4d

More on Johnny Football's return to Tuscaloosa
www.al.com/alabamafootb...

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 4d

Johnny Manziel just gave the BDS crowd the finger, then hit the Heisman pose, then yelled something that included a "suck my dick"

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 4d

football stadium

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 5d

I am once again asking you to read a long and self-indulgent (but ultimately good I think) story about Vanderbilt and Nashville and Clark Lea

Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 5d

Vanderbilt's win over Alabama last year woke the nation up. It got Nashville onboard with the team like never before. But Clark Lea's rebuild of a program nobody else believed in was underway years before.

"This is about finding a program’s potential.”
www.al.com/sec/2025/10/...

‘Finding a program’s potential’: How Clark Lea turned Vanderbilt into a real SEC football team

It took a win over Alabama football for the world to take notice, but Clark Lea's Vanderbilt transformation had been in progress for years.

www.al.com

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Josh Campbell @campbelljd.bsky.social · 5d

One big keyis to find a QB who is crazy (complimentary) and refuses to enter the workforce

Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 5d

Vanderbilt's win over Alabama last year woke the nation up. It got Nashville onboard with the team like never before. But Clark Lea's rebuild of a program nobody else believed in was underway years before.

"This is about finding a program’s potential.”
www.al.com/sec/2025/10/...

‘Finding a program’s potential’: How Clark Lea turned Vanderbilt into a real SEC football team

It took a win over Alabama football for the world to take notice, but Clark Lea's Vanderbilt transformation had been in progress for years.

www.al.com

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 5d

Great anecdote about what it used to be like for Vanderbilt in its own city, even when things were going good. Many thanks to the homie @bradengall.bsky.social

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 5d

hearing this from more and more people of taste!

Andrew Hammond @ahamm.bsky.social · 5d

I say this a lot about Matt’s work, but this might be my favorite story he’s ever written.

Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 5d

Vanderbilt's win over Alabama last year woke the nation up. It got Nashville onboard with the team like never before. But Clark Lea's rebuild of a program nobody else believed in was underway years before.

"This is about finding a program’s potential.”
www.al.com/sec/2025/10/...

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 5d

Spent the week in my hometown for this one. Lots of fun stuff in here, from Clark Lea explaining why he tried to make a clean break from Vanderbilt's history, to a bar manager explaining how a wing wars promotion shows the Commodores making more local impact than ever

Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 5d

Vanderbilt's win over Alabama last year woke the nation up. It got Nashville onboard with the team like never before. But Clark Lea's rebuild of a program nobody else believed in was underway years before.

"This is about finding a program’s potential.”
www.al.com/sec/2025/10/...

‘Finding a program’s potential’: How Clark Lea turned Vanderbilt into a real SEC football team

It took a win over Alabama football for the world to take notice, but Clark Lea's Vanderbilt transformation had been in progress for years.

www.al.com

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 5d

Vanderbilt's win over Alabama last year woke the nation up. It got Nashville onboard with the team like never before. But Clark Lea's rebuild of a program nobody else believed in was underway years before.

"This is about finding a program’s potential.”
www.al.com/sec/2025/10/...

‘Finding a program’s potential’: How Clark Lea turned Vanderbilt into a real SEC football team

It took a win over Alabama football for the world to take notice, but Clark Lea's Vanderbilt transformation had been in progress for years.

www.al.com

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 6d

alternate caption: I'd have expected Lane to get crabs named after him first, but good for Nick

Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 6d

Win six national championships somewhere and maybe they'll name a crab after you too
www.al.com/alabamafootb...

Why Alabama researchers named ancient crab after Nick Saban

The newly discovered crabs named after the football coach are said to have survived the extinction event that killed the dinosaurs.

www.al.com

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 6d

Win six national championships somewhere and maybe they'll name a crab after you too
www.al.com/alabamafootb...

Why Alabama researchers named ancient crab after Nick Saban

The newly discovered crabs named after the football coach are said to have survived the extinction event that killed the dinosaurs.

www.al.com

Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 7d

News: Spitting incidents from games a few weeks ago, including Florida-USF, led Greg Sankey to send a memo to SEC
ADs reiterating conference policies on spitting

"...engage with players to avoid any and all instances of spitting on an opponent.”
www.al.com/sec/2025/10/...

Greg Sankey sent memo on SEC spitting rules after Florida-USF incident

The SEC's commissioner reiterated the league's rules about spitting on opponents after a Florida player was ejected for doing so against USF.

www.al.com

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 7d

News: obtained an email from the SEC explaining to schools how Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss didn't break availability reporting rules with their handling of Austin Simmons before Arkansas game
www.al.com/sec/2025/10/...

SEC: Ole Miss, Lane Kiffin didn’t break availability report rules

The SEC sent schools continuing education that clarified why Ole Miss and Lane Kiffin didn't break its availability reporting rules with how it handled Austin Simmons' situation vs. Arkansas.

www.al.com

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 12d

Beat writer away game trip goat track tour continues. First time playing since before the FSU game due to a sore back. Pine Hills Golf Club in Winder, Ga. Wound up with an 89 I was pretty happy with given the circumstances. Some questionable design choices, but overall worth $40 for 18 with cart

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 12d

still flabbergasted at this

Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 12d

As if UAB wasn't already one of the weirdest programs in CFB, its tight ends are now apparently selling dick pills under the brand name "Miso Horny"?!?!

And they're trying to get their teammates using their supplements?!?

How UAB tight ends turned a running joke into a serious business

UAB tight ends Joshua Rubin, J.C. Sivley and Connor Harby founded a supplement company called Miso Healthy.

www.al.com

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 12d

Absolutely dying at this coachspeak quote from Dilfer

Again, the product here is, among other things, non-prescription boner pills

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 12d

As if UAB wasn't already one of the weirdest programs in CFB, its tight ends are now apparently selling dick pills under the brand name "Miso Horny"?!?!

And they're trying to get their teammates using their supplements?!?

How UAB tight ends turned a running joke into a serious business

UAB tight ends Joshua Rubin, J.C. Sivley and Connor Harby founded a supplement company called Miso Healthy.

www.al.com

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 14d

Nick Saban once publicly pushed to get LSU taken off Alabama's yearly schedule. After the Tide drew Mississippi State as an annual opponent instead, Kalen DeBoer said he didn't do the same
www.al.com/alabamafootb...

Kalen DeBoer ‘had nothing to do’ with end of yearly Alabama-LSU game

Alabama football's head coach said he wasn't focused on the Crimson Tide's schedule for 2026 and beyond.

www.al.com

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 15d

"This was to send a message to the playoff committee"

they literally waited until they had successfully complained/ threatened the playoff committee into changing its strength of schedule criteria before they moved to nine games

Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 15d

interesting that every sec network analyst loves how the sec has set the schedule up, love independent journalism

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 15d

interesting that every sec network analyst loves how the sec has set the schedule up, love independent journalism

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 15d

here, damn
www.al.com/alabamafootb...

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 15d

SEC puts Alabama vs. LSU and Tennessee vs. Florida in the intro montage of its schedule reveal show despite moving those games into non-yearly status moving forward (I am watching this stupid show so you can read about it instead of wasting an hour)

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 18d

cracking open hogville dot net to experience some culture

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Matt Stahl @mattstahl97.bsky.social · 19d

perhaps it's actually a good thing for your coach to be an extreme golf sicko, will watch auburn-oklahoma to further test this hypothesis

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