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The Week 2 NFL Power Rankings are here, and that means it’s time to overreact. The league’s coaches and players have spent all offseason telling us that every year brings new possibilities, that what happened in the past and media expectations for the future don’t matter. We’re going to take …
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Welcome to college football, where the entire conversation about a program can shift in a week. There are no greater examples than the scenes in Lexington, Ky., and South Bend, Ind., last Saturday, which lays the foundation for this week’s edition of overreaction or underreaction. “There was a perception about …
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