There are few more reliable ways to make a group of athletes flip out than show them new uniforms they’ll be wearing, so it was probably inevitable that Rutgers football players would react like this upon seeing their new duds. If only the uniforms sucked less.

It’s been talked about for years, and now it’s set to become reality in some form: today, the BCS submitted proposals for a four-team college football playoff to begin in 2014.

The USC football team wants you to know that there are giant brains hidden underneath those red helmets, so they crashed a class. See the result after the jump.

I suppose if you make your living judging people, it’s just one tiny mental step from being a rational person to thinking that you are an amateur behavioral psychologist. But this quote from an anonymous scout on Iowa State lineman Kelechi Osemele (the imposing gentleman to the left) is so bizarre that it circles all the way around to being amazing again.

It used to be that testing positive for marijuana meant a noticeable dip in your NFL draft stock. But attitudes towards prospects who light up may be shifting.

Carleton Tinker is the father of Carson Tinker, the long snapper on last season’s BCS-national-championship-winning Alabama team, and one of the perks of producing national-championship-winning offspring is that you get to get up close and personal with the trophy if you so choose. Well, until you accidentally break it.

In what sounds like excruciating detail, ex-Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino told AD Jeff Long that his relationship with Jessica Dorrell started “with a kiss.” Besides saying “Uh, duh?” to Mr. Petrino, it looks like we’re going to have to ask him: don’t you watch Flight of the Conchords, dude? Life lessons set to music, after the jump.

Alabama’s BCS national champion football team was honored by President Obama at the White House today. Obama, though, wasn’t the only one who got to do the talking. We imagine what Nick Saban said after the jump.

Marijuana is not the worst thing in the world. Many people are willing to admit this. Some are not. And as long as some are not, we’ll keep getting stories like one recently, unfortunately published in ESPN the Magazine.

We still have a ways to go, but this is our current front-runner for “Most Inevitable Story of the Week”: Jessica Dorrell, the (engaged) woman with whom former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino cheated on his wife and inappropriately hired, has resigned.