Editor's note: Each week the Times Free Press will run a guest opinion column from Eli Cranor entitled "Athletic Support". Cranor is a former professional quarterback and coach turned award-winning author and the advice columns will revolve around youth sports. If you have questions or comments, please e-mail them to eli.cranor@gmail.com or visit elicranor.com.

UTC and Rusty Wright. Wow, what a comeback. Kudos coach. Job very well done.

University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban makes $8.6 million a year to win games. That is beyond argument or discussion, as is the fact that no one else in his sport has accomplished that task so well for so long.

Nick Tiano couldn't quit smiling. Who could blame the senior quarterback?

Well, I guess we could start that if Mason Rudolph had thrown a punch it would have been intercepted. Thank you. Thank you. Don't forget the wait staff.

THE Ohio State has become THE ATM since week 1. Another game, another cover. But 52 feels crazy. Simply crazy. On the road, gang.

With all the recent reminiscing about the 2011 college football game between LSU and Alabama, many folks forget about the Southeastern Conference's third dominant team that season.

Everyone needs to go full-blown Aaron Rodgers on these rankings.

In a few minutes, Rusty Wright would begin the next-to-last weekly media luncheon of his first season as head football coach of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Mocs.

Game-changing moment this morning at the 5-at-10 compound.

Were you to go back two days to the pre-1 p.m. kickoff slot of another NFL Sunday, it's doubtful if the fan bases of either the Atlanta Falcons or Tennessee Titans would have minded much if they'd been told that both franchises would be looking for new head coaches by nightfall.

Editor's note: Each week the Times Free Press will run a guest opinion column from Eli Cranor entitled "Athletic Support". Cranor is a former professional quarterback and coach turned award-winning author and the advice columns will revolve around youth sports. If you have questions or comments, please e-mail them to eli.cranor@gmail.com or visit elicranor.com.

Ed Orgeron and Joe Burrow. A near flawless first half from Burrow spring-boarded LSU by Alabama into the top spot in everyone's eyes. And no one enjoyed it more than Coach O, who took his Tigers to T-Town and toppled the Titan that is Lord Saban.

It's not as if Tennessee Titans defensive back Joshua Kalu had never made a memorable special teams play before.

You can throw out all the one-word explanations you want for this comeback from a 10-point halftime deficit.

The Friday mailbag.

It was bitterly cold and damp, which only seemed to make the moment more somber. Tyner had worked its way through the 2003 season unbeaten in its region and winner of 11 straight games before having its playoff run ended by Lipscomb Academy in the state quarterfinals.

Forget No-Shave November friends. We're angling for a No-Pay November in which your entertainment broker is finding you rather than the other way around.

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, the Georgia Bulldogs made annual pilgrimages to Jacksonville only to be left in a drunken stupor by more dynamic Florida teams.

The SEC has a pile of bowl tie-ins. Comes with the territory of being the best in the country, no matter what Dabo thinks.

The Juice Man cometh.

Did anyone else notice that Aaron Rodgers certainly noticed that a lot of his teammates had a really good time in L.A.

If you don't yet appreciate that Saturday's LSU-Alabama football game in Tuscaloosa is Game-of-the-Century type stuff, you surely will by 3:30 that afternoon.