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The Conference USA quarterback who started the 2009 season as the first Monday Man Crush has us falling in love in college fantasy football week 10.

Joe Webb of UAB put up another monster performance on Saturday against Florida Atlantic, completing 14 passes and carrying the ball 15 times for 412 total yards and 6 touchdowns (4 passing, 2 rushing). Over the last five games, Webb has rushed for at least 120 yards in each contest and has scored 13 times. He now has over 1,000 yards rushing and throwing on the season.

The last three weeks for Webb have been particularly remarkable for Webb, and he has become a college fantasy football beast in his senior season. Each of the last three weeks, he has put up 300 or more total yards.

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More often than not, we see the worst come out of people during sporting events.  But, sometimes, that is

UConn cornerback Jasper Howard

 all set aside and we see the best part of people come out during sporting events.

If you don’t think that sports is important, just ask yourself: when is the last time you saw a black man and a white man hugging that wasn’t on an athletic field?

In Morgantown, West Virginia, last weekend, some of the most notoriously unruly fans in the country put aside their differences in a newly burgeoning rivalry. 

It was a football game pitting the major university of the second richest state in the USA versus the major university of the second poorest state.  Suburban New York and Boston versus small town rural America.

It was a football game in which black fans and white fans may as well have been hugging each other.  Some probably were.

Please take a moment to set aside the silliness of college fantasy football and read this article that was published in the University of Connecticut student newspaper.

The coach’s son for the North Texas Mean Green likely turned in the best fantasy football performance of the season in Saturday’s 68-49 thumping of Western Kentucky.

Mean Green QB Riley Dodge completed 24 passes and ran the ball 15 times for a total of 332 total yards. But that wasn’t what was impressive about his performance against the Hilltoppers.

Instead, it was Dodge’s TD total that led to the year’s top individual performance: 7. Yes, that’s right, 7 touchdowns! 4 came through the air, 3 came on the ground.

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When you think of the Premiere League in England, there are two teams that immediately come to mind to

Liverpool football tickets

most Americans — Manchester United and Liverpool.

While Americans are far from the rowdiest soccer fans in the world, they do seem to know these two clubs.  It’s no wonder, both are internationally famous.  Interestingly, Liverpool isn’t the only team in the city.  Liverpool and Everton both compete for local support.  But, move across England and the rest of the world, and Everton just isn’t as well known.

If you are planning a trip to England in the future, be sure to see more than London and Big Ben.  I was in Liverpool just last week for business and they were playing Lyon that night, but unfortunately I couldn’t go.  I had work to do and obtaining LIVERPOOL TICKETS are not the easiest tickets to find in the first place.

LIVERPOOL FC TICKETS are difficult to find because of the passionate fan base.  After Liverpool was upset by Lyon in the UEFA Cup match that night, the entire city was in mourning.  It was a shocking defeat and Liverpudlians were crying in their ale.  Liverpool had lost its fourth consecutive match; something it had not done for over 40 years!

As any great team does, Liverpool bounced back this weekend with a huge win at home versus Man United.  But, don’t think getting LIVERPOOL TICKETS is going to be any easier.  The only ticket more difficult to find is for The Beatles.

As a college fantasy football blogger, I always wonder what the spreads for Saturday’s slate of Top 25 college football games would look like if the guys who sets the lines in Vegas were active college fantasy football players. But this week, you don’t have to take fantasy effects into your wagers, because there are several SEC games that will make you richer.

This week, there are four top 25 SEC squads taking the field against unranked conference opponents. All four of the ranked ranked schools are favorites, and three of them are playing at home. On the season, SEC home favorites are 3-8 vs the spread in conference games.

Therefore, two of your five underdog picks of the week come from the SEC, and two of them are underdogs on the road.

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The ACC has certainly provided some college fantasy football sleepers in 2009, and that list continued to grow in week 7 thanks to Boston College’s beatdown of NC State on Saturday.

The newest player to watch in the ACC is Montel Harris, the sophomore running back from BC. In Saturday’s 52-20 stomping of NC State, Harris rushed for a school record 264 yards on 27 carries. He also set the school record for rushing touchdowns with five.

In a conference where outstanding quarterback play from the likes of Russell Wilson, Christian Ponder, and Jacory Harris has largely overshadowed stellar college fantasy football contributions from running backs, an outstanding rushing performance like the one Harris put up on Saturday is refreshing.

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As a college fantasy football blogger, I always wonder what the spreads for Saturday’s slate of Top 25 college football games would look like if the guys who sets the lines in Vegas were active college fantasy football players.

But since those line setters don’t play fantasy football, I can use that insight to my advantage to help pick winners in each week’s games.

Consider Saturday’s matchup between Texas Tech and no. 15 Nebraska. Sure, the Cornhuskers have only allowed 813 total passing yards and 1 TD through the air this year, and those staunch defensive numbers don’t bode well for the Red Raider aerial attack. But when reviewing the season passing yardage totals of Nebraska’s previous opponents, only one team has eclipsed 1100 total yards through the air – Missouri (1374). 

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A few weeks ago, we wrote about Penn State, a pre-season contender for the national championship, and

Daryll Clark is sacked versus Iowa.

the Nittany Lions weak non-conference schedule. 

Certainly, the wheels fell off of Penn State’s game in its discouraging loss to Iowa 21-10 last weekend in a revenge game that most pundits felt the Lions would dominate.  Iowa was the only team that kept Penn State from a perfect season last year.

Could the early season schedule against weak opponents, Akron, Syracuse and Temple, have hurt Penn State’s ability to compete against a squad like the Hawkeyes that had already been tested in games against in-state rivals Northern Iowa, Iowa State, and Pac-10 foe Arizona?

Former Penn State player Adam Taliaferro thinks so.  In an interview on WIP radio in Philadelphia, Taliaferro said:

“Everybody plays two or three cupcakes, but not back to back to back.  They just looked like they were not mentally prepared.  If they played Iowa five more times, they would win four.”

Certainly not.  And those college fantasy football coaches who had running back Evan Royster were not pleased.  Royster gained a respectable 69 yards on 17 carries.  Quarterback Daryll Clark, however, was a disaster, going 12 for 32 with 3 interceptions and 1 touchdown.