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How Well Do You Know: 10/27/14-11/2/14
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Please step forward if you are a school that was in the top 4 of the initial College Football Playoff rankings. Whoa, not so fast there....
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Florida State
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Auburn
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Alabama
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Mississippi State
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Florida State was indeed in the initial top 4, but partway through Thursday night's game, it looked like the Seminoles' position might be tenuous. Jameis Winston's gang found themselves down 21-0 before rallying again to win 42-31 against the:
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Wolfpack
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Tigers
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Cavaliers
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Cardinals
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And a nifty paint job conveyed the appearance of leather helmets worn by this school on Thursday, honoring its 1939 National Championship team:
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Michigan
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Texas A&M
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Notre Dame
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Florida
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With its ratings plunging about 935% from the week before, the season's first Thursday Night Football game played on NFL Network was lost by:
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Carolina
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Green Bay
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Oakland
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New Orleans
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Don't blow your thumb off while you are cleaning your gun. This sports oddity learned such a lesson the hard way during the week:
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Alex Rodriguez
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Mike Tyson
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Jose Canseco
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Brett Favre
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First round draft choice Julius Randle went and broke his leg, giving a big ol' noogie to the season hopes for this NBA team:
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Mavericks
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Lakers
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Celtics
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786ers
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In Further Tales from the Association, LeBron's mildly anticipated return to the Cavaliers was muted by Cleveland's opening night loss to the:
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Knicks
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Bulls
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Heat
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Nets
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Slightly offbeat Joe Maddon is the new manager of the baseball team that plays in:
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The Mile High City
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The Steel City
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The Windy City
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The Queens City
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Say hey to your 2014 World Series MVP:
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Brandon Belt
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Tim Hudson
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Madison Bumgarner
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Pablo Sandoval
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Do UFOs exists! Yes! Maybe! Well, just ask this UFC star, who detailed an encounter with alien craft this week:
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Brock Lesnar
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Georges St. Pierre
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Cain Velasquez
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Jon Jones
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Citizens, rejoice. College football is a-comin' back! This school (surprise, surprise) topped AP's Preseason College Basketball poll:
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Kentucky
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Syracuse
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North Carolina
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Duke
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And cherry-picking from a big weekend in the NFL, we note that Cowboy DeMarco Murray's streak of 100-yard rushing games came to a halt in Dallas's defeat at the hands of:
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The Cardinals
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The Seahawks
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The Eagles
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The Dolphins
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