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Around/About Central Georgia

Mercer loses DC to top job at West Georgia

          Wins can lead to losses, and Mercer is finding that out.

          Apparently before the end of the day Saturday and the conclusion of Mercer’s season after its 41-0 loss at No. 1 South Dakota State in the FCS  playoffs, Mercer defensive coordinator Joel Taylor had changed titles, and became West Georgia’s 12th head coach.

          The school’s release indicated athletics director Jason Carmichael made the announcement Saturday.

          The Brooklyn, N.Y. native played at South Carolina State, and came to Mercer from Lenoir-Rhyne with head coach Drew Cronic after stints at South Carolina State and The Citadel.

          Mercer rode the defense this year to another solid Southern Conference season and plenty of top-25 rankings as well as its first FCS playoff berth. The Bears’ D keyed the 17-7 opening-round win over Gardner-Webb.

          Taylor has quite a task, taking over as West Georgia starts its progression from Division II to Division I.

          The Wolves will compete in the young United Athletic Conference, an FCS football conference that includes schools in the Atlantic Sun and Western Athletic Conference. It will compete in the Atlantic Sun in all other sports.

          The school has released an eight-game conference schedule, with a trip to Abilene Christian as the lone non-conference game scheduled so far.

          He succeeds David Dean, who resigned three weeks ago. Dean went 121-43 as head coach at Valdosta State and West Georgia. He was on the staff of Maconite Chris Hatcher at Valdosta State, and took over after Hatcher left, winning the program’s second national championship.

          He later was an assistant at Georgia Southern, and took over at West Georgia in 2017.

 

Around/About Georgia/Southeast

Falcons win sloppy road game

Defense finds recipe for success in over Jets

Offense does just enough

Smart, Norvell share respect, empathy after β€˜snub’

Smart promises Dogs will be up for Orange

Column-A tale of two snubs

Ready for the portal Monday

UCF to face Georgia Tech in Gasparilla Bowl. Knights will make 6th appearance under different titles

Georgia State, Utah State look to post winning season when they meet at the Potato Bowl

Ohio seeking 2nd straight 10-win season when it faces Georgia Southern in Myrtle Beach Bowl

Braves acquire OF Kelenic, P Gonzales as Mariners dump salary

 

College Football Playoff

Michigan vs. Alabama, Washington vs. Texas in College Football Playoff; unbeaten Florida St left out

Florida State’s Norvell, AD shred committee for snub

Top-seeded Michigan returns to Rose Bowl to face Alabama in College Football Playoff semifinal

Washington to play Texas in semifinal at Sugar Bowl. Huskies beat the Longhorns in 2022 bowl meeting

The Orange Bowl is for the snubbed. Florida State and Georgia will square off Dec. 30 ahead of CFP

Column-College football delivers the perfect fiasco to cap the four-team playoff era

Column-SEC bias at its worst! Leaving unbeaten FSU out of CFP semifinals is un-American

Sports world reacts to 13-0 FSU being excluded from CFP: 'Devastated'

Column-CFP committee makes safe call in choosing Alabama over FSU. And it's the right call

Column-Committee snubbing unbeaten Florida State makes a mockery of College Football Playoff

Column-Happy for Alabama, but FSU was robbed

Column-Florida State was screwed. It was a move a decade in the making

Pregame: If Bama had missed CFP, what about scheduling?

SEC Championship: Alabama 27, Georgia 24

Alabama football coach Saban only had one word for his team after Georgia win

Alabama’a win powered by the β€˜get back’

Former Georgia players Burton, Marshall help Alabama

Beck: "We have the mentality to never give up"

Column-No one to blame but themselves

Look: Danielson, Nessler give tearful signoff on final 'SEC on CBS' broadcast

 

College Football

Oregon’s Nix dejected after loss in Pac-12 championship, mum on status for bowl game

USC will take on Louisville in the Holiday Bowl, but will Williams play?

Harbaugh passes on encounter with Big Ten commissioner at trophy presentation

Houston snags ex-Georgia Southern HC Fritz from Tulane

Boise State removes interim tag and names Spencer Danielson head coach

Northern Arizona tabs Wright as next coach

Another Colorado assistant bolts

Former ODU HC Wilder takes over at Tennessee Tech

 

Football/NFL/USFL/CFL/XFL

Winners, losers from 49ers' blowout win against Eagles: Cowboys, Lions get big boost

Love throws 3 TD passes, Packers beat Chiefs

With pair of FGs, Chargers beat Patriots and latest hapless QB, 6-0

Purdy throws 4 TD passes as 49ers thump injured Hurts, Eagles

LaPorta has career day for Lions, Carr hurt as Detroit wins

Jaguars hope to shine against Bengals on β€˜Monday Night Football’ after 12-year drought in TV spot

Roundup 

College Sports

Former Olympic swimmer sentenced in U.S. Capital/Jan. 6 riot case

Female athletes sue the University of Oregon alleging Title IX violations by the school

DI football oversight committees adopt legislation for recruiting visits, photo shoots during unofficial visits

NBA/WNBA/Basketball

The NBA’s in-season tournament quarterfinals are here. Next stop: Las Vegas

College Basketball/Women

No. 16 Ohio State women roll past No. 20 Tennessee 

Gonzaga ends perfect start for No. 3 Stanford with romp

Roundup

College Basketball/Men

Southern closes with 12-0 run to stun No. 21 Mississippi State

Leonard buries 7 3-pointers and Samford earns 128-82 win against LaGrange

Thornton, Battle lead Ohio State over Minnesota

UNC Wilmington shocked Kentucky in first game on new Rupp Arena court

Roundup

Golf

Scheffler wins Hero World Challenge, Niemann wins Australia Open

MLB/Baseball

Jim Leyland elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame, becomes 23rd manager in Cooperstown

Year by year inductees

Scoreboards

MLB scores/games

NFL scores/games

College football scores, FBS

College football scores, FCS

NBA scores/games