Let’s Pick the Greatest Rumors in College Message Board History

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There have been some whoppers over the years. Let’s count them down and pick the top message board rumor in history!

If you’re a fan of any major college football program and of a certain age, there’s a better than average chance you’ve spent some amount of time on a team message board in the last 20 years.

And probably a rival team’s message board as well. Or two. Maybe three.

You could argue that message boards — especially sports ones — are America right now. Passionate. Polarized. Unabashedly convinced of their own righteousness, regardless of evidence. For better or for worse.

College football is a sport that really lends itself to towards a particularly insane brand of rumor mill. Programs limit access to information and reporting, coaches and agents play shadow games with contracts and athletic directors, and and then there’s the whole shadowy black market world of recruiting with its bag men and handlers and assorted layers of innuendos that can spread from whatever small town to the big university campus.

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