Dellenger: Is the Deep South's college football reign over?

January 8, 2025

By Ross Dellenger, Senior College Football Writer, Yahoo Sports: In the college football-crazed Deep South, David Cutcliffe is a recognizable face, perhaps even a regional celebrity.

After all, he attended the University of Alabama, spent nearly three decades as an assistant with the Tennessee Volunteers and was head coach of Ole Miss and Duke for a combined 20 years.

In fact, he’s currently working at the Birmingham-based SEC headquarters as a special assistant to commissioner Greg Sankey.

So, naturally, as he shuffles through a central Alabama grocery store, he’s often interrupted by football fans of the SEC. Lately, the interruptions have grown more intense.

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Is the Deep South's college football reign over?

With no teams left in the playoff, the region's long-running domination of the sport appears to be at an end. So what gives? "It’s different when you can’t say, ‘Next guy up!’ like you used to."

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