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Group of Five playoff picks: Predictions for the Tigers
Media members from around the country predict which Group of Five programs will compete for a College Football Playoff berth and where the Memphis Tigers fit in.
Tim Buckley
Tim is a veteran sportswriter who graduated from CBHS in Memphis and the University of Missouri. He previously covered LSU sports in Baton Rouge, and the University of Louisiana football and basketball for The Daily Advertiser/USA TODAY Network in Lafayette, the NBA’s Utah Jazz for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida and West Texas State basketball for the Amarillo Globe News in Texas.
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Memphis Tigers FootballGroup of Five debate: Should there be a separate playoff for certain G5 teams?
The Memphis Tigers’ new athletic director isn’t keen on the new AAC commissioner’s interest in discussing the idea of a different playoff for Group of Five teams that don’t crack the College Football Playoff.
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SportsJimmy Sexton, Lane Kiffin featured in new book
An influential Memphian figures prominently into a new book examining the topsy-turvy world of college football.
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Memphis Tigers FootballNIL’s great debate: Should student-athletes be university employees?
With some players making more than professors, should student-athletes be classified as full-time university employees? A few Memphis Tigers respond.
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Memphis Tigers FootballBuckley: Planes. Trains. Construction. Dude, Tigers’ expectations are high.
The Tigers are building something big in Memphis ─ and a $220 million stadium revamp is living proof.
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Memphis Tigers Football Nick Saban teases the Memphis Tigers on College GameDay
The former Alabama coach called the University of Memphis by the wrong name as he speculated about the team’s chances for this season’s newly expanded, 12-team College Football Playoff.
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SportsBuckley: Ed Scott learned a lot about Liza Fletcher. And about Memphis.
As Memphians gathered to honor Liza Fletcher with a new stadium, Memphis Tigers athletic director Ed Scott learned a lot about his new community.
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Golf Former Memphian had a hand in Dunlap’s top-five FESJC finish
Nick Dunlap, who finished tied for fifth Sunday at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, credits a former Memphian, CBHS product Josh Gregory, for boosting his big year on the PGA Tour.
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Golf London theft led to FedEx St. Jude leader’s last-minute caddie swap
Hideki Matsuyama has a five-shot lead into Sunday’s final round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Replacement caddie Taiga Tabuchi made a last-minute trip to Memphis after regular caddie Shota Hayafuji lost his passport.
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Golf Handling Memphis’ heat a hot topic for FedEx St. Jude Championship players
With Memphis under an excessive-heat warning, weather is a hot topic for FedEx St. Jude Championship players at TPC Southwind. But that didn’t stop Denny McCarthy from blistering the course.
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GolfBuckley: Scottie Scheffler has reason to smile. It’s not what you might think.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler has won Olympic gold and the Masters this year, but he is in Memphis this week with a bigger reason to smile.
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World’s top two golfers look to overcome struggles at FESJC
Make yourself at home: What is it like to rent out your house for the FESJC?
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GolfBuckley: Collin Morikawa birdies, St. Jude benefits. That’s a win-win.
Every birdie by Collin Morikawa this week at TPC Southwind is money in the bag for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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GolfBuckley: Viktor Hovland is in love. With Memphis’ TPC Southwind.
TPC Southwind hasn’t always been kind to Viktor Hovland, especially at 18. But last year’s FedEx Cup champion has no grudge with the Memphis course. “I love this place,” he said.
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SportsBuckley: Big 12, ACC pros and cons as Memphis looks to leave AAC
The Memphis Tigers’ aspirations to join a higher-profile league than their current one, the American Athletic Conference, are no secret.
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Sports Memphis Showboats head coach will not return in 2025
After leading the Showboats to a 2-8 record in his one and only season, Memphis and head coach John DeFilippo have parted ways. The team’s general manager is out too.
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SportsMemphis deputy athletic director Jeff Crane leaving for South Carolina
The development comes about a month after Memphis tapped Virginia deputy AD Ed Scott to be its new athletic director.
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Memphis Tigers FootballBuckley: Ryan Silverfield’s Tigers are on a real roll
“Expectations for coach Ryan Silverfield’s Memphis Tigers in 2024 really are through the roof, which prompts this question: How in the world does one go about managing them?”
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Memphis Tigers BasketballMemphis Tigers basketball: 2024 transfer portal tracker
A look at players going into and coming out of the NCAA transfer portal for the Memphis Tigers basketball program prior to the 2024-25 season.
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Memphis Tigers FootballMemphis Tigers football recruiting tracker: Class of 2025 commits
The NCAA’s Class of 2025 football early signing period opens Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024.
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SportsNew Memphis Tigers athletic director has a long to-do list
New University of Memphis athletic director Ed Scott must juggle building his leadership team, raising money for stadium renovation and filling a vacant head coaching position with building corporate support, selling tickets and making critical NIL-related decisions.
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Memphis Tigers FootballBuckley: Silverfield doesn’t sweat hours spent pursuing NIL dollars
Chasing dollars on the NIL trail is almost like a second job, even during the off season that should be a respite from the University of Memphis football coach’s crazy calendar.
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SportsWhy Bears safety Quindell Johnson stayed with Memphis, despite other NIL offers
With power conference schools spending real dollars like Monopoly money since the onset of NIL, Quindell Johnson could have left Memphis for another school before his college career was done.
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SportsBasketball, football and NIL: Making money as a Memphis Tiger
With NIL becoming bigger and bigger — the disparity among how much each student-athlete is paid seems bound to grow wider and wider.
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Memphis Tigers FootballLifting the veil off NIL: How the Memphis Tigers really get it done
Nowadays — three years after NIL was made official on July 1, 2021 — some of college sports’ highest-paid athletes are millionaires in an ecosystem composed of kids, coaches, collectives and even agents.
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SportsEd Scott’s resume prepares him for whatever comes Memphis’ way
“My tool kit is robust, having dealt with major infractions at Morgan State,” new Memphis Tigers athletic director says.
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