Published Jan 15, 2019
This week's most ridiculous moments in college sports
Rob Cassidy and Woody Wommack
Rivals.com

Each week, Rivals.com's Woody Wommack and Rob Cassidy take a look around the world of high school and college sports to spotlight unique, bizarre and utterly ridiculous moments.

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1. CLEMSON GETS PRESIDENTIAL BUFFET

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The President of the United States apparently decided that Clemson’s recent national championship was captured by a team full of grade-school students and served Dabo Swinney’s squad Wendy's and Burger King along with some pizza during their White House visit.

Forget the debate over the pallets of college students, though. Cast aside the silver platters on which the burgers were presented. The strangest part of the ordeal is perhaps the ‘s’ that President Trump adds at the end of Burger King, as if each individual Burger King menu item is its own slice of royalty. The thought process that must be at work here is fascinating on all fronts.

Oh, and if you haven’t seen the photos, they look like some sort of modern art statement on consumerism.

MORE CLEMSON: TigerIllustrated.com

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2. SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTBALL NOW HAS A RECORDING STUDIO

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In a move that hopefully results in more hilariously bad athlete rap albums, South Carolina’s new $50 million football facility includes a recording studio.

Because, why wouldn’t it?

It was just a few years back that people made a big deal about facilities such as Alabama’s including barber shops, but we can always rely on college football to push the envelope when it comes to ridiculousness, so here we are spitting fire next to the film room. Hopefully the South Carolina football program will start pumping out awful singles to rival the ones released by such athletes as Kobe Bryant, Deion Sanders and Shaquille O'Neal.

Bonus points if we get a few bars about losing five straight games to in-state rival Clemson.

Shaq rap | Kobe rap | Deion rap

MORE SOUTH CAROLINA: GamecockCentral.com

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3. COLLEGE FOOTBALL TRANSFER MANIA

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The game of musical quarterbacks that’s going on just a week into the offseason is something college football fans are still getting used to, with a new name popping into the transfer portal on an almost hourly basis.

Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts is on the market and could be headed to Miami or Oklahoma. Oklahoma quarterback Austin Kendall is on the market, likely because of the potential arrival of Hurts. Ohio State quarterback Tate Martell has left the Buckeyes, because Georgia transfer Justin Fields arrived in Columbus.

Once Hurts and Martell make their decisions official, it will just lead to more quarterbacks making moves. And of course to more horrible portal dad jokes by college football media.

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4. MIAMI HYPE MACHINE

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The Miami Hurricanes have a new head coach, Manny Diaz, a defensive guru and native of the area that also was the brains behind the turnover chain. It appears that Diaz’s next big idea has a wrestling slant, as he and his new team took time over the weekend to practice their wrestling moves on tackling dummies, complete with a cinematic hype video release.

Diaz is trying to bring energy back into the program and it seems like he’s going to make it happen no matter what, even if he has to do it himself.

MORE MIAMI: CaneSport.com

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