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No. 14 LSU’s game with surging South Alabama features one coach who played Louisiana high school football and grew up going ...

South Alabama’s Major Applewhite will coach his first game at LSU on Saturday night, but it will be far from the first time ...

Football has taken Major Applewhite a lot of places in his life. He played quarterback and later coached at Texas. He was an assistant at Rice and head coach at the University of Houston.

Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers celebrates after throwing a touchdown pass during the second quarter of the Longhorns' win ...

When Way thinks about hyped Texas quarterbacks over the last 30 years, he can really only compare this Ewers/Manning situation to the famous Major Applewhite/Chris Simmons quarterback controversy.

setting the school's scoring record and giving new coach Major Applewhite his first victory. Jamaal Pritchett returned a punt 62 yards for a touchdown after South Alabama's defense forced a three ...

There was no need to turn this into a controversy yet. And the media, Major Applewhite said, was “blowing the story out of proportion.” That, believe it or not, was a quarter-century ago.

But how things have played out for both Major Applewhite and the Jaguars (2-2), as well as the No. 13 Tigers (3-1), this contest has gotten much more interesting as the teams are set to face off ...