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Long before Ameer Abdullah was getting Ciante Evans out of a sideline butt-chewing, or busting off 200-yard games with regularity, or running around, past or through the entire defense to seal a win against a plucky foe, he had a decision to make: Play football in his beloved state of Alabama, or take a chance on a school hundreds of miles away. Brandon Vogel gives us some insight into the family who helped Ameer make that fateful decision.

Brandon Vogel, if you don't already know, writes up some pretty good stats-based articles for Hail Varsity. Today's offering takes a look at the bizarre relationship between Nebraska's turnovers - which are astronomical - and our winning percentage. Over the past six+ years, we have an anomalous relationship between turnovers and winning. We're often winning despite ourselves, or in spite of ourselves, and we are definitely an outlier in college football over that span. LINK Go read the whole article. He does some really clever work with charts and graphs, all of which show that we win more than we should - way more than we should - for as much as we turn the ball over. Wrapping that into the conversation of "Keep Bo vs. Fire Bo," it's hard to reach a conclusion. Yes, the turnovers are a huge problem, and that's a coaching issue, and that does not bode well for Bo. But we're winning, and winning a lot, especially when you compare our turnover margin to similarly-situated teams.