It was a year of 10,000 stories in and around college football in 2015. There were great plays made by great players, and there were plenty of magical and emotional moments to keep us entertained.

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We’re culling the list down to the 50 best stories of the year. Here are stories 25 through 21:

25. The epically terrible SEC East

The history books will say that Florida won the SEC East in 2015. And they won because, well, somebody had to.

The SEC East was horrible this year. In the 14 games played between teams from the East and West, the East only won two, with Florida beating Ole Miss and Georgia beating Auburn. That was it.

Nobody thought much about Florida coming into the season, picking them as low as fifth in the preseason polls. But they ran the table in the East, shocking Tennessee late and thumping Georgia in the two games that mattered the most.

But the other teams in the bottom of the SEC East were brutal all season long. Kentucky lost six of its last seven games and blew a 21-point lead to Louisville in the final week of the season. Missouri (5-7) and Vanderbilt (4-8) were offensively inept, ranking near the bottom of NCAA statistical categories.

And South Carolina, well, the Gamecocks  were a disaster. Things were so bad that Steve Spurrier quit on his players in the middle of the season. The Gamecocks also struggled for points – and wins – under interim coach Shawn Elliott. They finished 3-9 and had the most embarrassing loss in college football this season, losing to The Citadel on Nov. 21.

Sadly, even the champions were bad. The Gators struggled down the stretch, barely beating bad teams in Vandy and South Carolina to clinch the East. But they almost lost to little Florida Atlantic, winning 20-14 in overtime. They were thumped by Florida State 27-2 and were lucky to get the two,  and then Alabama crushed them in the SEC Championship Game 29-15 in a game that wasn’t nearly that close.

Now the Gators are underdogs in their Citrus Bowl matchup against Michigan and could end the season on a three-game losing streak.

It’s a year to forget in the SEC East, even for the champions.

24. Leonard Fournette’s coming-out party vs. Auburn

Sept. 19 seems like forever ago in this long SEC football season, but way back then the narrative was vastly different. Auburn, ranked No. 6 in the preseason and the favorite to win the SEC West, had its first conference game that day on a steamy 91-degree  Saturday afternoon in Baton Rouge.

It was Leonard Fournette who was hot. Blazing hot.

The sophomore RB went nuts against the Tigers, rushing for 228 yards and three touchdowns on just 19 carries. He had a 71-yard touchdown run where he ran over two defenders and almost scored again on a 40-yard run. Numbers alone don’t tell the story. Fournette ran through defenders and danced around others. It was a defining moment in a great start to the season for Fournette.

“The bottom line is we got our rear kicked,” Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said. “They did a good job blocking and the kid (Fournette) broke some tackles, too, and made a few big runs.”

The 228 yards were a career high for Fournette. The mark didn’t last long. He ran for more than that each of the next two weeks, rushing for 248 against Syracuse and 233 against Eastern Michigan. In the first seven games, he rushed for 150 yards or more every game, amassing 1,362 yards.

The Fournette story for 2015 changes drastically the next week at Alabama, but that’s a story for another day (It really is.) But his incredible run started on that hot day in September against Auburn. He continued on doing great things. Auburn, which came into the game trash-talking like crazy, never recovered, finishing dead last in the SEC West.

23. Sorority video raises a fuss … and just why, exactly?

The sorority sisters of Alpha Phi at the University of Alabama didn’t think twice about making a fun recruiting video. It’s four minutes and change long and features lots of pretty girls smiling for the cameras, wearing cute white dresses, cute white shorts and Bama football jerseys, and even cute bikinis. It’s what sororities do, there and everywhere.

All that is just fine, really, at least at a certain level. There was nothing suggestive or overtly sexual about the video. It shouldn’t have ever been shocking news that there are pretty girls at the University of Alabama. It’s just a bunch of pretty girls from a sorority house in Tuscaloosa.

A bunch of pretty white girls. Every single one of them.

Alabama RB Kenyon Drake shows up in the video about 2:30 in. He’s only a part of it for 30 seconds – Big Al is in it, too – and that set everyone off. The only non pearly-white face in the bunch was Drake’s

The diversity police went off immediately after the recruiting video hit YouTube – and was viewed more than a million times before the University ordered it removed. They didn’t like their little girls acting that way, all cutesy and flirty and all.

“This video is not reflective of UA’s expectations for student organizations to be responsible digital citizens. It is important for student organizations to remember what is posted on social media makes a difference, today and tomorrow, on how they are viewed and perceived,” said Deborah Lane, Associate Vice President for University Relations.

Watching pretty girls frolicking around a beautiful campus shouldn’t be a big thing, but every word came out from critics. It was sexist, they said. It was racist, they said. It was childish, they said. It’s not how good Southern girls should act, the conservative preachers said.

But they all missed the point. It’s a recruiting video. This sorority is looking to bring in more girls who look and act just like them. It wasn’t meant to extol all the great virtues of the sorority, it was about showing them having fun.

“My goal was never to show the accomplishments of the sorority — if it was, this video would be a failure,” student filmmaker Griffin Meyer told the Hollywood Reporter. “This video is not for politically sensitive adults who immediately associate eating a popsicle with sex. It’s a hyper-realistic video that’s supposed to evoke an emotion in the mind of an incoming freshman girl, so I don’t really care what adults think.”

Meyer doesn’t regret making the video in spite of the fact that it’s come under so much fire. “I don’t regret it. Not at all,” He adds, “I wish they left it on Youtube. By deleting the video it made the criticism seem legitimate and made it seem like something was actually wrong with the video.”

Let’s be realistic. How fraternities and sororities work on every college campus brings up the race debate. Did these girls go a little overboard in their cuteness? Probably. But the critics went way overboard in complaining about it.

22. Nick Saban at his grumpiest during press conferences

Nick Saban is a great football coach and there’s no denying that. If only he didn’t have to meet with the media three or four times a week, then he’d really love his job.

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Saban press conferences are must-see TV. He’s almost surely bound to go off and some point, and he has many times this year. He’s ripped reporters for bad questions, ripped Alabama fans for being so demanding, and even begged reporters to ask questions of a Coke bottle instead of him.

Priceless.

Keep ’em coming, Nick. He gets this grumpy when his team is 12-1. Can you imagine covering a Nick Saban-coached team if they were ever 6-6?

21. The Legend of Tim Tebow lives on … and on … and on.

He just won’t go away. Try as he might, Tim Tebow just won’t go away.

The Heisman Trophy winner from Florida keeps thinking that he’s an NFL quarterback. After his brief fling of success in Denver, he’s tried and failed to make the team with the Jets, Patriots and now the Philadelphia Eagles. He went to camp with them this summer, but was cut before the regular season started.

His preseason was covered ad nauseam. It’s shocking that the national media is still so absorbed with Tebow.

Tebow showed flashes as a runner during Philadelphia’s preseason but looked lost – still – as a passer. Chip Kelly’s read-option offense is probably best-suited for Tebow, but Kelly still didn’t want him.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Kelly suggested to Tebow he go play in the Canadian Football League for a while before considering another run at the NFL. Tebow said no. It’s been three years now since Tebow was on an opening day NFL roster.

It’s over, Tim.

“I think he just needs to get more playing time, get out there and get actual reps,” Kelly said of suggesting Canada. “He’s done a ton on his own from an individual basis, but it’s about playing the game.”

Right after getting cut, Tebow was right back in our living rooms as a commentator on the SEC Network and a few other ESPN platforms.

Tebow gets mixed reviews as an analyst on TV. Some people like him, if only because he’s good-boy Tim Tebow. Other critics, however, can’t get past him being a one-trick-pony. His rah-rah approach doesn’t always fly, and he finds it very hard to be critical of people.

As an analyst, he’s got a long way to go. But he’s got a much better chance of being a TV star than he does of being an NFL quarterback.

And even after all these years, nothing drives the media needle more than Tim Tebow the person, the God-fearing, Bible-toting 28-year-old virgin who’s very proud of all those stances. The devout Christian chooses to live his life a certain way, and good for him. That’s why they make more than one flavor of ice cream.

But it’s not for everybody. Especially if you’re his girlfriend.

Model Olivia Culpo, a former Miss USA, dated Tebow for two months. She finally broke up with him in November because he wouldn’t have sex with her. When that story broke, it went viral.

How viral?

On Nov. 29, when the story broke, it was the fifth-most-read story on our SaturdayDownSouth.com website. Not of the day, or the week, or the month.

It was No. 5 FOR THE YEAR!

Sure, it’s a converging world of internet love. It’s everybody’s favorite Tebow, it’s hot models and it’s sex (or a lack thereof) in the headline. Clickbait, for sure.

But it’s Tim Tebow, the gift that keeps on giving.

He’ll be in our living rooms forever now as an analyst. But, as long as he’s single, he won’t be in anybody’s bedroom.

And he’s probably not watching that Alabama sorority girls video either.