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.

We’re culling the list down to the 50 best stories of the year. Here are stories 40 through 36:

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40. Alex Collins historic 1,000-yard marks at Arkansas

Arkansas running back Alex Collins must have been really jealous watching Alabama’s Derrick Henry get 40-plus carries a game all the time. Collins hasn’t had that chance to be the workhorse in Fayetteville, but he still does great things.

Collins rushed for more than 1,000 yards for the third straight year in 2015, which is an amazing accomplishment considering he has had to share RB duties his entire career.

So what, he says. I’ll just do what I can and click off 1,000-yard seasons.

Collins rushed for 1,392 this year, following up 1,100-yard and 1,026-yard seasons previously. He’s done that even though he’s never – yes, never – carried the ball more than 30 times in a game. If he comes back to Arkansas, he has a chance to go a perfect 4-for-4 in 1,000-yard season and could also catch Darren McFadden as the school’s all-time leading rusher.

He has grown up.

“I think his maturity level is off the charts from where it was a year ago. He knows those four and five yard gains are good. Those are good solid gains against defenses,” quarterback Brandon Allen told the Arkansas News.

“He knows that even when he’s getting four and five yard carries, it’s going to open up the rest of the offense and he loves seeing our offense no matter if he’s getting the carries if we’re throwing it, he loves seeing us have success.”

Collins has frustrated the heck out of Bret Bielema at times. He’s late for meetings, screws up occasionally and lets his teammates down now and then.

But he answers the bell, and it rings 1,000 yards. Will he come back for a senior year? There are some things he can still work on, such as pass protection.

If not, the NFL is ready for him. Here’s a glowing scouting reportL

39. Georgia jaws at Alabama, then gets jacked

Georgia was all excited about playing Alabama back in October. They were firmly convinced they were the best team in the SEC.

And they brought it pregame, jaw-jacking with the Tide.

“When two teams talk stuff to each other, it’s going to add something to the field, but it’s all about handling your business and doing what you’re supposed to do,” Alabama senior linebacker Reggie Ragland told the Montgomery Advertiser.

Nick Saban was angered over the banter. Alabama went into the Ole Miss game two weeks ago emotional keyed up, but Saban felt as if his team didn’t channel its energy the right way.

On Saturday, he was feeling deja vu all over again and decided to nip it in the bud.

“I got really pissed,” Saban said. “I said, ‘alright, we’re going to go through this again? We’re going to be emotional and not be able to execute and do what we’re supposed to do? That’s not who we are. So we’re focused on playing football and doing our job.’ And they settled down and did a god job of that.”

Alabama did get past it quickly. They crushed the Bulldogs 38-10.

“We took it a a sort of a disrespect,” Alabama junior safety Eddie Jackson said. “It motivated us, got us going, but we still had to do what we had to do.”

38. Harold Brantley accident: ‘Lucky to be alive’

Mizzou coach Gary Pinkel spread the news at SEC Media Days that standout defensive tackle Harold Brantley would miss the 2015 season due to injuries sustained in a car accident.

Pinkel said the team’s top returning pass rusher was “very lucky to be alive” after the Chrysler Concorde he was driving traveled off the left side of the road when he overcorrected to the right.

Brantley was missed during the season but he is recovering well and is expected to play again.

37. SEC Network revenue is off the charts

The SEC Network’s inaugural season will bring in an estimated $611 million in revenue, more than twice the total revenue expected from the Big Ten and Pac-12 Networks combined, according to several media outlets.

How big of a deal is this? It’s huge.

The SEC Network has surpassed expectations from the get-go. The best thing the SEC did was let ESPN in on the deal and do all the heavy lifting when it came time to negotiate deals with distributors.

The SEC football is huge and the money is rolling in. Starting in August 2014 and made available in 90 million homes, SEC Network had one of the widest cable launches in history. And thanks to its subscriber fee that averages $0.66 in the conference footprint (as high as $1.40 depending on the provider) and $0.25 outside the conference, SEC Network was able to gain a market value of $4.77 billion in just its first year of operation, according to al.com.

Compare that to Big Ten Network which was established in 2009 and has a market value of $1.59 billion.

In other words, there’s no denying the money is going to continue to flow for all SEC teams. Each school received more than $31 million from the conference office in 2015.

36. Jameis Winston’s bad fumble, and a laughable RKO

Our last memory of Jameis Winston as a college player at Florida State will get a good laugh for a long time.

Winston became an easy whipping boy for SEC fans from all corners of the South. Winston kept doing stupid silly stuff – crab legs from Public, free drinks from Burger King, breaking windows with a BB gun – that everyone could use to go after him. Fans were downright brutal, of course, with all the rape allegation stories and they didn’t die down even when charges weren’t ever filed against Winston.

There’s a sheer jealousy factor, of course. Winston was college football’s best QB for two years, winning a national championship and a Heisman Trophy in 2013 and going undefeated before the Oregon debacle on Jan. 1. What makes matters worse for SEC fans was that he’s an Alabama kid who didn’t go to Alabama or Auburn, didn’t go to some other SEC school. He went to Florida State, where they play in the easy ACC and get no respect. (That would be wrong, of course, but you do it anyway.)

The last laugh, at least, was this play in the Rose Bowl. Winston went out just the way all SEC fans hoped he would.

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