Matt Hayes
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Matt Hayes
@MattHayesCFB
Senior National College Football Writer, USA TODAY Sports Network | Host, 1010XL-Jacksonville | Email: [email protected]
Jacksonville Beach, FL
Joined November 2010
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    Matt Hayes
    @MattHayesCFB
    Oct 12, 2025
    If SEC wants to do the right thing, Smart and the official would be suspended for this.
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    Pardon My Take
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    @PardonMyTake
    Oct 12, 2025
    Kirby Smart just lied about calling a timeout and got away with it This League
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    Bobby Boucher
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    Bobby Boucher
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    Matt Hayes
    @MattHayesCFB
    Dec 13, 2022
    In 2005, I called Mike Leach to introduce myself before writing a piece on him. We talked for 45 minutes -- not once about football. Then I heard a toilet flush. Me: "Were you on the toilet?" Leach" "Yeah, uh, figured the conversation was good and didn't want to stop."
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    Matt Hayes
    @MattHayesCFB
    Aug 30, 2025
    Future reference: Kalen DeBoer buyout is $70 million.
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    Matt Hayes
    @MattHayesCFB
    Nov 30, 2024
    Best. Sport. Ever.
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    Matt Hayes
    @MattHayesCFB
    Dec 8, 2024
    Stop this nonsense that SMU shouldn't be penalized for playing the ACC CG. Georgia was No.1 in 2023, and 12-0. Then lost SEC CG by three points, and was knocked out of the CFP. End. Of. Argument.
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    Matt Hayes
    @MattHayesCFB
    Oct 19, 2025
    These two are actually good friends. Imagine what happens when it’s Georgia vs. Florida, Kirby vs. Lane. With similar personnel.
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    Matt Hayes
    @MattHayesCFB
    Dec 11, 2024
    Source tells me UNC will increase NIL package for football from $4 million to $20 million in effort to land Belichick.
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    Matt Hayes
    @MattHayesCFB
    Jan 1, 2025
    Those who proved they belong in the CFP: Arizona State, Boise State. Those who didn't: Indiana, Tennessee, SMU.
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    Matt Hayes
    @MattHayesCFB
    Aug 10, 2020
    Power 5 AD just texted me: “It’s looking more and more like it’s Big Ten and Pac-12 vs. SEC, ACC and Big 12."
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    Matt Hayes
    @MattHayesCFB
    Dec 3, 2022
    I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Alabama — with the best player in CFB (Bryce Young) — is going to get in. And win the whole damn thing.
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    Matt Hayes
    @MattHayesCFB
    Nov 23, 2021
    #Mizzou coach @CoachDrinkwitz on @1010XL, explaining irony of beating #Gators & Mullen after last year’s near brawl: “My father was a farmer, and there’s an old saying you reap what you sow. If you sow kindness, you reap kindness. If you sow jackass, you reap jackass.”
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    Matt Hayes
    @MattHayesCFB
    Sep 4, 2023
    Keon Coleman was best player at Michigan State. Jaheim Bell was best player at South Carolina. Fentrell Cypress was best player at Virginia. Braden Fiske was best player at Western Michigan. They all play for FSU.
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    Matt Hayes
    @MattHayesCFB
    Aug 9, 2020
    Best part of the #CFB meltdown: @trevorlawrencee doesn’t have to play another snap, and he’s the first pick in the 2021 @NFL draft. And he’s he’s doing everything he can to save the season.
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    Matt Hayes
    @MattHayesCFB
    Nov 24, 2018
    I swear I’m not making this up: a Gators safety just yelled to the FSU sideline that it didn’t have 11 guys on the field. To which FSU promptly added a receiver. And threw an incompletion.

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