Congrats to Illinois QB Reilly O’Toole. Not only did he win the Illini MVP award this season, but he made The Sports Bank’s top five most popular college football stories of 2014. Almost twice even. With the second placement being the Illini story. So good for Reilly O’Toole.
Happy college football day everyone! Happy college football playoff day.
1. 2014 NFL Mock Draft FINAL 5-8-14 69,743
2. PHOTOS: New Illinois Fighting Illini Uniforms Leaked 15,932
3. Reilly O’Toole talks Faux Pelini (EXCLUSIVE) 13,125
4. Blake Sims and Jake Coker begin battle to succeed AJ McCarron at Alabama 11,321
5. Who is Northwestern’s Rachel Markle on ESPN College Gameday? She’s actress Meghan Markle 10,876
The Sports Bank went over 5,000,000 unique visitors in 2014. Here’s the rest of the year end, most popular archive:
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-Five most popular Angel Di Maria stories of 2014 (Dec 18th)
-Five most popular female sportscaster stories of 2014 (Dec 23rd)
-Five most popular Kentucky Wildcats stories of 2014 (Dec 22nd)
-Five most popular college basketball stories of 2014 (Dec 27th)
-Five most popular college football stories of 2014 (Jan 1st)
-Five most popular NFL stories of 2014 (not including the Jay Cutler list) (Dec 28th)
-Five most popular NBA stories of 2014 (Dec 25th)
-Five most popular MLB stories of 2014 (Dec 25th)
-Five most popular news/pop culture stories of 2014 (Dec 31st)
-Top 20 search terms of 2014 (Jan 1st)
-10 most popular overall (Dec 31st)
-5 most popular Liverpool (Dec 26th)
-5 most popular Chelsea (Dec 26th)
-5 most popular Arsenal (Dec 25th)
-5 most popular Tottenham Hotspur (Dec 24th)
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