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What Had Happened Was: 9/6/16

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    Notre Dame v Texas
    The Texas Longhorns celebrate defeating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 50-47 in a second overtime at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on September 4, 2016 in Austin, Texas. Ronald Martinez/Getty Images
    By Rhiannon Walker Ryan Cortes

    GAME. BLOUSES.

    SO. MUCH. FOOTBALL.

    What a weekend, fam. Texas gave Notre Dame that work — 50-47 in double overtime! — with not one, but two different dominant quarterbacks. Georgia running back Nick Chubb looks all the way back and more after 222 rushing yards and two touchdowns. And No. 1 Alabama even cruised to a 52-6 smackdown of Southern California.

    But we begin with Florida State freshman quarterback Deondre Francois and the memorable victory his Seminoles snatched from Ole Miss on Monday night. Florida State was down 28-6 early before unleashing 33 straight points for the biggest comeback in school history, winning 45-34. Francois closed 33-of-52 with 419 yards passing and two touchdown passes, along with 59 yards rushing — the most attempts, completions and yards by a Florida State freshman quarterback in his first start.

    BLESSINGS!

    Just press play, and let your ears be blessed by the smooth melodies.

    Bonus: Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez throwing like a damn boss out here. Look at the concentration.

    https://twitter.com/KatzM/status/772263013432819712

    SOCIAL STATUS

    What should have been one of the happiest weekends for Ana Ebanks quickly turned into one of the worst for the Honduran immigrant. Ebanks was a public defender in her native Honduras, but fled out of fear for her life. She came to Washington, D.C., with her degree in law, but took a job working for Aramark dining services at American University.

    For the last 10 years, she has worked at a job she is highly overqualified for, taking classes to learn English, with the hope of practicing law again. This year, she was awarded a full scholarship to American’s master of law program. But over the Labor Day weekend, she was fired from her job because she missed a whopping 40 minutes due to her classes.

    Ebanks’ trials and tribulations were written about by the The Washington Post in 2010, and Huffington Post contributor Carlos Mark Vera is the one who brought renewed attention to her story this weekend, creating the hashtag #Justice4Ana. (Note: Although Ebanks was fired from her job, American’s campus newspaper The Eagle reports she is still enrolled in the law program.)

    FOR THE CULTURE

    Take a listen to this woman’s play-by-play surrounding a man who was tackled and arrested after trying to steal from a Rite Aid.

    Tuskegee airman and Martin Luther King Jr. bodyguard Dabney Montgomery died at 93.

    The St. John’s University student shot and killed at the J’Ouvert Caribbean festival in Brooklyn, New York, over the weekend dreamt of becoming an accountant.

    President Barack Obama says San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is exercising his constitutional right by not standing for the national anthem.

    Monse designers Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia will become the next creative directors of the fashion brand Oscar de la Renta.

    Rapper Drake’s new Child’s Play music video is now out.

    TOP THREE TWEETS

    Every morning we’ll hit you here with the best of what we saw on social media the previous night. Why? Why not?

    1. MY HEART

    https://twitter.com/FUCCl/status/772790972384096256

    2. NO STOPPING THE FLOCKING

    3. FOR THE WIN!

    #ICYMI

    PICTURE PERFECT

    Rhiannon Walker is an associate editor at The Undefeated. She is a drinker of Sassy Cow Creamery chocolate milk, an owner of an extensive Disney VHS collection, and she might have a heart attack if Frank Ocean doesn't drop his second album.

    Ryan Cortes is a staff writer for The Undefeated. Lemon pepper his wings.

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