College Football
- www.cbssports.com SEC stadium rankings: Newcomers Oklahoma, Texas lag behind legacy league members after conference expansion
Here's our breakdown of the SEC's top home-field advantages ahead of the 2024 season
Aggie, OU, and UTA shade, Florida ranked above UTK and Georgia...
I like this. No, I need this. 🤣
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Oklahoma and Texas join the SEC
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SEC shorts is back, that means it's almost time!!!
- www.espn.com NCAA votes to ease limit on 'countable' coaches
The NCAA on Tuesday approved a rule change that will allow any staff member to "provide technical and tactical instruction to student-athletes during practice and competition."
I didn't even realize there was a limit, because no way in hell have there been only 11 coaches on a sideline for years now
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Is the Buc-ee's Big 12 an acceptable name for you?
www.cbssports.com Big 12 mulls selling naming rights, opening door for conference to be rebranded with corporate sponsorThe deal would be the first of its kind in college athletics following the House v. NCAA settlement
Discuss
- www.cbssports.com Big 12 considering private equity investment of up to $1 billion for as much as 20% of conference
The proposed deal with a Luxembourg-based firm would bring a massive influx of cash to the league
This "good or bad" question will absolutely depend on the specifics of the deal, but the story certainly highlights what a weird place we're in these days.
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Josh Pate Realigns EVERY College Football Conference (Late Kick Cut)
Somewhat delayed reaction to this, because I don't obsessively listen to Pate. I think he says a lot to say a little, but that's podcasts for you. I do at the very least appreciate his traditionalist approach to the sport. And this is one of those instances where I really do agree with what he's saying.
tl;dr 7 conferences (plus indies) of no more than 10 teams
- SEC
- Big 10
- Big East
- SWC
- Big 8
- Pac 10
- ACC
SEC:
- alabama
- Auburn
- florida
- Georgia
- kentucky
- LSU
- Mississippi State
- Ole Miss
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
Big 10:
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Michigan
- Michigan State
- Minnesota
- Ohio State
- Penn State
- Purdue
- Wisconsin
Big East:
- Boston College
- Cincinnati
- Louisville
- Maryland
- Pittsburgh
- Rutgers
- Syracuse
- UCF
- USF
- West Virginia
SWC:
- Arkansas
- Baylor
- Houston
- Oklahoma
- Rice
- SMU
- Texas
- Texas A&M
- Texas Tech
- TCU
Big 8:
- Colorado
- Iowa State
- Kansas
- Kansas State
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Oklahoma State
- Utah
Pac 10:
- Arizona
- Arizona State
- California
- Oregon
- Oregon State
- Stanford
- UCLA
- USC
- Washington
- Washington State
ACC:
- Clemson
- Duke
- Florida State
- Georgia Tech
- Miami
- NC State
- UNC
- Virginia
- Virginia Tech
- Wake Forest
Independent:
- BYU
- Northwestern
- Notre Dame
- UConn
- vanderbilt
Like I said I honestly like this. I would maybe keep vandy in the SEC as they were a founding member and push SCar to ACC or something. And if we're changing some names then I refuse to allow the big 10 and 8 to exist. Somebody has to change that name. But like Josh says, with this system I would almost be okay with an 8-12 team playoff. Thoughts?
- www.texastribune.org Texas A&M bonfire will not return to campus
Resuming the bonfire was “not in the interest” of Texas A&M, said school President Mark Welsh III.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16228461
> Texas A&M bonfire will not return to campus > > After a monthslong review, Texas A&M University decided not to bring back the student bonfire tradition it discontinued 25 years ago after a deadly accident, President Mark Welsh III said Tuesday. > > For decades, students built a 60-foot bonfire every year ahead of football matches between A&M and the University of Texas at Austin. The tradition was suspended after tragedy struck in 1999, when a stack of logs collapsed in the middle of the night, killing 12 people and injuring dozens, some severely. > > Welsh said reviving the tradition would not be in the best interest of the university. > > “After careful consideration, I decided that Bonfire, both a wonderful and tragic part of Aggie history, should remain in our treasured past,” Welsh said.
- www.cbssports.com Utah's Cam Rising, Tennessee's Bru McCoy among top players with extra year of eligibility from NCAA settlement
Athletes previously deemed ineligible under the NCAA's Transfer Eligibility Rule will receive an extra year if they opt in
I mean I'm pretty sure Thomas Jefferson said students should stay in college until they feel like they've learned all they need to...
- yewtu.be College Football 25 | Gameplay Deep Dive
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Video demoing the new game
- www.cbssports.com Georgia QB Jaden Rashada sues Florida coach Billy Napier, among others, over botched $13.85M NIL deal
Also named in the bombshell suit are a former Gators football staffer as well as a prominent booster
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Top 15 Worst Plays of the 2023 College Football Season
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Get in here sickos
- www.cbssports.com EA Sports College Football 25 trailer, date, covers revealed: Video game set for July 2024 release
EA Sports released the official cover of 'College Football 25' on Thursday featuring three of the game's top players ahead of the 2024 season
Cover features Quinn Ewers, Travis Hunter, and Donovan Edwards (similar to last week's reveal of the deluxe edition cover).
Anyone going to pick up the game? I hate EA as much as the next guy and I haven't really played anything in about a decade, but I love college football enough that I'm tempted.
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Offseason Champs
We’re inching closer to the start of the 2024-2025 college football season.
At this point we’ve had signing day and a bunch of transfers. Who’s your offseason champ?
I’ll make my very biased case for the Miami Hurricanes.
Solid recruit class, and great transfer portal pick ups in Cam Ward, Sam Brown, and Damien Martinez, among others. We’ve also lost a few good ones in the portal, though.
All that said, I’ve dubbed the Canes “Offseason Champs” several times before, and it has not quite translated to anything on the field.
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Is there any reason at all for me to give a single shit about my team's roster until fall camp breaks?
Please just figure out a way to pay kids for 3-5 year contracts. The portal, way more than NIL, is sucking all the joy out of this sport, but I can acknowledge that my interests as a fan only coincidentally and partially align with those of the players trading their services and health for my entertainment.
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University of Houston plans to buck NFL, add alternate blue uniform for all sports
>The University of Houston has informed the NFL that it will proceed with plans to add an alternate blue uniform. The about-face comes six months after the NFL’s merchandising and licensing division sent a cease-and-desist letter to UH, threatening legal action if the school did not halt what was described as UH’s “blatant copying” of the Houston Oilers-themed uniforms.
Good. Fuck Bud Adams. If spectator sports have any value beyond mere economic activity, it's down to communities and their fans.
- www.wataugademocrat.com University: App State football student-athlete dies
BOONE — Appalachian State University student-athlete John “Jack” Murphy passed away on Friday, April 26.
You absolutely hate to see it. There's no proof and it's likely unhelpful to speculate, but based on the article I suspect suicide. Y'all look out for each other out there.
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Reggie Bush gets Heisman Trophy back 14 years after forfeiting
www.espn.com Heisman Trophy returned to Bush after 14 yearsThe Heisman Trust is returning the Heisman Trophy to Reggie Bush and a replica to USC after the former running back had forfeited the award in 2010.
Reggie Bush has his 2005 Heisman Trophy back, as the Heisman Trust announced Wednesday the formal "reinstatement" of the trophy to Bush amid what it calls "enormous changes in the college football landscape."
The Heisman Trust's decision comes after Bush forfeited his Heisman Trophy in 2010 in the wake of significant NCAA sanctions for USC, which included Bush receiving improper benefits during a Trojans career that spanned from 2003 to 2005.
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Congratulations u/<your name here> you've just become the next NCAA president...
Because this was so last second, you've been awarded a single action item that will be accomplished immediately without litigation or bureaucratic red tape. What do you do to "save" the sport?
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CBS: Why a college football 'super league' would face major hurdles in attempt to offset effects of realignment
www.cbssports.com Why a college football 'super league' would face major hurdles in attempt to offset effects of realignmentCollege leaders have reportedly met and devised a structure it believes would save college football
TL;DR: Football only, 7 permanent conferences of 10, one more with pro/rel, 16-team playoff with objective criteria, centralized media negotiation, NOT fully equal revenue among schools, private equity definitely involved, ESPN/FOX very much not on board for now, SEC/B1G also wary.
Basically, it looks like the "power" schools outside the Super-2 trying to shift the narrative, and providing a fallback plan for if the existing financial structure gets nuked from judicial orbit.
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FAU announces football game against USF on an aircraft carrier
Before you get too excited, maybe check the calendar (and this is the Daily Mail)... but the rendering has me too hyped so I'm going to pretend this is happening
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How do you think sports betting has affected your and others' engagement with CFB?
Was lurking a bit at the old place, and there was a thread asking who had never bet on CFB*, but the discussion went more into how legalized sports betting has affected fans' engagement with college football. I am in a weird place, as I can't come up with a lot of good reasons to specifically ban it when so many other forms of gambling are legal. It can also of course be done to a healthy degree, and even if someone is enthusiastic and engages with the sport in a gambling-centered way, who am I to say that's "wrong"?
That said, I do fucking hate it at a personal level when people care more about the lines and the spreads or how their fantasy roster is doing in contrast to the rivalries and the stories and the analysis as a competition. I feel like these people, and particularly the media catering to them, are nudging team sports closer to the liminal space currently occupied by boxing and horse racing, where there is a hardcore base dedicated to the sports themselves, but the broad appeal is for gamblers and the occasional looky-loo spectacle. I can't argue for any particular measure to stop it, but I sure don't have to like it.
So, for those of us still hanging around in the very stupid offseason we now have with no real transfer restrictions and plenty of NIL to push players to leverage that fact, how has the explosion of sports betting affected your relationship with CFB?
(* - One $10 bet, well before 2022, on TCU to win the natty while in Vegas for other reasons, and one very boring season of buy-in fantasy football, though now that I type it, I guess that was betting on the NFL)
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Clemson sues ACC
If the ACC falls apart, I don't want any of em
- sports.yahoo.com With College Football Playoff format and future revenue in flux, here's what's on the table
The CFP is barreling toward a new format and revenue model that skews toward the new Power Two, creating a more formal divide in the top tier of college athletics.
Just more proof that the cfp was a bad idea. None of the options outlined here seem fair to me (or productive). Let's just go back to regional rivalries y'all
- www.cbssports.com UMass returning to MAC as full member for all sports beginning in 2025 after 10-year absence from league
UMass' football program has competed independent of a conference since 2016
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What matchup are you most looking forward to in 2024?
Just because it’s the offseason, doesn’t mean college football discussions need to stop. What matchup are you most looking forward to this year?
For me, as a Canes fan (yes, depressing, I know), I’m looking forward to the August 31, 2024 matchup against the Florida Gators.
- sports.yahoo.com As college football's elite is engulfed in a power struggle, G5 left just trying to survive: 'We are a farm system'
The gap between haves and have-nots is widening, and the Group of Five can't keep up.
Interesting insight into how NIL and free transfers have combined (and only the combination could have done it) to wreak havoc on the G5, and to some extent up and down the chain. Seems the biggest schools are even cobbling together NIL packages for "walk-ons" that mysteriously cover the cost of attendance.
> > > “They’ve got to make up what a scholarship covers. I get it. It’s smart,” Chadwell said. “But the NCAA needs to create a rule requiring players to sit out a year if they are not on full academic scholarship.” > >
But as always, this is where they lose me. Limiting player movement without compensation is never the answer. Either you're a student and this an extracurricular and anything you do or anywhere you go between seasons is your own goddamn business (even you Trevor fucking Etienne, even you, traitor), or you deserve material consideration for limiting your own mobility during your prime developmental years and/or your last chance to play a game you love competitively.
- www.cbssports.com SEC, Big Ten 'advisory group' stands as coded threat to NCAA: Figure it out, or we'll go off ourselves
The power conference may well reshape college athletics in their image
I think the restructuring is going to take a while yet, but moves like this probably do signal the end of the beginning.
I haven't looked yet, but I wonder if it would be possible to find news stories and opinion pieces for other watershed moments, like when the Ivies formally dropped athletic scholarships or when the D1-A/D1-AA split happened. There was a great Texas Monthly article from the 70s where UT was already moaning about the rest of the SWC, and while it focused on gameday revenue, it looks prescient in hindsight.
- www.knoxnews.com Tennessee attorney general sues NCAA over ‘NIL-recruiting ban’ as UT fights back
Jonathan Skrmetti told Knox News that \
NCAA looks like they may have overplayed their hand. While I've been done with the NCAA for a while, this may truly be the beginning of the end.
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Welp...
www.espn.com Sources: Chargers hiring Jim Harbaugh as coachJim Harbaugh, who returned Michigan to glory with the program's first national title since 1997, is becoming coach of the NFL's Chargers with a five-year deal, sources told ESPN.
Shocked, shocked I tell you. Nusm called it
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Welcome to the Future: Each player is his own business...
www.espn.com 'Business decision': Bama WR Bond to join TexasAlabama transfer wide receiver Isaiah Bond has committed to Texas.
- www.cbssports.com Alabama hires Kalen DeBoer: Washington coach replaces Nick Saban after 25-3 run with Huskies
DeBoer has quickly emerged as a rising star in the coaching ranks, and now he steps into the shoes of an icon
- www.tuscaloosanews.com Nick Saban retires as Alabama football coach after historic, unparalleled career
Nick Saban has retired as coach of Alabama football after 17 seasons and a career that included seven national championship.
Sources say he was also historically stinky
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AP Top 25 Poll - Jan 9, 2024
apnews.com NCAA College Football Rankings: AP Top 25 Football PollThe official page for the AP Top 25 college football poll, a tradition since 1936. Keep up to date and view the latest ranking updates each week.
- Michigan
- Washington
- Texas
- Georgia (+2)
- Alabama
- (T-6) Oregon (+2)
- (T-6) Florida State (-2)
- Missouri (+1)
- Ole Miss (+2)
- Ohio State (-3)
- Arizona (+3)
- LSU (+1)
- Penn State (-3)
- Notre Dame (+1)
- oklahoma (-3)
- Oklahoma State (+6)
- Tennessee (+8)
- Kansas State (new)
- Louisville (-3)
- Clemson (new)
- North Carolina State (-2)
- SMU (-5)
- Kansas (new)
- Iowa (-4)
- Liberty (-7)
Others receiving votes: Oregon State, West Virginia, Tulane, JMU, USC, Memphis, Utah, Troy, Air Force, Toledo, Duke, Kentucky, UCLA, Miami (OH), UTSA, Wyoming, Northwestern, Ohio
Dropped out: Oregon State, Tulane, JMU
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[National Championship Game Thread] #2 Washington v #6 Michigan - January 8, 2024 at 7:30 PM ET
| | | Time | Broadcast | Venue | Notes | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | 2 Washington | 6 Michigan | Mon 1/8, 7:30 PM ET | ESPN | NRG Stadium | CFP Championship |
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SEC Shorts - The Big 10 beats the SEC
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> > > Bob and Steve from the Big Ten Show are back to gloat as their conference demonstrates that it is clearly better than the SEC in all facets of the game. > >