College Football
- QB Matthew Sluka to exit UNLV, says 'representations' not upheldwww.espn.com UNLV QB leaves program, hints at NIL dispute
UNLV starting quarterback Matthew Sluka announced Tuesday night on social media that he will not play in any more games this season.
- Texas A&M bonfire will not return to campuswww.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.
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.
- Social media calls out EA Sports over lack of college football video game details during CFP title gamewww.saturdaydownsouth.com Social media calls out EA Sports over lack of college football video game details during CFP title game
Fans waiting for information on the EA Sports college football game during the CFP national championship were feeling a bit disappointed when nothing had dropped by the 4th quarter.
- Michigan beats Alabama 27-20 in overtime on Blake Corum's TD run to reach national title gameapnews.com Michigan beats Alabama 27-20 in overtime on Blake Corum's TD run to reach national title game
Blake Corum rushed for a 17-yard touchdown on the second snap of overtime, and top-seeded Michigan advanced to its first College Football Playoff championship game with a 27-20 victory over fourth-seeded Alabama in the Rose Bowl.
- Sources: Alabama to start QB Buchner vs. USFwww.espn.com Sources: Alabama to start QB Buchner vs. USF
Sophomore transfer Tyler Buchner is expected to start over Jalen Milroe when the 10th-ranked Crimson Tide play at South Florida on Saturday, sources told ESPN's Chris Low.
- Butthurt Alabama Fans Shout Racist Epithets at UT Players Following Loss
Just Alabama things, I guess. Fuck that state.
- [discuss] future of this community?
👋 !cfb@lemmy.world — noticed activity here is low, especially while in season. Prior to my post today regarding UT vs Alabama game, last activity was ~6 days ago.
I would like to see this community flourish during the season like it does on the pretender “front page of the internet” site. I would be willing to invest time to automate creation of pre-, post-, and weekly discussion posts. But I don’t want to do that if the community is not active or is not wanted (ie, deemed as “spam”)
Lmk your thoughts/opinions/suggestions.
- #10 Texas defeats #3 Alabama (34-24)www.usatoday.com No. 10 Texas had nothing to fear from big, bad Alabama in breakthrough victory
Alabama lost for the fifth time in its last 25 games. Texas had the better quarterback, the better team and made the big plays in the key moments.
Texas is back?
- c/cfb Week 2 Poll
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4474186
cross posting for visibility. Come join us at !cfb@fanaticus.social or don't. Up to you really
> As always honor system 1 ballot per voter, and do your best to make sure you don't repeat any teams. Pretty standard week 1, with a few big results. Can't wait to see what we think of the standings now. I still plan on trying to get results posted on Wednesday so if you're going to submit a ballot try to do so by sundown on Tuesday.
- What the fuck?
Fellow CFB lovers, why in the ever-loving-fuck, are we failing to have a legitimate CFB community? I loved r/CFB but without 3rd party apps I cannot contribute during a game or track comments.
That being said, how have we not coalesced into an instance that hates our rivals? Praises the beauty of the Disasterpiece that is El-assico and tier 2 Bowls, brings up trivial/non-relevant demeaning facts about our rivals?
Where are the petty, the salty, shit-talking masses, and we should be heard in all of our frivolous bullshit.
Get everyone here. Let's recreate the beautiful shotftorm that was r/CFB
- Week 1 c/cfb poll results
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4140911
> 1) Georgia 124(4) > 2) Michigan 118(1) > 3) Ohio State 110 > 4) LSU 97 > 5) Alabama 93 > 6) Penn State 90 > 7) USC 86 > 8) Texas 81 > 9) Notre Dame 79 > 10) Tennessee 78 > 11) Utah 78 > 12) Washington 75 > 13) Clemson 63 > 14) Oregon 60 > 15) Florida State 57 > 16) TCU 48 > 17) Wisconsin 33 > 18) Kansas State 32 > 19) Oklahoma 31 > 20) Ole Miss 31 > 21) Texas A&M 26 > 22) North Carolina 20 > 23) Tulane 16 > 24) Oregon State 15 > 25) South Carolina 15 > > Others receiving votes: Duke 14, Louisville 10, Wake Forest 8, Baylor 7, Boise State 4, Iowa 4, Kentucky 4, Maryland 4, Arkansas 3, Mississippi State 3, Iowa State 2,Texas Tech 2, UTSA 2, Illinois 1, Kansas 1 > > Again if you would like more granular results they can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoyR3wPFVjfjPaqWhGqVIqXe9y23l968lFooFHZVZ88/edit?usp=sharing
- New tool will allow college athletes to report gambling suspicions to a sports wagering monitorapnews.com New tool will allow college athletes to report gambling suspicions to a sports wagering monitor
A digital platform where college athletes can alert their administrations anonymously to improper or illegal conduct by coaches, teammates or others is expanding to allow them to report suspected gambling activity.
- Week 1 c/cfb pollforms.gle c/cfb poll
Make sure that you haven't repeated any teams! Honor system 1 ballot per voter per week (I don't want to collect email addresses to limit it on my end)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4016842
> I will crosspost this to lemmy.world, only fill out one ballot please. Week 0 is in the books, let's see how this shakes up our polling. As previously discussed I will be posting the results on Wednesday of each week. Mods is there an appetite to make the results reflected in the banner?
- Shifting back to fanaticus.social?
For those that don't know, there is a sister community over on fanaticus.social/c/cfb that was also relatively empty in the first wave of users and as such we consolidated here as there were a few more active users. However given juan seems to be a phantom and the mods over there are active should we switch community posts back over there? They have a small mod team that's active again and based on yesterday they seem to be willing to put some work into shaping the community. Again as this is the fediverse it doesn't really matter since you can very easily sub to both but since we're small I imagine a little bit of cohesiveness will help things like the c/cfb poll and weekly threads. Discuss
Edit: per discussion I will be moving my posts to !cfb@fanaticus.social (also !cfbmemes@lemmy.world) and cross posting them here for visibility
- Stanford and Cal reportedly exploring the possibility of joining the Big 12
Y'all thought the start of "football season" would end realignment rumors? HA!
Though actually, I suspect this one is one or both of Cal-ford trying to put pressure on the ACC, a la Yormark courting UConn to nudge the four corners. I can very nearly hear the sarcastic drone accompanying the ACC's wanking gesture.
- [Postgame Thread] #13 Notre Dame defeats Navy 42-3 to kick off the 2023 football seasonwww.espn.com Navy 3-42 Notre Dame (Aug 26, 2023) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Navy Midshipmen vs. Notre Dame Fighting Irish NCAAF game, final score 3-42, from August 26, 2023 on ESPN.
- Week 0 Games Thread
I think the best way for this to work is for people to post a parent comment for any game they're watching. But honestly y'all can do whatever, I'm not a mod
Edit: I would also encourage sorting by new, but ya know, I'm not signing your check
- Amazon in talks with Disney about ESPN streaming partnership, The Information reportswww.reuters.com Amazon in talks with Disney about ESPN streaming partnership, The Information reports
Amazon.com is in early talks with Walt Disney Co about working on the streaming version of ESPN it is developing, while possibly also taking a minority stake in the sports network, the Information reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
> > > Amazon.com is in early talks with Walt Disney Co about working on the streaming version of ESPN it is developing, while possibly also taking a minority stake in the sports network, the Information reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. > >
I know I'm supposed to be mad and all, but I am pushing for canceling our DirecTV Stream subscription and this could help. We mostly use it for background noise, news, and sports, but TV news is basically repetitive shouting (national) or J-school babies doing their own reporting or undercover ad pieces (local), so if the linear ESPN stuff is on a stream we're down to paying for inertia.
- PHOTOS: Vanderbilt stadium under renovations ahead of 2023 season kick offfox17.com PHOTOS: Vanderbilt stadium under renovations ahead of 2023 season kick off
The Vanderbilt Commodores will be one of the first teams to kick off the 2023 season when they host Hawaii on Saturday.
Stadium still exactly the same tho
- MGoBlog Opponent Watch 2023: Preview, Part 2mgoblog.com Opponent Watch 2023: Preview, Part 2 | mgoblog
Part 1 can be found here. Part 2 is worse. Much worse. The teams are better, sure. It’s just that… oh, you’ll see. I feel bad, yet I apologize for nothing. More Road Ahead Indiana Last year: 4-8 (2-7 B1G), no bowl game Recap: In last year’s preview, I compared Indiana’s 2021 season (favorably, to be...
- Big 12′s Brett Yormark: Getting Texas, OU to leave early ‘was a big deal for us’. Openly roots for TTU versus UT.www.dallasnews.com Big 12′s Brett Yormark: Getting Texas, OU to leave early ‘was a big deal for us’
While speaking at a Texas Tech Red Raider Club event, Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark told coach Joey McGuire he "better take care of business" against the...
Yormark as a publicity machine is gold. Trash talks with the best, but never quite crosses the line into "AAC is P6" eyerolling.
- TRASH TALK THURSDAY?
ONE OF MY FAVORITE WEEKLY'S FROM THE OTHER PLACE. AND I ONLY KNOW ONE WAY TO SEE IF Y'ALL LIKED IT AS WELL. USE THIS AS A PLACE TO VENT FRUSTRATION AT THIS WEEK'S OPPONENT OR JUST WHOEVER YOU DON'T LIKE. I'LL START:
I DON'T MUCH CARE FOR ALABAMA
OBVIOUSLY I DON'T CARE IF YOU USE 4 LETTER WORDS, JUST PLEASE NO DETAILED CALLS FOR VIOLENCE
- c/cfb week 0 poll results
- West Virginia 325(1)
- Georgia 125(5)
- Michigan 117
- Alabama 114
- Ohio State 112
- LSU 100
- Penn State 91
- USC 88
- Tennessee 87
- TCU 69
- Texas 63
- Clemson 60
- Washington 59
- Utah 57
- Florida State 50
- Oregon 50
- Notre Dame 49
- Oklahoma 39
- Wisconsin 38
- Kansas State 33
- Ole Miss 26
- Texas A&M 24
- Baylor 20
- Tulane 18
- Oregon State 17
- South Carolina 15
Others receiving votes: Iowa 13, BYU 12, Utah State 11, Kentucky 9, North Carolina 9, Auburn 8, Houston 6, Duke 5, Texas Tech 5, Boise State 4, Iowa State 4, Arkansas 3, Mississippi State 3, Louisville 2, Kansas 1, Nebraska 1, UTSA 1
As a professional data scientist, I see nothing wrong with this data. And it can be blindly trusted. A link to the results should you be interested in more detail is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoyR3wPFVjfjPaqWhGqVIqXe9y23l968lFooFHZVZ88/edit?usp=sharing
- Sickos preseason poll
Vandy is honestly overrated here, Lea has them heading the right way
- Exclusive with WSU President Kirk Schulz: The timetable and more as Cougs navigate conference options...247sports.com Exclusive with WSU President Kirk Schulz: The timetable and more as Cougs navigate conference options
'Stanford and Cal have not been terribly forthcoming with their Pac-12 colleagues about their intentions'
TL;DR: They're hosed.
Would prefer to rebuild PAC, but need Cal-ford, and they're both not talking, presumably heads-down trying to squirm into the ACC and/or B1G.
Also considering MWC and AAC, but has been talking to literally everybody.
Thinks Fox might have blown up the conference to fend off Apple as a player in the CFB marketplace.
Also thinks Apple is pretty annoyed with the PAC schools who left for blowing smoke up their asses about that deal, though frankly if Apple believed there was no other plan, that's on them.
Isn't specifically aiming for it, but presumes WSU and OSU will stay together one way or another.
- College Dorm Room Essentialsgonzoknows.com College Dorm Room Essentials
As I begin my third year of college, I've learned to distinguish between what's truly essential and what can be omitted. This experience has motivated me to create a list for fellow students to…
- [Clint Foster] Big 12 Immigration
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> Pac-12 refugees seek asylum within the border of the Big 12.
- Maize&BlueReview - SOURCES: Michigan to self-impose three-game suspension for Jim Harbaughmichigan.rivals.com Maize&BlueReview - SOURCES: Michigan to self-impose three-game suspension for Jim Harbaugh
M&BR has learned that Michigan has self-imposed a three-game suspension for Jim Harbaugh.
The audacity to buy food for another living being clutches pearls
- Week 0 c/cfb poll
I know I've already posted this before, but I'm posting this on Monday as I'm thinking this is gonna be my flow for the season. I'll post a link to the poll on Mondays and then the results on Wednesdays. I know that's pretty terrible latency but honestly I doubt we even hit double digit pollsters and this should give everybody time.
Link to poll: https://forms.gle/krEKKqMZjbmsWMrm6
Link to results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoyR3wPFVjfjPaqWhGqVIqXe9y23l968lFooFHZVZ88/edit?usp=sharing
- Game threads?
With the season starting next week, is there any interest in game threads? I wouldn't expect there to be one for every game, but just make them as needed to house game discussion.
- Ranking Big 12 mascots after college conference expansion with Pac-12 schoolswww.azcentral.com Ranking Big 12 mascots after college conference expansion with Pac-12 schools
Sparky the Sun Devil or Wilbur the Wildcat? Cosmo the Cougar or Cy the Cardinal? SuperFrog or Big Jay? Big 12 mascot rankings after college expansion.
This is some bullshit, y'all. Bad ranks, bad takes. Spoiler alert, BYU's Penn State knock off in a floppy romper with a scraggly-ass head tops the list.
- Georgia, eyeing national championship 3-peat, names Carson Beck its starting QBsports.yahoo.com Georgia, eyeing national championship 3-peat, names Carson Beck its starting QB
Carson Beck is in his fourth season at Georgia and was Stetson Bennett's backup last season.
I hate Carson Beck. I have no recollection of having seen Carson Beck play or otherwise exist. Both statements are true.
- Inside Virginia Tech's post-Frank Beamer struggles -- and how the Hokies are trying to recoverwww.espn.com Inside Virginia Tech's post-Frank Beamer struggles -- and how the Hokies are trying to recover
Virginia Tech reached unprecedented heights under former coach Frank Beamer but suffered its worst season in 30 years in 2022. A look at how the Hokies got there and whether they can get back.