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Are these refs also true freshmen who haven't been on the field since high school?

Did he fumble over the goal line or hit the pylon first?

YEAH BABY! CHANDLER WHO?

Mestemaker looks poised out there. Handled that bad snap with aplomb.

The dude had 143 yards rushing and two touchdowns, 99 yards receiving and threw a 42-yard touchdown pass. Why are we talking about whether he's a good person? I don't care if he stole a Coke from a kid on the way to the locker room. Those numbers are insane.

I wouldn't call Cam Skattebo part of the problem. He left an FCS school after two seasons and joined Arizona State when Kenny Dillingham became the coach. Even though ASU went 3-9 that year Skattebo was adamant about staying for this season because he believed in what they were building. Now he's Nick Saban's "favorite player" (as he said on GameDay), he single-handedly made the 12-team playoff not suck for four epic quarters and overtime, and he's a senior with no more eligibility looking like a second-day NFL draft pick.

He would not. Virginia didn't outbid UCF, Memphis and Oklahoma State to watch him get hurt playing around with his ex.

If Texas wants me to root for them they need to play SMU.

Everybody sounds like Cris Collinsworth these days, who could make a Patrick Mahomes incomplete pass sound like it was the immaculate reception. The big stars get hyped all game long even when they crap the bed. Actual players doing actual good things in front of our actual eyes get overlooked.

I think I'll hold off on believing this story until there's a better source. Jason Whitlock stopped caring about reporting facts a long time ago. He's on social media all day long saying offensive things for engagement.

Not long, judging by the empty seats at Florida State games the last half of this season. That's a strong brand with a national championship in 2013, but even with 24,000 fewer seats due to stadium renovation, the place got cavernous. Fans stayed home instead of subjecting themselves to that disaster week after week.

We're a historic underachiever in football, but we've managed to upgrade our facilities, budget and coaching salaries, climbing up to the American, which is a respectable G5 conference. Our plight isn't so bad that we should be considering another voluntary drop from the top tier of college football. Most of our doom and gloom is about never rising above 6-6 or achieving signature OOC or bowl wins. We need to stay where we are and hope that when the FBS gets its shit together there's still a viable sport for the G5.

Basketball having a good run since 2017 isn't enough to make "the" premier sport at UNT. There would also need to be large enough fan support and media attention to demonstrate that it eclipsed football, but those haven't happened yet.

The quotes from Boise State in that article make me think they're fooling themselves about their ability to stay competitive with the big dogs.

True, but the entire North Dakota population is 783,000, which is smaller than Fort Worth. Put a strong football team in Denton and we'll have advantages from being in DFW that are better than being the top school in a small state.

We will always have to worry about TV viewership. TV dollars are the big divider between the haves and the have-nots.

I'm having trouble with the premise that Miami can't compete financially for players. They assembled one of the most expensive rosters in the FBS in football, estimated at around $15 million. Big-money boosters are trying to bring back The U's glory days with their checkbooks. If this coach couldn't hack the NIL era it isn't because Miami lacks NIL donors.

Whether we recruit them out of high school or get them in the portal, the risk of a QB leaving after a strong season in Denton is the same. At some point if our transferred-out quarterbacks keep being roster depth riding the bench, maybe a 3,000-yard passer under Eric Morris will be more reluctant to leave.

I don't care about blame. There's enough to go around. I'm fine with college football players being paid and them getting more transfer opportunities, but the way both of those things are currently implemented has been a Hindenburg-level disaster for college football. Uncontrolled and unaccountable money from boosters and a transfer portal during the season are terrible ideas.

I thought a 12-team playoff would mean less arguments about teams that didn't get in deserving a spot, but I underestimated the ability of Alabama to suck enough to not earn a place in the CFP. The SEC and Big Ten get way too much presumption every year of being good. It starts with the first preseason poll, when nobody has done anything on the field.

You think our new hires should coach the defense in the bowl game?

SMU played like their paychecks bounced. Good times.

Starting in 2025, the Ivy League will participate in the FCS playoffs and the winner of the conference will get an automatic bid. Football was the only sport where the Ivy League did not compete for a national championship. The idea to join the FCS playoffs originated with a proposal from the league's student-athlete advisory committee. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/43040720/sources-ivy-league-participate-fcs-football-playoffs

You can't call it Pay for Play when they don't have to play to get paid. NIL is an endorsement deal, like Walt Garrison making bank in those old Skoal tobacco ads. Except most of the time they don't even bother to make athletes do an ad. They just say "here's a big check for just being yourself."

It will be headline news when we learn a player was only allowed to transfer once.