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FWIW, one writer's rankings of all the bowl games. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/ranking-all-41-college-football-bowl-games-for-2023-24-playoff-semifinals-deliver-with-orange-bowl-a-big-dud/

Kirouac will need S&C as he is thin, but he likes to bang inside. I had been thinking about this option the last couple of weeks. Makes sense and gives GT a veteran guard who is probably our best pure shooter back.

This just tells me that the ACC was ready for this eventuality and isn't going to play nice with FSU. This is going to take time and millions of dollars to resolve. There are alot of interests here that will want the status quo - including both ESPN and FOX. Do you think either wants GoR's to...

I think alot of fans are overestimating what they think their favorite program is worth. WA and OR got $30M to go to the B1G. Do you think B1G is going to pay more than that for GT. GT (and most schools) are unlikely to make more by going to the B1G or SEC than they are right now over the next...

This topic overall does make me think of one of my favorite Thomas Jefferson quotes: "Laws and Institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions...

This is an important statement. Research that has been done among popularity of sports by different generations shows that football is not as intensely followed in the youngest generations - particarly GenZ and to a lesser extent Millenials than previous generations. Soccer (or football as the...

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/florida-state-calls-emergency-board-meeting-could-take-first-step-towards-leaving-acc-per-reports/ "industry experts told CBS Sports' Dennis Dodd in May that it's unlikely that any ACC schools would be able to join one of the two big conferences...

Keep in mind that is was reported during the expansion talks earlier this year that part of the reason that the ACC expanded was to keep it in a place that even if some schools left that it would keep them above the limit where ESPN could renegotiate the contract downward. FWIW, supposedly that...

In case you are wondering how this is being received by other ACC schools I think most of the ACC schools are over the FSU whining. If they wanted to pay their 1/2 billion dollars and leave (which the ESPN article makes clear they don't really have) most of the ACC schools would not shed a tear.

George is easily the biggest surprise. With Sturdy and Abram I didn't expect George to play much at all, much less start. Ndongo and Gapare have both shown huge upsides, though we are likely a year away from seeing the potential realized on a conistent basis. Reeves has been a better...

It may not have been a choice. It was Finals week. If anyone had Finals late in the week it would have impacted when the team could fly out.

This is probably behind a paywall but it is a really fascinating article on how football is changing in America in terms of demographics, geographics, and even how the sport itself is played from an early age...

OR St and WASH St retain control of the PAC afer the Washington Supreme Court denies a motion to review. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/washington-state-oregon-state-remain-in-control-of-pac-12-as-washington-supreme-court-denies-review-request/

Been working on an analysis of conference realignment and how it impacts college football performance. From 2004 (Miami, VT) to 2014 (Rutgers, MD, L'ville) - 15 schools have changed from 1 'power' conference to another. I looked at their overall and conference records for the time period post...

ND has been a net positive for the ACC since the day they made the deal. I don't even like ND, but I understand that much. ACC got more TV money because ESPN was guaranteed to get multiple ND Games every year. ND does not take any FB media revenue (they actually have made less revenue overall...

It was started by MVHVER who is one of the butt hurt West Virginia kooks who is always spreading a new theory about how the ACC is about to fall apart and that B12 is going to pick up the pieces. FWIW, no ACC to B12 rumor makes any sense when you look at the media contracts. ACC programs get...

The 12 team playoff is largely an illusion. There are basically going to be about 20 programs playing for those 11 slots (1 goes to a non Power conference team) on a consistent basis. They are the ones that have the money to pay the players the most. There are probably another 20-30 schools...

I would assume the attendance number is tickets sold, not butts in seats. Pretty much all entities - professional and college report tickets sold, not how many are in the stadium. There was an article from the Wall Street Journal on that a couple of years ago where they went back and got the...

Reading the articles one note is that 50% of the money in the educational trust that would be established by a University has to meet Title IX - basically the money has to go to women sports. Beyond that, there is no maximum put in the document, only a minimum - $30K per every 2 athletes at a...

Just wanted to stop by and congratulate those posters that said the committee would not leave an SEC team out - you were all correct. I think it was the incorrect call - the games on the field need to matter (and FSU beat its last 2 opponents by larger margins than AL beat its last two teams -...