CFB on Kbin

"The Big 12 takes new members UCF and Houston to court to determine which institution gets sole custody of outer space."

A comprehensive look at Northwestern football’s hazing allegations: When you get a megathread, that's, umm, not good.

A left testicle, $1 billion and realignment roulette in the Big 12 Conference: Are we still doing "phrasing"?

Pac-12 media rights: The home stretch arrives (or maybe not) as changes come to the power structure: Wilner has just about given up trying to guess at anything anymore, but having blown right by the "this is fine," the "Arizona said now-ish," and the "SDSU is fucked" soft deadlines, we're rapidly approaching the "Kliavkoff will publicly look like a goober" soft deadline.

UTRGV releases helmets for inaugural season: The script Vaqueros is in the vein of some real classics, and the bevel-star V is close, but something isn't quite clicking. I think it could become iconic with some tweaks, but I can't quite tell you what they need to be.

San Diego State not part of Big 12 expansion plans: Yeah, the PAC dusfunction forced their hand and it all blows over if they get an invite somewhere in the near future, but just in general, WTF are y'all doing out there, west coast bros?

Northwestern to reconsider Fitzgerald penalty amid hazing probe: How to Destroy a Legacy in Three Days, a seminar hosted by Pat Fitzgerald.

Big 12 predicted order of finish for 2023: Texas back atop...: The fact that by all rights Texas should be back always makes it that much more hilarious when they aren't.

Six pressing questions facing the Big 12 ahead of media days: Read those, but here are the REAL pressing questions. One, what's the over/under on the season's combined number of holding or pass interference calls that will go OU/UT's way versus the H8+4? Two, will Chandler Morris be shattered into a thousand purple pieces some time in the first four weeks? Three, will Baylor or BYU claim the "Why do you make sure to take two [adherents of a certain religion] fishing" joke? Four, will WVU stop whining about how far they are from the rest of the conference now that BYU and UCF have similar situations? Five, will Kansas win the conference? Six, WTF is an LIU? Answers: 2.5; yes; Baylor but please make a jon-boat rivalry statue; never(!); maybe, and that is probably a sign of the apocalypse; Baylor's way to make sure they have a laughable non-con even with Utah on it.

Can Cal, Justin Wilcox recapture the good times as CFB continues to change?: If a headline poses a question, the answer is almost always "no." (paywall)

Georgia freshman LB cited for going 88 in 55 mph zone: This is a very specific thing for a coach to be unable to control. It's weird. Also, fuck Georgia.

Well, that escalated quickly.

No word on whether being forced to play on last year's 1-11 squad counted as part of the hazing.

Clint quickly becoming must-watch along with SEC shorts and and Roll Call. Also, dude gets the vestigial 'C' in TCU and my Pat McAfee revulsion.

OPOY: Jalon Daniels, KU, QB
DPOY: Jaylan Ford, UT, LB

As a TCU and Florida fan, Brock Bowers should be numbers 1-10. Ugh.

The answer? Kinda, but not very.

Will BYU, Cincinnati, Houston or UCF have the talent and depth to compete for a conference title?

Saturday is one of the busiest days yet in the latest wave of conference realignment...

Two University at Buffalo football players have been charged after a video of them allegedly beating a miniature poodle with a leather belt was posted on social media.

Oops.

I don't have a problem with realignment rumors. I can stop any time I want!

My question is always about whether unusual winning requires unusual moral compromises, versus unusual winning draws unusual scrutiny.

But then, as a Gator and Frog fan, Kirby can go fuck himself and I'm sure it's all his fault.

"Can Central Florida catch Florida State and Miami in football status? UCF coach Gus Malzahn says Big 12 membership creates a Big Four in Florida."

Because no matter what, somebody's going to rank teams prematurely.

LSU vacated all its wins under Miles from 2012-15 as a result of an ineligible player. It cost him his eligibility for the College Football Hall of Fame.

And Florida beat LSU 24-4 in baseball today... not related of course... just wanted to share.

I believe in you, Jimbo! You can prove the media wrong!

Sanders' blood flow problems have already resulted in two toe amputations in his left foot...

From Youtube: It's going to be a massive change for SEC fans to get used to. After 33 years, the conference is finally getting rid of the East/West division system....

Herbstreit, a junior, is the son of former Ohio State quarterback and current ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit, who posted a note on his son’s behalf to social media.

“I have had a bit of a setback these past couple of weeks. Not feeling right. Culminated with tests results this past Friday that forced me into the hospital. I have some of the best cardiologists looking after me, and I am beyond appreciative,” Zak said in his dad’s Twitter post.

Nick has never been shy about stirring the pot to Bama's benefit, and that's what he's doing here. There's already a baked-in prejudice against the G5. Until the Super-Two are ready to make a clean break, it's not too much to ask to consider that the mighty SEC teams must stop losing games that other P5 teams did not, in order to be invited to a playoff.

Now, I'm potentially biased as a TCU fan, but short football seasons mean a lot of datapoints don't properly line up with real world results. One of the things we learned about Alabama last year is that they were a team capable of losing two games, and for three other P5 teams, we only had enough data to prove conclusively that were going to lose 1 game.

If there's such a thing as a moral theory of sport, it's that within certain common sense competitive frameworks (which the P5/G5 split imperfectly approximates) you must actually win in order to progress in a competition, and it's not the fault of an individual team if the sport is too unwieldy to play a balanced schedule long enough for statistical certainty.

Of course, this is also what the 12-team playoff is for, and if he thinks Bama deserves to get in with 3 losses or whatever, he's off his rocker.

Good. Stupid that it's still a banned substance, considering it's legal for recreational use in several states and for medical use in many more, does not cause (biological) dependence, and is usually used in place of alcohol, Zoloft, and/or dangerous opiods. I don't even like pot; it's just stupid and judgmental to ban it.

The SEC Office eliminated conference divisions to make way for Texas and Oklahoma on everyone's schedule. Several lesser known rivalries bite the dust. Flori...