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Hagbard Celine

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  1. @notre dame joe you should read this your celebration of special-ness is at terminal velocity answer the question deplatform domer Everybody wants to fix the College Football Playoff, but nobody seems to know how. There's a good reason for this. It's because the College Football Playoff isn't broken... college football is. On Saturday, college football die-hards and casuals alike tuned in to watch two games that were largely decided before a snap ever took place. Sure, the possibility of an upset always looms, but the first quarters of Ole Miss' 41-10 win over Tulane or Oregon's 51-34 win over James Madison made it clear quickly how those games would go. They were results that would do nothing to slow the ceaseless wave of the college football literati who had spent the last few weeks gnashing their teeth in despair over the possibility these blowouts would happen and what it would all mean. But the pearl-clutching, hemming and hawing are all directed at the wrong target. What we're seeing in the College Football Playoff is the result of a far bigger problem in the sport. College football has always been a top-heavy sport, and while we've seen a more even distribution of that weight up top thanks to NIL and the transfer portal (the GLP-1 of college football), on the whole, the sport is more top-heavy than ever before. Resources, talent shifting in one direction There is far more talent available and far more money coming in than at any time before, and it's all flowing overwhelmingly in one direction. If you look at the top recruiting classes for the 2026 cycle, you'll notice a couple of things. The first is that, for the first time since 2008, the top class in the country belongs outside of the SEC. USC took the honors this year, the first non-SEC program to do so since Miami way back when. Furthermore, Alabama is the only SEC school to finish in the top four, but while that's nice to see as far as spreading the talent around, it ignores the larger picture. Sure, the Big Ten has the top spot, but 23 of the top 35 classes call the Big Ten or SEC home. The only non-Big Ten and SEC schools to crack the top 20 were Notre Dame, Miami, Florida State, North Carolina, Texas Tech and Clemson. Of those six, only Notre Dame and Miami are in the top 10, and Miami is 10th. Damage done by mass realignment Recruiting rankings are not the only area in which the Big Ten and SEC have consolidated power. They're just another result of that consolidation. In the last 15 years, the Big Ten has added Nebraska, Maryland, Rutgers, UCLA, USC, Oregon and Washington to the fold. Taking the last four essentially killed the Pac-12, while reaching out and taking Nebraska caused a destabilizing effect on the Big 12. An instability the SEC was all too happy to take advantage of as it poached Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M from the league over the last 15 years, too. Both leagues will exist in 2026 but largely in name only. Clearly, the Big 12 has survived the attacks much stronger than the Pac-12 has, but the league has seen all of its biggest brands taken from it, which leaves it at a disadvantage when it comes to finding a television deal, causing the gap to grow only wider. Perhaps that's why, while we were all forced to suffer the horrors of two uncompetitive football games on Saturday, Arizona State's Kenny Dillingham was sending out a call to any possible billionaires who wanted to buy him a new roster. Because that's where we are now with NIL. The sport dragged its collective feet and ignored the giant tidal wave coming at it for decades, only to dive in full speed ahead on openly paying players (some of) what they're owed. Only, you know, with hardly any regulations or guidelines that everybody can follow and no viable way to enforce them. Whose fault is that? I don't know? Everybody's? Anyway, right now, people are looking at the Group of Five as the problem with the playoff, but believe me: if finances continue to work the way they're working in this sport, it's only a matter of time before the ACC and Big 12 get the same treatment people are giving Tulane and James Madison. After all, it's the Big Ten and SEC who have been handed complete control of the future of the format as a compromise to simply let the ACC and Big 12 continue to exist. Big Ten, SEC will win out in the end But, the truth is, the Big Ten and SEC have always controlled the College Football Playoff. The Big Ten and SEC have won nine of the first 11 College Football Playoffs. Clemson is the only team from outside those leagues to win it, and it's done so twice. Of course, Clemson has only made the field once since the NCAA stopped forcing transfers to sit out a year after changing schools and hasn't won a playoff game at all. That's mostly due to Clemson's stubbornness, but it's fitting nonetheless. To drive the point home even further, of the 22 teams that have played in a College Football Playoff National Championship, 16 currently reside in the Big Ten or SEC. Clemson (4x), TCU and Notre Dame are the only teams to get there who aren't in those leagues (Oregon and Washington made it while still members of the Pac-12, but are now in the Big Ten). As the Big Ten and SEC expanded, the Big 12 and ACC did what they had to do to try to keep up. All of which has led to bloated conferences spanning the entire continent where you only play half the league in any given season, leading to ridiculous tie-breaker scenarios that end up with a five-loss Duke winning the ACC, which puts those damned Dukes of James Madison in the field! So what's the solution? How do we fix it all? I don't know that you can, but I do believe there's a natural outcome from all of this that at least leads to equilibrium of some sort. You simply let nature take its course. Let the Big Ten and SEC finish what they started. Whether you're excited about it or not -- and believe me, I am not -- the Super League or whatever dumb name you want to give it is coming. I don't know if it will be the result of a hostile takeover by the Big Ten and SEC pilfering all the remaining valuable brands once the current television deals expire, or if it'll be the result of a compromise between the four leagues to break off from the NCAA and form their own, fully professionalized league. But whatever the method, and whatever the final makeup of the schools involved, it is coming. And when it does, your College Football Playoff will finally be "fixed." The blowouts, however, will continue.
  2. xposting from the cfp general discussion thread, here's the wall-worthy stat from saturday: smallest margin of defeat in a 1st round game of the 12-team era WINNER Miami LOSER Texas A&M SCORE 10-3 MARGIN 7 Alabama Oklahoma 34-24 10 Notre Dame Indiana 27-17 10 Texas Clemson 38-24 14 Oregon James Madison 51-34 17 Ohio State Tennessee 42-17 25 Penn State SMU 38-10 28 Ole Miss Tulane 41-10 31
  3. here's the link: https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3588782/1 festivus copium
  4. @notre dame joe thank you for the neg neg away i have never used the neg rep function dating back to the first incarnation of this site 18 years ago answer the question deplatform domer
  5. answer the question deplatform domer
  6. https://wolverineswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/wolverines/football/2025/12/24/michigan-football-biff-poggi-bowl-opt-outs-texas/87908081007/
  7. there are at least 200 different pieces of aggy cosplay flair across 2 dozen categories as best i can tell, there are 30+ "major unit" flair options and 36 ribbons for service heraldry - things like fish drill team our tax dollars at work have developed a cultural infestation that generates a cosplay economy consuming at least $25 million per year 15000 aggy rings are ordered from balfour each year at a cost ~$750 on average w/ 24kt gold versions starting at $1100 before addition of optional gemstones add in resizing, modifications, upgrades, the aggy ring economy alone is worth in excess of $12 million per year https://www.aggienetwork.com/traditionsthroughtime/corpsuniforms/#:~:text=Texas A&M began as an,those current in the Army. https://corps.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/The-Standard-Aug-2025-1.pdf
  8. the "25" number is unconfirmed, the number traveling is unknown, the only hard data is 22 are out of eligibility https://www.reddit.com/r/MichiganWolverines/comments/1pub3dh/removed_by_moderator/ https://www.si.com/college/michigan/michigan-football-could-have-massive-amount-of-opt-outs-for-citrus-bowl
  9. answer the question deplatform domer narrator: he is
  10. what in the ever loving fuck tell your friend you want to know more about their playoff participation in the 1940s
  11. lamar had the chefs on a megawatt AM station that reached des moines the chefs started marketing to a 500-mile radius from kc as soon as they got there
  12. you may be on to something here we have always believed the limit does not exist is such a thing even possible?
  13. on new year's morning, 1 jan 93 aggy were 12-0, not on probation, and ranked #4 granted, that was the first year of the bowl coalition, the precursor to the bowl alliance, the bcs, and the playoffs the sugar pitted 11-0 #1 miami v. 12-0 #2 alabama so the natty was not in play for aggy, but a final ranking of #2 was absolutely on the table aggy kicked a field goal in the 4th quarter and lost to domer by 4 scores, 28-3
  14. deplatform domer
  15. let me add additional clarity you *responded* and you choose to believe you answered the question and project your rationale for my rejection of your response because you live in an alternate reality tunnel called domerism deplatform domer
  16. you did not answer and you should be deplatformed answer the question
  17. crockett dude wtf how did you not sign him? like, whether he has testimony or not, someone named him leading the brethren to war was his density you start with a seventy and a bag then the first presidency and an ensign advisors swiss account finally, if he's still unrepentant, the strengthening danites camp out in front of his house
  18. you played them in '12 and '13 but both were in south bend - why was that? and was the one-off in vegas 3 years ago related to that in any way?
  19. until such time as he chooses to answer the direct question which i posed to him 3 times last week, notre dame joe should be made invisible so no one can see his posts or replies deplatform domer
  20. quick survey of texags and they are very very quiet maybe it's the holiday week a few threads of hate but this is the lowest traffic i can ever recall this may have broken them
  21. sponge bob's cousin
  22. colt's throw-away hit the rail in front of the first row a fraction of a second before the clock changed from :02 to :01 it was crystal clear fuck dr. tom, pelini, corn, aggy, and everyone else that attempts to rewrite history
  23. xposting from the game thread...... caps from this video.... what the hell are this group on the right doing? they are followed by this bizzare batch of dudes - for the life of me what in the ever loving fuck?
  24. https://wolverineswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/wolverines/football/2025/12/20/michigan-football-derrick-moore-nfl-draft-citrus-bowl-opt-out/87862621007/ Derrick Moore becomes Michigan football’s first Citrus Bowl opt-out Moore is the first opt-out of the game to go public. With him out, the expectation is that TJ Guy and likely Cameron Brandt, Dom Nichols, and the other EDGEs will work in his place. It's not clear at this juncture if fellow edge rusher-outside linebacker Jaishawn Barham will play or if he'll opt out for the draft.
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