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🚨 THE CFP STILL ALIVE BOARD HAS BEEN UPDATED!

Last week, we made the OUTRAGEOUS mistake of assuming college football fans could use common sense.

Apparently, we needed to account for every mathematical miracle imaginable.

So congratulations, Purdue. You’re back. 🎉

West Virginia? Welcome aboard!

Special thanks to @LanceBarton15 & @ColeFred24 for making sure no team with a 0.00001% chance gets left behind. 😂

EVERYBODY HAPPY NOW?!

[NCAAF Nation @NCAAFNation247]

Georgia
Miami
Notre Dame
Alabama

5th is tough, probably Indiana.

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@NCAAFNation247 Mine was:

Georgia
Notre Dame
Alabama
Miami
Indiana

2-4 was tough for me to order and I went back & forth for a while on Indiana at 5

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If you had to put $1K of your hard-earned money on one college football team to beat another on a neutral field…

Which 5 teams would you trust the most, in order?

[Walk-On Redshirts @walkonredshirts]

Who is the new No. 1, and did the committee get it right? We reacted live to the new CFP Top 25 plus a recap of Week 10

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@CruelDave4 @NCAAFNation247 @CollegeFBonX @CFBHome @walkonredshirts @1hoosierscenter @herecometheiris @jontweetssports @secnumbersguy @MrColeThompson @TNTCollegeFoot1 Damn Dave. That is Cruel.

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There isn’t a truly DOMINANT team in college football this season…

But if I had to choose… here are 5 teams I would NOT want to face right now

5. Indiana
4. ❓
3. Miami
2. 👀
1. 😤

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@ClayTravis Why do they need to join a conference? There is no point to a conference other than media rights and TV money, which they already have.

In fact, more teams like Ohio State, Michigan, Alabama, Miami, Texas, etc should go independent in the future!

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@zach_barnett Tell that to the AD's, Presidents and administration that are counting that revenue coming from that home game. And not to mention the revenue that also comes into the town...

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@SicEmDucks

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@SicEmDucks @Hayesfawcett3 @Beauatkinson9 @OhioStateFB That was tweeted in April of 2025 and they had the number 1 defense in the country last year so 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Just one of the biggest excuses a commissioner of the most powerful conference in the sport can make.

The NFL does fine with sometimes 9 games all happening in the 1pm slot on Sunday.

But Greg says the poor SEC can’t handle 2-3 games in a single time slot.

Laughable.

[Paul Finebaum @finebaum]

"Some of the worst 'officials' in America are those in the announce booth."

"I am highly disappointed in the announcers."

Greg Sankey vehemently defends the SEC's officiating and details planned improvements:

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@stripemog @MiamiCanes1971 Triggered Timmy

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People clearly forgetting that Notre Dame was up 24-3 when the best defensive player in college football left the game.

It was 24-17 when Leonard Moore came back in the game.

Thats when Miami got their momentum.

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Here are some teams on the bubble if we had a 24 team College Football Playoff this season:

Ole Miss
South Carolina
Ohio State
Arizona
LSU
SMU
Missouri
Duke
Oklahoma State
Louisville
New Mexico
Northwestern
Illinois
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Minnesota

Most important game in Week 11 would be Northwestern AT Ohio State.

[Lance Barton @LanceBarton15]

@AlwaysTalkBall @NCAAFNation247 @KicknitWTheGrid @ThreeTechPod @walkonredshirts @CFBHome @CollegeFBonX @CSOonX @WestCoastCFB @allcfbIG @CFBKings Dan Lanning to you for leaving the Ducks off the graphic last week

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@Vern_Funquist Now show next season...

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Can’t possibly forget about the SEC and Notre Dame!!!

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🚨 THE CFP STILL ALIVE BOARD HAS BEEN UPDATED!

Last week, we made the OUTRAGEOUS mistake of assuming college football fans could use common sense.

Apparently, we needed to account for every mathematical miracle imaginable.

So congratulations, Purdue. You’re back. 🎉

West Virginia? Welcome aboard!

Special thanks to @LanceBarton15 & @ColeFred24 for making sure no team with a 0.00001% chance gets left behind. 😂

EVERYBODY HAPPY NOW?!

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@Hoosier_Review Don’t let them live rent free, now…..

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@MiamiCanes1971 This was in response to the majority of the timeline saying that Miami lost because of Toney being out and not a word about Notre Dame having 5 starters out on D and the best DB in the country going out for a chunk of the game

Take the L and “shut up”

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Just an absolute brutal loss for the Vols

[On3 @On3]

NEW: Tennessee EDGE Tyree Weathersby will miss the remainder of the 2026 season due to a knee injury, @AustinPriceless reports.

Weathersby is the Vols leader in sacks.

https://t.co/mUm3l9kwRL

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Some have been begging for Mike Denbrock to open up the offense more & turn CJ Carr loose

They turned him loose in this 2 minute drill & he put on a dang clinic