@maverick_bet With one extra game, it will be important to get a top 8 seed. Parity is here in college football, but seeding will be important. It will still matter
Your dog spends about 20% of the night awake and its sleep quality doesn't drop at all. In the bed-sharing arrangement, you were always the fragile one.
Dogs are polyphasic sleepers. Their sleep comes in short bouts stacked across the whole day, and their brains are built to surface, check the room, and sink back under in seconds. Humans run on 90 minute cycles where a single bad 3am wake-up can cost an hour. Same mattress, two completely different operating systems.
A Mayo Clinic study put activity trackers on 40 owner-dog pairs for a week. The dogs hit 85% sleep efficiency whether they slept on the bed or the floor. The humans managed 81%, and their number moved depending on where the dog was. Dog sleep was bulletproof. Human sleep bent around the dog.
Then wearables blew up the sample sizes. A 2026 analysis of 11,733 WHOOP users across 1.6 million nights found that on dog-in-the-room nights, people slept about 10 minutes longer, resting heart rate dropped about 1 beat per minute, and heart rate variability rose. There were a few extra micro-wakeups, around 0.4 per night. The nervous system downshifted anyway. It read the dog as safety.
A 2025 study ran sleep EEG on family dogs and found the inversion. Dogs sleep measurably worse when their owners aren't in the room. You are your dog's sleep aid, and apparently its main sleep disruption too.
The evolutionary read is that this deal is tens of thousands of years old. Humans who slept near dogs could afford deeper, more vulnerable sleep because something with better hearing was handling the night watch. Co-sleeping researchers think dogs literally expanded how much uninterrupted sleep early humans could get.
The dog takes the broken sleep so you don't have to. The trade predates agriculture, and your heart rate still drops a beat the moment one curls up at your feet.
@RossDellenger Practically doesn’t matter. If Western Michigan runs the table and beats Boise State, they will have a good shot at clinching the G6 playoff spot
@dannykanell I agree with you Danny. Yes, the significance of the Epic games losses (Georgia/Bama, OSU/Mich, and FSU-Miami) will mean less. Overall, we are getting better games. Moving away from buy games and towards 9-game conference schedules is a good thing.
@ESPNCFB@LauraRutledge@PatMcAfeeShow Weak take. The trenches have evened out across college football and the SEC hasn’t had elite quarterback play outside of Trinidad Chamblissthe past couple of years.
@TJ_Pittinger@JoshPateCFB It brings more fans into the sport. Yes, some group matches and round of 32 will be lopsided, but the round of 16 on will be the same. Think positives of expansion outweigh some lopsided matchups for the World Cup and CFB playoff.
@ManagerTactical Important to keep our back players healthy for the the World Cup opener. Richards, Trusty, and McKenzie will play ahead of M Robinson in the Cup. Just need some health especially if Richards can’t go.