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I’m here to complain about it the usage of Rico Dowdle.

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@JoeGoodberry @JamesRapien Get it @JamesRapien !!! 🔥

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@MiamiCanes1971 @Delaware_FB Timothy has found his niche. Writing about his beloved @NDFootball ☘️ congrats Timothy

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@OneFootDown After they collected 16MM from the CFP last season 😝 go Irish ☘️

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@matthew412404 @ProFootballTalk SAY SOMETHING ELIZABETH

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Wait so we’re seriously not in the CFP??! Still can’t get over it. 😩

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@LndsPatterson YESSSSS! Love, D, D, D, D, D, D!!! That’s the Draft

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@JamesRapien @LndsPatterson James if we go Love + ALL DEFENSE.. man I’m gonna cry tears of joy.

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@T73Willy @MattEdwards Who. Who hurt you?

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@Findingfairtrdz @DrewGarrison Great so you have a pretty good idea where this story goes.

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@NickAdamsinUSA BUT THOSE TATTOOS

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@MalikZaire8 Left, this is about more than money. This man’s soul needs deliverance.

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@Clov3_4 @DrewGarrison Tell me you weren’t an adult when Carson Palmer won the Heisman, went 1st overall and went on to help end the 90’s Mike Brown Bengal misery drought with its first Playoff appearance in 15 years while earning back to back Pro Bowls without actually telling me.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

I’ll say this. This is the difference between Michigan and Ohio State. We beat Ohio 50 years in a row and they just say gosh shucks we’ll get em next year. They beat us once, coach not only is fired but arrested. At Michigan it’s Nattys or jail.

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@RecruitsBama Is Bama getting an automatic bye to the Championship?

[The Irish Tribune @theirishtribune]

Former Raiders Head Coach and current Barstool Personality Jon Gruden stated that Notre Dame should “play the winner” of the CFP tournament and “kick everybody’s ass.”

Gruden has been a vocal about the committee’s decision to leave Notre Dame out of the 12-team field, and believes the Irish would have been national championship contenders had they been in the bracket.

📸: The Guardian

[BYU Blue @BYUbluThru]

Expansion alone isn’t the answer.

Out of $48 million that will be paid to the 12 CFP teams (and distributed among their conferences) $32 million will go to schools where ESPN fully or almost fully owns the media rights (SEC, ACC, AAC, and SBC)

Only $16 million will go to schools in conferences where ESPN doesn’t own the rights (B1G and Big 12). ESPN also doesn’t own the media rights for Notre Dame.

Once you understand that, the double standards applying the selection criteria make sense:

Of course we shouldn’t penalize Alabama for getting blown out in its CCG—the ESPN owned SEC makes ESPN more money!

Of course we should penalize BYU for getting blown out in its CCG. The Big 12 won’t make ESPN more money! Of course the Big 12 is only a 1 bid league!

And even better—penalizing BYU means we can make an excuse to swap Notre Dame (for which ESPN doesn’t own the rights) for Miami (for which ESPN DOES own the rights).

Result: ESPN can better line its own pockets and invest in its own product.

Why does all that matter?

If we only expand the playoffs without structurally separating ESPN’s profits from playoff selection, the wrongs, the double standards, and the ridiculous narratives will continue, just on a larger scale.

Instead, we’ll simply see 8 SEC teams in, 3-4 B1G, 1-2 Big 12, and likely 2 ACC despite that conferences’ clear weaknesses (whether the ACC is even still a P4 conference is a debate for another day, but the fact that a bad 5 loss Duke won the CCG is compelling evidence that it’s probably not).

Until ESPN’s profits are wholly severed from the playoff selection process, ESPN’s CFB corruption will remain King.

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WHEN JOE GOES, I GO

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“If I want to keep doing this, I have to have fun doing it. I’ve been through a lot. If I’m not having fun, what am I doing it for?” An introspective Joe Burrow Wednesday

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@DrewGarrison I can’t accept it. I felt this same way when Palmer said “trade me or I retire.” Over half bengals fanbase threw our generational QB under the bus for standing up to this clown org. I’m glad 15 years later everyone else catches on.

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