Duke, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Texas and Washington are among schools currently grounded en route to away games Saturday as the FAA paused all flights nationwide in a major outage.
Sad to see Conference Championships go.
I'll be very interested to see the ratings for the early rounds of the new CFP compared to conference championships. The SEC Championship in particular always drew a lot of ratings.
The CFP and ESPN have agreed on a five-year, nearly $1.7 billion deal that will expand the field to 24 teams in 2027 with ESPN as its continued broadcast partner, sources told ESPN, a seismic move that also eliminates the lucrative Power 4 conference championship games.
NEW: Miami star WR Malachi Toney will undergo surgery Thursday and is out indefinitely, @Brett_McMurphy reports.
Best case scenario he can return later in the year.
https://t.co/7yAknx232N
Cam Ward had his first career 300 yard passing game, showing why Tennessee picked him No. 1 overall.
26/40, 304 PASS YDS, 2 TD, 0 INT, 41 RUSH YDS vs Bengals
And he did it without Tennessee's leading receiver, Carnell Tate.
NEW: Georgia's Kirby Smart on players getting injured more in the SEC compared to previous years:
"I don’t know that the players are any different. I think about the teams we had in 2021 and 2022, how physical they were and how they practiced. We can’t even get close to that now. Is it different culture that guys don’t want to as much? I don’t know. They were definitely hungrier, because there was a motivation to make it. A lot of these guys, honestly, they make more than I was making until I was 40. So it’s just a different day and age."
(via @ugasportscom)
https://t.co/qlDCRI956Z
Kirby Smart:
"Everybody's practicing less, but everybody's getting injured more."
"I think about the teams we had in '21 & '22, how physical they were and how they practiced. We can't even get close to that now."
"A lot of these guys make more than I made til I was 40."
Yes! Sorry, seems I have a mix up there.
I'll be updating tomorrow, as there is a several hour @GetSpectrum outage impacting my ability to update the site....
@cfbvictorymodel There are six games in the Week 9 Weekly Schedule that are not being played in Week 9. Ohio-Akron, Georgia State-Appalachian State, TCU-Arizona, Colorado-Arizona State, Louisiana Monroe-Arkansas State and Air Force-Army. Can the schedule possibly be updated?