Hate 'em or love 'em, the Red Raiders are the talk of the college football world 🏈
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This story & headline have been updated to reflect @JoeyMcGuireTTU's full quote.
It's disappointing @ProFootballTalk just deleted its original post and updated the story without acknowledging the misleading error to its 1.9 million followers on X alone.
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It’s so obvious, yet rarely ever questioned. Last year doesn’t matter anymore AT ALL. We have NO idea who anyone is yet - so it’s impossible to have strength of schedule or FPI yet … there’s literally NO data to go off. Nothing to measure, compare or judge yet. However, we create this arbitrary baseline to begin the year 🤷🏻♂️
"In a 2022 interview with ABC News, reflecting on his 50 years of public service, Dr. Fauci said he had “nothing to do” with school closures. But in March 2020, he wrote in his diary that he had “convinced” Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York to close city schools. He said he also spoke to a top aide to Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, who had “decided to close the schools in California as well as the bars and restaurants,” based on Dr. Fauci’s suggestion."
Fauci, in Private Diary, Reflected on Covid’s Origins and His Own Fame - The New York Times https://t.co/otCfMR20QJ
This is what people outside the SEC laugh about.
Tennessee and Missouri didn't beat a team with a winning record. LSU was literally 7-6. Good names, but empty names last year.
Cole Hutson played four years, 48 games, went through the NFL Draft process, attended multiple NFL rookie minicamps… and now might just be allowed to return to college football?
What are we doing here?
A fun fact is that Texas would have still missed the CFP in 2025 if it was based solely on FPI/advanced metrics.
It wasn’t a Big 12 or ACC team that took their spot… it was SEC Oklahoma, who was 15th. The three worst at-larges in FPI were all SEC teams.
This is how the sausage is made
While I don’t exactly know if it’s chicken/egg between:
-all 16 SEC schools have a top 20 SOS
or
-12 of 16 SEC being ranked in FPI top 23
… it definitely sets up a self-fulfilling reinforcement system where the SEC always stays on top.
Guess ESPN isn’t concerned with the optics of their proprietary metrics system clearly favoring the conference they partly own…
🚨BREAKING (again): ESPN did that thing where they put 75% of SEC teams in their initial FPI so that it skews rankings the entire season.🚨
How long til our first GaUntLeT post touting all the top FPI teams in their schedule?
“He and I agreed that the future of college sports is headed in the wrong direction.”
In the next breath, Grasso voiced Michigan’s objections to the Protect College Sports Act, a bill that is intended to address those very problems. While acknowledging that college sports are in “dire need of clarity and equitable reform,” Grasso echoed the stance of the Big Ten and the SEC, which do not support the legislation….”
“By now, it should be obvious that “equitable reform” and “competitive advantage” don’t fit neatly in the same box. In trying to have it both ways, leaders in college sports sound a lot like St. Augustine: God, grant me chastity, but just not yet.”
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Sorsby agent burning the house down on the way out and I’m not mad at it.
If this is true Cincinnati make sure yall have more energy for them covering it up than Texas Tech for stumbling into a bad situation.
NEW: Brendan Sorsby's agent, Ron Slavin, claims Cincinnati knew about the gambling addiction and took no action:
“If anybody should be questioned or catching heat, it should be Cincinnati. Because they knew for two years and never said anything or didn’t do anything about it. That’s the part of the story that gets lost.”
(via @1053thefan)
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