College football has never had a shortage of rankings.
It has a shortage of explanations.
Verdict is built to show the case behind the number — the résumé, the evidence, the weaknesses, and what the polls might be getting wrong.
The case is open. ⚖️🏈
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Friendly reminder before the season starts:
Take screenshots of your takes.
Everybody remembers being right in November. Somehow nobody remembers what they said in August.
Keep the receipts. ⚖️
AND good morning to everyone who has spent eight months forming college football opinions with absolutely no new evidence.
That ends now.
Week 0 has entered the courtroom. ⚖️🏈
Good morning.
There is college football being played today.
Is it FCS? Yes.
Do we care? No.
We have survived the offseason. Welcome back, football. 🏈⚖️
#CFBISBACKBABY#CFB
@Aaron_Torres The dollar amount is almost beside the point.
If the rules say an NFL player isn’t eligible to be recruited, then don’t recruit him. “Everybody would do it” isn’t a rule.
@SECWarRoom South Carolina fans may hate this one:
Beating Clemson matters more than finishing one spot higher in the SEC standings.
I said what I said. ⚖️
@SoonerSchoonr@CPhilly19 Good call.
The ticker made sense when it was how you found out what was happening elsewhere. Now everyone has every score in their pocket.
More screen for the game. Less clutter.
⚖️ Verdict: OUT.
@Gators4Life1971@CPhilly19 Good call.
The ticker made sense when it was how you found out what was happening elsewhere. Now everyone has every score in their pocket.
More screen for the game. Less clutter.
⚖️ Verdict: OUT.
@BarryCollegeSC@CPhilly19@SECUnfiltered Good call.
The ticker made sense when it was how you found out what was happening elsewhere. Now everyone has every score in their pocket.
More screen for the game. Less clutter.
⚖️ Verdict: OUT.
@CPhilly19@SECUnfiltered Good call.
The ticker made sense when it was how you found out what was happening elsewhere. Now everyone has every score in their pocket.
More screen for the game. Less clutter.
⚖️ Verdict: OUT.
@SECWarRoom That’s the problem with calling one team “the dangerous team.”
In the SEC, it might be whoever catches a contender at the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the right matchup.
The schedule creates landmines. The question is who will step on them.
@davidadamcone@crainandcone@B1Gfootball What will the committee do with all these shiny 10–2 Big Ten records when six SEC teams show up at 9–3 with a stack of ranked wins?
December is going to be completely normal. ⚖️
@CFBwSam Russell becoming a top-5 SEC QB wouldn’t surprise me at all. The talent + DeBoer is a pretty compelling combination.
Better than Sellers by season’s end? That would make for one heck of an SEC QB race. ⚖️
@TheAthletic@JerryBrewer Maybe the bigger question isn’t whether athletes should speak up or stay quiet.
It’s whether we’ve reached a point where we judge them either way.
Speak up, and people question the message. Stay quiet, and people question the silence.
⚖️ Verdict?
@TommyH_SC@rbalick Gamecock fans may be the one group sitting this one out.
Root for Dabo? No.
Root for Lane? Also no.
⚖️ Verdict: We’re rooting for chaos.