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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
Ohio State was seeded 8 because last year the CFP committee didn’t do a straight seeding model. Boise and Arizona State jumped them, despite being ranked behind them in all the polls. They’d have been 6 or 7 without that.
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Brian Kelly to L$U
I have seen it before but the public comms from the institution have always been disciplined if they go that way: “SWLSU has decided to reassess the direction and leadership of the football program. DC Cletus will take over head coaching duties on an interim basis and HC Ricky Bobby has been reassigned to other duties within the athletic department as those discussions continue.”
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
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Brian Kelly to L$U
I didn’t think they’d be dumb enough to do this, but I was clearly wrong. There’s a procedure for firing for cause that was pretty clearly not followed. I guess they are hoping a LA court will just side with the Tigahs. At every turn they do exactly the thing that makes them the least attractive possible coaching destination. Landry is gonna end up coaching himself. Landry promising to provide a sideline tiger and producing a fat, inbred False Mike proving to be an incredible omen. The ancients would recognize this.
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
I won’t say it will “never” happen because on a long enough timeline it will, but: the teams ranked from 10-12 (really more like 8-12, but I’ll be generous) are really unlikely to win a title. They may upset a team or two that could, but they won’t make a four game slog. Go back and look at past AP or Coaches polls and find a team with that ranking that really belonged on the field with the winner. 10-12 is talented teams with visible flaws.
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Gooner or later, we’re in serious trouble….
Take my rep, one of my favorite ever videos.
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Gooner or later, we’re in serious trouble….
I have no proof but I think OnlyFans and stuff is probably nuking brains in ways we can’t understand yet. Let’s take porn and add a parasocial component, and also strip away all the things that told the brain that the people in it are actors and it’s all fake. Really make it seem accessible and real.
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Gooner or later, we’re in serious trouble….
They aren’t nihilists, they have found a purpose and meaning: jacking off a whole lot in pursuit of a mental high. It’s just that the meaning they’ve settled on is disordered and crowds out alternate sources of meaning. One of my hottest takes is that all the bad stuff we used to call “vices,” like porn, drugs, booze, gambling, smoking, and promiscuity, are actually bad. That doesn’t mean all bad things need to be banned and brutally suppressed but removing all frictions and stigma and pretending they are value neutral or maybe good is stupid. The harm also falls disproportionately on those least equipped socially, intellectually, or temperamentally to moderate themselves. Porn should be legal, but making you ask for it at a gas station or venture out to a skeezy city limits store and park around back to hide your car was a good friction to maintain. Smoking is legal but it’s a good social friction to make it costly and to tightly clamp down on where you can do it. It’s good to make it socially shameful. Gambling shouldn’t be criminalized but you should have to go to a reservation or use a shady bookie or some shit. That is a good social friction; it’s not good to be able to make in-game prop bets tied to a credit card. Many such cases.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Poland dumped the veto and a year and a half later got partitioned up. Not that the filibuster is good but just so we know the timeline.
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Christy starring Sydney Sweeney
Those comparisons are good, and it’s a good play by her to try. No one is gonna stop calling her for bombshell roles because of this. But it’s smart for beautiful actresses to prove they can do something else BEFORE the sex kitten roles dry up, not when they already are.
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Christy starring Sydney Sweeney
The Smashing Machine also fell really flat this year. It had Dwayne Johnson in it. I think it’s most likely that there is a limited market for Oscar-bait biopics about combat sports athletes that most people haven’t heard of. The dudes who want her to take her top off weren’t buying tickets for this anyway.
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2025 CFB Polls/Rankings Thead
Functionally Texas will be. With another loss Texas would go into a bucket with 10-2 teams from other conferences for the last CFP spot.
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The Big 10 is pushing ahead with massive private investment deal over objections from Michigan and USC
One thing about this whole farce is that it proves ND is absolutely correct not to hand incredibly important institutional decisions to conference administrators. What a shitshow. As far as telling USC/Michigan to kiss off, it seems like a bad trade to force out 2 of your 4 most valuable brands just so you can take on PE debt with your weakest brands. But I’m not a Big Ten brain genius.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
Not even the weakest of this year’s crop of SEC playoff contenders per Massey, Sagarin, FPI, etc. That honor goes to Ole Miss. But in all objectivity, all the SEC contenders are clustered around the top 25 for sos and there is some subjectivity in any metric you can put together.
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Brian Kelly to L$U
Super unlikely that garden-variety birddogging rises to this level, especially if they didn’t invoke it when they canned him. A court won’t look kindly on using the thread of invoking it after the fact to negotiate your buyout down. If he violated the clause, they should have said so and terminated him for that reason.
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Brian Kelly to L$U
You can kind of cobble together a case that a lump sum big enough (time value of money) plus removal of the duty to mitigate could let him take a higher paying job that could offset and leave him better than the loss of guaranteed from LSU. But BK is a known asshole who might have trouble landing that good of a gig. It’s a gamble for him and he should for sure force LSU to agree to pay what they agreed to.
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Brian Kelly to L$U
Fantastic look for LSU as they are trying to convince a new coach to sign. “No, we will totally pay YOU. That’s different from whats going on with Brian.”
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The Big 10 is pushing ahead with massive private investment deal over objections from Michigan and USC
Designing the entire world to function to serve the narrow interests of the generation born after WWII has consequences. Programs have been fucking over their core future fanbases for years in favor of chasing the high-end alum and corporate $$$.
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SEC Championship Game Scenarios
That’s not what “controlling your own destiny” means though, especially since in some of those important games being a favorite is slightly better than a coin flip (like UGA vs Tex). And could change based on things like key injuries.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
It was always going to end this way, Dem constituencies are more vulnerable to the shutdown and the GOP was not going to cave. Extremely predictable. And in pure team sports play, fucking people up with healthcare costs that the GOP votes for helps the Dems, too.
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ESPN GAME DAY
Eight games involving SEC teams this year already and Pitt-ND is a cool rivalry with big CFP implications. Also no ACC or ND games this year.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
I feel like this has been explained. That was the preseason line and it’s not updated. You can’t lay a bet on it now. If you can let me know. I don’t bet on sports, and I’d take that line. I bet most of the degens on the site would too.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
This is what’s going on. 10.5 was the preseason line.
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The Big 10 is pushing ahead with massive private investment deal over objections from Michigan and USC
Well, based on how they manage money they can touch, that was probably good foresight to keep it away from regents’ grubby paws. I’m sure LSU would be trying to liquidate its endowment to buy Andy Reid and a few five star OL or some shit.
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The Big 10 is pushing ahead with massive private investment deal over objections from Michigan and USC
Also just caught that this is a California pension fund investment which means that somehow UCLA alum retirees are going to be paying UCLA football players and fund managers will be raking a cut. Fantastic system, no notes.