I’m in the middle of an 8-hour drive so can’t watch sadly, but birds up UTSA. Defend the dome!

Wow, nice throw. Navy can attack through the air. Maybe they watched too much Top Gun Maverick

SFA

I heard they were flat broke and were leaning towards joining the A&M system so I just looked it up – I totally missed the news they joined the UT system this year. Glad they got to keep their name.

If the ball escapes the moon’s gravity well, is that a throw out of bounds? What about punts?

Outsiders looking in find it crazy that Texas has 6 different university systems, but as you point out it works pretty well now.

But it didn’t always. For example, from UT Arlington’s Wikipedia article:

Efforts began to turn ASC into a four-year institution, but the Texas A&M system board refused to consider the idea since it was possible that ASC could grow to be larger than College Station.

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Enrollment reached 9,116 students in the fall of 1963, a larger total than the Texas A&M College Station campus. Although Texas A&M proposed a reorganization for the system to recognize ASC’s growth, A&M System President James Earl Rudder resisted developing ASC into a university with graduate programs. Rudder and the Texas A&M board of directors, viewing ASC as a threat to the College Station campus, withheld construction funding and blocked degree development

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Joining the UT System was of immediate consequence. In 1966 the Graduate School was established with an initial slate of six master’s degrees and new construction projects started.

A service academy throwing a TD pass??? What has the world come to?

That was a hell of a run. Go Navy! More 75 yard TD runs, please

Commercial - kickoff - commercial should be declared a crime against humanity. Come on, this is a Thursday night game, who even wants to advertise on this?

Does anyone remember when Pat McAfee used to provide sideline commentary on Thursday night AAC games like 4 or 5 years ago? He was palatable then, even kind of funny. But he seems to have gone off the deep end of unbearable sports-bro since then, sadly

Not like the athletics department has any money

Maybe they should have asked FTX to pay them the $17.5M in naming rights in cash upfront rather than in crypto (not even 2 months before FTX imploded)

Joel Klatt was ranting on his podcast about an inbound CU player that was stuck in the NCAA waiver twilight zone. I wonder if he cares as much about the other direction. (In all seriousness, I’m sure he does, because he hates the NCAA as much as anyone)

On one hand, I didn’t realize Cal was the same school as UC Berkeley until Texas played them in 2015 (before I became a total cfb nerd), so I understand the desire to alleviate confusion.

On the other, they botched a rebranding effort not that long ago and I totally foresee the students rebelling against this, too.

Also, while I’ve always referred to the school as “Cal Berkeley” anyway, I was under the impression that was frowned upon – that it’s either “Cal” or “UC Berkeley” but not the two smashed together.

Looks like we posted at the same time – I removed mine.

This is incredibly dumb and sad. Come on everyone, don’t stray into criminal territory. At the end of the day, these are games and are supposed to be entertainment.

Yeah, those numbers are huge for cable. No regular season game last year on ESPN got over 5M besides Bama-LSU which drew 7.58M. Last year’s Bama-Texas game was on Fox and got over 10M.

I’m okay with ties (but I’m also a weirdo who thinks games should be able to tie and is okay with split national champions). IIRC, r/cfb had the occasional tie and split the #10 spot in half – but they had tons of voters so that was rare. I think if we get to, say, 20ish regular voters then I would suggest allowing them.

Kind of bummed we already seem to have gotten a throwaway ballot, and surprised it wouldn’t have messed up the poll too much given our small sample size (although it would have made a mess of “others receiving votes”). If they really wanted to manipulate the poll, they could have been more crafty about it and then we would have had to keep it. I think you made the right call here, but we should probably set up some guidelines for throwing out ballots. I don’t know if it would be too much work, but if they are missing more than, say, 5 teams on the otherwise final rankings then I would say it should be thrown out. The criteria could be looser than that if only a few games were played (and in the preseason I like it being a free-for-all).

It stings a little, but I’ve learned from A&M that the stars aren’t everything. We’ve had some amazing players that were 3 stars (cough coltmccoy cough) and I’d rather have the players at Texas that want to be there.

I also heard he’s a TTU legacy (not sure if true)? I’m also a big fan of school’s recruiting legacies – I am very bitter we didn’t recruit Charlie Brewer and then he lit it up at Baylor against us. And losing the Brockermeyer twins to Alabama really stung.

Yeah, I realized after replying that you’re below Illinois. There’s still a little poll inertia (they were preseason #25), but really the weak W1 opponent is the main thing. If I were doing the rankings by hand, I value head-to-head quite a bit, but the model would suggest that those results are flukes (and if not, it will soon correct itself – Colorado has risen 68 places in just 2 weeks). There’s a little stickiness with Toledo as well (pre-season #35).

redeem ourselves from last year vs texas

That game was a redemption from the year prior… I no longer live in Texas and that may be the only game I can get to this season, so I really hope that doesn’t happen

chose the Red Raiders over Texas, Texas A&M and Alabama

Nice get, Tech. Now that we’re leaving the conference, hope he balls out for y’all! I really believe McGuire can build something special there

The poll had Kansas finish last season at 58 of 131 (as the 4th best 6-win team). Looks like the beatdown by Texas really hurt their ranking (sorry), more so than the win over #18 OK State helped.

Going into this season, they were tied for 46th with Boise State. Looks like the amount of talent coming back accounts for the slight rise. The biggest thing holding them back so far is they played an FCS school and all the teams that did (e.g. Oregon, tOSU) are probably lower than they should be at this point in the season because there aren’t enough data points yet. Good news is, KU should be able to beat the crap out of #133 Nevada next week (G5 teams are weighted more on the SOS multiplier).

some of the teams the computer puts us behind

If you’re referring to Cal, Northwestern, and Baylor, it’s because of their strength of schedule thus far. They will all probably drop soon.

The FCS playoff is 24 teams, but the top 8 get a bye so it sort of still is a 16-team playoff, just with 8 play-in games.