College Football

Congrats to our winners last week. We in fact had a tie (three way with our late entry, but by the user's own request we won't acknowledge the win for them). The winners, each picking Iowa State, Kansas, WKU and Stanford are:

• g0d0fm15ch13f
• waddle_dee
• olmec (late entry, but still worth a shoutout)

This week things will have a few more permutations, so good luck to our entrants!

Pick 'Em Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc26pGI31jBVwu6PlXZlnqM02qkvyMrPTyczSpDbCbgNa_YyA/viewform?usp=header

Pick 'Em Rules:

• Each week we will select up to 7 games to predict
• Predictions must be submitted through the attached google form before kickoff of the week's first pick 'em game
• The winner each week will be able to claim a $10 dollar gift card (we seemed to want Amazon credit last year, but I am willing to not send Bezos money if you win and you'd like some other form of gift card)
• Ties are possible! In the event of a tie, each winner will be able to claim a $10
• At the end of the season the winner(s) of the most individual weeks will be able to claim an additional $50 gift card

Limited games this weekend, but boy am I excited to be back into the regular season. It has been a long and painful offseason.

Pick 'Em Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSchHWOeUkAX9IjklDv4a58AI39m4NZa-vycC7qjargTrAQOAg/viewform?usp=header

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| | 1 | Penn State | 48 | 1 | NR | | T2 | Texas | 43 | 1 | NR | | T2 | Oregon | 43 | 0 | NR | | 4 | LSU | 42 | 0 | NR | | 5 | Ohio State | 41 | 0 | NR | | 6 | Notre Dame | 40 | 0 | NR | | 7 | Georgia | 39 | 0 | NR | | 8 | Alabama | 37 | 0 | NR | | 9 | South Carolina | 31 | 0 | NR | | T10 | Miami (FL) | 29 | 0 | NR | | T10 | Arizona State | 29 | 0 | NR | | 12 | Illinois | 25 | 0 | NR | | T13 | Florida | 20 | 0 | NR | | T13 | Clemson | 20 | 0 | NR | | T15 | Kansas State | 19 | 0 | NR | | T15 | SMU | 19 | 0 | NR | | 17 | Texas A&M | 15 | 0 | NR | | T18 | Oklahoma | 14 | 0 | NR | | T18 | Michigan | 14 | 0 | NR | | T20 | Tennessee | 13 | 0 | NR | | T20 | Boise State | 13 | 0 | NR | | T20 | Iowa State | 13 | 0 | NR | | T23 | Ole Miss | 9 | 0 | NR | | T23 | Texas Tech | 9 | 0 | NR | | 25 | Indiana | 8 | 0 | NR |

Others Receiving Votes: USC (7), UNLV (5), BYU (3), Utah (2)

Link to the results spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u35gZ-_AAeVcici24eKSJxlMRxa_ENm3T8qCgqzvTJc/edit?gid=109618283#gid=109618283

Link to the Poll (the next poll results will be shared after week 1): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u35gZ-_AAeVcici24eKSJxlMRxa_ENm3T8qCgqzvTJc/edit?gid=109618283#gid=109618283

IT'S GAME WEEK!

It's time once again for the greatest minds in college football to get together and rank the top schools in FBS. While there may be many different organizations that vote on rankings and even a tournament played at the end of the season, I remind everyone that this is the one true official poll that will determine the best teams in FBS each week and decide the true national champions. Polls may be done by humans or computers and may use any criteria you see fit, like I said, we make the rules and the decisions.

Poll Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8NFsNvzr51rjxe5WE_WRWbrhkAMrX6pWjex1dacaiplQSsQ/viewform?usp=header

Also a huge shoutout to @WVbrU@lemmy.world for putting together a slightly more robust backend to the super official google forms poll database.

This year I am also planning on running a competition to help with engagement. Last year we tried a bracket prediction contest and while that was fun, it had no incentive for participation for a large portion of the season. As such, this year I am planning on switching to a weekly pick 'em contest. Each week participants will be able to pick a selection of games and score points that will accumulate throughout the season. I'll let this post double as a forum to discuss the format of the pick 'em contest.

And have any other sports communities come up with a team flair workaround? I haven't messed with my hack of a *monkey script since I was on kbin.social.

This is gonna be a cluster...

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Vandy too fwiw

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21408990

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/29867

Vice President JD Vance ended the Ohio State football team’s visit to the White House by fumbling the trophy the players won as their sport’s national champion

Some really juicy offseason drama for the Vols this year. Here are the facts:

• Nico was in Spring Camp and was seemingly both invested and invested in (Lots of reps, go pro mounting on helmet)
• Story breaks on Thursday that Nico is in contract negotiations. (Word on the street is he wanted $4mil vs $2mil this year, possibly parent driven)
• Nico misses practice Friday (Word is no call no show)
• Heupel announces today that the Vols are moving on (specifically coverage seems to word it this way, rather than Nico moving on)
• Orange and White game is also today, but no broadcast of any kind

Consensus opinions from Vol Nation seem to be:

• Fuck NIL, we need contracts
• Shitty of Nico to wait until the end of spring to pull this
• Correct move from Heupel, culture over individuals
• New QB competition drama just dropped

B1G gets the theme music AND they get rid of Danielson? Things can be so unfair

The plant claims the NCAA cooperated with UT to make him a scapegoat.

Was I wrong about Deion?

Oh my god, make it stop

Also sorry for paywall