I do this every year. If nothing else it's a good way to get a gauge on what's to come the next 12 months.

I like Washington’s uniforms so I’ll pick them ! Although, Michigan’s look great too but I’m going to stick with the Huskies !

Please forgive a sober attempt to understand how sustainable our awesome run is … BUT … “vision” reportedly got us here, and it will take the same, to at least, hold a seat at the table of affluence.
Delighted with OM foresight (administration, boosters, LK, et al) in our seeming leadership/ winning in “early innings” of the NIL/ transfer portal era … exceptional vision!
The Ripee article was hugely insightful for how we got here. To summarize my read, a few bright attorneys, aided by loyal boosters, saw the disruptive impact of NIL/transfer portal and “organized” ahead of everyone else, including lobbying MS statutes permitting University cooperation with an NIL Collective.
Now that CFB certifiably behaves like any free enterprise, when has “business” ever entitled “well organized first movers” to sustainable, long term success without patent protection or a business model that provides high barrier to entry (usually associated with startup cost)?
If the path to competitive CFB is an “aligned”, “well organized “ institution with accomplished “professional management “ , one could speculate on any number of candidates- Phil Knight, Michigan, Notre Dame, Harvard - capable of the “startup costs”. The prospect list might start with those with names on campus buildings and an ego to seek winning in college sports. Most of these highly successful people had no interest in jeopardizing their professional success with some needless NCAA allegation - an allegation that largely can’t happen in today’s environment. How did we get billionaire professional sports franchise owners today ?
Just speculating, and claiming no insight.
I like Kiffin’s description of OM resembling the Green Bay Packers - owned by the fans! OM should pull for some union, organization,legislation that ultimately controls the madness before the mad control CFB - which seems imminent tomorrow.
As I see it , this period of lawnessness (1-3 years) is an opportunity to build the Ole Miss brand in college athletics like never in its history. Thereafter- most college teams will perform like NFL, MLB, NBA , S&P 500 … great years and years of less significance.
Do I see this wrong?

I know it’s from another site but this is a good explanation of the window

About 40 minutes before kickoff, one of Texas’ coaches blew a whistle, assuming Sarkisian, and all the Texas players went jogging off the field into the tunnel. Within a minute, no more than two minutes, they all came jogging back onto the field and finished warming up before going back to the locker room for the final time before kickoff.

I have never been to a Texas game and wonder if this is what they always do.

It has us at 15 in the country to end the year behind:
Penn State at #6
Notre Dame at #8
Oklahoma at #9
LSU at #10
Missouri at #14
The **** are they givin that poor computer, they got it drugged and sedated incomprehensibly so for those to make any sense, or it’s just been throwing darts at the board and seeing where they land.

This guy is really good at explaining without getting overly technical.

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What a massive potential add this would be.

Also, fun fact if we do get Heard we will have a former player from every team we play on the road next season in the league and 6 of 8 overall.

Wild times in college football.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but after watching the games today, I’m confident that if Georgia was in the playoffs they’d 3-peat. Most talented team, stack up better against UT and Mich than bama, imo.

They had a let down game against bama. But talent wise and balanced offense and defense, they’d be the favorites to win it all. Somehow, a 1-loss SEC, 2-time defending champion got left out. But unfortunately they didn’t have a legitimate argument to be in front of a conference champ.

LSU peeps seem to think he's a rebel.

5 star in 2023 class, LSU top recruit, 6'6 340. Played 195 snaps this year as a back up.

Careful, folks. Your heads might explode. Brandon Walker spends quite a bit of time giving high praise to Ole Miss and Lane Kiffin for how they have approached and dominated the transfer portal.

I recognize that this podcast is about 2 weeks old but I was listening today. It’s interesting and I know some of y’all have strong feeling about Brandon Walker.

Start around 17:45 mark.

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FSU would have been the #4 seed and not Bama..

What would have happened in a game between Michigan and FSU?

I think not having Travis would have put FSU in a hole, but would the game have turned out similar to way the game with Bama played out?

I hate them as much as the next guy, but I needed them to win for my bets.
They got absolutely robbed twice in the game.

Mich had zero robberies from what I can remember.

Lay a ton on Mich as the fix may be in.

did we stay the same? or get better? or worse?

I'll publish late Wednesday. I'm going to keep it short this week, as I'm under the weather and need to get to a doctor. But I'll throw one together.

Two time zones of the college football world know very little about Washington football. Michigan's shenanigans won't escape the week's storylines. Georgia and Alabama drew over 22 million. That might be too much of a reach for these two teams but both are undefeated and that should draw a crowd.....for a while. Maybe.

For those interested, we are brining in a few tees and hoodie.

after watching how bad Bama's OC is made me really think how well he manages a game.

The Washington HC had the game won and made some HORRIBLE decisions at the end to give Texas the ball back...just snap the ball and take a knee!!!! Texas's timeouts were gone.

Watching Sark NOT manage the end of the game was pathetic...taking forever to call a play...WTF were they doing? Losing valuable seconds to even line up!!!

In HS in the '80s we had our QB calling "check with me, check with me!!!" We had two plays ready to go...last night Texas looking like my 5th grade team when I was coaching peewee.

Do players participating in late bowls/playoffs get a grace period after their game to enter the portal or will they have to be in today?

What would you say are our remaining missing pieces for a 2024 Nattie?

That’s the weirdest sentence I’ve ever typed.
Anyway - Ewers shrunk there at the end. Penix was unbelievable. Sark’s playcalling was awful at the end too. I’d be so pissed if LK called that.

did y'all get that feel from Texas/Washington?

What a shame we didn't get the 12-team playoff this year.

NOT a quarterback