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Great post, Gat. Thank you for the objectivity. Man, I miss the Ole Ball Coach and his sense of humor. Sankey, of course, has the right to do things his way. But three years ago, he was on a pedestal as the man who would save college football by calling Tony Petitti's PO format bluff. Today? His own ADs and coaches are questioning his judgment. Hats off to Jon Sumrall for calling out Kiffin when Kiffin tried to compare his leaving playoff-bound Ole Miss for LSU to Jon Sumrall, when he was leaving for Florida and being allowed to coach Tulane in a first-round playoff game against Ole Miss. Jon was quick to point out the apples-and-oranges comparison. With the blessing of the Tulane administration, Jon was moving up from the G6 to the Power 2 while Kiffin was slithering his way from Ole Miss to LSU, a move that slightly perturbed the Mississippi administration on down. Mark your football calendars for September 19, 2026, when Lane returns to Oxford. 7:30 PM Eastern/ 6:30 Central local time kickoff. Take the Over on Herbie, Rece, and Saint Nick being in Oxford. I imagine all of the Ole Miss fans will be as sober as the judge who handed Trinidad Chambliss another year of eligibility and will treat Lame with the same respect he received in Knoxville when he returned with Ole Miss after bolting on the Vols for USC. Golf balls, anyone? Gat, as you well know, AAU member Florida has sterling academics. LSU paid $54 million to jettison Bryan Kelly. LSU is paying Lame $91 million over seven years, a $13 million a year base salary. But Kiffin did win two conference championships at FAU, the team the Gators open against this season. 🙃 How many Nobel Prize-winning profs could LSU have hired for approximately $150 million? Lame brings LSU to the Swamp on September 26th, the Saturday after the LSU game at Ole Miss. Should be very interesting to watch the welcoming Florida fans extend to Lame. 😁 Thank you for being such a good Friend of the Forum. Best of luck to Coach Sumrall and your Gators in 2026.

Interesting hires by NW coach Braun. NW brought in Chip as OC and Jerry Neuheisel as the QB coach. Chip and Jerry have their work cut out coaching QB Aiden Chiles, who started at Oregon State, followed John Smith to Michigan State, and lost his starting job last season to jersey-stitcher nightmare Alessio Milivojevic. Chip flamed out with the Raiders, but he was not working with a top NFL roster, and Pete Carroll was past his prime. Chip has his construction uniform on in honor of the renovated Ryan Field, scheduled to open in early October. 35,000 capacity in a state-of-the-art, wired to the max, stadium. https://nusports.com/facilities/ryan-field NW plays a cruel and unusual 11 straight games in 2026 without a week off. A Halloween visit to Eugene and Autzen on October 31st will be NW's 7th game in a row. The only break in the schedule is that one of the 11 games is at home vs G6 Ball State. The week before the game at Ohio State on a spooky evening could be a trap game for OBD. Ohio State pays a Halloween visit to USC. Colorado is NW's P4 OOC opponent. The game will be played at Martin Stadium, where OBD played NW last season. I think NW will go over 5.5 wins with six or seven victories and again, go bowling. David, great call on Nick A. No defense shut down Cam Newton like the Oregon D shut him down in the BCS title game. Nick's D came through. Chip's O?

He absolutely did and he came into lead an Oregon's taff that was a ton of vets and old timers. And in all honesty they kinda worked out some of the bugs to the up tempo offense under Bellotti. Alioti knew and understood that the up tempo offense meant the defense response needed to change. People tend to have strong feelings about the whole bend-but-don't-break defense but with Oregon limited recruiting strength and talent pool that was the best option to keep the defense on the field for a long time. The support around Chip at Oregon was special and allowed him to do what he was best at. He didn't have that anywhere else... Well Ohio State I guess. We'll see how he does at North Western.

On this episode of the Autzen Audibles podcast, Oregon edge coach Kamran Araghi joins the show. Araghi was promoted to a full-time assistant role this offseason, but coaching the team's OLBs is nothing new. He explains how his responsibilities have changed and how the annual Oregon coast trip began before diving into break downs of every scholarship player in his room.

I have to admit, I completely lost track of Chip after the Las Vegas Raiders fiasco. I know that there are some who still dislike how he left Oregon, and when I see highlights of those Duck teams....dang, what a show that was!! I am of the opinion that Chip caught lightening in a bottle with the group of players Oregon had at that time and how they incorporated into the system. He struggled to adapt past that at many of his stops. I bear him no ill will, Oregon certainly secured a center stage spot since Chip. It almost pains me to see him here now....but who knows, maybe Northwestern can become an offensive juggernaut.

I have been loving the deserved bashing of the SEC on here. From the denial about the B1G surpassing it by winning the last three titles, to complaining about playing nine conference game. The threats to separate because now the ACC and Big 12 agree on the the 24 team playoff, over the 16 team model. People crying that the SEC will get punished with more 9-3 teams being left out, despite Alabama getting the benefit of the doubt every year when the committee could've put in Ohio State, Florida State, and Notre Dame over them. How many times did an SEC champion get left out? Heck, how many times did an SEC team get in without even winning the conference? But, I am proud to say that the Florida coach isn't making any excuses. He said he would never make excuses, and that his expectation is to always win. He won't cry about a nine game conference schedule, because if you want to be the best, you are going to have to beat the best. So I love calling the SEC on it's bull crap. Since when did we get so soft in the south? That's not the mentality I grew up with. Spurrier would call out anybody, and go for the win. Urban Meyer openly said his squad deserved a crack at the perceived unbeatable 2006 Buckeyes. No running, no hidden messages. Tim Tebow openly apologized for losing one game in 2008, he vowed that nobody would play harder, and nobody did for the rest of that year. But for some reason, we are meant to think the SEC deserves at least a quarter of every playoff bracket because our depth is the best. How stupid is that? If our top three teams can't make it to the championship, why would our even worse teams fare? That will be the last time I use the term is, as I hate that collective word. I will never be an SEC.... SEC...goof. If Oregon plays Georgia, LSU, or Alabama in the playoffs, I'm hoping Oregon does what I diana did to Alabama, or Ohio State did to Tennessee. I'm sick of this denial of truths. The SEC won seven straight titles, and I didn't hear anybody trying to deny who was the best. The B1G began to invest more into their programs, they got better. Now that everyone can pay for players, it's obvious the power has shifted. The SEC can cry and deny the truth, or they can look for ways to improve. I don't really care either way. I just want the whining to stop. I want the excuses to end, and I want to see the best teams play each other. I want an SEC/B1G scheduling agreement. END OF RANT. https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jon-sumrall-isn-t-complain-190436187.html

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College kickers are more chaotic... The best ones will take it without too much of a problem but the vast majority will not be automatic. Or just bump the starting position to the 50. I do kinda like the sudden death 2 point conversation exchange at the 3rd OT. Granted what I hate about it is that it can take a lot of time in transition as it's one play and flip sides... Repeat until winner. Annoying from a viewer experience as it's just one play. Give them 4 total plays from the 20 and see how it goes. I might have to write another article on better overtime formats.

Nitwit, really. You're giving Nitwits a bad rap.

I'm with you. That's why I noted using the NFL postseason rules, where each team gets possession. No coin toss, score, and you win the game without the opponent having a chance to score. The 40-yard line as the college starting spot is a good idea. Although with kickers routinely making 50 yard FGs today? Please, keep the articles coming.

I hate the NFL OT rules. College football falls into the shootout far more often than the NFL does and the NFL OT rules favor who wins the coin toss too much when that happens. Granted I'd be cool with backing the starting place up to the 40 yard line. Though I do prefer the college football OT rules to the NFL ones as both teams get a shot on offense and defense.

Terrific comment. But it comes out of rugby more than soccer. It's long been a rule in Australian Rules Football and is akin to a free kick in soccer. In the regular season, I'm all in favor of getting rid of overtime. And in the postseason, I'm in favor of adopting the NFL postseason OT rules. IMO, starting from the 25-yard line is chicken spit.

"....best of 5 FGs for each team to decide the game?" Nah, start at the 10 and keep backing up 5 yds with dual attempts until one opponent misses. Alex "Mongo" Karras of the Detroit Lions used to mimic them, calling out in falsetto: "I keeck a touchdown! I keeck a touchdown."

Yahoo Grades for New Coach Hires - Take these grades with a grain of salt and tears in your beer - Lane Kiffin, whose conference championships have come at G6 FAU, gets an A+. Big Ten - Bob Chesney, UCLA - A/ Matt Campbell, Penn State - B/ Pat Fitzgerald, Michigan State -B+ And the grade that brings the entire exercise into question - Kyle Whittingham, Michigan - C- 🤪 HUH? The only certain future Hall of Fame coach on the list is given one of the lowest grades because 'he has to win right away?' Others of interest - Will Stein, Kentucky, B/ Tosh Lupoi, Cal B+/ Eric Morris, Oklahoma State - A- Much respect for Will, but a B for a guy who has never been a head coach, let alone a P4 head coach, and a C- for the winningest coach in Utah history, Whit? This grade doesn't fit, and I give the grader a grade of Nitwit.

It's been in the NFL forever... As in 1920. It's super rare as it needs very particular circumstances to set it up.

OBD is in ESPN's recruiting top tier - https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/49427877/2026-college-football-recruiting-tiers-notre-dame-ohio-state

On3 previews the B12 - Lots of love for that school in Lubbock, right? At least the schedule says so. On32026 Big 12 College Football Preview: CFP favorites, powe...Dive into On3's full Big 12 preview ahead of the 2026 college football season, looking at CFP favorites, power rankings, and more.

@David Marsh Thank you for the updates! I don’t understand the Fair Catch Kick. So we are addicting another special teams rule that allows teams not to actually have to play football? I know it will be rare, but this kind of stuff makes me crazy. This has soccer written all over it. What’s next? Maybe we can get rid of OT and go to a best of 5 FGs for each team to decide the game? 🤮

The media poll 2026 SEC champion - I like Georgia on top and ahead of a Texas team that is talented but has a more difficult schedule than the Dawgs. Georgia's schedule is ranked the easiest in the SEC, but it's still an absolute witch. On3College football rankings: Preseason SEC Poll releasedTexas and Georgia headline the SEC preseason poll, released by the league following SEC Media Days this week.

Interesting column in today's Register Guard...not behind a paywall...which provides the author's ten Oregon football individual player records unlikely to be broken. Not sure if any will never be broken because of game rule changes, but it is something to consider as we reflect on game/individual records. What was the context of rules at the time? For example, in 1989 the use of tee's on FG and Xpoint was discontinued. The Div I FG record is 67 yds...3 players share the record...all before 1989.

As Texas coach Steve Sarkisian noted at SEC Media Days, college football is an unregulated multi-billion-dollar business. Hats off to Sark for not obfuscating; for recognizing today's world of college sports for what it is. The vast majority of college athletes are at a given program today for transactional reasons, not just for the love of U or State. Why is anyone surprised that, like the NFL, where players are paid, salary considerations are the principal part of roster management? How many NFL transfers stay with their current team because of loyalty to their team? That's a rhetorical question. Loyalty, fraternity, fidelity? Do players want this over being paid to perform? Every guy Texas let go to clear 'cap space' was signed by another program and continues to be paid. I doubt that these players, and their agents, took this as a personal affront. The Texas players now on the Oklahoma roster will have the chance for payback. If you want a uniform salary cap that is not ignored, like the House settlement cap is ignored, call the athletes what they are, 'employees,' and enter into a collective bargaining agreement with the athletes. The vestiges of 'tradition' need to go, including having a true FBS playoff and not a bowl extravaganza. This is happening at Texas, with the wealthiest athletic department in college sports. It also happened at Oregon, where the money was not available to retain many young DL players off to Alabama, Notre Dame, and other greener pastures. There is a silver lining. Salary cap issues are the reason the SEC lost its college football hegemony, and a program like Indiana can win a national championship.

Oregon reportedly targeting former Villanova forward Duke BrennanAfter roughly two months of inactivity from the Oregon Ducks that came after a flurry of commitments via the transfer portal to rebuild the 2026-27 roster, head coach Dana Altman may be back at it. According to 247Sports' Dushawn London, the Ducks have "zeroed in" on former Villanova Wildcats forward Duke Brennan, who recently graduated and is awaiting approval of his eligibility waiver. https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/mens-basketball/2026/07/24/oregon-mens-basketball-duke-brennan-former-villanova-forward/91032618007/