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Speaking my language

@RedditCFB What if I told you the offending school is a farming school??? 😂

You can completely avoid this entire situation with a material that is dirt cheap.

@CollegeFBonX The mid 1990s :-/…conferences were regional, you played your rivals, it wasn’t about national title/playoffs everything, you had true diversity in playing styles…the good ole days

What or when comes to mind when you think of peak college football?

@WCCSG_ Hell yes, 1000% true. You played all the teams frequently, conferences were regional, there was good football played all over the country. CFB today sucks

True or False? College football was straight-up better when conferences were smaller.

@CollegeBSBNews Jeez, stop playing baseball on turf! Dirt, grass. That’s it, that’s all you need!

Strange occurrence in Blacksburg. Clemson had a guy slide into home and score, but in the process the turf batter’s box got completely flipped over. 😳

@iJordanMoore I mean, I guess you could just give those 4 teams the weekend off? Seriously, someone is going to be left out, not everyone has a natural close or in state rival…

MLB “rivalry weekend” cracks me up. Makes total sense: Yankees-Mets: Subway series Cubs-Sox: Crosstown classic O’s-Nats: Battle of the Beltway Rangers-Astros: Lone Star series Marlins-Rays: Citrus series Dodgers-Angels: Freeway series Pirates-Phillies: Battle of PA Tigers-Blue Jays: 401 Derby Reds-Guards: Ohio Cup Cards-Royals: Battle of I-70 Padres-M’s: Vedder cup Giants-A’s: Battle of the Bay (rip) Brewers-Twins: Border battle wtf… this is a rivalry? Red Sox-Braves… Rockies-DBacks…

@MaryamF12389 Iowa

Your first guess was wrong… now think smarter 👀🇺🇸 Read twice….. answer once 🤯

@JonRothstein Home and home, yes!

NEWS: Alabama and Seton Hall will start a home-and-home series next season in Tuscaloosa, according to a source. Return game in Newark in 2027-28. bit.ly/4wC9Go4

@Espngreeny @CFBKings There will never be a Michigan/Ohio State game where the teams aren’t trying to kill each other. Resting players won’t happen (I’m a UVA fan, I have no dog in this fight. But these teams have an unhealthy level of disdain for each other)

What he said.

@treadmillhorse ACC Friday games are getting kinda like PAC 12 After Dark. If we could get them all on the CW, that would be something…

I actually like the ACC playing on Friday nights. These are fun and entertaining games

@BudElliott3 Virginia better have a 2025 Gator Bowl champs banner up!

The better examples aren’t Bama/OSU. They’re Purdue 2021, Duke 2022, Kansas 2023, Oregon St 2022, Maryland 2022, Wake 2021, Kentucky 2021, Illinois 2024, Minnesota 2019, Syracuse 2018, Wazzu 2018. For those programs, 8-4/9-3/10-3 can be a top-20% season. The old bowl system validated that. CFP/ESPN moved the meaning.

@CollegeFBonX I kinda like them better if they don’t because you don’t get 36 promos for the playoff and everyone trying to play “Joey brackets” (which is also stupid) the whole game…

I enjoy college football games even if they don’t have playoff implications

@csATLdawg When Peyton Manning is your QB for 4 years, topping out in the citrus bowl probably ain’t great. But if you don’t have one of the 5 best QBs of all time….its probably fine to end up there?

Steve Spurrier told us in 1997 that making the Citrus Bowl wasn’t a good year. Stop with revising history.

@BudElliott3 Haha he was talking about Tennessee and yeah, if you have one of the five best QBs of all time, going to the Citrus Bowl is probably leaving some meat on that bone. But if you don’t, like 99.9% of teams out there, it’s probably a good result for your season…

You are only coming at this from the super-privileged perspective of rooting for the bluest of bluebloods. It's your right to view it through that lens, but you have to realize that not everybody else views it through that lens. Not everybody is a Georgia fan. In fact, most of college ball fans are not a fan of the top three program in the country. When you over-index on just those teams, you alienate everybody else. That's how the sport dies.

@BudElliott3 This is basically the encapsulation of why CFB was better pre playoff. I still believe this, BTW. I’m a UVA fan, I harbor no illusions that were a national contender. I want to beat VT and UNC, contend for the ACC now and then, and go to bowl games.

For a lot of programs, 9-3 or 8-4 is not mediocrity. It is a top-quintile outcome. It is a season fans remember. It is a season that gets a coach an extension, wakes up donors, helps recruiting, and makes people believe the program is moving. In the old bowl ecosystem, those seasons had somewhere to go. The Citrus Bowl, Gator Bowl, Holiday Bowl, Alamo Bowl, Sun Bowl, Liberty Bowl, Outback Bowl, Peach Bowl, Music City Bowl, Las Vegas Bowl, Pinstripe Bowl, and a bunch of others could mean different things to different programs. They were not all equal, and they were not all national-title-adjacent. But they gave teams a postseason reward that fit the scale of what that program had accomplished. That is what the playoff era damaged. The sport did not merely create a better championship mechanism. It centralized almost all postseason meaning into one event. ESPN, as the CFP’s exclusive rights holder, helped build and promote that hierarchy. ESPN and the CFP extended their exclusive relationship through the 2031-32 season, including rights to the playoff games, selection show, weekly rankings shows, and related programming. That is not just broadcasting the sport. That is defining the sport’s value system. So when people say, “Why is Team 19 making the playoff better than Team 19 going to the Citrus Bowl?” the answer is: because there was a time when the Citrus Bowl carried real status. So did a lot of other bowls, depending on the program. But the sport spent a decade telling everyone that anything outside the CFP is meaningless. The meaning moved. And once the meaning moves, the access point has to move with it.

@tyler_gorecki Elijah Gertrude transferred his ACL 😂

Took 30 minutes out of my flight to name all uva basketball players in my 5 years there and where they transferred from/to #handwritingreveal

@SonsofSatVT Congrats on kicking our butt in the May recruiting rankings. I’m sure all those guys will pan out, develop into good players, and still be playing for VT in three years. That’s the way it works, right?

Happy Friday 😆

@Mikeysurf @JerryRatcliffe What is the new revenue stream opened up by moving a game from Saturday to Friday?

Do fans want a competitive NIL/rev share budget and/or not having Olympic/women’s sports cut? Well, this is the reality of college sports in 2026 & moving forward. I actually applaud Athletics for seeking alternative ways for new revenue streams as opposed to pushing on an already exhausted donor base!!

UVA Moves Duke Game To Friday Night; Another Bummer For Wahoo Fan Base - Jerry Ratcliffe jerryratcliffe.com/uva-moves-duke…

@AuburnBlazer THEY MAKE THIS STUFF UP EVERY WEEK! Of course they’ll push the G6 teams down. G6 teams will litter the first four out, just like Midmajors will do in basketball. It’s all corrupt and solely about the rich getting richer. 0% chance they ever let 4 G6 teams in, let alone 5!

Here’s what “G6” involvement in the proposed CFP would look like: Key takeaways: —So many in the “last 4 in” (Highlighted in Yellow). Would it stay that way? Or would those teams be pushed down for more SEC teams? —more years with 3+ at large candidates than I expected.

@CornerMediaCo @CollegeSportsCo @VirginiaSports Anybody who says anything different than 2019 NCAAM natty is lying. That group, that run, after 2018…nothing short of amazing. Everything else is fighting for 2nd.

Drop your favorite Virginia sports memory 👇