#penn state football championships

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Mike Elko

Physique: Husky Build Height: 6'

Michael Elko (born July 28, 1977) is an American college football coach who is the head football coach at Texas A&M University. He was previously the defensive coordinator at Texas A&M from 2018 until his hiring by Duke on December 10, 2021, and subsequent departure from Duke and hiring by Texas A&M on November 26, 2023.

Ruggedly handsome and possibly ferociously hairy. This is the kind of man I could spend hours with. Look at him, he is crying out for a good ass-pounding. Well, he would probably disagree but you have to admit, it's a crying shame that his cock is not being milk until he was a dried up husk.

A native of South Brunswick, New Jersey, Elko graduated from Penn with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1999. As a safety, he helped the Quakers to the 1998 Ivy League championship. Prior to head coach, Elko served as defensive coordinator at Stony Brook University, University of Pennsylvania, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Fordham University, the University of Richmond, Hofstra University, Bowling Green State University, Wake Forest University, and the University of Notre Dame.

Elko is married to the former Michelle Madison and they are the parents of three children: Michael, Andrew and Kaitlyn.

Head Coaching Record Overall 17–10 Bowls 1–0

Accomplishments, Honors and Awards ACC Coach of the Year (2022)

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I did send that timeline to several folks but I knew you would come through in terms of posting with lots of back up! Everything on that list has either a photo, video, article, social media post, etc. minus a few things I questioned as speculative like 2016. I was able to find some proof.

In a way all I had to do is lay out the years of the major known stuff and their tiktoks/overtime/slam videos and fill in blanks. For those curious about how I figured out some of these tournaments, each high school player has a recruiting page on ESPN so at least with some major tournaments and recruiting notes, I could match it, which is why I was actually pretty shocked to see they were in the same tournament in 2016 but didn't really know each other until 2017.

https://www.espn.com/high-school/girls-basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/225154

https://www.espn.com/high-school/girls-basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/230098

Also high schools like their programs always had schedules out that you can find the archives for. St. John's and Hopkins have their full schedules and results posted from back then so just lining up tiktoks and the significance of the date and it started to fall in place.

What's not in that timeline is the fact Azzi was in a Penn Relay and also national flag football?!?! Like if we want to talk about an incredible athlete. She won flag football in January 2017 and actually scoring the touchdowns and everything. This is before 2017 Team USA tryouts. And then won her race for 4x400 for Penn Relay on April 26, 2018 but it wasn't enough to qualify for championships. That's still insane though. Because she did that and then played that Capitol Classic game a few days later.

You can even watch the relay if you want to sign up apparently (I didn't bother haha). Here's the link to the result and the video link is embedded in there.

https://pennrelaysonline.com/History/results.aspx?cy=2018&en=138

Also not in the timeline are Paige's high school injuries. "In January 2018, as a sophomore, Bueckers was sidelined with an ankle injury that had been hurting her for the first two months of the season. Toward the end of her [senior] season, she suffered from a stress reaction in her right leg due to overuse. Bueckers sometimes wore a walking boot as a preventative measure, was limited in practice and missed the first game of the state tournament." Wiki has the articles for citations. I actually wonder if the right leg issue in high school then caused overcompensation on the left leg which then led to the knee issues. (That's a whole other level of introspection I could probably provide).

Anyway like I said in an early version of this - did all this to provide actual facts since so many like to speculate and make things up based on some random rumors.

I am absolutely not making a future version of this - that's someone else's job :P

So I'm not your favorite and I thought there was something special between us 😞. I have so many more photos or videos I could have used but I had to choose to respect Tumblr's restrictions.

Thanks for telling us how you found your information, I'm gonna bookmark the pages 🤗.

It is so impressive how she is a champion in basketball, football and track. I don't know how she managed between all that and high school.

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Michigan: 2024 Rose Bowl Champions

It was an up-and-down game but the final result was euphoric for the Michigan Wolverines against Alabama in the Rose Bowl. Michigan won 27-20 in overtime and is headed to the national championship in Houston.

Here are key takeaways from Michigan’s win.

Michigan’s defense was ferocious and had an epic goal-line stand in OT Michigan’s defense made Alabama’s offense one-dimensional. Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe had limited success through the air, throwing for just 116 yards on the day. While Milroe made some great plays with his legs, he also turned the ball over on a fumble and was sacked a whopping six times by Michigan’s defense. Five of those sacks came in the first half, which is tied for the most in a half in the Nick Saban era. Michigan held Alabama to just 3-of-13 on third down and to 288 total yards. And with Michigan up 27-20 in overtime, the defense had an incredible goal-line stand which ended on a 4th and goal from the three-yard line where Milroe was stuffed on a run up the middle. There were many heroes on defense — Junior Colson had 10 tackles, Michael Barrett had nine and a sack, Mike Sainristil had some big hits and great coverage, Braiden McGregor had two sacks, Jaylen Harrell had a sack, Josaiah Stewart had a sack, Kris Jenkins and Derrick Moore both had sacks. It took cohesion from the defense for Michigan to win, and it was an epic performance down the stretch.

Michigan’s offense gets going late and turns the tide Michigan took a 13-10 lead into halftime, but after neither team scored in the third quarter Alabama scored ten unanswered points to go up 20-13 on the Wolverines. Things were getting dire for Michigan, time was running out, and they had to score with time ticking down. A 35-yard pass from J.J. McCarthy to Blake Corum on 4th and 2 with 3;19 left in the game kept Michigan’s hopes alive. Then McCarthy rushed for 16 yards, Roman Wilson had a 29-yard reception and Wilson would score two plays later on a four-yard TD to tie the game at 27-7. In overtime, it was a quick and heavy dose of ground and pound from Blake Corum to give Michigan a 27-20 lead on a 17-yard rushing TD.

For every play that didn’t generate positive yardage, for every third-down Michigan didn’t convert (2-off-11 on the day), the offense made incredible plays happen and played inspired football, including McCarthy, who threw for 221 yards and three touchdowns. Roman Wilson had just four catches, but they were huge ones and totaled 73 yards. Blake Corum had a gritty 83 yards rushing and had heroic runs. The offensive line allowed just one sack after giving up four sacks to Iowa in the Big Ten Championship. Tyler Morris had the first touchdown of his career on a 38-yard reception. Just like Michigan’s defense, it took huge plays from multiple players on Michigan’s offense to get the job done.

The win silences the haters Pundits have picked against Michigan in every big matchup this season. Penn State. Ohio State. And now against Alabama. It hasn’t turned out very well for them, and they have egg on their face, to say the least. Michigan hadn’t won a bowl game since 2015 until the Rose Bowl win on Monday. Michigan lost in the College Football Playoff semifinal in back-to-back years heading into the Rose Bowl. There was the narrative that the SEC would steamroll Michigan. There was the dynamic that Nick Saban was the best head coach ever and Jim Harbaugh had no chance of beating him. At some point, Michigan’s biggest detractors who have prestigious jobs in the media should own up to their bias against Michigan and admit they underestimated not only the talent of the Michigan team but the brotherhood within the locker room as well.

The job is not finished Michigan’s accomplished a whole heck of a lot this season, but they still haven’t won their biggest game of the season. Sorry Ohio State, that Michigan-OSU rivalry is huge, but the national championship is substantially bigger. Multiple Michigan players spoke about the team having a Houston or bust mentality the entire season. Houston is where the national championship is being held. Well, now the Wolverines are headed to Houston on a business trip. This week of preparation is huge, as their opponent, Washington, has a prolific offense and a good defense as well. Washington’s undefeated and presents a huge challenge, a challenge Michigan gladly accepts.

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Moar violence asks (7, 14, 21, 22) and Bluebonnet + Feilan asks (3, 9, 16, 17). Feel free to ignore/trim if some/most are too open-ended or annoying.

Violence Asks:

7) what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

RWBY: I can't say I truly hate any RWBY characters (even the ones who are utterly repulsive as human beings are at least decent as characters), much less because of the way the fandom acts about them, but there are certainly characters I like less than I ordinarily would for this reasons. I like Ironwood less because his stans are obnoxious and somehow think his plan would've worked (Team RWBY was right to fight and wrong to evacuate later and I will die on this hill) and that Team RWBY are the villains of the show, I like Jaune less because the Jaune harem people are incredibly fucking weird, I like Taiyang less because people keep insisting that his advice to Yang didn't suck and that Yang's disability arc was written well, I like Sun less because Black Sun shippers are annoying, and I like Blake and Yang less because Bumbleby shippers are annoying, there are so goddamn many of them that even a vocal minority is difficult to escape, and the worst of them will excuse any flaws in the show's writing or criticism thereof because the sapphics kissed and then buy out merch made by a company named after a homophobic slur.

Arknights: I don't like Platinum, and every time I see someone ship her with Nearl or Blemishine, I like her a little less.

Fate: I already hated Emiya Shirou but the way the Fate Stay Night fanbase gushes over him makes me want to run him over with a bulldozer. I also can't stand Waver or Iskandar after a former friend talked them up for years, they never once lived up to his hype, and then he tried to convince me that AI art was a victimless crime.

College Football: I already hated Baylor because of its athletics department's numerous scandals, but their fans are shitty self-centered entitled asshats on top of being mostly Evangelicals. They will forgive anything if the money sports win.

I absolutely despise Penn State for the same reason (scandals) but their fans are fucking horrendous and keep insisting that the head coach involved was a great guy, actually, and that their program didn't deserve the death penalty.

I was actually fond of LSU until they played Texas at DKR and then their players faked cramping/injuries because they were getting gassed and the coach whined about the visitor's locker room being too hot. Then two of their most recent coaches turned out to either have committed or enabled sexual assault, so there's that.

Georgia fans got significantly more obnoxious after they won a national championship, but they were barking at kids even before that, so they've pretty much always sucked.

Iowa state fans were actually tolerable until they had one good season and Texas/OU announced they were changing conferences from the Big 12 to the SEC, at which point they decided to be the whiniest and most annoying of the Hateful 8 despite mediocrity literally being the height of their program's accomplishments.

The Boys: Homelander and Soldier Boy are shitty people and good characters, but every time I see right-wing dipshits idolizing either of them or the newest batch of reader x fanfiction, I hate them both a little more.

14) that one thing you see in fics all the time

I mostly read RWBY fic when I read fic at all, but there's a list of annoying bullshit a mile long and about half of it comes from Coeur Al'Aran. Most of the rest is fanon that gained too much steam, but I really don't want to go into all of it right now.

21) part of canon you think is overhyped

RWBY: Volume 8 was dogshit and I don't understand why people enjoy it.

Bumbleby is overhyped to hell and back as a supposedly-amazing slowburn when I'd give it a B at best in terms of execution. Like very other fucking plotline in RWBY, it suffers from a persistent refusal to align resources and scope, prioritize specific elements of the show, or give anything major the time and focus it deserves. It's fine, though - the fanbase will fill in the blanks with headcanon and then claim that means the writing (that doesn't exist) is brilliant and anyone who thinks otherwise just lacks media literacy, just like they do every other time RWBY's writing fails.

Salem honestly sucks as a villain and simultaneously feels underwhelming and insurmountable at the same time because the writers dropped the ball on Volume 8 so Ironwood and Cinder could be the main villains for some fucking reason.

Arknights: The sociopolitical commentary isn't nearly as deep or incisive as tumblr likes to pretend and frequently fails to grow beyond "capitalism/imperialism/bigotry/Western society bad" like congrats you've identified and portrayed a problem but your solutions frequently either suck or don't exist

The prose is average and also 50% of it is unnecessary. Being obscure is not the same as being good.

Fate Grand Order: All of Lostbelt 5 was overhyped as shit to be honest

Elden Ring in general is overrated as hell and suffers from most of the Standard FromSoft Flaws, but that's more a consequence of the frankly absurd amount of hype it got rather than it being a bad game.

College Football: TCU had one good season with a bunch of Covid super-seniors, I doubt they'll have more than 8 wins this season. Sonny Dykes isn't the next Nick Saban until he actually manages to replicate this level of success consistently.

22) your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

Chapter 7 tells us that Dobermann is afraid of heights and Nearl is a goober who puts too much power into her Arts sometimes.

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OC Asks:

3) What’s something pointless/petty/unimportant that IRRATIONALLY ANNOYS THE HELL out of your OC?

Bluebonnet hates the sound of dripping water it drives her insane.

Feilan 1 absolutely hates it when people beat around the bush and try to play/manipulate him instead of just being forthright about what they want, which is a direct response to several flirtatious women trying to use sex appeal and wheedling to get him to do their bidding

Feilan 2 gets agitated during sparring/combat because his parents have a very active sex life and aren't really careful about hiding it from their children and the various grunts and gasps and shit people make while fighting sound too much like sex noises to him. He's walked in on too much kinky middle-aged fornication to not have hangups about physical intimacy.

Feilan 3 does not like it when people grab him by the wrist. That is a Yang and Ruby zone only.

Feilan 4 hates sushi to the point where being around it forces him to fight not to be violently ill because raw animal protein of any kind reminds him of the way Team RWBY was when he first met them and the fact that he spent a good semester facing the very real threat of becoming food.

9) What would cause your OC to choose to do something petty/pointlessly cruel?

Bluebonnet is generally very sweet and friendly even to people who aren't particularly pleasant, but her inability to Pull Bitches is a sore spot for her. Make fun of her for it and she'll get real nasty, real quick. Also, don't prank her, because she will escalate (though she will be appropriately horrified if she accidentally goes too far).

Feilan: Alcohol is the big one, especially for Feilan 1, and especially if he's drinking because something bad happened to him recently. He has a bad habit of taking out his stress on the closest available target and can get real mean when he's drunk.

Hurt someone he specifically cares about or just innocent people in general and Feilan has no issues with visiting retribution upon you in kind. Do not attack Beacon Academy. It will not end well for you.

On a more lighthearted note, antagonize him or act like a dick and he will respond in kind.

For Feilan 1 in particular, you can add being General James Ironwood or anyone associated with General James Ironwood to the list. Feilan 1 and Jimmy do not like each other at all for a variety of reasons, and Feilan tends to be at his pettiest when dealing with Ironwood and his military. This has bitten him in the ass at least once.

16) How strong or weak is your OC’s Impulse control? What’s the worst thing that happened because of their impulsivity or inability to be so?

Bluebonnet is not impulsive in high-stakes situations like combat (she's a very good soldier/Huntress/leader when the situation calls for it) but is otherwise the embodiment of "fuck it we ball" in social in social situations (she will, for example, happily go on a bar crawl the night before midterms if her friends rope her into hijinks). Bluebonnet lives for Shenanigans and her grades in school suffered for it.

Feilan is not particularly impulsive at all. His stupid decisions are mostly carefully considered and planned out in advance, and normally he can't be impulsive if he wants to survive. The main thing that makes him impulsive is the presence and attention of attractive women.

17) How does your OC sabotage themselves? 

Bluebonnet sees or hears something, thinks "this seems fun!", and then later realizes that it was not, in fact, fun (or that it was fun but also a terrible idea). She mostly has her shit together otherwise, but the big way she screws herself over is via her love life. She's chronically dateless and easily infatuated, and those two things combine to make her very frustrated and prone to tunnel visioning on whatever she thinks will result in a relationship. She will do almost anything she's asked if someone pretty smiles at her and desperately needs a friend around to knock some sense into her at all times.

Feilan gets it into his head that he wants to be a Huntsman despite having no training at age 17 and all his problems arise from there. He starts his stories by finding a way to get into Beacon anyway, but those ways aren't strictly legal and are often very dangerous. The main conflict up until the Battle of Beacon typically involves him trying not to blow his cover. Feilan, stop lying to people. It will be healthier for you in the long run.

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☆ –– (michael evans behling ,he/him, cis man) who is Etan James 'EJ'  Williams anyways? ew. you don’t know about him, we’ll bet you want to. they’re feeling 26 and karaoke feels like a perfect night to them. rumor has it they’re impulsive and childish  because they care, but they’re also fun-loving and optimistic in the best way. he works to make a little money as An NFL Tight End. they’ve rented on a place on cornelia street in the form of an apartment. End game (a) is the song they could dance to the beat of forevermore. (davis, 30+, est,, he/him)

Demographics

Name: Etan James ‘EJ’ Williams 

Age: 26

Sex/Gender: cis man

Ethnicity: Biracial (african american and caucasian)

Occupation: Tight End for the NY Jets 

Socioeconomic status: Wealthy 

Education: Bachelors in Archeology from Penn State

Physical Appearance

Eye color: brown

Skin color: light brown

Hair color: dark brown

Height: 6’4

Weight: 225 lbs

Body type: muscular

Fitness level: peak physical condition

Tattoos: TBD

Scars/Birthmarks: N/A

Disabilities: N/A

Background

EJ was born into a loving family near Philadelphia with an Older brother (WC) and three younger sisters (WC). He's always idolized his older brother and begged his parents to put him in YAFL so that he could play the game his brother loved: football.

He had an extraordinary talent for it from childhood and by the time he was a sophomore in High school he was already being scouted by multiple colleges, he, however, followed his brother to Penn State where they were able to play together one year, just like high school. They won a championship that year and, in combination with his best friend and college quarterback turned current NFL quarterback, he won another two championships his Junior and Senior years in college.

After college he once again followed in his brother's footsteps and was drafted into the NFL at 22 (as #89), going originally to the Arizona Cardinals for a single season before being traded to the New York Jets where he is today, which just so happened to be the team that his college quarterback was drafted to. He doesn't have evidence, but he strongly suspects that his trade was influenced by his best friend wanting his favorite tight end on his team again after being placed in a starting position unexpectedly after the veteran quarterback had a career ending injury.

Now he's been with the Jets for three seasons and they're coming off of a Super Bowl win with high expectations to go all the way again.

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Hey! Anybody else remember Samantha Litten?

It is coming up on ten years ago that the above photo was taken outside of an Orlando, FL, bowling alley. Here’s the story behind it.

The girl in the middle is Samantha “Sammie” Litten. In 1993 she was a Sophomore at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, having transferred from the University of Kentucky. She was a member of the cheer squad at UCF, and at 4′ 7½” tall she was the tiniest girl on the squad.

One day in August after a practice, the cheerleaders decided to go to a local bowling alley . They went there, not knowing that the school’s women’s volleyball team was going to be bowling there as well. Someone noticed the tremendous height difference between the tallest volleyball players (6′ 5″ and 6′ 4″) and petite Sammie, and thought it would be cute to take a photo of the three women, Sanatha staning between the gargantuan volleyball players.

Thephoto went viral at the time, showing up on a slew of sports sites. The three girls appeared on a local TV norning show to share the story of the photo going viral: one of the volleyball players reported that a teammate from Israel was contacted by friend in her home country and tp;d, “Hey, two of your teammates are here on a website with a really short girl”, making it clear the photo had gone viral around the world.

There is sonething about this that I had to wonder about, and still wonder about to this day.

The University of Central Florida has a football team, but it is not exactly known for championship teams (in fact, Samantha’s senior year, the team went winless). The year this picture went viral wa a MAJOR exception. The Knights won games right and left, including  their game against big bad conference rival Penn State. In fact, their only loss that season was a 3-point loss to South Carolina. UCF qualified ti okay in a post season bowl game, and (in what was regarded as an upset) they won against Baylor.

I’m not saying that the school’s 5½-foot-ta;; volleyball players or their 4½-foot-tall cheerleader were some sort of good luck charm. But I have to wonder, the photo caused a lot of people (myself included) to pay a lot more attention to a school that was usually considered an also-ran among college teams. Could all of that attention and positive energy been just what the Knights needed to push them from a “pretty good” team to a championship calibre team?

The above photo spawned a few replies, by the way. Someone photoshopped it to make Sammie the same height as the volleyball players. There was also a photo of the three women in formal dresses as they prepared to take part in the UCF sports banquet that year. The original picture is still on the Internet, though not as much “all over the place” as it was in 2013.

Here’s another photo of teeny-tiny Samantha Litten in a teeny-tiny bikini, holding a REALLY teeny-tiny shark:

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EA COLLEGE FOOTBALL 25 GAMEPLAY SEASON 1 THE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS ACC-SMU AMERICAN-WICHITA STATE BIG EAST-UCONN BIG TEN-NEBRASKA BIG 12-BOISE STATE MOUNTAIN WEST-MONTANA SEC-ALABAMA BCS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP 1 VS 2 ALABAMA VS BOISE STATE-WINNER ROSE BOWL 3 VS 4 NEBRASKA VS SMU-WINNER ORANGE BOWL 5 VS 6 UCONN-WINNER-OT-2 VS WICHITA STATE SUGAR BOWL 7 VS 8 COLORADO VS MICHIGAN-WINNER COTTON BOWL CLASSIC 9 VS 10 BYU-WINNER VS OREGON PEACH BOWL 11 VS 12 LIBERTY VS WEST VIRGINIA-WINNER FIESTA BOWL 13 VS 14 VILLANOVA VS GEORGIA-WINNER SUN BOWL 15 VS 16 MONTANA VS ST.JOHN'S-WINNER-OT-3 GATOR BOWL 17 VS 18 OKLAHOMA STATE-WINNER VS TEXAS CITRUS BOWL 19 VS 20 IOWA VS WISCONSIN-WINNER LIBERTY BOWL 21 VS 22 UCF-WINNER VS USC INDEPENDENCE BOWL 23 VS 24 PITTSBURGH VS SACRAMENTO STATE-WINNER-OT-3 HOLIDAY BOWL 25 VS 26 BUFFALO VS FLORIDA ATLANTIC-WINNER TAMPA BAY BOWL 27 VS 28 MARYLAND-WINNER VS TEXAS TECH PHOENIX BOWL 29 VS 30 ARIZONA VS NAVY-WINNER LAS VEGAS BOWL 31 VS 32 IOWA STATE VS LSU-WINNER ALAMO BOWL 33 VS 34 TCU-WINNER VS ARKANSAS BOISE BOWL 35 VS 36 OREGON STATE VS OLE MISS-WINNER NASHVILLE BOWL 37 VS 38 RUTGERS VS SOUTHERN MISS-WINNER MOBILE BOWL 39 VS 40 TEXAS A&M VS PURDUE-WINNER HAWAII BOWL 41 VS 42 FIU-WINNER VS MEMPHIS CHARLOTTE BOWL 43 VS 44 WASHINGTON-WINNER-OT-1 VS CLEMSON FORT WORTH BOWL 45 VS 46 OLD DOMINION VS NC STATE-WINNER HOUSTON BOWL 47 VS 48 MIDDLE TENNESSEE VS NORTH TEXAS-WINNER BIRMINGHAM BOWL 49 VS 50 LOUISIANA TECH VS VIRGINIA-WINNER ALBUQUERQUE BOWL 51 VS 52 UTAH VS TULANE-WINNER WASHINGTON DC BOWL 53 VS 54 MARQUETTE VS MARSHALL-WINNER-OT-1 NEW YORK BOWL 55 VS 56 ARMY-WINNER VS KANSAS STATE BAHAMAS BOWL 57 VS 58 FRESNO STATE VS UNLV-WINNER BOCA RATON BOWL 59 VS 60 AIR FORCE VS NEW MEXICO-WINNER MONTGOMERY BOWL 61 VS 62 UTSA VS UCLA-WINNER DETROIT BOWL 63 VS 64 VANDERBILT VS IDAHO-WINNER-OT-3 TUCSON BOWL 65 VS 66 SOUTH CAROLINA-WINNER-OT-1 VS CINCINNATI FRISCO BOWL 67 VS 68 MONTANA STATE VS LOUISVILLE-WINNER MYRTLE BEACH BOWL 69 VS 70 VIRGINIA TECH-WINNER VS NEVADA BOSTON BOWL 71 VS 72 OHIO STATE VS TENNESSEE-WINNER LOS ANGELES BOWL 73 VS 74 CREIGHTON-WINNER VS UTEP MIAMI BEACH BOWL 75 VS 76 USF VS BUTLER-WINNER SAN FRANCISCO BOWL 77 VS 78 WASHINGTON STATE-WINNER VS COLORADO STATE SEATTLE BOWL 79 VS 80 HAWAII-WINNER VS BOSTON COLLEGE SILICON VALLEY FOOTBALL CLASSIC 81 VS 82 INDIANA VS SETON HALL-WINNER NEW JERSEY BOWL 83 VS 84 SOUTH ALABAMA-WINNER-OT-1 VS NORTE DAME PICHU LONDON BOWL 85 VS 86 BAYLOR VS ILLINOIS-WINNER JOHNJAKE GAMING BOWL 87 VS 88 ECU VS PENN STATE-WINNER KTO BOWL 89 VS 90 UAB-WINNER VS TEXAS STATE DEAD MEAT BOWL 91 VS 92 MISSISSIPPI STATE-WINNER VS GEORGETOWN BUTLERLION NETWORK BOWL 93 VS 94 GEORGIA TECH-WINNER VS KANSAS OLYMPICS BOWL 95 VS 96 XAVIER-OT-9 VS NORTH CAROLINA

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Texas A&M moves to the top as championship game chaos looms: SEC vibes rankings - The New York Times

Texas A&M moves to the top as championship game chaos looms: SEC vibes rankings  The New York Times College football Week 9 takeaways: Boise State’s CFP chances, Miami’s state title and more  ESPN Joel Klatt releases updated top 10 rankings following Week 9  On3 Mandel’s Final Thoughts: After backup QBs bail out Penn State, Texas A&M, will they stick? – The Athletic  The New York Times College…

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The Big Ten as Westerosi Houses

The Big Ten welcomed its four new members with an updated version of their infamous map commercial, which is a riff on the opening credits of Game of Thrones.  While some schools do not have much history with the century old membership, there are some similarities with the great houses of Westeros.  Below are associations of each football program in relation to the families and groups in George R. R. Martin’s fiction. 

The better version with actual stadiums:

Purdue – House Strong of Harrenhall

The idea of the Big Ten was first initiated in West Lafayette.  Harrenhall was the first large fortress before the Conquest. 

Illinois – House Tully of Riverrun

Lord of the Mississippi, Ohio and Illinois Riverlands.  Descendants of the First Men and the Andals.  

Northwestern – House Frey of the Twins

The Freys resent their overlords in the Riverlands.  Like to tax crossings in Chicago, even though alumni from Illinois outnumber them. Established in 1851 to serve the historic The Northwest Territory in the Neck.

Wisconsin – House Stark of Winterfell

The First Men who won a Big Ten Championship in 1896.

Minnesota – House Bolton of the Dreadfort

It is said that the enmity between Houses Stark and Bolton goes back to the Long Night since Minnesota and those badgers have the longest football rivalry in the nation. 

Michigan – House Lanaster of Casterly Rock

Think they should be Hand of the King and run the Conference as Golden Maize and Blue.

Iowa – House Arryn of the Eyrie

Birds of a feather should flock together.

Indiana – House Velayron of Driftmark

Once proud house whose exploits are better known in the seas called basketball. 

Ohio State – House Targaryen of  King’s Landing

Dominated the Conference since their Conquest and the Ten Years War with Woody Hayes. 

Michigan State – House Greyjoy of the Iron Islands

They do not sow.  Love to pillage on the west coast of Michigan. 

Penn State – House Baratheon of Storm’s End

Thought they would be king when joining in 1994. 

Nebraska – Night’s Watch as Castle Black

The Blackshirt Defense mans the Wall in Lincoln.

Rutgers – House Tyrell of Highgarden

Relatively new lords in the prosperous Reach of New Jersey and York

Maryland – House Hightower at Oldtown

Proximity to the old capital.  Their seal even looks like the globes at the Citadel.

USC – House Martell of Sunspear

Westeros rotated 90 degrees is the size of the USA, thus Dorne is California.

UCLA – House Dayne of Starfall

The Sword of the Morning was forged where a meteor named Lew Alcindor landed. 

Washington – House Mormont of Bear Island

The Pacific Northwest is akin to Bear Island, Longcraw’s pommel was changed to a Huskie. 

Oregon – the Free Folk at Hardhome

Our last addition to the conference is a wilding invasion. 

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So it appears that I could likely be going a game that Michigan State Football could have and should have been taking place in Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan instead in East Lansing, Michigan. Michigan State could have scheduled the game vs. Penn State in East Lansing for the season finale and I'm disappointed in the outcome of the 2023 college football season, but I don't think that the outcome of this season is necessarily everything their fault because it's one thing to get banged with injuries for absolutely nothing, but when you start having Michigan State haters starting and trying to dictate an outcome of just any seasons and prevent Michigan State football from being successful with at least an 11-1 record, that's when I have a problem with Michigan State haters. Michigan State haters hate the fact that I call them out for simply dictating the out of any college football seasons when they clearly should have no roles to do that, so it's their fault for simply putting themselves into that position because at the end of the day it should never be up to the decision for Michigan State haters to dictate every season for Michigan State football because that decision should be left up to Michigan State football fans like myself to decide the future for Michigan State football and if I really want Michigan State football to have Big Ten championship seasons, that's exactly what I expect because I'm so sick and tired of the obstruction that has been taken place. Actually, the point that I'm respectfully trying to make is that I never planned to go to Ford Field to watch Michigan State football play vs. Penn State because if I said yes, then it would've been a different story, but I never told my Dad to purchase the tickets to see a Mediocre 2023 Michigan State football program play a ranked Penn State and even if I were to be asked if I wanted to go, my answer would be a straight no. Why? Because citizen of Detroit were given plenty of and years to think about the consequences of disrespecting me and I should never be in a position to be in a position to be in Detroit just because and My Dad should ashamed of himself for making it seem as of I were to be the one acting funny for simply not being in Detroit. This has absolutely nothing to do with getting out of the house and having fun and I'm going to start calling my Dad out for doing that. Personally, I doubt it's going to be peaceful environment and I believe that it's going that people in Detroit are likely going to mess up their potentially their last chance and it's likely going to be a Black Friday of 2023 to forget rather than remember, so personally it’s clearly a too little too late situation for and in the city of Detroit and when all this is over Tomorrow, people will be instructed to stop talking to me about being Detroit and seriously stop talking to me about having interests in Detroit sports because at the end of the day I refuse to have anything to do with the city of Detroit and Detroit sports and that's IT.

[bongaboi]

Georgia: 2022 NCAA Division I FBS National Champions

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- For so long, Georgia was the flagship program of the really good but not quite great. It produced a few decades of pretty nice seasons ending in pretty nice bowl games played by a lot of really good players dressed in red, white and black. But the Dawgs were always a few steps behind the sport's elite.

They were always one play shy of beating Alabama. Always a few five-star recruits behind Florida. Always a few inches short when measured against the true ruling class of college football, even as the head of that class rolled through different eras and teams, from Miami and Nebraska to Southern California and seemingly every team in the SEC except for the one in Athens, Georgia.

But on a damp Monday night outside Los Angeles, the Georgia Bulldogs didn't simply engrave their names onto the measuring stick by which all other college football programs are measured, they pulled that stick off the desk and beat the TCU Horned Frogs with it. Now, the conversation about Georgia football isn't about what it hasn't been able to do. It's about what it might be able to do that few have ever done before: move past building championship seasons and move into building a championship era.

"I don't know about that word, era; I'm not even sure what an era is," Kirby Smart confessed as he headed from the confetti-covered SoFi Stadium field to the cigar-smoke-filled locker room after winning the College Football Playoff National Championship. "But I know what a great program looks like, a program that is built to last. I was part of four national championships as an assistant coach at Alabama. I know how hard it is to get to the peak of the sport, and I know it is even harder to stay there. I know what the foundation of that looks like. I think we are building that foundation. I hope we are."

Consider it built. Concrete poured, cured and seemingly built to last.

UGA won its second national title in a row, only the fourth team to do so since 1990 and the first in the nine-year College Football Playoff era. It did it via a beatdown the likes of which hasn't been seen in a college football title game of any format in 152 years of college football. Not the 1971 Orange Bowl (Nebraska 38, Alabama 6). Not the 1972 Rose Bowl (USC 42, Ohio State 17). Oklahoma 1985 (25-10 over Penn State). Nebraska 1995 (62-24 over Florida). USC in 2004 (55-19 over Oklahoma). Florida in 2006 (41-14 over Ohio State). Not even the previous standard-bearer for title game dominance: Alabama over Notre Dame 42-14 in the 2013 BCS championship. Miami in 2001, LSU in 2019, whatever comes up while thumbing through the record books … not a single one of those juggernaut teams or lopsided evenings on the gridiron comes close to approaching the 65-7 Bulldogs bulldozing that took place Monday night at SoFi Stadium.

It demoralized the upstart Horned Frogs and sent shivers into the souls of any team hoping to stand in TCU's cleats anytime soon. It was the most lopsided postseason victory since bowl games made their debut in Pasadena, California, in 1902, capping a 17-game winning streak, the longest for Georgia since 1947. The Bulldogs' 29 wins ties the mark for any major college team over a two-season span and is the most ever for an SEC school. Monday's victory rewrote page after page of the college football history book.

"Georgia, obviously you've seen them in the past couple of seasons now, really, they've taken hold of college football." That declaration was made by former Georgia All-American linebacker turned TV analyst David Pollack during ESPN's halftime coverage of the game, when the score was 38-7.

He said it while sitting beside the network's guest analyst for the evening, Alabama coach Nick Saban.

If it's possible to say it, the game was even worse than the score. It was such a throttling that Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett, shortly after tying LSU signal-caller Joe Burrow's CFP title game for points responsible for (36), was pulled from the game … with 13:25 remaining in the fourth quarter.

This is a team that lost 15 -- yes, 15! -- players to the 2022 NFL draft, five more than any other team, and simply reloaded. A defense that was supposed to take a step backward after a 2021 unit that was statistically speaking among the greatest of all time instead limited TCU -- which came into the game averaging 474 yards and 41 points per game -- to 188 yards and one solitary TD. A team that looked emotionally and physically exhausted after a New Year's Eve thriller comeback win over Ohio State in the CFP semifinals responded by embarking on a week of practice that Bennett described in the days leading up to the title game as "a damn reconstruction project."

"You attack every aspect of this as a challenge," Bennett, 25, recalled of the week, quick to praise the UGA scout team that played the role of tough-as-railroad-spikes TCU quarterback Max Duggan. "Now I am done, but I think that those who are still here, and maybe those of us who are gone, have a responsibility to make sure this keeps rolling. Make sure you feel the pressure of keeping up what has been built."

The comment showed shades of those all-time teams that Georgia once chased. The legendary Miami Hurricanes calling out from NFL locker rooms to those youngsters now in their beloved orange and green to ask what happened after a loss to a rival or one that ended a streak. Saban's Alabama veterans showing up to spring practice to talk to their heirs about maintaining the principals of the process.

"That's what we all have to guard against, complacency, and I am talking about coaches, players, even fans, never taking a night like this one for granted," said Smart, who played defensive back on a lot of those good but never great Bulldogs teams of the 1990s. "You have to expect to be in these games and expect to win these games, but you can't assume that it will happen. And I think that's why trying to win a third straight championship will be an even steeper challenge than this one was. We lost so many guys last year and have so many more guys coming back next year. That's more chances for complacency."

It's also more chances to benefit from experience, to lean on been there, done that. More than half of this season's starters were redshirt sophomores or younger. They'll be paired with what will be Georgia's seventh consecutive top-three recruiting class.

Smart is only 47 years old. His former mentor, the guy sitting awkwardly next to Pollack, is 71. The GOAT was fully focused on what was in front of him. Saban always is. "I have hard time watching football because it's always work," Saban confessed the morning of the game. "How would we scheme against this? How are they accomplishing that? And in the case of what Kirby has done at Georgia, that is especially true. That's the greatest compliment I can give any program, that everyone in our business has to watch everything you do."

Yes, there are plenty of cautionary tales when it comes to college football dominion collapses. The transfer portal; name, image and likeness (NIL); an expanded playoff -- the list of what has derailed the mighty and could do the same to Dawgs in the future is ever changing. All of those teams listed earlier, from Miami to Nebraska to USC, have fallen from "they can't be beaten!" to "whatever happened to those guys?" It was just four winters ago when Clemson was playing in its fourth CFP title game in five years, and it has since slowly started sliding from the national conversation.

But even the players and coaches from those ruling-class programs, hailing from every spot along the timeline of college football history, likely spent their Monday night like the rest of us, watching the Georgia Bulldogs and wondering if what we witnessed against TCU might be a lot closer to the beginning of something big than it is to any conceivable end.

"I want to enjoy tonight, and I will," said Georgia's Brock Bowers, the All-American tight end who hauled in seven catches for 152 yards and a TD. He also is one of those sophomores. "But we go back to work as soon as we get home. There is always work to be done."

That's how it goes when you're building an empire.

[gatorsportsfan]

4 reasons Penn State could actually lose to Rutgers on Saturday

Penn State has to pick themselves up after tough defeat once again. It’s a tough position to be in for the Nittany Lions who came into this season thinking that they had a real shot at competing for the Big Ten championship and making the College Football Playoff. But after another horrendous game against a top tier opponent, those dreams are gone and they have two games left in the regular…

[themeatlife]

the Meat Life College Football Preview Part 2 - 2023 Season Preview

Week 0 of the 2023 College Football season is upon us! The offseason was full of conference realignment news, but we are finally going to get some actual football. It will be the final season of the four-team playoff, with next season welcoming a massive 12-team playoff. This will likely also be the final season of the Pac 12 athletic conference, featuring a loaded conference race that should be interesting all year.

Per usual, I'll go over some Heisman candidates, some Power Five Conference predictions, the College Football Playoff predictions, and to close out the outlook for the Oklahoma Sooners this season.

Heisman Hopefuls

The Frontrunner: Caleb Williams - QB USC The Contenders: Michael Penix Jr - QB Washington, Drake Maye - QB North Carolina, Marvin Harrison Jr - WR Ohio State, Blake Corum - RB Michigan, JJ McCarthy - QB Michigan The Darkhorses: Jordan Travis - QB Florida State, Quinn Ewers - QB Texas, Sam Hartman - QB Notre Dame the Meat Life Prediction: Michael Penix Jr - QB Washington

I respect Caleb Williams' talent. He has been by far the most talented QB in the country. But a lot of factors against him here. There has only been Archie Griffin of Ohio State as a repeat winner of the Heisman and that was almost 50 years ago. Also, I'll touch on this later, but Williams and USC are in probably the most competitive conference race in college football this year.

I like Washington's offense with Penix as the triggerman and I think Washington's defense will outperform USC's defense. As much as the QB position isn't related to the defense, the team's success is directly tied to a Heisman candidate's chances to win. And I'm banking on Washington in the Pac 12.

The other candidates, I think Drake Maye will have a great year statistically. Marvin Harrison Jr is going to kill defenses in the Big Ten like he did last year. And the two Michigan guys will get a mention because I think it might be a special year for Michigan this year. I threw Jordan Travis on there as a darkhorse because there's a lot of hype behind him and Florida State. Also Quinn Ewers is on there just to cover my bases. Personally I think Texas might plateau but there will be hype behind Ewers early, especially if there is a good showing against their Week 2 matchup with Alabama. Notre Dame have transfer QB Sam Hartman from Wake Forest providing a lot of experience and big play potential.

Power Five Conference Predictions

ACC

The Frontrunner: Florida State Seminoles The Contenders: Clemson Tigers, North Carolina Tar Heels The Darkhorse: Miami Hurricanes the Meat Life Prediction: Florida State Seminoles

I forgot and most people might have forgotten that Clemson actually won the ACC last year. With the coverage of their offensive struggles, you wouldn't know it. I listed the Seminoles as the frontrunners though, because the national rankings have them ahead of Clemson and FSU has the proven QB returning in Jordan Travis. Clemson will be moving to sophomore QB Cade Klubnik after DJ Uiagalelei transferring to Oregon State (more on that later). Klubnik had mixed results, performing well against UNC in the ACC Championship game but throwing 2 INTs against Tennessee in the bowl game. So I think this will be Florida State's year to win the ACC.

Drake Maye might have a special year statistically for North Carolina, but UNC's defense might hold that team back from winning the conference. And then there is the U. Will HC Mario Cristobal figure things out this season? I think they will improve but not enough to win the conference. With the ACC going divisionless, it gives Miami less of a chance at a conference championship game berth.

Big Ten

The Frontrunner: Michigan Wolverines The Contenders: Ohio State Buckeyes, Penn State Nittany Lions The Darkhorse: Wisconsin Badgers the Meat Life Prediction: Michigan Wolverines

This could be a special year for Michigan. They have won the Big Ten and beat Ohio State back to back years. They have gone to the playoff the last couple years. Now, it'll get interesting with the self-imposed suspension of HC Jim Harbaugh in the non-con schedule for supposed NCAA recruitment violation (Google Jim Harbaugh cheeseburger, good stuff), but I think they will be fine. It is Michigan's conference to lose, and I don't think they will come close to losing it.

Ohio State, once a consistent winner against Michigan, now is a question mark in their biggest game. and the other big contender Penn State usually performs well against Ohio State but struggles against Michigan. Ohio State also has to replace CJ Stroud at QB - they have yet to name the successor. Whoever they name will have tremendous WRs to throw to led by Marvin Harrison Jr.

I put Wisconsin as a darkhorse, I like new HC Luke Fickell. They will be super interesting because they will be installing a new offense with transfer Tanner Mordecai at QB. Mordecai started his college career at OU but made his bread throwing for thousands of yards at SMU. The Big Ten still has divisions, so Wisconsin already rules the West division and will make things interesting in the conference championship game.

Big 12

The Frontrunner: Kansas State Wildcats The Contenders: Texas Longhorns, TCU Horned Frogs, Oklahoma Sooners The Darkhorse: Texas Tech Red Raiders the Meat Life Prediction: Kansas State Wildcats

Is it wild that the Big 12 has had three different winners in the last three years? And they also had a team in the national title game and it wasn't the school that won the conference. For years of Oklahoma dominance, it has been kind of fun watching the conference race the past few years.

As far as Kansas State, they will have QB Will Howard do his best Collin Klein impression (with Klein as his OC!), especially since RB Deuce Vaughn has moved on to the NFL. They have four returning offensive linemen and a ton of experience back on the defense, so they look good to repeat.

TCU was that team in the national title game last year, getting waxed by Georgia. But before then they had a magical season with QB Max Duggan last year. Their biggest question will be replacing Duggan, possibly with Chandler Morris who Duggan replaced early in the season due to injury.

Texas is a contender but I honestly have my doubts. Superstar RB Bijan Robinson moved on to the NFL so it's QB Quinn Ewers' show. Ewers declined in performance when they ran Robinson less last season. Texas has had only one 10-win season in the ten years since Mack Brown was fired and HC Steve Sarkisian has never won 10 games in his coaching career. That can change, sure. But Texas' problem in the post-Mack Brown era has always been performing against teams they are supposed to win against. The big games they are always up for, but the smaller stage they usually have struggled.

I'll get to Oklahoma at the end of my entry.

Pac 12

The Frontrunner: USC Trojans The Contenders: Washington Huskies, Utah Utes, Oregon Ducks The Darkhorse: Oregon State Beavers, Colorado Buffaloes the Meat Life Prediction: Washington Huskies

What a shame. This could be the best season of football in the history of the Pac 12. This could also be the last season the Pac 12 ever plays, with 8 of its members leaving after this season and the future of the rest of the teams in limbo. As far as the football, this conference probably has the most QB depth in the country with Caleb Williams, Michael Penix Jr, Bo Nix, DJ Uiagalelei, and Shedeur Sanders. I picked the Huskies to win as discussed in the Heisman conversation.

I'm probably biased against USC, but they relied heavily on their defense getting turnovers while getting shredded for big yards. That philosophy isn't really sustainable, so I think it might come back to bite them, especially in the big games. USC couldn't beat Utah in two tries last season and the Utes are the defending champs. Utah could be in trouble early this season though, with the health status of QB Cam Rising in doubt the first few weeks of the season. Also quietly QB Bo Nix is having a renaissance and should push the Ducks in contention this year.

I put in Oregon State and Colorado in the darkhorse, one because the Pac 12 is going divisionless for their last year, and two because of the interesting storylines. Oregon State will be starting QB DJ Uiagalelei, freshly transferred from Clemson. The new scenery could be good for him. And I cannot mention Colorado without new HC Deion Sanders. He resurrected Jackson State in his short tenure there, and is planning to do the same in Colorado. They might not be great this season, but it'll be entertaining to see how far they go.

SEC

The Frontrunner: Georgia Bulldogs The Contenders: Alabama Crimson Tide, Tennessee Volunteers, LSU Tigers The Darkhorses: Texas A&M Aggies, South Carolina Gamecocks the Meat Life Prediction: Georgia Bulldogs

Some of the contenders have a lot in common, breaking in new QBs.

The defending conference champ Georgia has the most talent in the toughest conference in America, but they have to replace QB Stetson Bennett who finally graduated and moved on to the NFL. Carson Beck was named the game 1 starter and he'll have a superb supporting cast including all-world TE Brock Bowers. It will be a grind especially getting Tennessee on the road this season, but Georgia is in the driver seat.

Alabama will still have a talented squad, but they will also be breaking in a new QB as Heisman winner Bryce Young has moved on to the NFL as well. HC Nick Saban seems pretty chill for someone breaking in a new QB. Tennessee will also be breaking in QB Joe Milton to replace Hendon Hooker in HC Josh Heupel's high powered offense. It will be year 2 for HC Brian Kelley and LSU, fresh off an SEC championship game berth. They will be a force again.

I put Texas A&M as a darkhorse because of the talent. But they have a similar problem that Texas has where 10 wins are rare and it seems they can only get up for the big games. South Carolina also a darkhorse. I like HC Shane Beamer a lot and they have QB Spencer Rattler coming back after a strong second half of the year last season.

College Football Playoff Predictions

The Frontrunners: Georgia Bulldogs, Michigan Wolverines, Ohio State Buckeyes, Alabama Crimson Tide The Contenders: LSU Tigers, Tennessee Volunteers, USC Trojans, Washington Huskies, Penn State Nittany Lions, Florida State Seminoles, Clemson Tigers The Darkhorses: Kansas State Wildcats, Texas Longhorns, Texas A&M Aggies, Utah Utes, Oregon Ducks, Notre Dame the Meat Life Prediction: Semifinal teams - Georgia Bulldogs, Michigan Wolverines, LSU Tigers, Washington Huskies Championship game - Georgia vs Michigan Champion - Michigan

This may sound crazy given what two-time defending champion Georgia has done, but I think it is Michigan's year. Harbaugh will give a big eff-you to the NCAA by winning it all. They have the most experience in the key positions, particularly JJ McCarthy at QB. They will lean heavily on their RBs Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards. I just think it's time. And for Georgia, it is hard for a team to win three championships in a row - something that hasn't been done since Minnesota in the 1930s. I think Alabama will lose against Georgia in the SEC championship game, catapulting LSU into the CFP. And I'm big on Washington out of the Pac 12.

The 2023 Outlook for the Oklahoma Sooners

In the aftermath of getting burned by Lincoln Riley leaving to coach USC, 2022 was rough for Oklahoma. HC Brent Venables salvaged a recruiting class and got some key transfers but ultimately had a 6-7 season, something that has become very rare for the Oklahoma program. The Sooners just didn't know how to finish games off. In five of those losses were by one score, two of them having the lead at one point in the fourth quarter.

If they are able to figure out how to close games and keep QB Dillion Gabriel healthy (the two games he missed due to injury were blow out losses to TCU and Texas), the Sooners will improve. Now, they have a more capable backup QB in freshman Jackson Arnold, so that should open things up a little bit for Gabriel. Personnel wise, they do have more depth elsewhere as well, particularly at RB (Marcus Major and Javontae Barnes joined by Kalib Hicks and Gavin Sawchuk) and offensive and defensive lines. They will probably have a depth issue at WR replacing Marvin Mims, although they still have Jalil Farooq, Drake Stoops, and Gavin Freeman.

Compared to previous seasons, the schedule does look a little on the weaker side with Arkansas State, SMU, and Tulsa in the non-con and then Big 12 newbies Cincinnati, UCF, and BYU.

If we see improvement, I see the Sooners go 9-3 and contend for a Big 12 Championship Game berth. I would consider that a success and a good season. These things need to be incremental in some cases, and since they are building a foundation over time, I'm willing to be patient. If the Sooners get to 10+ wins, I would consider that beyond expectations and it will be a great building block going into the SEC next year.

But I completely hope they win the Big 12 on their way out of the conference. Let's grab that trophy back!

To the new season! Cheers!

BOOMER SOONER!

[steadhammond]

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