https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/college-football-program-may-turn-090000833.html

KState fb coach retires with $35 million and 7 years remaining on contract

Matt Campbell to Penn State.

Not quite at his peak value, but happy to see him go from an Iowa perspective.

Let's see if he can adapt to recruiting on the biggest stage in an area outside of his comfort zone.

Definitely has the personality/charisma/leadership boxes checked off.

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/sources-penn-state-hires-iowa-state-head-coach-matt-campbell-173934274.html

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Can they really take Alabama over Miami and ND after this lackluster result?  

Miami beat ND, and the best win for ND was over USC.  Bama has a boatload of Top 25 wins and are going to be penalized for getting an extra game compared to A&M Miss OU, etc.

Duke/VA still on tap...could bring JMU into play as well.

 

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/article/georgia-annihilates-alabama-in-sec-championship-possibly-knocking-tide-out-of-cfp-entirely-002357320.html

"With one 28-7 victory, Georgia head coach Kirby Smart rewrote the entire narrative surrounding himself and Alabama. Holding a woeful 1-7 record against the Tide coming into Saturday, Smart deployed a combination of speed, deception, trickery and flat-out bust-your-face football to not just beat Alabama, but humiliate them, too. This is the kind of win that galvanizes a program for the rest of the year, the kind of loss that leaves scars that last across seasons."

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Wow. Indiana pulled it off.

But now, they gotta do it again in the playoffs.

Awesome

Hah. Get fucked Notre Dame.

Rewarding teams for quality losses and predictive metrics is so dumb. Glad the committee came to their senses. Notre Dame simply wasn't deserving.

How when two teams don’t play and no common opponents play the committee can re order is just sad. I won’t argue one over the other but for weeks it was one way and Notre Dame was by far visually better team for last handful of weeks. 
 

Committee is awful - but no surprise. And by the way if Miami was above them the past 4 weeks and it went the opposite I’d say the same thing. Bama got smashed and barely beat Auburn and somehow moved up over 2 weeks. 

Woo hoo Go Canes!

It should have been Miami and ND, not Miami and Alabama, but I'll take it.

If Alabama got left out it would have been the death of Conf Title Games and alot of lost revenue for these conferences where ADs serve on this committee. Follow the money.

I'm happy for my Canes though. 

But imo UM and ND should have been the final 2 on the merits. 

Tarnished Dome got what they deserved. SEC bias alive and well with Alabama getting in.

Edited December 8, 2025Dec 8 by Soxfest

Alabama should have been out, but ND is weak as hell for sitting out the bowls.  

Again, this is the s%*# ruining the college game.

Bowl games should be CFP play in games if they want to keep them around or get rid of them all together. 

JMU and Tulane have no business being in the playoff. 

Miami made it over Virginia to give the ACC a bid.  Bama made it over ND.  They were not going to penalize Bama for playing in conference championship.

ND needs to join  a conference or risk this happening annually.  They have no business making the CFP this year. 

 

 

 

 

17 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

Alabama should have been out, but ND is weak as hell for sitting out the bowls.  

Again, this is the s%*# ruining the college game.

Been saying exactly that. Taking their ball and going home. Such crybaby fans, and apparently the school as well. Teams get screwed every year in a way that benefits Notre Dame, but the one time it happens back to them, it’s an unheard of tragedy.

I’m loving it.

I have a feeling that had Virginia won the ACC championship and gotten in as the conference champion, Miami would have been left out for ND. There's a lot of politics going on behind the scenes. Leaving a P4 conference completely out of the playoffs while letting in 2 G5 schools who are probably gonna get blown out in the first round was probably never going to sit right with the ACC. There's a reason why they had ND ranked ahead of Miami for basically all the rankings up until the last one. I wouldn't say the selection process is completely rigged, but it's heavily favored towards the big programs like Alabama and the conferences that Disney/ESPN has media deals with. The SEC is always going to get favoritism and in this case and I think ESPN's media deal with the ACC probably affected putting in Miami over ND. 

ND definitely deserved to get in over Alabama because Alabama has been straight garbage for the last month and teams that limp to the finish definitely do not deserve to get into the CFP. But, ND should really just not lose to 2 of the 3 good teams on their schedule next time. Maybe this wouldn't be a problem if they just joined the ACC. 

 

1 hour ago, Milkman delivers said:

Been saying exactly that. Taking their ball and going home. Such crybaby fans, and apparently the school as well. Teams get screwed every year in a way that benefits Notre Dame, but the one time it happens back to them, it’s an unheard of tragedy.

I’m loving it.

The sense of entitlement is the reason I was never an ND fan.

It’s like watching a bad call occasionally cost the Chiefs (or formerly the Patriots) a game. Everyone believes it was a bad call, it’s just that nobody cares.

6 hours ago, chw42 said:

I have a feeling that had Virginia won the ACC championship and gotten in as the conference champion, Miami would have been left out for ND. There's a lot of politics going on behind the scenes. Leaving a P4 conference completely out of the playoffs while letting in 2 G5 schools who are probably gonna get blown out in the first round was probably never going to sit right with the ACC. There's a reason why they had ND ranked ahead of Miami for basically all the rankings up until the last one. I wouldn't say the selection process is completely rigged, but it's heavily favored towards the big programs like Alabama and the conferences that Disney/ESPN has media deals with. The SEC is always going to get favoritism and in this case and I think ESPN's media deal with the ACC probably affected putting in Miami over ND. 

ND definitely deserved to get in over Alabama because Alabama has been straight garbage for the last month and teams that limp to the finish definitely do not deserve to get into the CFP. But, ND should really just not lose to 2 of the 3 good teams on their schedule next time. Maybe this wouldn't be a problem if they just joined the ACC. 

 

OU Alabama and Tulsa Mississippi were both terrible games to watch the first time.

Oklahoma fans would have been so excited to play ND at home.

It's ridiculous when teams like UGA and Bama are playing 5-6 times in one calendar year.

Not unlike when Cubs/Sox mid-season battles went from something really meaningful to all about generating more revenue.

5 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

The sense of entitlement is the reason I was never an ND fan.

Ed Farmer would not agree with you.

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/article/acc-responds-after-notre-dame-ad-pete-bevacqua-says-conference-did-permanent-damage-by-promoting-miami-for-cfp-164622071.html

Wouldn't be shocked if ND was pushed into Big10 finally.

Makes so much more sense than ACC for travel/scheduling purposes purely on a geography basis.

And UCLA USC Washington have pulled up the academic side of the ledger as well.  Plus Phil Knight's money/resources/branding out of Oregon.

Sherrone Moore fired for cause at Michigan due to inappropriate relationship with staffer. 

 

Great news for Michigan 

52 minutes ago, fathom said:

Great news for Michigan 

Seriously. Sucks they get bailed out

Moore's contract, signed in 2024, was a five-year deal worth $27.5 million. The buyout figure is 75% of the remaining money on the deal, so the move to fire Moore for cause could cost him even more than the roughly $14 million buyout number.

On ND tantrums

"First, he has reinforced every negative Notre Dame stereotype for so many administrators across college athletics who had largely forgotten how little use they have for the Irish’s addiction to special treatment. Whereas former athletics director Jack Swarbrick wielded a hammer with a hint of charm and a deft touch, it seems Bevacqua’s way of doing business combines Tony Soprano’s hair-trigger temper with Baron Munchausen’s talent for exaggeration. Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark’s strong rebuttal this week was only a taste of what’s being said behind the scenes by people who have long memories and could one day be on a CFP committee themselves."

yahoosports

Edited December 11, 2025Dec 11 by caulfield12

S.Moore now being detained by police for investigation according to ESPN.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/columnists/jeff-seidel/2025/12/10/sherrone-moore-firing-could-work-to-michigan-football-advantage/87708467007/

 

https://www.maizenbrew.com/football/100693/sherrone-moore-michigan-football-head-coach-betting-odds-kalen-deboer-marcus-freeman-jedd-fisch-brian-kelly

M.Freeman deBoer Jesse Minter Joe Brady all getting mentions.

best odds to become the next head coach in Ann Arbor is former Michigan assistant coach and current Washington head coach Jedd Fisch (+450)

Edited December 11, 2025Dec 11 by caulfield12

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/kalen-deboer-michigan-lane-kiffin-024735066.html

The Kalen DeBoer-to-Michigan, Lane Kiffin-to-Alabama scenario that would screw LSU and break college football

Edited December 11, 2025Dec 11 by caulfield12