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Elsewhere, UCF took down #3 Kansas and Mississippi State took down #5 Tennessee! If Xavier can come back on #4 UConn, the entire top five would have lost to an unranked team in two days. EDIT: Xavier couldn’t do it, but still what a week

Making noise would be incredible, but I just want to win a game! No longer being the only power conference team without a tournament win is all I need. It’s gonna be so weird actually having expectations for this team to do things in March.

13-3 with a dominant win over #1 Purdue. Seven years in, Hoiberg might actually have juice.

CAROUSEL/PORTAL RECAP TIME Here's the new FBS head coaches, as well as notable quarterbacks Arizona: Brent Brennan (San Jose State) Boise State: kept interim Spencer Danielson Duke: Manny Diaz (Penn State DC) Houston: Willie Fritz (Tulane) Indiana: Curt Cignetti (James Madison) James Madison: Bob Chesney (Holy Cross) Michigan State: Jonathan Smith (Oregon State) Middle Tennessee State: Derek Mason (former Vanderbilt coach) Mississippi State: Jeff Lebby (Oklahoma OC) Nevada: Jeff Choate (Texas co-DC) New Mexico: Bronco Mendenhall (former BYU/Virginia coach) New Mexico State: promoted WR coach Tony Sanchez after Jerry Kill retirement Northwestern: kept interim David Braun Oregon State: promoted LB coach Trent Bray San Diego State: Sean Lewis (Colorado OC) Syracuse: Fran Brown (Georgia DB Coach) Texas A&M: Mike Elko (Duke) Troy: Gerard Parker (Notre Dame OC) Tulane: Jon Sumrall (Troy) ULM: Bryant Vincent (New Mexico OC) UTEP: Scotty Walden (Austin Peay) Washington: Jedd Fisch (Arizona) Wyoming: promoted DC Jay Sawvell after Craig Bohl retirement QUARTERBACKS Arkansas State: Malik Hornsby (Texas State) Arkansas: Taylen Green (Boise State) BYU: Treyson Bourguet (Western Michigan) Baylor: Dequan Finn (Toledo) Boise State: Malachi Nelson (USC) Cal: Chandler Rogers (North Texas) Duke: Maalik Murphy (Texas) East Carolina: Katin Houser (Michigan State) Eastern Michigan: Cole Snyder (Buffalo) Florida Atlantic: Cam Fancher (Marshall) Florida State: DJ Uiagalelei (Oregon State) Indiana: Kurtis Rourke (Ohio) James Madison: Dylan Morris (Washington) Louisville: Tyler Shough (Texas Tech) Marshall: Mitch Griffis (Wake Forest) Maryland: MJ Morris (NC State) Miami: Reese Poffenbarger (UAlbany) Miami: Cam Ward (Washington State) Michigan State: Aidan Chiles (Oregon State) Minnesota: Max Brosmer (New Hampshire) Mississippi State: Blake Shapen (Baylor) NC State: Grayson McCall (Coastal Carolina) North Carolina: Max Johnson (Texas A&M) Notre Dame: Riley Leonard (Duke) Oklahoma: Casey Thompson (Texas/Nebraska/FAU) Ohio State: Will Howard (Kansas State) Oregon State: Gevani McCoy (Idaho) Oregon: Dante Moore Jr. (UCLA) Oregon: Dillon Gabriel (Oklahoma) Rice: EJ Warner (Temple) Rutgers: Athan Kaliakmanis (Minnesota) Southern Miss: Tate Rodemaker (Florida State) Syracuse: Kyle McCord (Ohio State) UCF: KJ Jefferson (Arkansas) USC: Jayden Maiava (UNLV) Utah State: Bryson Barnes (Utah) Vanderbilt: Nate Johnson (Utah) Vanderbilt: Diego Pavia (New Mexico State) Wake Forest: Hank Bachmeier (Louisiana Tech) Washington: Will Rogers (Mississippi State) Wisconsin: Tyler Van Dyke (Miami) UNCOMMITTED Chandler Morris (TCU) Drew Pyne (Arizona State) Jordan McCloud (James Madison) Logan Fife (Fresno State) Matthew Sluka (Holy Cross) Taulia Tagovailoa (Maryland) Tyler Buchner (Alabama) Clifton McDowell (Montana)

Welp, close enough. Mich deserved it. They know how turn football games into meat grinding contests. Can’t wait for the inevitable vacation of the title and for Harbaugh to get out of my sport.

Good riddance. We drafted a skill position player in the top 10 for three straight years, splurged on the defense with the most cap space we’ve had in ages, played the easiest schedule in the league and still finished with the same record he had in year 1. Btw those skill position top 10 picks had less than 10 touchdowns COMBINED this year. Gross mismanagement at every level.

Last offensive play of the year was a disaster but respect to the Colts. They got about as far as a Gardner Minshew team could. If Richardson is anything close to what they’re hoping they could be scary.

With the Falcons, it’s weird because my favorite home look is Red/Black/White/Black and my favorite road look is Black/White with Red Numbers/Gray/Red. I’d love having different home and road helmets, but I don’t trust a modern NFL team to behave themselves with that.

I could see the Texans having one Light Blue/Red uniform, like how the Chargers have the navy and royal alts in their closet.

Honestly it should have been Troy. The Fun Belt is top to bottom the strongest G5 conference, except maybe the Mountain West but they’re not inviting 5-loss Boise.

Being in a bar full of Nebraska fans when they added one second back on the clock for Texas was a case of collective PTSD lol Anyways, great final matchup for the four team playoff. The first and the last CFP have been the only ones without an SEC team or a Southern team in general. Pretty rare stuff, fingers crossed we see more of that with 12.

Having the Rose Bowl patch on the jerseys when they already have the graphic on the shoulders was too much. Sad Washington left the gold pants at home.

If Goff doesn’t short arm the throw that final play call was there

Looks really good for a city jersey, but as a fellow fan nothing about it says “Denzel Curry” to me. A black/white color scheme could work for a Ta13oo theme (maybe even with a M1AMI wordmark) or a splash of yellow to pay homage to Imperial. Zuu/Melt Your Eyez have some cool fonts in their covers/alt covers/merch that could also work.

LOVB no longer unique in that regard. Another win for PVL.

I want to shoutout Kansas vs. UNLV in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. UNLV in Grey/Red/Grey, Kansas in Blue/White/Blue. No alternate helmet decals either. Both teams in their best combos is a very rare occurrence these days.

If this actually catches on I could see both Lincoln and Omaha having a team. NU/Creighton is a decent rivalry, although its one-sided. After 92,003, I’m fairly confident in saying this is the biggest volleyball fanbase in the country.

PVF inks a deal with CBS Sports. I was expecting ESPN+, so I’m pleasantly surprised with this.

The dark blue part is subtly the shape of Minnesota. That’s actually pretty good.

It's...fine. If they just came out with this from the jump I'd be more enthused. It'd easily be in the upper half of state flag designs. But the fact that they showed us so many better options makes the final product reek of design from committee. Kind of hard to get jazzed up about this, which makes me wonder if it will even pass.

The Heat lost on the Heat Culture courts for the first time. Hey Heat, if you’re the the hardest working, best conditioned, most professional, unselfish, toughest, meanest, nastiest team in the NBA, why did you blow a 17 point lead at home and lose?

LOVB seems to be making more rounds within the club ranks of volleyball, which is huge with the youth. That USA Volleyball partnership could be massive. Although, I do think PVL has more legs at least right now. Most people around here know who the Omaha Supernovas are. I’m super interested to see what the game atmosphere is like. Athletes Unlimited just never had juice. The format always gave placeholder vibes until something better came along.

Nebraska fan here, volleyball is the best (although not today WOOF at that performance). Hate that there’s two competing leagues tho. I guess people are banking on just the general sport of volleyball over associations to specific teams and I don’t think that’s the right call. We can do both.

Well I guess X is being a headcase again https://m.startribune.com/minnesota-final-state-flag-design-north-star/600328485/ Here’s an article with the winning design concept and potential designs. Solid design, especially state flag wise, but easily one of the most boring potential options. If they were gonna go this route they should have just adopted the Lee Harold flag.