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The AFC, meanwhile, will pit Brandon Weeden, Alex Smith, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Brock Osweiler and AJ McCarron against the Patriots for a Super Bowl bid. My team will almost certainly have to beat 2 of Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers and Carson Palmer to get there. This strikes me as lame.

CMU's coach resigned last year to be a coordinator at Arkansas, and 2 other small conference schools have followed that path since 2013, but it's still unusual. What Lembo and CMU's coach have in common is that they were probably on thin ice the following year if they had stayed.

Not a personal rant, but oh my God, a semifinal in my league just ended in a tie because Stafford took those knees.

I was wildly, absurdly, incredibly wrong about him as an NFL player. Not saying he will do it, but he could win a Super Bowl more or less by himself the way he is playing.

Josh Norman might literally have driven Odell Beckham insane today. Beckham was acting like a pissed off teenager most of the game including launching one of the dirtiest headshots I've ever seen on Norman.

Lots of SEC in that list. The league's move to get into Texas looks more shrewd all the time.

it still amazes me that he went from completely washed up trash that all of us were pissed about them signing to somehow donging all over the place and putting up a 900 OPS We were all pissed that Hendry was doing anything he could to block Felix Pie and then he put up a OPS in Chicago that would've led the league if taken by itself. It was like we'd stolen the pixie dust formula. That was fun.

Sumlin is now saying Murray will be at practice tomorrow. Very strange times in College Station.

I haven't listened to the radio in my car outside of Cubs games basically ever. Google Play music did, however, remove the functionality of picking up right where it left off on the most recent update, which is annoying.

Wait, he's married and has a kid? Count me as knowing neither of those things.

Baseball (and really any sports) jerseys are so damn expensive that I can't imagine buying one for a current player unless he's a slam dunk legend. I ended up just getting a Santo when I finally did get one because I wanted to make sure it would always be relevant.

Being undefeated is fun. Let's keep doing that.

I wonder if they'll retire the helmet rub

I was paying attention in 2013 and have never heard that name in my entire life.

Getting a good piece like Warren makes me feel better about signing Zobrist.

4/56 strikes me as way too damn much for Zobrist. Maybe I'm overly attached to Castro but given their ages are we really looking at THAT huge a difference between their next 4 years?

Obviously his service time was being manipulated, but once he was in AAA to start the season, what exactly should the Cubs have done after Olt's injury to make it look less transparent? Play Buckethead Herrera at third for 2 weeks?

In a weird way I almost prefer the Cubs' history to rooting for teams that won a bunch before I was old enough to enjoy it and now don't as much. It would be nice if they had stumbled into a title somewhere in there though, just so mouth-breathing idiots couldn't crack 1908 jokes all the time and we didn't hear stories about 85 year old grandparents dying without seeing a title.

Gildan New Mexico Bowl in Albuquerque, NM – 12/19, 2 pm (ESPN) New Mexico vs Arizona Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl in Las Vegas, NV – 12/19, 3:30 pm (ABC) (22) Utah vs BYU Raycom Media Camellia Bowl in Montgomery, AL – 12/19, 5:30 pm (ESPN) Ohio vs Appalachian State AutoNation Cure Bowl in Orlando, FL – 12/19, 7 pm (CBSSN) San Jose State vs Georgia State R&L Carriers New Orleans Bowl in New Orleans, LA – 12/19, 9 pm (ESPN) Louisiana Tech vs Arkansas State Miami Beach Bowl in Miami, FL – 12/21, 2:30 pm (ESPN) Western Kentucky vs South Florida Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in Boise, ID – 12/22, 3:30 pm (ESPN) Utah State vs Akron Marmot Boca Raton Bowl in Boca Raton, FL – 12/22, 7 pm (ESPN) Toledo vs (24) Temple San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego, CA – 12/23, 4:30 pm (ESPN) Boise State vs Northern Illinois GoDaddy Bowl in Mobile, AL – 12/23, 8 pm (ESPN) Georgia Southern vs Bowling Green Popeye’s Bahamas Bowl in Nassau, BS – 12/24, 12 pm (ESPN) Middle Tennessee vs Western Michigan Hawaii Bowl in Honolulu, HI – 12/24, 8 pm (ESPN) Cincinnati vs San Diego State St. Petersburg Bowl in St. Petersburg, FL – 12/26, 11 am (ESPN) UConn vs Marshall Hyundai Sun Bowl in El Paso, TX – 12/26, 2 pm (CBS) Washington State vs Miami Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl in Dallas, TX – 12/26, 2:20 pm (ESPN) Southern Miss vs Washington New Era Pinstripe Bowl in New York, NY – 12/26, 3:30 pm (ABC) Duke vs Indiana Camping World Independence Bowl in Shreveport, LA – 12/26, 5:45 pm (ESPN) Virginia Tech vs Tulsa Foster Farms Bowl in Santa Clara, CA – 12/26, 9:15 pm (ESPN) UCLA vs Nebraska Military Bowl in Annapolis, MD – 12/28, 2:30 pm (ESPN) Pittsburgh vs (21) Navy Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit, MI – 12/28, 5 pm (ESPN2) Minnesota vs Central Michigan Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, TX – 12/29, 2 pm (ESPN) California vs Air Force Russell Athletic Bowl in Orlando, FL – 12/29, 5:30 pm (ESPN) (10) North Carolina vs (17) Baylor Nova Home Loans Arizona Bowl in Tucson, AZ – 12/29, 7:30 pm (CampusInsiders.com) Nevada vs Colorado State AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl in Houston, TX – 12/29, 9 pm (ESPN) Texas Tech vs (20) LSU Birmingham Bowl in Birmingham, AL – 12/30, 12 pm (ESPN) Auburn vs Memphis Belk Bowl in Charlotte, NC – 12/30, 3:30 pm (ESPN) Mississippi State vs NC State Franklin American Mortgage Company Music City Bowl in Nashville, TN – 12/30, 7 pm (ESPN) Texas A&M vs Louisville Holiday Bowl in San Diego, CA – 12/30, 10:30 pm (ESPN) (25) USC vs Wisconsin Outback Bowl in Tampa, FL – 1/1, 12 pm (ESPN2) (23) Tennessee vs (13) Northwestern Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl in Orlando, FL – 1/1, 1 pm (ABC) (19) Florida vs (14) Michigan TaxSlayer Bowl in Jacksonville, FL – 1/2, 12 pm (ESPN) Penn State vs Georgia AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, TN – 1/2, 3:20 pm (ESPN) Arkansas vs Kansas State Valero Alamo Bowl in San Antonio, TX – 1/2, 6:45 pm (ESPN) (15) Oregon vs (12) TCU Motel 6 Cactus Bowl in Tempe, AZ – 1/2, 10:15 pm (ESPN) Arizona State vs West Virginia “New Year’s 6” Games: Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl in Atlanta, GA – 12/31, 12:30 pm (ESPN) (18) Houston vs (9) Florida State BattleFrog Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, AZ – 1/1, 1 pm (ESPN) (8) Notre Dame vs (7) Ohio State Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA – 1/1, 5 pm (ESPN) (6) Stanford vs (5) Iowa Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, LA – 1/1, 8:30 pm (ESPN) (16) Oklahoma State vs (12) Ole Miss Playoff: Capital One Orange Bowl Semifinal in Miami, FL – 12/31, 4:30 pm (ESPN) (4) Oklahoma vs (1) Clemson Goodyear Cotton Bowl Semifinal in Arlington, TX – 12/31, 8 pm (ESPN) (3) Michigan State vs (2) Alabama College Football Championship Game in Glendale, AZ – 1/11, 8:30 pm (ESPN) Semifinal Winners

They would have been in anyway. That ridiculous play just freed the committee from being hypocrites about the importance of conference titles.

I think it's $6 million the ACC, who employs all those officials, gets when Clemson gets into the playoff. So Clemson vs Oklahoma and MSU vs Bama is pretty much a lock, I assume. Are you assuming Clemson drops to 2 or MSU jumps OU? The latter. I'd actually have MSU at 2 (they have FOUR better wins than Alabama's best one), but that's irrelevant.

One of the tightest Heisman decisions in a while. Watson, Henry, McCaffrey all deserving, and Dalvin Cook is as good as any of them. McCaffrey should win it, Henry will win it. I would agree on both counts.

I think it's $6 million the ACC, who employs all those officials, gets when Clemson gets into the playoff. So Clemson vs Oklahoma and MSU vs Bama is pretty much a lock, I assume.

22 PLAYS! Unbelievable.

One of the tightest Heisman decisions in a while. Watson, Henry, McCaffrey all deserving, and Dalvin Cook is as good as any of them.