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It's so strange to think that the Miami/ND thing might happen again this year but in reverse. They were 10 spots apart last week, so there's no guarantee they are considered "in the same group". Miami could easily still be ahead on Tuesday. But then as the season goes along if they both win out and teams drop out in between them, by precedent that would make ND jump them. And then the other story is that the last 2-3 spots in the playoff feel incredibly gettable by a wide range of teams.

Putting together a top 25 rankings list after today is going to be ridiculously hard. I really think there are 10-15 teams in the middle you could put in just about any order.

It's interesting everybody's perspective. Because I will reiterate, 12 teams has reinvigorated college football for me. So many more fun games. I will say, this weekend is kind of the perfect example of both sides though. Ohio State/Indiana and Notre Dame/BYU had more stakes under the old system. Alabama/Tennessee, Missouri/Ole Miss, Mississippi State/LSU, Oklahoma State/Houston all have more stakes under the new system. I do not like the move to 24 teams though. Because with 12 you have a differentiation every 4 teams. Bye teams, home teams, road teams. And the cut line of the 12th/13th best team matters because the 12th best team absolutely has a chance to win the title. Miami got close as the last team in and ND was playing as well as anybody as the last team out. In 24 you only have differentiations every 8 teams, so every seed and the order doesn't matter nearly as much. And plus the 24th/25th best team argument is an argument, but those teams are rarely even coming close to winning the title.

It doesn't surprise me only because I think a lot of voters saw the top 6 as somewhat of a tier that were pretty close to start with. So why not put the team with a loss at the bottom of that tier.

In the NBA because of the explicit BRI split rule, this isn't really the case. The salary cap and other rules like it redistribute money among players, they don't really change players compensation as a whole. I think part of the argument for letting Kawhi mostly slide is that the NBA is arguing that he took less on his contract with the Clippers and was being made whole on the side. Illegal for both sides, but the benefit to the arrangement was mostly on the Clippers side and Kawhi got a lot less benefit out of it, especially when some of the money never showed up. And if they had voided Kawhi's contract, it would have thrown off the competitive balance of the league because he would have signed for peanuts somewhere and been worth way more than that.

Cape Verde already has the moral victory, let's see how long they can keep it going!

As mostly a World Cup soccer fan who has still really loved the action throughout, I can't say I don't feel a little bit of this. I was thinking to myself last night, if the offside rule was a little more lenient in a couple of different ways, it could still serve most of its purpose and yet many of these most exciting plays would become legal.

I think that was 3 actual goals and 4 goals taken away by offside just in the second half.

Almost goals are just as entertaining as actual goals. And boy, did that first half have several of them. Incredibly fun half.

That game had 6 yellow cards and yet was still by far the game I felt like the referees swallowed their whistles the most in this World Cup. It seemed like Curacao's strategy was just to run over everybody and hope the refs kept them in the game and it seemed to work, There were a lot of bodies on the field down the stretch.

It's still strange watching it on TV live. It's only been on TV live in Indy a handful of times in my lifetime.

The race has diminished in importance quite a bit over the last 30 years, but the product has never been better than the last few years. That was an electrifying race all the way through today.

I think the Knicks could beat the Spurs. Not so sure about the Thunder. But I think things are more chaotic in general than ever before. I don't think anything is a foregone conclusion. OKC, Lakers, and Toronto are the only teams left who have won a title in the last 7 years. If anyone else wins this year, it will be 8 different winners in 8 years.

If the Bulls are entering a rebuild, contracts like Williams are exactly the type they should be trading for, not away. Cutting him isn't great asset management either IMO. Just keep him for a couple more years and maybe in the last year of his deal he can be used as a matching salary in a deal if the Bulls are ready for that in their building process by then.

Yup, I think there is a decently high likelihood that the failed physical was somewhat on purpose. The Ravens knew they paid too much and that was their way out. Similar to the Lakers failing Mark Williams last year.