Four more years!

Hey, now.  Christmas comes early in 2022!

ACC commissioner Jim Phillips: "The membership of the ACC is very much aligned in its position that now is not the time to expand the College Football Playoff."

There you have it.

— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) January 14, 2022

ACC's concerns regarding CFP expansion include health/safety, length of the season, academics and the NCAA environment. Jim Phillips says he thinks leaders should be focus on reforming college athletics (NIL, transfer portal, etc.), not adding teams to the CFP two years early.

— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) January 14, 2022

I feel something of the death row inmate who gets a last-minute reprieve from the governor.

Thanks, Jim!  Oh — take your time hashing out those more pressing issues.  Sounds like they could take the better part of a decade to solve.

Hey, COVID wasn’t all bad.

Look what that sweet federal money is buying Miami!

Per @Manny_Navarro, Miami is preparing to throw $8M/yr. at Cristobal, $9M to buy him out of Oregon and $7-$8M to buy out Diaz.

Where is the $$$ coming from, you ask?https://t.co/lBlUiSp5XF pic.twitter.com/200VqnucKE

— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) December 6, 2021

Plus, reportedly upwards of $3 million a year to hire their next AD.

College football administration is drunk these days.  Just shit faced drunk.

There’s always blogger manna out there when you need some.

Shot.

Duke has reached a mutual separation agreement w/David Cutcliffe

— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) November 28, 2021

Chaser.

Duke interim head coach is… Trooper Taylor.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) November 28, 2021

Thank you, football gods.

The right playoff format for the right time

If there’s any season to convince college football executives that a 12-team expansion is needed, it’s this one. Especially the ACC.

Wake’s loss likely means no ACC team in the CFP for the first time since its inception.

The league needs 12, not 8.https://t.co/JLmB36DlZd

— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) November 6, 2021

Remember, peeps.  It ain’t about the best.  It ain’t about the deserving.  Playoff expansion is about the money.

And Dellinger’s right.  At some point in time, the ACC commissioner will get his head out of his ass about Sankey hurting his precious fee fees (or his presidents will make him) and vote with his wallet.

Kenny Pickett, legend

When you’re 24, you can say this:

Give him three Heismans pic.twitter.com/DolR5nqnwa

— Dayne Young (@dayneyoung) October 23, 2021

Beat a Clemson team that beat your ass in the last ACCCG, you’re entitled to a tasty malt beverage to celebrate.

A mark of quality

Jesus, ACC, it’s time to get your shit together.

Here's a fun bit from the media guide:
Dating back to Oct. 31 last season, Virginia has won nine of its last 12 games, tied with Wake Forest and NC State for the best mark in the ACC.

— Brian Leung (@TheUVAFool) October 23, 2021

You know what they say about fall weddings…

Holy shit, this blows my mind.

FSU player proposing on the field with Jacksonville St still celebrating in the background. You can’t make this stuff up pic.twitter.com/jeC5GZ45gz

— Andrew Ferrelli (@Andrew_Ferrelli) September 13, 2021

Admittedly, it will make for one helluva story to tell their kids one day.  Not sure it says much about the program’s culture at FSU, though.

The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat

Tell us you’re an ACC program that lost on the last play of the game to an FCS school without saying you’re an ACC program that lost on the last play of the game to an FCS school.

These poor FSU cheerleaders. pic.twitter.com/GnPkAqfnlV

— Michael Casagrande (@ByCasagrande) September 12, 2021

Streaked

This doesn’t sound good.

Assuming this score stands, the ACC will have now lost 13 straight non-conference games vs. Power 5 opponents (+ Ls to Cincy, UCF, Liberty x2, Charlotte and NIU in that span).

— 💫🅰️♈️🆔 (@ADavidHaleJoint) September 7, 2021

No pressure, Vols.

Off to a roaring start

Well, heavens to Betsy, I’m old enough to remember just *** checks notes *** three days ago that Pete Thamel and Dan Wetzel were warning all of us that scheduling hell was about to be unleashed on the poor ol’ SEC.

The new scheduling should create additional marquee games and perhaps increased television money, while potentially squeezing the SEC in non-conference scheduling.

Four ACC teams have annual games with in-state SEC rivals — Clemson-South Carolina, Georgia Tech-Georgia, Florida State-Florida and Louisville-Kentucky. Those games would continue, but there would be a decided lack of available non-conference dates for other SEC teams seeking major opponents.

You mean like this, fellas?

#LSU & USC will meet to open the 2024 season on Labor Day weekend at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, source tells @SINow.

One day after “The Alliance” announcement, the Pac-12’s historic football power finalizes a deal to play an SEC team on ESPN/ABC in Vegas.

— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) August 25, 2021

The cherry on top of that particular sundae is putting the game on ESPN.  That’ll show ’em the Alliance means business!

Sankey: “One of the more curious statements was, ‘The ability to talk to TV partners about reducing conf games & providing more compelling matchups through the alliance.' The great thing about the SEC is every week’s a compelling matchup when we’re playing conf matchups.” https://t.co/eLYLoWtnBE

— Jon Wilner (@wilnerhotline) August 25, 2021

And even when they’re not, it appears.  Curious, indeed.