The SEC is going to bring up Mississippi State's blowout of Minnesota every day for the next year. And they should! 🎧📺 Full show: BunchFormationPod.com
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News: The MAC is moving to a 9-game conference schedule in 2028. The move comes as all P4 conferences have shifted to nine conference games, limiting nonconference opportunities. It's also more MAC inventory for ongoing TV negotiations.
What’s so refreshing about Lanterns is how SO MUCH happens in every episode. Too many shows today exist just to crawl to a second season. Lanterns is all bangers.
🎙 New Bunch Formation: Week 2 reactions - Did Texas win it or Ohio State lose it? - My trip to Round Rock Donuts and College GameDay - Thoughts on a bunch of other games and the Mizzou-Kansas ordeal 🎧📺 Listen/Watch: BunchFormationPod.com
The SEC is going to bring up Mississippi State's blowout of Minnesota every day for the next year. And they should! 🎧📺 Full show: BunchFormationPod.com
🎙 New Bunch Formation: Week 2 reactions - Did Texas win it or Ohio State lose it? - My trip to Round Rock Donuts and College GameDay - Thoughts on a bunch of other games and the Mizzou-Kansas ordeal 🎧📺 Listen/Watch: BunchFormationPod.com
This week's Athletic 138: 1. Texas 10. BYU 21. Oklahoma State 53. North Carolina 70. FAU 135. Rutgers Full rankings (free): www.nytimes.com/athletic/759...
Re-ranking 138 college football teams after Week 2: Texas vaults to No. 1, then it gets weird (Gift Article)
Two weeks into the college football season, it feels like we know nothing. Ain’t it great?
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Sunday Thoughts: I counted six plays where, if any one had gone the other way late, Ohio State would've won. Sayin misses McCuin Muffed punt 4th-and-9 Manning pass Mosley fumble 4th-and-6 Manning plass Missed FG Game of inches. Ohio State couldn't close the door.
✍️ For 378 days + three quarters, Arch Manning couldn't stop thinking about last year's loss to Ohio State. It started the narrative around him. After a 20-point comeback win in the fourth, he's ready to start a new one. "I knew it was our time." www.nytimes.com/athletic/758...
Arch Manning erased 378 days of Texas-sized doubt in one fourth quarter (Gift Article)
Last year's loss to Ohio State haunted Manning for a year. Now he's the owner of a signature comeback. What could come next?
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Micah Alejado getting jacked up? Must be Saturday.
PodKATT@podkatt.bsky.social · 2d agoAlejado got blown up. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a helmet come flying off like that.
Arch Manning says Texas did pregame warm-ups in the indoor practice facility because of the heat.
Sark: "We could be like other teams and play Jones Junior High and win 66-0. I don't know what that does for us. Tonight we found out that we can (win big games)."
Sark on Arch: "I thought (the fluky INT and TD drop) got in his psyche a little bit in the first half. He got back in his rhythm when he went back to playing and stopped overanalyzing and trying to be so perfect. … That was the driving force, his grit."
Steve Sarkisian: "It was an abysmal first half. We challenged our team at halftime to compete."
Texas' CFP hopes now have a high margin for error going into SEC play. That's the value of playing and winning these games. www.nytimes.com/athletic/758...
Texas rallies from 20-point deficit to beat Ohio State in signature win for Manning, Sarkisian
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This is an unbelievable collapse by Ohio State, which led 23-3 in the second half. The 4th down run up 20. Sayin missing McCuin for a TD, the Buckeyes had their chances and didn't close the door.
Ohio State let Texas hang around and it's a one-score game...
Two Texas fumbles on this drive and they've recovered them both. Been inches away from ballgame.
