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    The Midwest is the new home of college football national champions

    I'd be happier if one of my teams was in this list of Midwest champs, but still!
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    New NCAA Roster Limits but more Scholarships

    The NCAA will be moving to roster size limits, but removing scholarship limits for the Power 4 schools. Minnesota offers a lot of sports. Will they fund those scholarships? Potential scholarships for baseball, softball and wrestling will explode if the school chooses. I found this article...
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    The future of championship games is in jeopardy - Yahoo Sports

    “How can it be a detriment for someone to play in a conference championship game?” ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said. “If you want to kill the conference championship games, have somebody who is within the top 12 play for a championship and have them fall out and be leapfrogged.”...
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    All Conference: Special Team/Defense/Offense

    I didn't see this posted elsewhere in one place. Congrats to all! Special Teams Dragan Kesich: Kicker of the Year/1st team (Coaches/Media) Mark Crawford: Honorable Mention (Media) Defense Tyler Nubin: 1st team (Coaches/Media) Justin Walley: Honorable Mention (Coaches/Media) Danny Striggow...
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    Should College Football Playoff expand? Coaches at AFCA convention in Nashville disagree

    Patterson believes the conference championship games should be eliminated and become the first round of the playoffs. Excerpt and link follow: "NASHVILLE — TCU coach Gary Patterson said he enjoyed dissecting the College Football Playoff national title game on ESPN’s "Coaches Film Room" show...
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    Wannstedt/BTN Power Rankings

    All I'll say is, really?
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    Meyer & DiNardo on MN Red Zone Defense

    Urban Meyer and Gerry DiNardo with high praise on the Gophers' red zone defense. Good watch.
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    Per ESPN: P.J. Fleck: really good head coach

    Per ESPN: P.J. Fleck: really good head coach "Minnesota just had itself a hell of a week. First, it signed head coach P.J. Fleck to a contract extension just as the coaching carousel tried to swirl his name into rumors. Then, the Gophers went out and scored their biggest win in years (decades...
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    Cheapest pre-game beer options?

    Meeting up with some buddies before the game but not tailgating this week. We're going to try out some of the public options west of the stadium, but I haven't been to any of those for several years. Any ideas what the cheapest beer options are before the game available to the public? Edit: I...
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    PSU after the Franklin era?

    In a little poke to our Penn State comrades, who does Penn State hire after Franklin goes to USC? https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/usc-to-target-james-franklin-for-head-coach-job/ar-AAJNeHA#image=1
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    PSU Potbelly Kicker

    I'll just leave this nugget here. I totally forgot how PSU had a potbellied kicker that made a big name for himself by making splashy tackles against smaller nonconference foes. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.espn.com/core/video/iframe?id=17687526&endcard=false"...
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    Recruiting & Developing NFL Quality Players

    Seems like every thread here lately morphs into a Fleck vs. Claeys argument with all sorts of subjective arguments thrown in the mix. One of the most common quasi-subjective arguments thrown around is recruiting rankings. In the longer term, I think a better metric showing...



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