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After a monthslong review, Texas A&M University decided not to bring back the student bonfire tradition it discontinued 25 years ago after a deadly accident, President Mark Welsh III said Tuesday. For decades, students built a 60-foot bonfire every year ahead of football matches between A&M and the University of Texas at Austin. The tradition was suspended after tragedy struck in 1999, when a stack of logs collapsed in the middle of the night, killing 12 people and injuring dozens, some severely. Welsh said reviving the tradition would not be in the best interest of the university. “After careful consideration, I decided that Bonfire, both a wonderful and tragic part of Aggie history, should remain in our treasured past,” Welsh said.
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Just Alabama things, I guess. Fuck that state.
👋 [!cfb@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/cfb) — noticed activity here is low, especially while in season. Prior to my post today regarding UT vs Alabama game, last activity was ~6 days ago. I would like to see this community flourish during the season like it does on the pretender “front page of the internet” site. I would be willing to invest time to automate creation of pre-, post-, and weekly discussion posts. But I don’t want to do that if the community is not active or is not wanted (ie, deemed as “spam”) Lmk your thoughts/opinions/suggestions.
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Texas is back?
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4474186 cross posting for visibility. Come join us at [!cfb@fanaticus.social](https://fanaticus.social/c/cfb) or don't. Up to you really > As always honor system 1 ballot per voter, and do your best to make sure you don't repeat any teams. Pretty standard week 1, with a few big results. Can't wait to see what we think of the standings now. I still plan on trying to get results posted on Wednesday so if you're going to submit a ballot try to do so by sundown on Tuesday.
Fellow CFB lovers, why in the ever-loving-fuck, are we failing to have a legitimate CFB community? I loved r/CFB but without 3rd party apps I cannot contribute during a game or track comments. That being said, how have we not coalesced into an instance that hates our rivals? Praises the beauty of the Disasterpiece that is El-assico and tier 2 Bowls, brings up trivial/non-relevant demeaning facts about our rivals? Where are the petty, the salty, shit-talking masses, and we should be heard in all of our frivolous bullshit. Get everyone here. Let's recreate the beautiful shotftorm that was r/CFB
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4140911 > 1) Georgia 124(4) > 2) Michigan 118(1) > 3) Ohio State 110 > 4) LSU 97 > 5) Alabama 93 > 6) Penn State 90 > 7) USC 86 > 8) Texas 81 > 9) Notre Dame 79 > 10) Tennessee 78 > 11) Utah 78 > 12) Washington 75 > 13) Clemson 63 > 14) Oregon 60 > 15) Florida State 57 > 16) TCU 48 > 17) Wisconsin 33 > 18) Kansas State 32 > 19) Oklahoma 31 > 20) Ole Miss 31 > 21) Texas A&M 26 > 22) North Carolina 20 > 23) Tulane 16 > 24) Oregon State 15 > 25) South Carolina 15 > > Others receiving votes: Duke 14, Louisville 10, Wake Forest 8, Baylor 7, Boise State 4, Iowa 4, Kentucky 4, Maryland 4, Arkansas 3, Mississippi State 3, Iowa State 2,Texas Tech 2, UTSA 2, Illinois 1, Kansas 1 > > Again if you would like more granular results they can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoyR3wPFVjfjPaqWhGqVIqXe9y23l968lFooFHZVZ88/edit?usp=sharing
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4016842 > I will crosspost this to lemmy.world, only fill out one ballot please. Week 0 is in the books, let's see how this shakes up our polling. As previously discussed I will be posting the results on Wednesday of each week. Mods is there an appetite to make the results reflected in the banner?
For those that don't know, there is a sister community over on [fanaticus.social/c/cfb](https://fanaticus.social/c/cfb) that was also relatively empty in the first wave of users and as such we consolidated here as there were a few more active users. However given juan seems to be a phantom and the mods over there are active should we switch community posts back over there? They have a small mod team that's active again and based on yesterday they seem to be willing to put some work into shaping the community. Again as this is the fediverse it doesn't really matter since you can very easily sub to both but since we're small I imagine a little bit of cohesiveness will help things like the c/cfb poll and weekly threads. Discuss Edit: per discussion I will be moving my posts to !cfb@fanaticus.social (also !cfbmemes@lemmy.world) and cross posting them here for visibility
Y'all thought the start of "football season" would end realignment rumors? HA! Though actually, I suspect this one is one or both of Cal-ford trying to put pressure on the ACC, *a la* Yormark courting UConn to nudge the four corners. I can very nearly hear the sarcastic drone accompanying the ACC's wanking gesture.
I think the best way for this to work is for people to post a parent comment for any game they're watching. But honestly y'all can do whatever, I'm not a mod Edit: I would also encourage sorting by new, but ya know, I'm not signing your check
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> > > Amazon.com is in early talks with Walt Disney Co about working on the streaming version of ESPN it is developing, while possibly also taking a minority stake in the sports network, the Information reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. > > I know I'm supposed to be mad and all, but I am pushing for canceling our DirecTV Stream subscription and this could help. We mostly use it for background noise, news, and sports, but TV news is basically repetitive shouting (national) or J-school babies doing their own reporting or undercover ad pieces (local), so if the linear ESPN stuff is on a stream we're down to paying for inertia.
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Stadium still exactly the same tho
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Yormark as a publicity machine is gold. Trash talks with the best, but never quite crosses the line into "AAC is P6" eyerolling.
ONE OF MY FAVORITE WEEKLY'S FROM THE OTHER PLACE. AND I ONLY KNOW ONE WAY TO SEE IF Y'ALL LIKED IT AS WELL. USE THIS AS A PLACE TO VENT FRUSTRATION AT THIS WEEK'S OPPONENT OR JUST WHOEVER YOU DON'T LIKE. I'LL START: I DON'T MUCH CARE FOR ALABAMA OBVIOUSLY I DON'T CARE IF YOU USE 4 LETTER WORDS, JUST PLEASE NO DETAILED CALLS FOR VIOLENCE
0) West Virginia 325(1) 2) Georgia 125(5) 3) Michigan 117 4) Alabama 114 5) Ohio State 112 6) LSU 100 7) Penn State 91 8) USC 88 9) Tennessee 87 10) TCU 69 11) Texas 63 12) Clemson 60 13) Washington 59 14) Utah 57 15) Florida State 50 15) Oregon 50 17) Notre Dame 49 18) Oklahoma 39 19) Wisconsin 38 20) Kansas State 33 21) Ole Miss 26 22) Texas A&M 24 23) Baylor 20 24) Tulane 18 25) Oregon State 17 26) South Carolina 15 Others receiving votes: Iowa 13, BYU 12, Utah State 11, Kentucky 9, North Carolina 9, Auburn 8, Houston 6, Duke 5, Texas Tech 5, Boise State 4, Iowa State 4, Arkansas 3, Mississippi State 3, Louisville 2, Kansas 1, Nebraska 1, UTSA 1 As a professional data scientist, I see nothing wrong with this data. And it can be blindly trusted. A link to the results should you be interested in more detail is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoyR3wPFVjfjPaqWhGqVIqXe9y23l968lFooFHZVZ88/edit?usp=sharing
Vandy is honestly overrated here, Lea has them heading the right way
TL;DR: They're hosed. Would prefer to rebuild PAC, but need Cal-ford, and they're both not talking, presumably heads-down trying to squirm into the ACC and/or B1G. Also considering MWC and AAC, but has been talking to literally everybody. Thinks Fox might have blown up the conference to fend off Apple as a player in the CFB marketplace. Also thinks Apple is pretty annoyed with the PAC schools who left for blowing smoke up their asses about that deal, though frankly if Apple believed there was no other plan, that's on them. Isn't specifically aiming for it, but presumes WSU and OSU will stay together one way or another.
https://piped.video/watch?v=Uz445HqtGw4 > Pac-12 refugees seek asylum within the border of the Big 12.
The audacity to buy food for another living being *clutches pearls*
I know I've already posted this before, but I'm posting this on Monday as I'm thinking this is gonna be my flow for the season. I'll post a link to the poll on Mondays and then the results on Wednesdays. I know that's pretty terrible latency but honestly I doubt we even hit double digit pollsters and this should give everybody time. Link to poll: https://forms.gle/krEKKqMZjbmsWMrm6 Link to results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoyR3wPFVjfjPaqWhGqVIqXe9y23l968lFooFHZVZ88/edit?usp=sharing
With the season starting next week, is there any interest in game threads? I wouldn't expect there to be one for every game, but just make them as needed to house game discussion.
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This is some bullshit, y'all. Bad ranks, bad takes. Spoiler alert, BYU's Penn State knock off in a floppy romper with a scraggly-ass head tops the list.
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I hate Carson Beck. I have no recollection of having seen Carson Beck play or otherwise exist. Both statements are true.
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With Tebow not being able to handle a pair of breasts and Caleb Dressel changing in the stall. Has uf ever produced an athlete that's not embarrasing? No. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
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"Gary Danielson podcast? There are laws against that sort of thing."