Day: December 20, 2025

Football.

I’m supposed to be locked in on that concept right now, but I am really not. I know Alabama won last night…. Don’t care. I’m more interested in the Gary Sudbrink Calls than I am in anything having to do with the CFP. Heck, I’m far more interested in the outcome of the FCS ‘ship than I am the FBS. Why? It isn’t the money–not directly. It is the concept of who can get in and how. It is Notre Dame opting out of a bowl merely because they didn’t make the CFP and feel aggrieved (despite having a pick a choose schedule and no real conference opponents who know them). It is a Big 4 situation that is increasingly killing what College FBS Football is.

Here’s what is ultimately going to happen: The FBS is going to move to a 24 team playoffs that is superimposed over the existing bowl system in the same manner that the now 12 team system is superimposed. The one thing slowing down the process: Conference Championships. Yeah, its a hot take, but when you really think about how these conferences work and how late in the year the Championships occur, you start to see that it butts up against the bowl system in a way that in obtrusive. There is a lot of money involved, and once we can get that hammered out, the proved 24 team system will prevail.

Why? Because we already have faith in the Top 25 system. Most fans can see number 25 being left off (unless they argue for a play in with #26–which is how March Madness ultimately started to spiral). On the other hand, some don’t want to see that type of competition where ‘Cinderella’ can beat a top team. They don’t want to see James Madison win over ‘Bama or Georgia. They want to feel like their power teams are their power teams. The fact is, their power teams are power teams because of history (read: name recognition) and wealth. If any Billionaire decides to throw a hundred million at a team, that team will suddenly become the best in the nation–being able to pick and choose the best players, coaches, and staff. In two years that team would be unbeatable for the next decade.

Kinda makes me want to go play NCAA26 and find out.

Stepped away from a bit of family time to blog it out, because I know I will forget later. I’m certain that the mood of the eve would likely carry me away from such thoughts and towards my bed… or the crafting table. Still trying to stay away from politics, but the increasingly infantile actions of our president have me twisted. The Patriot Games? Really? Don’t even get me started on the Presidential Walk of Fame. I mean how small of a person did we elect? Seriously, we are in unprecedented partisan territory and even more unprecedented stupid territory. It would be comical if we, as a country, weren’t so damned thin-skinned and gunned up. It hasn’t gone well for anyone but the richest of us so far. I felt that today when I pulled up to what was supposed to be a sushi date and discovered the place (and all of the other stores in the chain) had been raided by ICE. The blasted through the front door, busting the glass, and took people into custody. They effectively shut down the chain.

These were nice people who were running a solid business that gave other people jobs. Instead of a meaningful conversation about the future of the USA, we get this:

That’s where we are at as a nation, folks. Here’s hoping all this crap goes away when he is gone.