As called by:

Gary Dolphin on Iowa Hawkeyes radio
Sean Kelley on Florida Gators radio
John Sadak on Westwood One

By my math current key Cubs pieces acquired as a result of the sell off: PCA, Palencia, Brown, Alcantara, and Edward Cabrera (via Caissie). Not a bad haul.

Shooting percentage against Iowa when the shot clock is expiring is 1000000%.

Me, an Iowa alum who enjoys pro wrestling reading this article:

Farley, Norm, Ferrell, Hartman

Players are seemingly evaluated based on either their recruiting ranking or their projected draft position. There are GREAT college players that don’t get the spotlight because they get buried under the Draft/Playoff/Recruiting hype machines.

I have recited this quote at least once a week for what feels like a decade.

We continually want to promote teams based on “perceived” talent. Not dismissing what happened last night, but there’s a reason A&M fired Jimbo. Star ratings don’t win games, teams do.

Indiana is catching hell for being Indiana, not their schedule lets be clear. Same resume and it’s Michigan/Wisconsin/USC out of the Big Ten and the conversation is completely different.

If going 11-1 in the Big Ten doesn’t make you “deserving” then just name the 12 teams you want in the playoff in August and this thing can just be college footballs version of the Maui Invitational.

“We wanted you to be the first to know that Steve Cohen and the Mets signed Juan Soto for you tonight”

I’m old enough to remember last year when your starting QB got hurt it was enough to discredit your whole season. This year, it’s just a gritty team win.

Texas-5 v SMU, and ND-7 v Indiana, both instate matchups. Penn St v Clemson is good enough to sell itself (This is a wholly pessimistic view that they are ranking for TV and not performance)

Benetti is the best multi sport broadcaster in America and I’m not sure its close at this point. Pairing him with Klatt would be 1B+ to Fowler/Herbstriets 1A.

Allow me to introduce you to last nights Iowa Nebraska affair…

If you used the same ratio of highest paid QB to highest paid coach in the NFL ($60M/$20M), the highest paid QB in college should be making Kirby’s $13.3Mx3. So the highest paid QB in CFB should be worth $40M/annually. (This is admittedly absurd, but provides some perspective)

2021 Iowa was 10-2, ranked 13th going into the title game, best win was #4 Penn St who wound up going 7-6. They get left out for sure.

Whoever it is, if they take away the MLBtv feature of syncing the radio broadcast to TV I’m not sure I will emotionally recover.