As we wait for a decision to be made, it’s worth noting that Colts head coach Shane Steichen spent 2014-2019 on the Chargers’ offensive staff, overlapping with Philip Rivers, including time as the team’s QBs coach and interim offensive coordinator.

On a calm, rational Day After Selection Sunday, a couple weekend links: The column on the bracket, the damage from the weekly TV show, the tortured resume comparisons and an SEC championship game that might as well have not been played. bit.ly/44goFY5

The Colts are planning to bring potential Hall of Fame QB Philip Rivers into their facility Tuesday to work out to see if he may join their practice squad, per me & Mike Garafolo. This is real. Daniel Jones’ season is over, Riley Leonard will start, but Rivers may be an option.

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Help!? Lately we (and you, probably) keep getting the attached error when trying to load the Tracker. Anyone know a Félix follower or Edgar nostalgist at Microsoft's Redmond, WA HQ who might be able to help us with this? We've used OneDrive for the Tracker for many years without issue until now.

👀 the Emirates NBA Cup Knockout Rounds bracket ahead of the Quarterfinals tipping off tomorrow night on Prime! Tuesday, 12/9 6:00pm/et: Heat/Magic 8:30pm/et: Knicks/Raptors Wednesday, 12/10 7:30pm/et: Suns/Thunder 10:00pm/et: Spurs/Lakers Who will lift the NBA CUP? 🏆

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

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The Thunder are the first team since the Warriors run where I could see them hitting three in a row.

Holy shit. Madness in Buffalo.

13 yards a carry is some high school football shit.

Rashid Shaheed can fly. That trade is paying off for the Seahawks.

Watching this Bills/Bengals game and I don’t know how anyone would want all NFL games played indoors. And believe it or not that narrative is actually out there.

(on a plane and catching up) Dropping BYU for yesterday but not Alabama is such a perfect chef's kiss on top of all of this. Honestly disgraceful, makes FSU's omission in 2023 look like a picnic

What will the SEC have to complain about now?

Alabama-Oklahoma preview:

James Madison, Alabama and Oklahoma do not belong. Absolute garbage. OU/Bama is going to be an absolute stinker of a game and JMU is gonna get smacked.

I cannot believe Alabama didn’t even move after that garbage performance yesterday

Get the fuck outta here with James Madison. Holy shit that is a waste of a spot and game. Garbage.

Nope. Oklahoma is not worthy.

Georgia should be two.

It should be higher.

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Official announcement on Iowa State turning down a bowl game.

Wins vs. bowl-eligible JMU - 7 BYU - 6 Duke - 5 Bama - 5 ND - 5 Vandy - 4 Miami - 4 Texas - 3 Wins vs. 7+ win P4 Duke - 5 Bama - 5 BYU - 5 Vandy - 3 Miami - 3 ND - 3 Texas - 3 JMU - 0

GC 4. ND 5. Miami 11. Bama 14. Vandy 15. BYU 17. Texas 42. JMU 68. Duke Wins vs FPI top 40 Bama - 7 Vandy -5 Miami - 5 BYU - 4 Texas - 3 Duke - 2 ND - 2 JMU - 0

SoR 9. BYU 10. Bama 11. Vandy 12. Texas 13. ND 14. Miami 18. JMU 54. Duke SoS 6. Bama 8. Texas 22. BYU 24. Vandy 44. ND 45. Miami 74. Duke 123. JMU

This is wild as hell. Just domination by the Buckeyes. That’s either a testament to a great Buckeyes team or an indictment on a soft BIG 10.

Here is my best guess. I don’t believe Alabama should be in but the committee won’t punish them for getting spanked last night, even though they should. Nor do I believe BYU deserves to be in. 1. IU 2. UGA 3. OSU 4. TT 5. Oregon 6. Ole Miss 7. A&M 8. ND 9. Miami 10. BYU 11. Alabama 12. Tulane

Don’t blame the existence of the SEC championship for Alabama’s playoff bid being in peril. Blame Alabama itself, whose performance the last month, not just Saturday, hasn’t been playoff worthy: www.nytimes.com/athletic/686...

As someone who has no dog in the fight, the Duke defender pushed him out of bounds.

You can get rid of the ACC Coastal, but you cannot get rid of the Coastal Chaos.

HOOS!

Texas Tech will get a first-round playoff bye. BYU is out. The committee must decide between Miami and Notre Dame for the last at-large spot -- and perhaps Alabama, if the Tide loses to Georgia and that legendary triumph over 5-7 Auburn comes under further review.

I think we can all just live with one team from the BIG12 Im the CFP. This is a horrendous game.

Duke, scary.

Heavyweight fight in East Lansing.

Gonna be hard to keep eyes on BYU/TT with Duke/MSU on. This is another huge early ranked matchup. This has a Final Four feel to it.

Start the pregame reads with a column on the final Tuesday night rankings, which were an exercise in tortured logic and twisted facts: bit.ly/48ATmIY

It's a Championship Week edition of the Six Pack with picks for: 🏈 Ohio State/Indiana 🏈 Georgia/Alabama 🏈 Texas Tech/BYU 🏈 Virginia/Duke 🏈 Tulane/North Texas 🏈 Western Michigan/Miami OH #TrustTheProcess www.cbssports.com/college-foot...

Jason Candle is expected to more than double his current salary ($1.15M per year) at UConn. His 11 NFL Draft picks at Toledo are tied for the most in the MAC during his tenure.

NEWS: Iowa State moves quick, hires Washington State head coach Jimmy Rogers before Penn State even announces Matt Campbell.

SOURCES: Matt Campbell has accepted the Penn State head coaching job, @theathletic.com has learned. Eight-year deal. (@jonsauber.bsky.social first reported). More here: www.nytimes.com/athletic/686...

We’re an hour away from the conference championship games kicking off. Here’s the SI Live Playoff Bracket reacting to all of the results as at least one CFP gets locked up tonight: www.si.com/college-foot...

Is this about polio since we are apparently trying to make that a thing again?

Gonna have to do a rewatch. It’s a great movie that you sometimes have to be reminded of.

Could easily impeach and remove RFK.

NBA STANDINGS UPDATE ‼️

At Y! Sports: Let the rest of the basketball-discussing world focus on what a future without Giannis Antetokounmpo might look like in Milwaukee. Right now, the Bucks have a more pressing concern on their hands: Figuring out how to navigate the *present* without him. yhoo.it/48kFaVt