When KF retires, I’d like Jake Dickert to get an interview. I think he’s a very good ball coach.

#Spoiler So Will the Wise went to Milwaukee for college -presumably Marquette. I take that to mean that Stranger Things and Tommy Boy take place in the same universe and that Will Byers and Tommy Callahan were frat brothers.

On one hand, Michigan State is playing dirty and getting BS calls in their favor. On the other hand, it’s against Nebraska.

Hawkeyes sit at 12 overall. Iowa is 7 in Defense, 10 in Special Teams, and 37 (!!!!!!) in Offense. On a neutral field, Iowa would be a 4.5 or 5 point FAVORITE against Alabama. Let that rattle around in your head for fun.

In the 2025 season, the SEC is 13-12 against teams in the other power 4 conferences and 3-7 against power 4 teams ranked in the CFP top 25.

Indiana-Oregon will be the actual national championship game.

Cignetti is the true heir of Nick Saban.

You can't engineer a fully competitive College Football Playoff. The sport just doesn't work like that. It's why organizing the sport around what happens in the CFP is a mistake. You have to keep the regular season and the rivalries alive. That's where the magic is.

CFP teams with first-round byes were 0-6 heading into this Rose Bowl! "And that concerns me why?"

I wish there was a live feed of Greg Sankey watching this game

Alabama fans are very used to hearing announcers discuss other games and random topics as filler in the 4th Quarter. But. Not. Like. This.

Love the Golds.

Two Nebraska coaches spent the first 3 minutes of halftime complaining to the referees. It apparently paid off.

Completely forgot that Kyler Kasper was on Oregon.

My wife: Nick Saban is just the faculty member who identified the problem (CFB Calendar) and a possible solution. Kirk is the faculty member who just nominated Saban to chair the ad hoc committee. Nobody wants to be the Nick in this analogy. Everybody hates the Kirk.

Schrodinger’s Buckeyes.

Whoever it was at ESPN who decided that the score bug should briefly flash yellow after every play, in the exact same manner it would if there was a flag, should be indicted by The Hague for crimes against humanity.

Uh oh Buckeyes.

I would like Bain to be on the Bears next year.

That win felt as cathartic as any in a long time. What a great end to the year.

Love this so much!

Vandy had Minnesota’s defense. They would have been 7-5 in the Big Ten.

THE IOWA HAWKEYES GO OUTBACK TO TAMPA AND WIN THE RELIAQUEST BOWL BEVEL THOSE HAWKEYES AND HERKY

Nervous level: bubbling nausea.

Why was Jaden Harrell in the game. He has been too slow and out of position all year.

Let’s hold on to this lead now. Slow this game down.

Scratch where it itches!

TOUCHDOWN IOWA

Welp. Everything is awful.

SEC! SEC! SEC! #itjustmeansmore

Iowa as a hosting 4 seed playing the UC-Irvine Anteaters. Texas Tech and Colorado State is the 5-12 matchup. They're in the region with So. Carolina.

Iowa is a 6 seed. Playing the winner of Oklahoma/Butler. Houston as the 3.

This was what my wife and I asked for as a XMas present from my in-laws.

LOL

Nothing says Bowl Season like two conference rivals playing in Alabama for a statue of Vulcan with a bare butt The Birmingham Bowl, aka The Little 🍑 Bowl!

Thank you Brock Purdy!!!!

15 years ago today, in my in-laws’ house still packed with people, only my mother-in-law and I stayed up past midnight to quietly watch Iowa close out a game for the first time all season in the upset of Mizzou. I can still hear Sean McDonough screaming, “Micah Hyde!” Just a fun memory.

My favorite thing about this season of Stranger Things is recognizing that Tiffany and Kate Bush should be treated equally as seminal artists. #JrHighCrush

Jason Eck needs to be the next Badgers coach.

It’s a tie game with 3:36 left. Do not be confused. It is a competitive game. It is NOT a good game.

This Minnesota-New Mexico game is some horrible football.

Watching Joe Labas as CMU’s QB: 1) Iowa was so much better off with Gronkowski this year. 2) There is no way that Labas couldn’t have been better than Deacon Hill in 2023.

Yep.

I am a firm believer in Evan Williams white label bottled-in-bond for mixing. It’s inexpensive, but it holds its flavor well when other tastes get added to it.

Christmas morning

Bruce Springsteen - Badlands "All men wanna be rich. Rich men want to be king. And the king ain't satisfied 'til he rules everything." I'll let you decide at which point America is in now.

Merry Christmas, everybody. Thank you for that time you were just a little bit kinder than you needed to be. Here’s to all of us giving more of those moments.