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Very excited to share this project.
With a lot of reporting, we came up with the estimated roster budget for every P4 team.
They go up as high as $55M and start as low as $8M.
See where your team ranks. And everyone else's.
Read for free:
nytimes.com/athletic/interac…
Long list of schools that bully their student media. But calling the cops on them is next-level stuff.
For @testudotimes, @JudeWilkenfeld and I were outside Jones-Hill House trying to get players to comment. An athletics staffer took pictures of us, and a police dispatch was called for suspicious activity; a cop and 2 cop cars pulled up, and officers ID’d us and asked us to leave.
On the left: A survey @TheAthletic did in 2021 when the CFP was considering expanding beyond four teams.
On the right: Our survey this week off the news of 24.
A little trip down memory lane if you're interested, courtesy @AndyStaples:
nytimes.com/athletic/2569483…
Notre Dame's loss has me already pondering a nightmare scenario.
They lose to Miami, finish 10-2 and finish 12th. Which gets them in over No. 11.
That and more in this week's Mailbag. Free read:
nytimes.com/athletic/7708180…
My colleague @mark_cooperjr conducted a survey of @TheAthletic readers about the 24-team Playoff.
6,318 responded. 90% say they watch CFB every Saturday.
Can't imagine how thrilled ESPN is to be spending $345M on something this popular.
nytimes.com/athletic/7706222…
Anybody who still wonders why Fox puts its best games at Noon, see below.
I had the ND-BYU number wrong in my original tweet, so I deleted it. My apologies. New version below.
Most-watched games Week 7, per Nielsen:
Ohio St-IU 10.4M (FOX)
ND-BYU: 9.2M (ABC)
Bama-Tenn 8.1M (ABC)
Fla-Texas 4.7M (ABC)
PSU-Mich 4.5M (CBS)
FSU-Miami 3.6M (ESPN)
Aub-UGA 3.5M (ESPN)
Wash-Purdue: 2.6M (FOX)
Neb-Oregon 2.5M (FOX)
ASU-T Tech 2.5M (FOX)
Wis-UCLA 2M (NBC)
I had the ND-BYU number wrong in my original tweet, so I deleted it. My apologies. New version below.
Most-watched games Week 7, per Nielsen:
Ohio St-IU 10.4M (FOX)
ND-BYU: 9.2M (ABC)
Bama-Tenn 8.1M (ABC)
Fla-Texas 4.7M (ABC)
PSU-Mich 4.5M (CBS)
FSU-Miami 3.6M (ESPN)
Aub-UGA 3.5M (ESPN)
Wash-Purdue: 2.6M (FOX)
Neb-Oregon 2.5M (FOX)
ASU-T Tech 2.5M (FOX)
Wis-UCLA 2M (NBC)
Stunning news out of Ohio State, where Ryan Day said Julian Sayin is out indefinitely and they're "putting together a plan for him not being available for the regular season and then also him not being available for the postseason.”
nytimes.com/athletic/7707857…
Stewart Mandel retweeted
Why are college football’s most hyped five-star QBs hitting a wall? 📉
• Arch Manning & Bryce Underwood QB crises
• The 24-team playoff hits the 1-yard line
• Week 8 picks & lock-in upset alerts
Join @slmandel @BruceFeldmanCFB @ralphDrussoATH
📺: youtu.be/Zz3tg4O8PuE?utm_sou…
Which college?
Mel Kiper Jr. thinks Arch Manning has ‘got to go back to college for another year’ awfulannouncing.com/college-…
I don’t know if it comes across, but Ballhalla for Game 2 of the Finals is as loud as an SEC stadium on a Saturday night.
Valkyries fans are incredible.
RIP Chuck Amato, who has passed away at 80.
He was a key staff member for Bobby Bowden's FSU dynasty.
And his early 2000s NC State teams with Philip Rivers were so fun to watch. Felt like they played on Thursday night every week.
Deepest condolences to his family.
Notable Oct. 31 TV selections:
Wisconsin-Iowa: Noon FOX
ND-Navy: Noon ABC/ESPN
ASU-Texas Tech: Noon ABC/ESPN
Florida-Georgia: 3:30 ABC
Minnesota-Indiana: 3:30 CBS
ASU-BYU 3:30 FOX
Ohio St-USC: 7:30 NBC
Miss St-Texas: 7:30 ABC/ESPN
Miami-UNC 7:30 ABC/ESPN
NBC announced Ohio State-USC will be the primetime game on Halloween.
It will be the fifth (!) straight USC game on NBC.
Stewart Mandel retweeted
✍️ A year ago at this point, nine teams had fired their coach. This year, it's zero.
After a decade of normalizing midseason firings, we may be moving back to normal coaching carousel timeline.
"Roster quitting is a real thing." nytimes.com/athletic/7693208…
Ohio State or BYU should be No. 1.
Moving Miami up from No. 3 would just be lazy given the wins those two had plus Miami’s schedule to date.
Stewart Mandel retweeted
The Bryce Underwood era at Michigan appears to be over. Underwood owns the results on the field, but the rest isn’t on him. Michigan set him up to fail by turning his recruitment into a spectacle and overpaying a QB to paper over its problems.
nytimes.com/athletic/7699977…
It's that time. Join us.
Can the Hoosiers knock off the Buckeyes? Will Bama bounce back in Knoxville?
Join @BruceFeldmanCFB, @slmandel & @ralphDrussoATH LIVE Sunday to react to Ohio State-Indiana, Alabama-Tennessee, Notre Dame-BYU & more.
🗓 Sunday: 11:30AM ET/8:30AM PT
📺: youtube.com/watch?v=moCygMNN…
It was the wildest Saturday in many years, and it left me with absolutely no idea who's good and who's not.
20 Final Thoughts from Week 7.
Gift link:
nytimes.com/athletic/7700283…
