Let all the Bulldog faithful rally behind the men who now wear the red and black with two words, two simple words which express the sentiments of the entire Bulldog Nation: Auburn Sucks.
As many of you know, I have long desired to make it easier for y’all to share pictures, X/Twitter posts, YouTube videos, etc. in the comments (even, yuk, Facebook if you’re so inclined).
I think I finally have it sorted out. I’ve tested YouTube, X and an image and they all appeared in the comment I posted.
Rules of thumb:
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LINK
ANY link should be pasted on a line by itself. As shown above
To post an image, copy the link from any online image. Make sure that the text from your link ends with .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .png, .bmp, .webp, etc. If there’s anything other than that at the end of the link, it will not show. Delete any extra characters until the link ends with one of those file types listed. Uploading images from your computer or phone won’t work.
X/Twitter is easier, just get the link from the Xpost and paste it on a line by itself.
Same for YouTube, paste the link to a line by itself.
I will post some example comments, feel free to test out in the Comments and get a feel for it. I think I have it pretty much back to how it used to work for us. Fingers crossed X…
There’s been some discussion of GTP Refugees merch. I’m not opposed to doing some things to promote us around here. A couple of days ago, Sanford222view mentioned a sticker for his cooler. As a man with coolers covered in decals, that struck a chord with me, and sounds like a good way to test out getting merch to the readers of this rag.
I priced this out on a website that makes custom decals. For a 3″ x 3″ decal, the cost per would be around $1.50. That’s for a lot of 50 total decals.
If you’re interested, here’s how I would try to handle it: Anyone wanting decal(s) would send me a letter in the mail with, let’s say $2.00 for 1, $3.00 for 2 and a SASE. I could then mail them right back out to you the next day. (If you don’t know what SASE is, one of the old-heads will explain it to you below. đ )
If all goes well, we’ll look at doing a limited run of t-shirts next…
Toss it around in the comments, if there’s enough interest, I’ll pull the trigger.
EDIT: Order has been placed, supposed to arrive next week, once they are here, I will post instructions on where to send payment and SASE.
I responded to one of the comments from earlier about the timing of the Mumme Poll. As Dawg in Austin pointed out, it used to come out later in the season and EE mentioned it didn’t come out until the CFP Committee released them. True, and in the spirit of it I could’ve kept it that way, but let’s not forget that the offseason is for pundits and “professionals” to make their expert prognostications, so why the hell not us?
Case in point, let’s reflect on Josh Pate’s 2025 Preseason SEC QB rankings:
Expert. Chef’s Kiss. I mean, on paper, DJ Lagway was the man. Sellers had incredible upside. Austin Simmons looked like he was the second coming of Bryce Young when he stepped in and shredded the Georgia defense in Oxford when Jaxson Dart left early in the game.
Half of the list now has a new head coach. Four of the QBs have left and moved on to other programs.
Now, one could say “that’s parity”. College football is delightfully unpredictable now, no? That’s how NIL and the Transfer Portal have “leveled the playing field”. Let’s think back to how much has changed in just the short life cycle of this sister companion blog since the Senator’s passing:
Jim Harbaugh won a national championship. He’s now an NFL coach, and the rest of the staff are serving probation. The AD that oversaw this mess was the chairman of the new CFP.
Indiana won a national championship. In football. They won it with a transfer quarterback and a team of guys old enough to be veterans on NFL football teams, and they did it by beating Miami with Carson Beck as their quarterback, after Carson started two seasons with Georgia and was enrolled in Athens since COVID.
Pat McAfee has become the face of ESPN’s Gameday, and he sits next to Nick Saban while doing it. This is a real thing in 2026.
Kirby Smart is the senior football coach in the SEC. The next closest in seniority is coaching at Missouri. The head coach at Vanderbilt currently has a longer tenure than the head coaches at 10 SEC schools.
The B1G has won three of the last national championships, and two of them by teams no one really thought could do it.
Alabama is entering the season predicted to finish 6th, behind Ole Miss, Texas A&M, and LSU.
Notre Dame has a clause in the CFP that gets them automatically in the CFP if they finish high enough, regardless of who they beat or lost to. And they still are Independent, and the richest football program in the country. Some things never change, I guess.
Who knew? More importantly…who the hell knows?
I say all this to say that we might as well rank the teams as we see fit and maybe we have the insight that everyone is missing. Can you crystal ball it? Heck no…the only thing that is guaranteed is that someone or something will screw the whole thing up and give us something that no one saw coming, and the CFP Committee will piss off everyone outside of the B1G.
Who knows, by November, we might be realizing that we all slept on and overlooked the new power coach in college football, revitalizing a program and turning it into a new CFP powerhouse.
It’s 2026. Anything can happen…so please, vote away in the Mumme Poll!
Get to voting. It’s your chance to silence the critics and let the world know that the wisest of football fans come to GTP Refugees, and everyone else can kick rocks.
Vote throughout the day and week and I’ll share the results once the votes are in. Poll closes on Wednesday, August 12th at 10:19 pm. Why 10:19 pm? Because I can, that’s why. And also because I’ll forget and it’ll stay open and I can blame myself for picking an unusual time.
Also, there are two bonus questions for the preseason poll…
Which new SEC Coaches will be most successful in 2026? Also an attached survey on why you think they’ll do well.
Which veteran SEC Coaches will no longer be with the program either during or by the end of the 2026 season? Similar survey on why you think that is included, as well.
Where does that reference come from…a nice Guy Ritchie film I watched years ago.
Well, this isn’t about Ritchie’s best films (for the record, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels is neck and neck with Snatch, in my humble opinion), but it is about something that is in short supply nowadays – paper.
As I mentioned maybe last week, I’ve been going through old boxes and coming across old publications and things I saved over the years. Surprised, I was, at the number of old papers I had saved. Even busted one out when a friend visited and we were reminiscing about being at the 1997 Cocktail Party.
Cool stuff, great memories.
But what’s become a bit of a distant memory…is paper. Actual paper books, paper newspapers, hell, even paper money. I recently rekindled my love of reading books…real books. Not virtual books, the real deal, turn the page and touch paper books. It’s very therapeutic, to be honest.
So…today’s Fodder…what paper thing do you miss? Are you still a connoisseur of the paper touch? Why do you continue to hold fast to traditional feel of things versus caving to the digital versions of what was once commonplace?
Kudos to the rest of the ladies for their composure, but this is just too funny not to share. For what it’s worth, this is probably NAFW, or not appropriate for work.
Man, all I have to say is “screw you, Great Clips”. If I knew this is why everyone was paying three figures for a trip to the Salon, I would’ve signed up years ago.
I recently decided to inventory thirty plus years of storage boxes in my parents basement, and what to my wondering eyes should appear in one of them but this…
I also had several opened where I’m sure I have a complete set…I immediately texted Otis thinking I’d hit a gold mine…until he told me the whole set was going for $20 on eBay. Oh, well, so much for the house in the Keys.
Anyway, this was interesting to see on my feeds:
đ¨ PSA just got hit with a massive class action lawsuit claiming its entire multi-billion-dollar grading empire started with a known FRAUD.
Certificate #00000001 – the first card they ever graded – was a secretly trimmed T206 Honus Wagner.
So, beauty is really in the eye of the beholder, no? Can’t say I’m not surprised. I also came across old piggy banks in my storage collection and started looking for rare quarters and coins that might fetch a pretty penny, and it took me to websites where the value of the coins were dependent upon their condition, interesting stamping flaws, or original die sets. Again, my retirement plans came to a crashing halt almost instantly.
Anywho, for today’s Provoker, what do you collect? Do you have a prized possession…or does the news of the Honus Wagner thing above give you pause that maybe it’s really time to offload those Beanie Babies you thought were going to make you a fortune by dumping them in a trash bag and dropping them off at Goodwill?
Based on the fact that I thought many of our commenters had abandoned the site until I posted Kirbyâs defense of Mike Bobo yesterday, consider that a teaser headline. But it reminds me, sometimes, we may need an emotional support animal to calm us down and bring a smile to our faces, and make us forget the nuanced decisions of our beleaguered signal caller.
Let me introduce you to the latest, greatest internet sensation to bring a ray of sunshine to youâŚJimothy.
— sitka ($jimothy maxxing) (@sitkapetrodolla) July 22, 2026
Jimothy has a bit of a spinal deficiency which makes him squatter and gives him a shortened tail. And despite his typical raccoon habits of nocturnal dumpster diving and thievery, the saga of Jimothy is warming the hearts of the internet faster than Pamela Anderson on dial up back in the day.
If a squished raccoon canât do it for you, though, hereâs some other options.
Quokka
Look at itâŚLOOK AT IT! Itâs cute as hell with a perpetual smileâŚwith a word of caution, though, itâs from Australia which means itâs going to be impossible to smuggle here (note: youâll probably find a whole herd in Florida soon) or as most Outback animals go, itâs probably filled with a diarrhea inducing nerve chemical that will render you into a vegetative state with one bite. You still want one thoughâŚ
The quokka is often called the worldâs happiest animal because itâs always smiling. Found mainly on Western Australia, it feeds on grass and leaves, and is one of the friendliest animals youâll ever meet. pic.twitter.com/oBXnAVEdQ5
If you want a more domestic option, hereâs another idea:
Rabbit
If you ever desired to have a life lesson in what âeffing like rabbitsâ really means, coupled with having your house smell like a horse farm on a hot summer day, get a rabbit. Like gremlins, they reproduce with a little water and will do it in insane numbers. Buy two, and youâll have 20 in a month. And thatâs not the best partâŚthe real horror begins when you discover that rabbits donât really make for great parents. Theyâll stomp out their undesired litters with such disregard that youâll almost forget that they have teeth that are twelve feet long, they chew through electrical cord like you chew through a twizzler, and they will leave holes in everything with one bite, including car fenders. And if you try to pick one up and stop it from doing anything, itâll make a sound so piercing and violent that only Hannibal Lecter would smile.
Tend the rabbits, my ass. Squish them with extreme prejudice, Lenny.
No, maybe something fuzzier and cuter is more your speedâŚhow aboutâŚ
— Nature is Amazing âď¸ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) April 3, 2025
Have you ever wanted an animal that weighs as much as your deadbeat in-law and behaves with similar drunken behavior? As they live in your spare room? Then the Panda is for you. Once an endangered species, probably by their own battles with gravity, the panda is the least threatening of the bear family. Honestly Iâm not even sure that bears count them as part of the family. Menacing? No. Agile alpha predators? No, they eat bamboo and let the sugars ferment until theyâre drunker than a poet on payday. If itâs an alpha predator you desire, hereâs another optionâŚ
Bison
This Bison video going viral is a million times more effective than any communication campaign Yellowstone has ever run to keep visitors away from wildlife.pic.twitter.com/vnfyGHUTf2
Itâs not a Buffalo, you uneducated buffoon. Buffalo are found in Asia or somewhere overseasâŚwe have real deal bison. And if you play your cards right, theyâll play with you and toss you in the air like a ragdoll. That ten foot trip through the heavens will take your mind off Mike Bobo for a while as you strategically try to position your head away from the rapidly approaching ground and try to get to your feet to get away from the sweet animal. And if the short flight in the air isnât exciting enough, the Lifeflight to Grady will make you forget anything and everything about bubble screens and draw playsâŚmaybe forever.
The comments are lit up with a host of Notre Dame and Texass, alongside LSU. Honestly, as much as I detest them, I do believe that Marcus Freeman has quietly created a talent juggernaut in South Bend and has the horses and the easy schedule to do very well this year, though winning it all would go a long way to prove that all that talent will actually translate into results, and not a glorified undefeated season that ends in a CFP loss.
Yes, Texas is overrated, though I don’t know if it’s by their own fans or by the press fawning over Archduke and the Texas “brand”, but, like Notre Dame, it’s hard to ignore all that talent Sarkisian has acquired has to turn into success…eventually. Maybe this is the year. Maybe Manning really had to develop. They don’t have Georgia on the schedule this year, so they have that going for them, I guess.
LSU? Heck, even Kiffin is telling people to temper their expectations, and I’m not sure they are overrated as much as they are overcovered, thanks to Joey Freshwater’s own narcissism and campus exploits.
Me? I think the most overrated team is the one that constantly has had top flight recruiting classes, all the talent in the world, then suddenly wilt under the slightest big game pressure:
Lanning’s biggest win thus far was against Penn State last year, and we know how Penn State actually turned out, so it wasn’t that big of a deal, now, was it? I’ve still yet to see Oregon translate into a true, formidable threat, and for their history of great quarterbacks, their options are a guy who couldn’t get drafted and Dylan Raiola. Yikes.
So how about you…who is the most overrated team heading in to the 2026 season?
