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.
There was a fairly entertaining game yesterday, featuring ACC powerhouse Stanford hosting Hawai’i. I enjoyed watching it, as well as the 274 fans in attendance, too.
Oh, that wasn’t the only place. Lincoln Riley and the greatest show on Earth came out to a similar crowd at home.
Is this a sign of a waning national interest in college football, or is this just a California thing?
I also heard it was hot.
It’ll be 96 in Athens this coming weekend and I can assure you all that Sanford will be close to capacity, and “it’s hot and humid” may be the reason why folks opt to leave at halftime, but it won’t look anything like this.
Just remember the ACC and the B1G opted to expand to California for improved media reach and competition, and they’re truly getting neither.
Should you choose to challenge the SEC, there will be repercussions, Lane.
For TLDR (Too Long, Didn’t Read) version – the head coach will be suspended half the season, a fine equal to 50% of the sport’s annual budget, and no seat at the voting table.
I can only imagine that Lane is the son that’s been disowned by the greater Saban family tree at this point, and we can’t say that Nick didn’t try to warn us about it.
NEWS: #LSU signees, Dae’Quan Wright, Zxavian Harris, and Junior Tuihalamaka (alongside former Tiger, Jack Pyburn and others) will have a Preliminary Injunction hearing on Monday, August 31 at 1:30pm CT.
Say, now that’s interesting! The NCAA could slap a ban on LSU football from play or invalidate wins because Joey Freshwater conspired against the NCAA? Didn’t this really get started in Oxford, anyway?
If that’s the case and they can prove it, would that constitute “cause” in releasing Kiffin from his LSU contract? While hilarious and maybe a backhanded way for Lane to kill one of Alabama’s rivals and then backdooring his way into the Alabama head coaching position would be a level degree of chess that even I never gave him credit for.
of course this is on the heels of USA Today ranking Alabama the number 2 party school in the US, so maybe Lane had this in the works all along.
One thing of note: just because these guys can’t play in the SEC or B1G doesn’t mean they can’t play in other conferences. That means there’s only one way this can go for the ultimate “hilarity ensues” moment…
The decision making that occurred in bringing Lane Kiffin to LSU, and later to bring back Will Wade in one of the ugliest exits from a program to go back to a program, will be the thing of legends and documentaries once the dust settles. More than anything else, it will possibly make history as case law in litigating modern sports roster management.
First in basketball:
#BREAKING: The SEC is seriously considering banning all LSU sports programs from conference play due to today’s RJ Luis eligibility ruling, per sources.
RJ Luis just took a major step forward in spending the 2026-27 season in Baton Rouge. On Monday, a Louisiana judge granted Luis an injunction, On3’s Pete Nakos has confirmed. Luis now has an avenue to play for Will Wade and the LSU Tigers with an additional year of eligibility.
This is another example of a member of the 2022 recruiting class using the legal system to get back into college athletics. Luis spent three seasons at two different schools, initially suiting up for UMass. But after a year there, he opted to play for Rick Pitino at St. John’s.
Luis thought his college basketball career was over, entering the 2025 NBA Draft. He did not get selected but signed a two-way contract with the Utah Jazz. A stint out West did not last too long, as Luis was traded to the Boston Celtics in August. Unfortunately, just over two months later, he got waived.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey files affidavit against RJ Luis
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey filed an affidavit in an eligibility case involving LSU and former St. John’s star RJ Luis. Sankey called Luis’ attempt to play for the Tigers “a competitive disadvantage and fundamental unfairness,” per ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
“These rules are grounded in the principle that athletics are an integral part of the academic experience,” Sankey wrote. “The rules align the time permitted for college athletics with the pursuit of an undergraduate education and further the important purpose of preserving opportunities for future student-athletes to participate in college sports.”
This is a move we have seen from Sankey before. Back when Alabama was going through the Charles Bediako situation, he opposed Nate Oats getting the big man on his roster. In the end, Bediako was ruled ineligible and his time in Tuscaloosa came to an end.
To date, the rumor has it that Luis would be Wade’s fifth player to join the program.
And he only has five. Like five members on the team, opting to go against the traditional recruiting and transfer route and trying to field a roster of nothing more that former pros to play in the SEC.
It’s certainly a strategy, no? At some point, one has to wonder if LSU is doing nothing more than saying “hey, NCAA, you screwed this up, and we’re going to make a mockery of it until you decide to get a backbone again”. Honestly, I can’t hardly blame them.
Meanwhile, aside from Lane’s decision to bring former pros and Ole Miss players to Baton Rouge, he now is making the news for how the Ole Miss administration had to treat the facilities after his departure.
When Lane Kiffin left Ole Miss for LSU in the middle of a College Football Playoff run, the Rebels did not just change their locks, and erase their white boards and their group texts while the dust settled. They also called the FBI.
Grove Collective executive director Walker Jones laid out the whole thing on the Assorted Crackers podcast, and it is the kind of story that tells you exactly how much trust was left in the building by the time Kiffin was out the door.
“We actually had the FBI come through and walk the building for bugs and for everything,” Jones said. “We knew kind of what was in Baton Rouge, and we knew how they operated.”
Jones said he checked under his own desk for recording devices. The staff ran two separate text threads, held separate meetings, and cut back on hallway conversations to keep information from leaking to the coaches who were either on their way to LSU or considering making the move alongside Kiffin. That certainly is not standard operating procedure for a program getting ready to play in the Playoff.
Kiffin’s antics are having wide-sweeping effects. As of writing this, the B1G and the SEC are meeting to discuss the ramifications of the pros-to-college movement, with the B1G reportedly taking a firm stand of prohibiting this in the conference, with the SEC (naturally) following suite and matching the B1G’s approach and energy with this matter today.
Which is better? The billable hours or the entertainment hours that has come of this?
Somehow, Nick Saban isn’t just looking like a grumpy old man who had his secret sauce stolen in the NIL/Transfer Portal era. Looks like he was right, that this was going to be the outcome of all this in the first place.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back Cole Speer.
Can confirm earlier report by @RustyMansell_ of UGA adding Cole Speer back to their roster…
If you’re going to bring someone back from the 2022 class then it’s smart to have someone who can add experience in the youngest room on the team and bring value on Special Teams
Wondering what happened to the big scores in recent years? The days of marching up and down the field and racking up 63 points against teams? Well, in a word, analytics.
The Miami-Ohio State game was a microcosm of several trends in a sport that is evolving with analytics, technology, longer seasons and closer ties to the NFL. Offenses are as efficient as ever: FBS teams averaged 2.24 points per drive in 2025, the most of the last decade. But overall scoring is down nearly 8% since 2016, from 28.4 offensive points per game to 26.2. Why? Because teams are averaging 7% more time between plays and 11% fewer drives per game.
Clock rules changes, longer seasons, slower offensive tempo and a surprising factor — fourth-down success — have converged to produce longer, slower drives. And in 2025, it gave even a hypertalented offense such as Ohio State’s less time and fewer opportunities to dig out of holes.
“It comes down to efficiency,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day told ESPN. “I remember back when we used to run no-huddle all the time, and [mentor Chip Kelly] and I used to always talk about, ‘When you’re running 85 plays, you don’t have to be as efficient because you get 85 calls.’ It was all signal-based. You didn’t have coach-to-player communication, and the seasons were shorter. Now, the seasons are longer, roster-building is different, maybe we’re not going to have as much depth as we used to have. All those things come into play.”
The article goes on to explain tempo changes, the two minute timeouts, and increases in 4th down attempts (it wasn’t just Kirby) has lead to offensive coordinators changing their schemes and sequencing to include 4th down attempts.
While the trend has lead to fewer offensive drives (nearly two fewer per game), the points per game has decreased by nearly a point only, and plays per game has only decreased by about four.
what does it mean? Well, less back and forth possessions, unless both teams are highly efficient on offense like the Georgia-Ole Miss game during last year’s regular season.
Also, it means that the third down strategy may be changing, which is one of the more frustrating aspects of Bono’s offensive playcalling. What we see as giving up on the first down might actually be setting it up for a fourth down attempt, instead. With the average 4th down attempt rate increasing nearly 10% in the study, it’s easy to see that OC’s in the day of analytics and Moneyball are thinking opposite of the average fan on a third down attempt.
Dammit, Moneyball. That just makes things all the more frustrating.
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How many different P4 teams have you seen play in person?
Quick count for me is around 40. Throw in some G6 teams, it’s way more from my days at Georgia Southern, too.
Now, as a bonus question, which opposing team had the nicest/best fans?
Hands down: Wisconsin. The 1998 Outback Bowl was a fun time and a nice group of people. I could say the same, if I’m being honest, about Notre Dame and Purdue fans, too. Decent folks.
