🏈🏈🏈 Fubah2's risky CFB bets

Texas State has loomed for months as the favorite to join the revamped Pac-12 and was prominently discussed in the league's virtual meeting earlier this week. It has been the league's top target for months and is expected to have voting support, as the league's presidents are enamored with a foothold in the state.

Texas State is booming as a university with an enrollment of more than 40,000, and it boasts a lot of tenets of football potential, with a rich local talent base and a rising young coach, G.J. Kinne, at the helm.

  The University of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit Friday claiming that the Miami football team broke the law by tampering with a Badgers player, a first-of-its-kind legal attempt to enforce the terms of a financial contract between a football player and his school.

In the complaint filed Friday, Wisconsin claims that a Miami staff member and a prominent alumnus met with Lucas and his family at a relative's home in Florida and offered him money to transfer shortly after Lucas signed a two-year contract with the Badgers in December.

The lawsuit refers to the athlete in question as "Student Athlete A," but details from the complaint line up with the offseason transfer of freshman defensive back Xavier Lucas. Lucas left Wisconsin and enrolled at Miami in January

The lawsuit states that Miami committed tortious interference by knowingly compelling a player to break the terms of his deal with Wisconsin. 

"While we reluctantly bring this case, we stand by our position that respecting and enforcing contractual obligations is essential to maintaining a level playing field," the school said in a statement provided to ESPN on Friday.

According to the complaint, Wisconsin decided to file suit in hopes that "during this watershed time for college athletics, this case will advance the overall integrity of the game by holding programs legally accountable when they wrongfully interfere with contractual commitments."

The pending case promises to be an interesting test of whether schools can use name, image and likeness deals to keep athletes from transferring even though the players aren't technically employees.

   The Big 12 and ACC have pushed a playoff model, which would award automatic bids to the five highest-rated conference champions, plus 11 at-large bids determined by the CFP selection committee.

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Interesting, clearly they feel behind SEC and BIG 10. 

   Starting QB Jake Retzlaff announced on Friday that he's withdrawing from BYU, formally initiating his transfer process from the school.

Retzlaff's departure comes in the wake of BYU's planned seven-game suspension of him for violating the school's honor code.

That suspension arose after he was accused in a lawsuit of raping a woman in 2023.

Seems reasonable to me

 ATLANTA -- Nine months after hitting "rock bottom" when he was benched at Oklahoma, Jackson Arnold said he's poised to write a much different story this season at Auburn.

The former five-star recruit called last year's struggles with the Sooners "part of the journey" and said he has no regrets about his time in Norman, but his fresh start at Auburn has him feeling far more confident about the future.

AT OU, Arnold was behind by a shaky offensive line, had five receivers out with injuries and was on his third offensive coordinator.

***I expect much better this season

Auburn thru the game with New Mexico st a few years ago.    Nice moneyline hit …. If you were in on the fix.  

I agree here King Fubah and have War Eagle on the rise 

Hopefully!

    The Sun Belt's CEOs voted to invite Louisiana Tech as the league's 14th member Monday morning, giving the conference a replacement for Texas State.

The Sun Belt Conference made the move official Tuesday, saying Louisiana Tech's return will take place no later than July 1, 2027.

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 Thoughts on the Retzlaff transfer to Tulane? At Ole Miss sep 20th 

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Glancing at Georgia’s schedule…..only 3 true road games Tenn, Aub, Miss st 

Must be nice, old boy UGA won’t have to travel far… 

Unaware.  Please fill me in! 

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 Jake Retzlaff left BYU or was sent packing amongst legal allegations of battery and assault against a female and landed at Tulane.  For better or worse I’m not sure on this dude. Tulane has a noticeable early matchup at Ole Miss… good luck with that spot Tulane… trying to gather some opinions on Jake 

jw 

Ahh so....thanks.   Ole should be heavy favs and I expect worth every penny.

Hard to say about Retzlaff.   Escapes the scrutiny/punishment in Utah. 

New start.  Could be refreshing and of course he is a year more experienced, so barring injury I expect Tulane to be very competitive.

FTM, JJ,  I also anticipate only a slight dropoff in offense performance at BYU. They have some good talent waiting to step up.  They won't achieve 11 wins again (maybe 9)  but they should still be very competitive and cover some lines.

 In coming couple weeks I will be posting my Preseason rankings and ratings for all CFB teams within their conferences.

I use multiple sources (Phil Steele is invaluable for data!) but much of my projections are based on my notes from last season on how the teams fared LAST YEAR while integrating new assumptions for this year based on returning coaching, starters, seniors, talent - particularly at QB, OL and DL

 I view those positions the most critical of all bar none. 

Anyone is free to comment