Article on Ohio State buying players. It’s College football in name only at this point. That said, how much do we have allocated to buy players? Can anyone provide a good estimate?

https://www.espn.com/college-footba...tball-20-million-offseason-michigan-motivated

Just like in the free market, brand power will attract the most $$$. Probably only 5–10 teams MAX with any shot at all at a national title.

We have finally reach the 7th and final installment of my annual math-driven college football preview.

In this installment, I dig back through the data and compare is to the current betting lines to look for potentially good bets. As I have stated before, I don't actually bet on sports, but the math and the analysis of the betting lines are super interesting to me. But the accuracy of my predictions is highly linked to the accuracy of the collection of preseason rankings (from Phil Steele, Athlon, Lindy's, SP+, and ESPN) relative to Vegas. Sometime these picks work out and sometimes they don't. The good news (for me) is that I have fun either way.


I hope that you enjoyed this series. This is my second favorite project of the year behind my annual March Madness bracket analysis. Finally, as my title suggests, this piece is also foreshadowing of the week Bad Betting Advice column that I have been writing for a while, both here and as during my stint with The Only Colors.

It's game week, Spartan fans. Let's the games begin.

Down in Tampa, and aside from half my hotel being filled with Cos-play girls over the weekend - I didn’t even know that was a thing, but Y’Bor was bumping.

With that said, the boys of summer took down the Chinese after navigating their way through the losers bracket. They defined toughness and resilience and did it with their backs against the wall in one and done status after dropping down to the losers bracket after the second round.

On top of that, they showed immense empathy at the end consoling the other team who had faked getting hit by a pitch and pretending to be injured by the base runner after dropping the ball. They took the high road instinctively. Got to be proud of those young men.

It's the 20th anniversary of National Dog today. Feel free to drop a picture of your four-legged friend.

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"Founded in 2004 by Animal Welfare Advocate, Author and Pet Lifestyle Expert, Colleen Paige, National Dog Day celebrates all breeds, mixed and pure and serves to help galvanize the public to recognize the number of dogs that need to be rescued each year, either from public shelters, rescues and pure breed rescues. National Dog Day honors family dogs and dogs that work selflessly to save lives, keep us safe and bring comfort. Dogs put their lives on the line every day - protecting our families and homes, for their law enforcement partner, for their blind companion, for the disabled, for our freedom and safety by detecting bombs and drugs and helping to locate and rescue victims of accidents and tragedy."