College Football

With only 35 days left until college football returns, let’s remember Felix Blanchard from Army who wore #35.

United States Military Academy from 1944-1946

• College Football Hall of Fame
• National Champion in 1944, 1945, 1946
• 1945 Heisman Trophy
• Three time All-American
• 1945 Maxwell Award
• 1945 Sullivan Award

With only 36 days left until college football returns, let’s remember Steve Owens from Oklahoma who wore #36.

Oklahoma from 1967-1969

• 1969 Heisman Trophy
• 1969 All-American
• 1969 Walter Camp Award

If you have been following my daily Kickoff Countdown threads, you will know that we are just over a month out from our first college football game of the 2023 season. We are quickly approaching 200 local subscribers (officially the second largest community on fanaticus.social) and it would be great to have a couple more mods here to help me out when the season starts.

If you are a current/past mod of r/cfb or if you are just willing to help me out with this community, please let me know. I am wanting to update the banner/logo before the season, so if you have some graphic design skills or ideas on what we can do please comment below!

I don’t know how much of r/cfb we want to bring over to Lemmy, i.e. user polls/banner updates/etc, but please feel free to tell us how you would like to see this community run for this upcoming season. We don’t have any set rules beyond the Fanaticus instance rules but we may want to start thinking about some before the season kicks off.

We should be able to get some game day bots running, but I don’t know if it is feasible at the moment to do every game for all 120+ FBS teams every week. We will have to share server resources with NFL and MLB game bots unless someone is willing to self-host their team’s game bot.

I look forward to hearing from any and all of you! Hopefully we can make this community a worthy r/cfb replacement!

Kiffin stirring the pot already!

I can’t find an article posting his commitment, but On3 and 24/7 are both reporting that he committed to McNeese State today. He apparently had offers from Alabama, Ole Miss, Texas A&M. I don’t know enough about him or McNeese State to make a guess on why he’s going there. I thought this commitment was interesting if his other offers are real.

With only 37 days left until college football returns, let’s remember Doak Walker from SMU who wore #37.

Southern Methodist University from 1945, 1947-1949

• College Football Hall of Fame
• Two time Cotton Bowl Classic MVP (1948, 1949)
• 1948 Heisman Trophy
• 1948 All-American
• 1947 Maxwell Award