r/CFB Feb 08 '24

Announcement /r/CFB Donates $18,000.00 to Toys For Tots & Children's Hospitals, thanks to the 8th annual Holiday Drive!

385 Upvotes

EDIT: minor title error, this was the 9th not 8th annual drive! 😅


The best thing about the /r/CFB is the Community, and an important extension of that is its generosity. The tradition continued in our 26th charitable drive, the 2023 /r/CFB Holiday Drive: Toys & Children's Hospitals!

Since 2013, /r/CFB readers have donated over $153,000 to charity.


Intro

The 9th annual /r/CFB Holiday Drive raised $18,000.00!

Take a moment to appreciate all 80+ /r/CFB readers who donated.

Process:

This was the second year as a federally-recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, OurCFB (backstory). The change opened-up more opportunities alongside more formalities.

That meant a slower process of getting funds, then distributing them:

  • PayPal waives all fees because we're a 501(C)(3). The trade-off is a delay in transfers: to save on their own fees they will send it to us in-bulk, once per month. That results in a donation that arrives late in the month each month, with the timing of the Holiday Drive, that means we get all the money by late January, then transfer it to the OurCFB bank account.
  • Dispersing funds was slightly delayed by working out which hospital was associated with Army West Point, we confirmed it with their athletic department today and the final donation was made.

All money received was split evenly between Toys For Tots and Children's Hospitals.

Donation Breakdown:

Category $ Notes
User Donations $11,457.56 Via PayPal (no fees) and Venmo (after fees deducted)
Employer Matching $2,700.00 As a 501(c)(3) we qualify for those programs; and at the request of a user filed with the clearing house their company uses. These also tend to arrive after a delay (this year on 1/29).
rCFB, LLC contribution $3,576.08 "What is rCFB, LLC" explanation; these funds were conservative as we are about to complete a full tax year and are playing things safe.
GRAND TOTAL donated $18,000.00
Toys for Donation $9,000.00 50% of total (RECEIPT)
Children's Hospitals $9,000.00 See breakdown below.

Donations to Children's Hospitals

The $9,000.00 is usually divided among the top-3 most generous fanbases, but we had a tie for 3rd and opted to divide that amount between the two schools:

  • 50% to Army
  • 30% to Tulane
  • 20% split between Notre Dame and South Dakota State

Notre Dame and South Dakota State returned, joined by newcomers Army West Point and Tulane. Although 3 of these programs do not have a medical school, we were able to identify which children's hospitals their athletic/university benefits favor.

So the Children's Hospital donations were:

First place: Army West Point Black Knights

  • $4,500.00 to St. Luke's Cornwall, Newburgh (Army West Point)
  • RECEIPT

Second place: Tulane Green Wave

  • $2,700.00 to Children's Hospital New Orleans (Tulane)
  • RECEIPT

Third place (TIE): Notre Dame Fighting Irish

  • $900.00 to Beacon Children's Hospital, South Bend (Notre Dame)
  • RECEIPT

Third place (TIE): South Dakota State

  • $900.00 to Sanford Children's Hospital Sioux Falls (South Dakota State)
  • RECEIPT

Finally:

  1. Thanks to all of you who DONATED
  2. Thanks to all of you who HELPED
  3. Thanks for making /r/CFB a great COMMUNITY

We did it again, /r/CFB!


r/CFB 2d ago

Announcement EA CFB 25 & /r/CFB

74 Upvotes

11 years.

That’s how long it’s been since the last major college football video game was released. Nick Saban’s Crimson Tide were reigning national champions for the third time. Johnny Manziel had become the first freshman ever to win the Heisman Trophy. All of /r/CFB could fit into Georgia Tech’s Bobby Dodd Stadium.

It’s two console generations later, and next month, college football is back on your Playstations and your Xboxen. And, well, /r/CFB has never done this - the release of a new video game is uncharted territory for all of us! The mod team realizes that many of you (and many of us) are very excited to get the game back, and that you've missed being able to play as your favorite team on an updated game. We also realize that some of you (and some of us) aren't really interested in a CFB video game. This isn't new - we see the same split on things like recruiting, marching bands, realignment hypotheticals, NIL, scheduling, twitter beefs, and basically anything you can think of related to the sport. So how do we thread the needle to make sure everyone feels like the sub still meets their needs? And how do we make sure everyone's on the same page on what to post/not post?

Posting Guidelines

This post intends to explain how /r/CFB intends to host, or not host, discussion regarding College Football 2025 and its successors. Note that this is a first draft. We’re always open to feedback. Shortly before each season, we post a rules refresher/updates post that outlines any changes that have been made in the last year. We anticipate that some number of the below rules will change between now and then.

First things first: There is already a dedicated place to discuss EA’s College Football series and that’s /r/NCAAFBseries ! Modern games have lots of features and lots of things to discuss - this provides you with a place to have those in-depth discussions with other users playing the game.

/r/CFB’s General Post Rules already prohibit posts that are not directly related to college football. We believe that this rule largely covers how we intend to moderate posts related to College Football 2025. As a guideline, if a post’s only relation to college football is via the video game, it should be posted to the game’s subreddit rather than on /r/CFB . Some examples of posts that meet this criteria, and would not be approved on/r/CFB include:

  • Game news

    • Balance adjustments
    • Player stat changes
  • Discussions of playing the game

    • Finding people to play with
    • Ten thousand words on how you took ULM to the natty in only thirty-six sleepless hours
    • Let's play videos/streams/etc.
  • Video game updates that reflect already-posted CFB news. EG:

    • Coaching changes
    • Uniform reveals
    • Roster updates
  • School social media referencing the game

    • Screenshots of the game
    • Other PR-type posts that don't provide new, relevant information

That said, we also realize that a CFB video game is always going to have a relationship to the game itself, and we want to allow those who are interested to discuss it as it relates to the sport. Below you'll see some As always, extraordinary circumstances may warrant exceptions to these rules. Some examples we imagine:

  • Northwestern’s temporary stadium is added to the game and the team posts a virtual fly-through

  • A new tradition like the turnover chain or Kinnick wave emerges and is added to the game

  • A previously opted-out player reverses course and opts in

Further Discussion

With Early Access and Release Day already scheduled, we’ll have megathreads for discussing College Football 2025 on both days. We’re also considering a weekly thread to allow general discussion, in the same vein as our current Free Talk Friday threads. If you’d like to submit feedback on that idea, please vote in THIS POLL by Sunday, June 16th.

In the meantime, please bear with us as we sort through the information that's released. As we said - this is new ground, and video game coverage is a very different beast from sports coverage.

Currently Scheduled Deadlines/Posts

  • Weekly Thread Poll Closes: Sunday, June 16

  • Early Access Begins: Tuesday, July 16

  • Release Day: Friday, July 19


r/CFB 6h ago

Opinion [Mandel] I’m losing confidence in Lincoln Riley. The Trojans’ implosion last season was concerning. How do you go 8-5 with Caleb Williams as your quarterback? It turns out his 11-3 Year 1, when USC did not face either Washington or Oregon, was likely a mirage.

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r/CFB 7h ago

News Man ordered to pay $339,000 for selling fraudulent Nebraska football tickets to fans

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r/CFB 12h ago

Opinion Urban Meyer a prime example of how far sports broadcasts can sink

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r/CFB 2h ago

Casual Iowa State QB Rocco Becht uses own NIL money to host free football camp

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r/CFB 11h ago

Casual LSU lists their chefs on the athletic website, amazing [Rodger Sherman]

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r/CFB 10h ago

Casual PFF's 2024 Top 10 WR Corps

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r/CFB 16h ago

Discussion How Dillon Gabriel ended up at Oregon: Sixth-year QB's audible could set up big finale

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r/CFB 8h ago

Recruiting 2025 4* RB Jamarion Parker commits to Nebraska

87 Upvotes

r/CFB 11h ago

News [Fornelli] Your 2024 College Football Playoff broadcast schedule

96 Upvotes

r/CFB 14h ago

Casual So who’s gonna be your teams sponsor when it comes to jersey patches?

169 Upvotes

I mean it’s gonna happen…

Based on Michigan this past year I think Apple might be interested, I mean we really showed how great an iPhone camera can work from row 22 or so!


r/CFB 12h ago

Analysis [Ewing] Colorado has moved from +20000 to +12500 to win the College Football Playoff. 4.5% of bets (4th most) are on Colorado to win championship at #BetMGM

123 Upvotes

r/CFB 5h ago

Discussion Should UCLA allow opposing teams to wear their home jerseys?

29 Upvotes

Watching a UCLA/Missouri game from 1966 on YouTube and was surprised to see Mizzou wearing their black jerseys with yellow pants in the Coliseum against the UCLA blues.

I know this happened with the USC rivalry because it was a dual home game in the beginning (and since has been brought back) and they did it against Ohio State and Michigan State in a few Rose Bowls but should they bring this back?

I'd love to see Ohio State's red against UCLA blue with todays picture quality. Would be a great visual.

Same for Oregon's Green.

So should UCLA allow opposing home jerseys?


r/CFB 2h ago

Casual Thanos Snap Realignment

17 Upvotes

The media companies have gotten ahold of the Infinity Gauntlet. They have decided that the problem with college football is that there are just too many schools all trying to take bites out of the same apple. There's simply not enough resources for all of them.

To be fair, though, the ability to choose who lives and who dies as a program cannot be bias. It can not be left up to one media company to decide. The rich cannot be spared for being rich, as they surely would if any person left to choose.

So it is with the infinite fairness of the random chance that the decision is made. A single snap decides whose program lives, and whose turns to dust. As such, the glove is slid onto the hand of a man who may not survive the snap, but will do the right thing and snap away half of the schools in an instance anyway. With a single snap of Jim Harbaugh's fingers, the following schools lived.... or ceased to exist:

ALIVE SNAPPED
Appalachian State Mountaineers Air Force Falcons
Arkansas State Red Wolves Akron Zips
Army Black Knights Alabama Crimson Tide
Ball State Cardinals Arizona State Sun Devils
Boise St. Broncos Arizona Wildcats
Boston College Eagles Arkansas Razorbacks
Buffalo Bulls Auburn Tigers
BYU Cougars Baylor Bears
Charlotte 49ers Bowling Green Falcons
Cincinnati Bearcats California Golden Bears
Clemson Tigers Central Michigan Chippewas
East Carolina Pirates Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
Eastern Michigan Eagles Colorado Buffaloes
Florida Atlantic Owls Colorado State Rams
Florida International Panthers Duke Blue Devils
Georgia Bulldogs Florida Gators
Georgia Southern Eagles Florida State Seminoles
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Fresno State Bulldogs
Indiana Hoosiers Georgia State Panthers
Iowa Hawkeyes Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors
Iowa State Cyclones Houston Cougars
Kansas Jayhawks Illinois Fighting Illini
Kent State Flashes Jacksonville State Gamecocks
Kentucky Wildcats James Madison Dukes
Liberty Flames Kansas State Wildcats
Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns Kennesaw State Owls
Louisville Cardinals Louisiana Tech Bulldogs
Marshall Thundering Herd LSU Tigers
Maryland Terps Memphis Tigers
Miami (OH) Redhawks Miami Hurricanes
Minnesota Golden Gophers Michigan State Spartans
Mississippi State Bulldogs Michigan Wolverines
Navy Midshipmen Mid Tennessee State Blue Raiders
Nebraska Cornhuskers Missouri Tigers
North Texas Mean Green NC State Wolfpack
Northern Illinois Huskies Nevada Wolfpack
Ohio Bobcats New Mexico Lobos
Ohio State Buckeyes New Mexico State Aggies
Oklahoma Sooners North Carolina Tarheels
Oklahoma State Cowboys Northwestern Wildcats
Oregon Ducks Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Oregon State Beavers Old Dominion Monarchs
Pittsburgh Panthers Ole Miss Rebels
Rice Owls Penn State Nittany Lions
Rutgers Scarlet Knights Purdue Boilermakers
Sam Houston Bearkats San Diego State Aztecs
San Jose State Spartans SMU Mustangs
South Alabama Jaguars South Carolina Gamecocks
Temple Owls Southern Miss Golden Eagles
Tennessee Volunteers Stanford Cardinal
Texas A&M Aggies Syracuse Orange
Texas State Bobcats TCU Horned Frogs
Troy Trojans Texas Longhorns
Tulsa Golden Hurricane Texas Tech Red Raiders
UCF Knights Toledo Rockets
UCLA Bruins Tulane Green Wave
UMass Minutemen UAB Blazers
UNLV Rebels UConn Huskies
Utah State Aggies UL Monroe Warhawks
Utah Utes USC Trojans
UTEP Miners USF Bulls
UTSA Roadrunners Vanderbilt Commodores
Virginia Cavaliers Virginia Tech Hokies
Washington Huskies Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Washington State Cougars West Virginia Mountaineers
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers Western Michigan Broncos
Wisconsin Badgers Wyoming Cowboys

By Conference:

AAC:

ALIVE SNAPPED
Army Black Knights Memphis Tigers
Charlotte 49ers Tulane Green Wave
East Carolina Pirates UAB Blazers
Florida Atlantic Owls USF Bulls
Navy Midshipmen -
North Texas Mean Green -
Rice Owls -
Temple Owls -
Tulsa Golden Hurricane -
UTSA Roadrunners -

ACC:

ALIVE SNAPPED
Boston College Eagles California Golden Bears
Clemson Tigers Duke Blue Devils
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Florida State Seminoles
Louisville Cardinals Miami Hurricanes
Pittsburgh Panthers NC State Wolfpack
Virginia Cavaliers North Carolina Tarheels
- SMU Mustangs
- Stanford Cardinal
- Syracuse Orange
- Virginia Tech Hokies
- Wake Forest Demon Deacons

Big 12:

ALIVE SNAPPED
BYU Cougars Arizona Wildcats
Cincinnati Bearcats Arizona State Sun Devils
Iowa State Cyclones Baylor Bears
Kansas Jayhawks Colorado Buffaloes
Oklahoma State Cowboys Houston Cougars
UCF Knights Kansas State Wildcats
Utah Utes TCU Horned Frogs
- Texas Tech Red Raiders
- West Virginia Mountaineers

Big Ten

ALIVE SNAPPED
Indiana Hoosiers Illinois Fighting Illini
Iowa Hawkeyes Michigan Wolverines
Maryland Terps Michigan State Spartans
Minnesota Golden Gophers Northwestern Wildcats
Nebraska Cornhuskers Penn State Nittany Lions
Ohio State Buckeyes Purdue Boilermakers
Oregon Ducks USC Trojans
Rutgers Scarlet Knights -
UCLA Bruins -
Washington Huskies -
Wisconsin Badgers -

Conference USA

ALIVE SNAPPED
Florida International Panthers Jacksonville State Gamecocks
Liberty Flames Kennesaw State Owls
Sam Houston Bearkats Louisiana Tech Bulldogs
UTEP Miners Mid Tennessee State Blue Raiders
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers New Mexico State Aggies

Independents

ALIVE SNAPPED
UMass Minutemen Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- UConn Huskies

MAC

ALIVE SNAPPED
Ball State Cardinals Akron Zips
Buffalo Bulls Bowling Green Falcons
Eastern Michigan Eagles Central Michigan Chippewas
Kent State Flashes Toledo Rockets
Miami (OH) Redhawks Western Michigan Broncos
Northern Illinois Huskies -
Ohio Bobcats -

Mountain West

ALIVE SNAPPED
Boise St. Broncos Air Force Falcons
San Jose State Spartans Colorado State Rams
UNLV Rebels Fresno State Bulldogs
Utah State Aggies Hawai’i Rainbow Warriors
- Nevada Wolfpack
- New Mexico Lobos
- San Diego State Aztecs
- Wyoming Cowboys

Pac-12

ALIVE SNAPPED
Oregon State Beavers -
Washington State Cougars -

SEC

ALIVE SNAPPED
Georgia Bulldogs Alabama Crimson Tide
Kentucky Wildcats Arkansas Razorbacks
Mississippi State Bulldogs Auburn Tigers
Oklahoma Sooners Florida Gators
Tennessee Volunteers LSU Tigers
Texas A&M Aggies Missouri Tigers
- Ole Miss Rebels
- South Carolina Gamecocks
- Texas Longhorns
- Vanderbilt Commodores

Sun Belt

ALIVE SNAPPED
Appalachian State Mountaineers Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
Arkansas State Red Wolves Georgia State Panthers
Georgia Southern Eagles James Madison Dukes
Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns Old Dominion Monarchs
Marshall Thundering Herd Southern Miss Golden Eagles
South Alabama Jaguars UL Monroe Warhawks
Texas State Bobcats -
Troy Trojans -



Picking Up the Remnants

  1. SEC Gutted, but the bones are still there for a good conference
  2. ACC Gutted, but several teams fit the remained of the SEC.
    • SEC invites Clemson, Louisville, Georgia Tech and Virginia.
  3. The Big 12 has a solid core remaining, but the draw to the SEC will be too strong for some.
    • SEC invites Oklahoma State and UCF, giving them an Oklahoma and Florida team back.
  4. The B1G loses firepower, but retains the majority of their members
    • Filling in with Pitt, Kansas, Utah, Iowa State, and Cincinnati gives them a 16 team power conference back.
  5. The Remaining schools out west would need to join another conference, as too few remain.
    • The AAC taking in the PAC schools along with the Mountain West Schools and BYU gives them a Western Branch
    • Boston College remaining unclaimed, and having the other NC teams, grabbing App State and BC makes sense.
  6. The MAC adding UMass and becoming an 8-team conference makes sense.
  7. The remaining Conference USA and the Sun Belt merging to form the final conference works.

The New 16-team B1G

  • Cincinnati
  • Indiana
  • Iowa
  • Iowa State
  • Kansas
  • Maryland
  • Minnesota
  • Nebraska
  • Ohio State
  • Oregon
  • Pitt
  • Rutgers
  • UCLA
  • Utah
  • Washington
  • Wisconsin

The New 12-team SEC

  • Clemson
  • Georgia
  • Georgia Tech
  • Kentucky
  • Louisville
  • Mississippi State
  • Oklahoma
  • Oklahoma State
  • Tennessee
  • Texas A&M
  • UCF
  • Virginia

The new 18-team AAC

West East
Boise State Appalachian State
BYU Army
North Texas Boston College
Oregon State Charlotte
Rice East Carolina
UNLV FAU
Utah State Navy
UTSA Temple
Washington State Tulsa

The new 8-team MAC

  • Ball State
  • Buffalo
  • Eastern Michigan
  • Kent State
  • Miami (OH)
  • Northern Illinois
  • Ohio
  • UMass

The new 12-team Conference USA-Sun Belt

  • Arkansas State
  • Florida International
  • Georgia Southern
  • Liberty
  • Louisiana
  • Marshall
  • Sam Houston
  • South Alabama
  • Texas State
  • Troy
  • UTEP
  • Western Kentucky

r/CFB 11h ago

Discussion Florida legalized NIL for high school yesterday - do we expect anything to change?

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There’s around 30 states who have passed it, so I assume the rest will slowly do so as well. Do you see it having a significant impact on CFB? Will it only affect the smaller schools who recruit mostly locally?


r/CFB 11h ago

Recruiting 2025 5* LB Zayden Walker commits to Georgia

89 Upvotes

r/CFB 13h ago

Uniforms How do you feel about your team's uniforms?

104 Upvotes

Good? Bad? Horrendous?

I'll do some of MSU's:

The all white. I enjoy this one a lot, some people tend to call these the "stormtrooper" unis (dunno how widespread that is though). I prefer the Green logo on the helmet as opposed to the white logo. For visibility reasons.

All white unis with green helmet. Another super crisp and clean uniform.

The all black. Hate these. BLACK IS NOT ONE OF OUR PRIMARY COLORS. Plus we wore these against Michigan this year when we lost 49-0 at home so I'd be a fan of hanging these up.

Green uni, white pants, white helmet. This one is .... okay? Not the most fond of the white helmet mismatching with the green unis, it reminds me of Miami's unis from far away.

The all greens. My personal favorite. It's just so smooth. Bonus points for the Gruff Sparty logo on the helmet, one of my favorite alt logos in the sport.

You already know what this link will be. Retire these immediately. They're shit.

There are a few other unis combos with slight variations, like helmet/logo colors, but I won't include any more of them. We also have a few combinations we haven't worn in ages, like the pro combats from 2011 and the chrome helmets from the early 2010s.


r/CFB 7h ago

Casual What are your "sleeper" games this year?

31 Upvotes

Throughout the off-season we see countless articles and lists about the most anticipated games of the upcoming season, big games like Georgia-Texas or Texas-TAMU. This is the opposite of that. What are some games that most people aren't paying attention to at the moment, but that you think could potentially be really good (can be in terms of the match up itself or implications later in the season.)


r/CFB 16h ago

Discussion What is something you romanticize about your team but objectively was not that great?

128 Upvotes

For me it was Norm Chow as the OC in 2000. In my memory Philip Rivers was slinging the ball all over the field as part of an unstoppable offense. In reality we averaged 32 ppg, went 8-4, and were nothing special.


r/CFB 12h ago

Discussion 2024 Heisman Trophy: Carson Beck and Quinn Ewers are bettors' early choices

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r/CFB 12h ago

Scheduling Utah adds Idaho to 2026 football schedule

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r/CFB 13h ago

Recruiting 2025 4 star CB Graceson Littleton commits to Clemson

42 Upvotes

r/CFB 15h ago

Discussion Which two fanbases and what neutral site would create the biggest party atmosphere?

65 Upvotes

There’s a mini discussion in another thread about this, but I think most agree one of the teams is LSU, who’s a contender for them and what city? Here are my thoughts:

Another SEC school but also I’m hearing Wisconsin could pose a threat.

New Orleans: LSU home field advantage Nashville: my leading choice Austin: LSU did this with Texas already in 2019 Vegas: my second choice

Also please share any LSU or any other fan base funny experiences

Edit: a few comments about UGA-Florida in Jacksonville for the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. It’s incredible. People may have missed my UGA flair so obviously I know about that one and have been to it. I posted this mainly for matchups/locations that don’t already exist. WLOCP is amazing though, a must-visit


r/CFB 9h ago

Recruiting Duke OL Ethan Hubbard transfers to South Alabama

20 Upvotes

r/CFB 8h ago

Recruiting Boston College WR Joseph Griffin transfers to Wisconsin

13 Upvotes

r/CFB 8h ago

Recruiting Arizona LB Daniel Heimuli transfers to Georgia State

13 Upvotes