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When do we get the Trump tweet calling him a "loser"? Before 10am? I think somebody is monitoring his tweets today ... he's been behaving more than usual. It will happen though. He did acknowledge that some bigot politician from Wisconsin running against Ryan gave him some kind words. After reading about the guy he's about as polished and reputable as Putin and some of the others Trump likes. I loved watching him spiral out of control about CNN last night. He loses his mind! Yeah...his tweets this morning are noticeably different than last night. Last night was like he was pissed off at the world because of CNN and he downed a bottle of Crown and couldn't stop drunk tweeting. You can tell the difference when there is some staffer tweeting and when it is Trump. I wonder if he gets "time outs" where they take his phone away from him.

Basically agree with this. I think the LBs/Dismuke/Domann are candidates for special teams, similar to Furguson/Reed last year. Is JD fully recovered? Could he factor in on punt return? Grim has a tough job to crack the WR rotation. He was here in the spring, so maybe he can do it. Bryant could make it, but he would have to probably pass both Wilbon/Taylor. Last year everyone though Zig was going to RS, so who knows.

Very good post. No one in the Big 12 can leave until the GoR is up in 2025, unless they somehow vote to dissolve the conference before then.

When do we get the Trump tweet calling him a "loser"? Before 10am?

Bounce keeps going up. On the 538 now-cast this morning, Clinton is up to 83.5% chance. 538 polls only forecast has her at a 66% chance, and polls plus has her at 69%. She's almost back to pre-email decision levels from mid July.

Lamar Jackson starting at safety, huh?

Trump should like Khan. He didn't get caught by the enemy.

His dad has taken a ton of crap the last few years from LSU fans/donors/admin. Hell, his fate was determined in a meeting during halftime of their last regular season game. I can see why Ben might want to escape that toxic environment and make it on his own.

Hillary DNC bump in full effect now. Looking at the 538 now-cast chance to win the presidency (not vote %) last Wednesday, Trump had a 55% chance of winning. Today, Clinton has a 64% chance of winning, and I'm guessing it will continue to climb as more post-DNC polls come out. And I don't see Trump's verbal sparring with the Khan's helping him much either.

Not Alabama, but Kentucky just had this one made to show off in their new athletics center

Back to 1970: Ohio St, Texas, and Nebraska all claim a NC. Ohio St: 9-1, lost the Rose Bowl 27-17 to #12 Stanford, #1 in NFF poll Texas : 10-1, lost to Cotton Bowl to 24-11 to #6 Notre Dame, #1 in UPI and NFF poll Nebraska: 11-0-1, tied #3 USC on the road, won Sugar Bowl 17-12 over #5 LSU, #1 in AP and FWAA polls

Good offseason fodder: Been thinking about this since I saw the news last week that just Kentucky claimed the 1950 NC. It seems that a lot of schools "claim" NCs for years that are questionable, mainly in the SEC (looking at you Alabama), but others do as well (Ohio St and Texas both claim 1970). So how many titles should NU claim? Just the 5? Wiki says that we can claim 11 if we want: 1970, 1971 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997 It's too bad that we weren't at the top of our game in the 30s/40s/50s so we could go 9-1 and "claim" an NC.

Wiki says you guys have 7. Including 1960 when you went 8-2 and lost in the Rose Bowl. Seems very SEC-ish if you are claiming that one.

Trump laying groundwork to get out of the debates? This is from Josh Marshall, editor of talking points memo. First tweet below, but then he goes on for 12 more, so they are all stitched together:

Hard rains hitting GI this morning for the funeral