After Further Review (College): Ask, and ye shall receive...

Keelon Russell should be arrested.

Because he saw fit to sniff his balls in the fucking end zone.

I’ve seen this celebration before… pic.twitter.com/qy2YIZmSmg

— CJ Vogel (@CJVogel_OTF) October 3, 2026

Game was also on ABC, making this another obscene FCC violation. 

By the way:  $2 million.

What is in the water in Colorado?

This may be one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen in college football.

Looking for video if it's findable, but Colorado State coach Jim Mora (yes, THAT Jim Mora -- "You play...  to win...  the game.") has, per ESPN, fired his defensive coordinator in the first half of a 56-26 loss to Oregon State.

After a couple of bad drives, Mora was seen pointing to the locker room tunnel and defensive coordinator Tyson Summer went down it.  At that point, cornerbacks coach Kenny McClendon took over.

It is no secret that Colorado State has one of the worst defenses in FBS.

But to fire one of your assistants during the game???

EDIT TO ADD Sunday 10:50 AM PDT:  Colorado State, by the end of the game, has given up 156 points in its last three games.  Two of them to Oregon State and Texas-San Antonio.

And, later, we also find out through CFB Reddit that Colorado called a timeout because only eight players had taken the field on a field goal block vs. #12 Texas Tech.

And when they came back out of the timeout, they only had nine!

EDIT TO ADD AGAIN:  And now word comes out that Texas Tech fans actually got their hands on Coach Sanders' offensive playbook and script before the game.

As I said, what is in the water lately in the state of Colorado??

Colorado: How many more before we get a full-on investigation here?

Regrettably, the first thing which might get Deion Sanders fired as head coach of Colorado is "The Buck Stops Here"...

Word today that Sanders has fired three defensive backs from the team:  A junior, a senior, and a fifth-year senior.  All for conduct issues.

He's going to get nailed in the record again, and then he basically is going to have two choices:  Another purge, like the one he had at the start of his stint at Colorado, or he's going to have to resign.

It is clear that there is a MAJOR CULTURE PROBLEM at the University of Colorado -- probably not unakin to that which famously had Sanders cut a significant portion of the team upon his hire.

After Further Review (College): We haven't even started Saturday yet...

Friday night game between Pitt and Virginia Tech.

35-33 Pitt, three seconds left, ball in the air at the gun...

This kick was declared NO GOOD...

Another team but a different conference, having a game rigged against them. @HokiesFB get robbed by the refs. #Rigged Nothing to see here.

pic.twitter.com/flE9HJw3lW

— Spicoli in Chapel Hill 🇺🇸 USA (@spicoli_75) October 3, 2026

That's now two games this year in the Power 4 (Michigan) with irrefutable evidence that the result was fucked with at the end. There may be a lot more games I say are rigged and all, but they usually don't come with this clean of irrefutable evidence.

After Further Review (College): And it's good to see this week is off to a rousing start...

First quarter, punt return for North Texas (in white and green) vs. Tulsa (in the blue):

In what universe is this not AT MINIMUM an ejection, if not investigatable???

Good lord pic.twitter.com/aY5VxyVbp5

— PokeNation (@Big12Pokes) October 2, 2026

It was flagged.

Various odds and sods, October 1...

• John Calipari, head basketball coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks, has reported that nine of the twelve players on his roster earn more money in NIL contracts than his assistant coaches, with the other three even eclipsing his entire staff!  And if you think that's not going to translate to behavior in practices and games, I got some swampland to sell you in Little Rock!  
• Still no word from South Carolina about Dylan Stewart after this week.  Coach Shane Beamer (who may not be the coach much longer!) has gone silent on Stewart's future with the team, and will almost certainly remain silent until, at minimum, after the game with Kentucky this week.  This, after Beamer said upon the indefinite suspension that he would probably have announced it Monday or Tuesday at the latest what happens after the Kentucky game.  More evidence Dylan Stewart has played his last game at South Carolina, and it's not going to matter whose choice it is.  No word yet on the claim of the South Carolina NIL collective, seeking $167,000 a game back from Stewart for the suspension.   
• This probably should get its own post, but one of the major indications in the appeal by Manchester City may surround that many of the payments may have come directly from the United Arab Emirates government, making the team state-owned and state-financed.  And am I the only person in the world who believes that might not make the situation WORSE???   
• The Northwestern Marching Band, the Athletic Marketing citing lack of attendance at the games, will no longer perform pregame at Northwestern home football games.  At least this week, they will perform at a Chicago food festival instead, "where the fans are"...  Well, if Northwestern had a relevant college football team, maybe this would be different, right UCLA and USC?   
• According to at least one member of the band, this is NOT a decision of the band itself, but of Athletic Marketing.  Which causes my statement above to go double. 
• The Big Sky Commissioner finally admits it:  That there's a chance that if the power conferences break off completely from the rest of FBS, the Group of 6 (the remaining FBS conferences) will probably blend in at the top of FCS.
• Since a lot of this is about college football, I'll leave this here in closing:  Ratings for college football are down double digits from last year -- -11%.

Some extensions from other previous stories...

• Coach Shane Beamer has NOT decided yet whether Dylan Stewart will ever return to the team, and has additionally stated that it will be solely Beamer's choice as to when he returns.  He won't.  I think it's clear that Stewart made a decision last Saturday -- an incredibly stupid one, but a decision nonetheless.   
• And a late report:  The South Carolina NIL collective wants to recollect at least $167,000 a game from Stewart for every game he is suspended.  Yeah, that'll be a lawsuit.  And it may be the only thing that gets him to get his shit together enough to at least be on the sideline.
• Yeah, I'll say it, say it with me:  Operation Shutdown.
• In the "Yeah, That Tracks" Department:  When PAC finally signed with AEW, he was sidelined due to visa issues for quite a while.  Those visa issues, according to David Bixenspan, were due to Vince McMahon calling in chips from the first Trump Administration and stating falsely PAC had bolted on his visa, rather than being duly released.
• Confrontation in an Indiana WNBA game -- male fan confronted Las Vegas' A'Ja Wilson on the sideline.  She was T'd up, he was ejected for a time but returned...  Anyone wanna bet money it was insinuated Wilson is a man?   
• Jake the Awake needs some extra time -- probably to get his Slop List down to ten.  He has proclaimed it one of the most rigged weeks in NFL history.  Not sure I'd quite go THAT FAR...  We'll see what he's got.   
• And the first casualty of the Packers sucking:  The Packers-Bears game has been moved off the America's Game of the Week segment at 4:25 Eastern, back to a 1:00 Eastern start at Lambeau.

2026 Week Three, Dud of the Week, IN-PROGRESS EDITION -- Part Two, The Medals

Now we head to the college game.  Not only are these the three medals (barring probably open murder or a flagrant rig in the two games left), but I've even got a #4 on this.

I want to make clear something before I do, because the medals don't usually go into the college game.

1) None of these are role players.  They're either stars or get a lot of game time.  Two are consensus top-10 draft picks.

2) At least three of these players should be incarcerated for what they did yesterday.  And there's grounds for at least a fourth, as you'll see.  At least two players on this list have been suspended from their teams.  We will almost certainly have more on that as the week goes on.

3) I have never been so disgusted with American sports in general (or an American SPORT) in general as I was after yesterday.  This isn't just a few bad apples.  This is a sport in decline.

4) For reference:  The minimum NFL salary for a rookie is $885,000.

5) I am almost certain this is NOT an exhaustive list.

HIGH-SCHOOL DISHONORABLE MENTION.  I posted about this earlier in the week, but it merits inclusion here.

#1 Ranked TE & OU Commit @SenecaDriver just Gronk Spiked a DB after an INT 😳 pic.twitter.com/doP22ACEw9

— Red Dirt Media (@RedDirtMediaCo) September 26, 2026

Seneca Driver, according to ESPN Rankings, is the #1 college recruit in the state of Kentucky and the #2 tight end in the entire country.

That was an ejection-level hit to begin with, but that probably is not enough to put the Oklahoma commit on my blog, now twice.

What DOES is the fact that we are not even to October 1, and, had that been an ejection, Driver would have been ejected and suspended for the second time this season.  Under Kentucky rules, that would've been a minimum four-game suspension.

And now, the three medalists from Saturday in college.

BRONZE MEDAL:  A joint award here in Tuscaloosa.  You can give it about 30% to the referees and 70% to star South Carolina edge rusher Dylan Stewart, who was won himself an INDEFINITE BAN from the Gamecocks team and may be THROWN OFF THE TEAM for his actions in the blowout loss.

And it's not just one act either.  TRY FIVE, INCLUDING THREE SIDELINE COACH BLOW-UPS AND AN EJECTION-LEVEL FOUL FOR A PUNCH:

South Carolina has suspended EDGE Dylan Stewart. pic.twitter.com/ARtVnkWfPr

— GUCCE (@gucceCU) September 27, 2026

That's just the Cliffs' Notes version.  At least two incidents in the second quarter, the punch in the fourth.  How he was not ejected (or just sent to the locker room), I have no idea.  (And that's the ONLY reason I give some shit to the refs on this one.)

That said, keep in mind:  This guy is a CONSENSUS TOP-FIVE PICK BEFORE THE SUSPENSION.  He makes $2,000,000 in NIL shit.

And there's only two reasons he's not a runaway winner, over even the Packers.

EDIT TO ADD MONDAY:  The SEC conference, along with South Carolina, have affirmed a one-game suspension for Stewart.  We still don't know what happens from there -- but I extremely suspicious this piece of shit has made a business decision.

The indefinite ban is still in force -- we may find out tomorrow (Tuesday 9/29) as to whether he will return to the team.

JOINT GOLD-MEDAL WINNER:  The University of Texas football team, specifically at least their coach Steve Sarkasian, Raleek Brown, Colin Simmons. and several unidentified staff.

The only reason this is a joint winner with the other one I will list is the criminal actions of the other one.

Because at least Brown and Simmons need to be in jail today, facing charges.

Why?

Because this was a nationally-televised game on ABC -- a broadcast television network in the United States, meaning that the Federal Communications Commission has jurisdiction over the broadcast...

If we are going to throw a fit over Janet Jackson (when we should be throwing a fit over Justin Timberlake instead!), then please explain to me why THIS didn't get Brown ejected and arrested for indecency, not just in Tennessee but over the Federal television airwaves:

pic.twitter.com/e5u2zUqSxi

— Mr. Salmons (@MrSalmons) September 26, 2026

$1 million in NIL, people. 

or Simmons, who was flagged for THIS.  Simmons is a projected top-10 draft pick making $2.5 million from NIL from the likes of NIKE:

Colin Simmons 2027 NFL Draft 🚩

This sack “celebration” by Simmons will become part of the conversation within NFL buildings leading up to the draft. The question will be, “Is this the kind of behavior we want representing us?”

It sheds light into Simmons character, his level… pic.twitter.com/B3Bj4ir4s9

— FIRST ROUND MOCK (@firstroundmock) September 27, 2026

Again, for emphasis:  I am not speaking of the concept these acts happened on the Tennessee field, except for statute jurisdiction in general.  These acts took place on FCC NATIONAL BROADCAST TELEVISION! 

And there are NFL teams, as I told First Round Mock, who would gladly take this attitude, especially with the five sacks he had in the game that went with it!

And, though those two got most of the attention, someone found THIS from after the game on top of it!

Texas staff trying to pull game ball from Kayin Lee after Texas win over the Vols @SportNState pic.twitter.com/zXLY6f09MK

— Stephanie Otey (@StephOtey) September 26, 2026

As of today -- and this can obviously change (just ask Michigan, who got last-played by Iowa this week!) -- I think we have our current idea:  Texas is the national champion, they've been told it, and they know it.  Anything to pimp Arch Manning as the #1 draft pick, which, at this point, is looking headed to either the Dolphins or the Jets (through the Packers and Cowboys).

And don't forget:  PIGFUCKER WAS THERE!

So a message to Pigfucker:  You are not going to Save College Sports until NIL is ERADICATED.  These are professional players who believe they are above the rules, their coaches, and everything else.

Texas is the #1 team in the nation also in NIL money:  $47,500,000 according to what sources can be found.

But there was a criminal act on Saturday so egregious that it has to share the gold, and for that, we go to California:

JOINT GOLD MEDAL:  Desman Stephens II, for an injurious criminal act.  He's been suspended one game by the team and should be suspended more by the Big Ten.

This was the play:

Easy ejection and just a dirty hit. This type of action needs to be removed from the game entirely. Moore is clearly giving himself up. pic.twitter.com/C7a69DGTaP

— Gene Steratore (@GeneSteratore) September 27, 2026

This was after:

DESMAN STEPHENS SEEN SMILING AND DAPPING UP USC PLAYERS AFTER A DIRTY HIT ON DANTE MOORE JUST SICK pic.twitter.com/R9xBwvUaCm

— FD (@flooduck) September 27, 2026

That was assault, and his actions on the sideline indicate malice aforethought.  The quarterback (Dante Moore of Oregon) was not going to be hit until he started sliding (hence, ending the play), where Stephens laid the lumber to the tune of a 15-minute stoppage in the game and the Oregon quarterback taken from the field in an ambulance.  Moore is now out indefinitely with a concussion, though reports from Oregon indicate it may be no more than a concussion, so it's a question of how bad it is going forward.

$425,000 by the way.

Desman Stephens II SHOULD BE ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT.  Dino Cicarelli his ass!

Here's another college football example of the game out of control...

Another pet peeve of mine:

It's all about the quarterback.

So the quickest way to victory on the field?

INJURE HIS ASS WITH A CHEAP SHOT!

Oregon-USC:

Sliding feet 1st was supposed to be a way to protect QBs, instead it's turned into an easy head shot: pic.twitter.com/VHAeQeIy9E

— College Sports Only (@CSOonX) September 27, 2026

If I'm the referee, that's an Oregon touchdown for the flagrant foul plus the unsportsmanlike action afterward.

And I eject the USC player TWICE.  Once for the hit, another for flagrant intent to injure.

The quarterback was taken in an ambulance.  The USC player smiled on the sidelines.

Arrest that cocksucker too.  Assault and battery, intent to do grave harm.

You know what?  Green Bay MIGHT get off the hook at the rate things are going.

Further comments on social-media buzz of the out-of-control nature of football...

#1:  The SEC needs action against Coach Sarkasian of Texas.  It is clear he is fully excusing the conduct of his players, even though...

#2:  Colin Simmons and Raleek Brown should be arrested and thrown in a local jail tonight.

I am not kidding, nor am I saying metaphorically because their actions took place on the Tennessee field.

Both of them not only violated FCC indecency laws which are going to bring broadcast partner ABC onto the carpet, but at least Simmons violated Tennessee's indecency laws.

Don't believe me?  Read the definition of "nudity" under Tennessee's indecency statute:

"(1) “Nudity” or “state of nudity” means the showing of the bare human male or female genitals or pubic area with less than a fully opaque covering, the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of the areola, or the showing of the covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state. Nudity or state of nudity does not include a mother in the act of nursing the mother's baby;"

When Simmons represented himself as putting his fist in front of his crotch, he was representing a penis in turgid state, as if FOOBAW MAN FROM TEXASS (read:  God...) had the biggest dick in the stadium and wasn't afraid to show it.

He should be EXPELLED from the University of Texas, so should Brown.

He won't be.  He's GOD because he's FOOBAW MAN FROM TEXASS...

And this shithead Simmons is making $2,500,000 in NIL money from the likes of Dodge Ram and Nike.

Don't bother asking for boycotts or removals.  Someone will just take his place.

Speaking of God, maybe this one from another state heading to Oklahoma...

And he did all this with Pigfucker in attendance?  Hell, Kegsbreath is probably creaming about this sow!

#3, I want to reiterate something from the other incident really making the rounds this afternoon -- the slam tackle from the #1 tight-end recruit heading to Oklahoma.

He was ejected and suspended a game for unsportsmanlike conduct earlier this season.

He should've been ejected from last night's game for injurious conduct, one of the definitions of a flagrant (disqualification) high-school football foul.

We haven't even hit October 1st yet.  Let that process.

Upon Further Review: You expected NORTHWESTERN to be given a fair shake over the B1G's new darling, Indiana?

From the new X account tied to this blog directly (which will almost certainly be banned within four weeks once some transphobic ass like Nancy Mace starts in):

The Big Ten was supposed to be allow viewers to listen in to the replay review but the audio only worked from the Referee, not the Replay Center.

Would have been helpful to see how the Replay Center didn’t have this out of bounds at the 11. But alas 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/1bDGAUnvmV

— OfficiatingObserver17 (@RefObserver17) September 26, 2026

Accountability... Whoda thunk it?

And coming from about the last coach one might EXPECT to show it...

Deion Sanders has expelled a number of players from his Colorado team after several players were seen laughing on the sideline as they were getting thrashed by Northwestern 41-7.

OK, Deion -- I respect that and specifically that.

The next thing you need to do is start investigating those former players, because I can tell you exactly a scenario in which that would happen, but I don't think you want to go there.

Otherwise, your statement is absolutely correct:  "I don't understand how in the world you can find joy, or you can find a laughing matter when I'm right behind you walking [into the locker room]," Sanders said Saturday. "I don't understand that, and I addressed it, and I'm going to put my foot in it, not on it."

This Michigan-Western Michigan situation is going to get someone sued...

And I would not rule out, if you want to be a Wolverine fan, etc., that it wouldn't be NBC.

I return you to the video in which NBC clearly shows the ball never touched before the clock went zero:

It's a different video, but it's the same thing I showed before.  The relevant replay starts at about 10 seconds or barely 11.

I have screenshotted the relevant situation.

If you blow it up big enough, you can see the ball, just past the goalpost support and not touched by any player on either team, in or out of bounds.  The clock clearly reads triple-zero.

Why am I so precise?

Because the Big Ten Conference is officially claiming this did not happen.  (Again, I have to link the video instead of just embedding the Tweet for a few more days.)

The Big Ten has an official position that THAT SAME CLOCK read 0:01.  Watch the video in the link.

Someone has just committed sue-able malfeasance.  Because either NBC is trying to manufacture something which is not the case to manipulate the game on their end (which probably is NOT legal, in the face of the Big Ten doing otherwise -- in the infinitesimal chance the Big Ten is not lying through their teeth), or NBC is being thrown under the bus by the Big Ten and being so accused.

If the Big Ten is telling the truth (and I do not believe they are), they are telling you you can never trust another NBC telecast, at any level.  If I'm the Big Ten Conference at that point, I want a new broadcast partner, first available opportunity.

For the record, I believe the Big Ten spliced the video.

Two other interesting college football stories this Tuesday...

Both stand to reason, but I'm shocked the second one took public pressure to do it:

1) With Brendan Sorsby not allowed to play anymore, the Big XII's lawsuit and moves to expel Texas Tech are no more.

2) The Mid-American Conference has formally reversed course and wants reversal of the game result from Saturday.  Good fucking luck, but you've at least exposed them.

The SEC is NOT playing around...

The battle of LSU and NFL training-camp invitees is so severe, the SEC is prepared to throw LSU out of the conference entirely...

IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS.

Along with amending their lawsuit against LSU, the college presidents of the other SEC schools will meet Thursday to throw LSU out of the conference.

And here might be your start of a national super-league.  It would expel LSU from the national championship and probably all meaningful play in college football.

This might well compel LSU to decide to start feelers to see if other schools want to join them.

The action IS apparently in opposition to all present court situations on the subject (though I begin to wonder, rubber meeting road, if this would mean the entire existence of the NCAA would then be also in such opposition!).

Coach Lane Kiffin (yes, THAT Lane Kiffin) openly said that the rout win over Clemson on Saturday might well have been more lopsided if the training-camp invitees (two of which are practicing with LSU as we speak) or other professional players were allowed to play.  This is what precipitated the escalation.

That said, two questions:

• Since LSU has refused the demands of the conference, would this not mean expulsion is the only option?  And would they not be thrown out anyway for the tampering of Coach Kiffin in the first place?
• Second, what happens to the games this year -- and is there a discussion as to whether anyone who attempts to play an interscholastic competition against LSU also is expelled from the SEC?

Stay tuned.

Can't embed the post, but I can link it:

Truer words have not been said on the situation of college football.

And, after yesterday's rig-job, people will WELCOME that result.

Follow-up on the Michigan-Central Michigan rig-job...

I'd really like to know what clock they're using.

Go back to the video I posted.  It shows a brief moment of the replay with an auxiliary clock (NOT the unofficial NBC one on the scorebug -- watch the brief replay on the video I posted or any longer replay you have).  And, as I have always understood, that is the clock they use for time determination on review.

The ball is still several frames in the air before the player touches it (and yes, the player was out of bounds when he jumped, so he would be out and the ball incomplete at the moment of touching) -- and since you are video-reviewing, you can stop it at 0:00 live.

The conferences and Central Michigan have released statements accepting the result.

How much more did they pay you, Central Michigan, to walk away from state superiority in the Big House?

Asking for a friend.

And we've got a live one in Week One!!!

Western Michigan defeated #16 Michigan 12-7 today at the Big House.

That's not what anyone will tell you.

Ladies and gentlemen, a rigged result.

Tick Tock, next part: The courts weigh in somewhat...

A circuit judge has banned the SEC from banning professional athletes from returning to college football and men's basketball.

This, on the same day the ACC made it an across-the-board ban of those athletes for football and men's basketball.

Tick tock...

The world of college sports is ending, people...

The recent court rulings rendering NFL training-camp invitees eligible to return to college and the NCAA has finished the job.

We're just watching the final downfall:

• The Big XII has banned all professional athletes from any sport.
• The SEC is going further:  Any school which offers professional athletes a path of return is DONE WITH THE CONFERENCE.  They lose their voting rights, half their athletic budget, and their head coach for at least half a season.
• The Big Ten has at least banned NFL returns.
• The ACC, the last of the "Power 4", is considering joining them.

The question now is simple:  Who's the first school which is gonna walk?