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The Players Era Festival Could be a Game-Changer for Gonzaga

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June 3, 2025

While other top programs have spent the offseason treating the transfer portal like an all-inclusive buffet, the Zags have, as always, remained deliberate. So far, just two portal additions—Adam Miller from Arizona State and Tyon Grant-Foster from Grand Canyon—plus one high school commit, Parker Jefferson. And though it’s not yet official, Mario Saint-Supery appears all but locked in. While other schools have committed to full NIL-fueled rebuilds, the Zags have been a little more intentional than most.

With the Zags, fit always matters more than pedigree, and the program’s adherence to this philosophy is what’s allowed Gonzaga to stay competitive despite being a fraction of the size of just about every other top 25 program.

The Zags have always operated at an NIL disadvantage, but this November, the team will participate in something entirely new to the basketball world. The Players Era Festival is more than another early-season multi-team event like Maui or the Battle 4 Atlantis. It marks an unprecedented structural shift in how programs like Gonzaga can leverage visibility and NIL support without needing a Power Five bankroll to do it.

What Is the Players Era Festival?

The Players Era Festival is a tournament and NIL event held in Las Vegas during Thanksgiving week. It’s built to give college players meaningful NIL opportunities while generating significant college basketball hype early in the season, meaning fans can watch some high-level tournament-style basketball months before March Madness.

Launched in 2024 with eight teams and $9 million in distributed NIL money, the Players Era Festival returns in 2025 with an expanded format and a wider reach. Both the men’s and women’s tournaments will be held in Vegas, with combined NIL payouts expected to exceed $24 million. The men’s side will host 18 programs, including Alabama, Kansas, Baylor, Houston, Michigan, Auburn, and Gonzaga. For the first time, fans will get to see a big field of the best schools in the country in November, and players will have real financial gains at stake in their tournament performance.

If the Festival goes according to plan, non-conference scheduling priorities for smaller schools like Gonzaga could shift dramatically in the coming years.

The event pairs group-stage competition with bracketed play, and all participating teams receive guaranteed NIL compensation for their players, facilitated by the Festival’s partnership with TheLinkU. The model is something brand new in college basketball. NIL dollars in this case aren’t tethered to a school’s alumni base or booster culture but are instead based on team performance. Last year’s tournament winner, the Oregon Ducks, were able to leave Vegas $1.5 million richer in NIL opportunities, and this year’s will leave with significantly more than that.

This is a critical development for schools like Gonzaga. With a total undergraduate enrollment of under 6,000 and a local market that, while passionate, lacks the economic scale of major metro areas, Gonzaga operates without many of the baked-in NIL advantages enjoyed by other top-25 programs. (Of the other 24 teams on ESPN’s preseason top 25, no team has a smaller enrollment. Duke comes in slightly larger by undergrad population, and after that comes Saint John’s, which boasts an enrollment of nearly 16,000 undergrads.) The Festival offers a rare chance to compete on a highly visible national stage early in the season and with a financial floor already in place—no donor blitz or marketing scramble required. Most importantly, no waiting around for the Big Dance for Gonzaga’s players to receive the media attention typically reserved only for the end of the season.

A Hard Truth

Some fans may bristle at the idea that Gonzaga’s NIL situation could be—or has already been—a limiting factor in its recruiting pitch. But any time a school as small as Gonzaga is competing for recruits with the likes of USC (20,000+ undergrads), Kentucky (roughly 24,000), or Texas (over 40,000), the reality of a school’s alumni network and donor base needs to be faced.

By way of painful reminder: Nik Khamenia (Duke), Kingston Flemmings (Houston), and Zoom Diallo (Washington) were all high school targets the Zags pursued aggressively and missed out on. From the transfer portal, GU was reportedly in the mix for—but also missed out on—Malik Thomas (to Virginia), Donovan Dent (to UCLA), Rodney Rice (to USC), Sam Lewis (to Virginia), Andrej Stojakovic (to Illinois), Tyson Eaglestaff (to West Virginia), Silas Demary Jr. (to UConn), Brendan Hausen (to Iowa), and Jordan Ross (to Georgia). All of whom committed elsewhere, to much larger schools, with presumably more NIL money and opportunity than what was available at Gonzaga.

This obviously doesn’t mean that NIL was the biggest factor in the recruitment for these dudes, or even the decisive one, but if the portal has shown us anything in the last few years, it’s that for many, many players, money talks. Loudly.

The Equalizer

That’s what makes the Players Era Festival such a landmark opportunity for the Zags. It’s not about free money; it’s about access to opportunity tied to actual performance. For schools without the massive coffers or big-time corporate sponsors lining up at the door, it creates a foothold—a chance to let basketball speak for itself and weld performance to tangible financial benefits.

The Roster That Fits

For a team like Gonzaga, visibility can be hard to come by in the early part of the season, and although Mark Few always slates a brutal non-conference tilt for his team, by January, much of the national media attention understandably shifts toward the Power Five schools and Blue Bloods. An 81–50 blowout over Portland is a hoot to tune in for if you’re a Zag fan, but it’s not exactly “Must-See TV” for the rest of the college basketball viewing world. The massive media market available to schools in the SEC, for example, is simply not something the Zags have ever been able to compete with, and the Players Era Tournament levels that playing early on and in a highly competitive field, if even just a little bit.

For the first time ever, Gonzaga has an NIL event tailored to reward their winning edge despite the school’s size and scale. Rolling into Vegas and winning the Players Era Festival against schools who have spent this portal cycle doing Scrooge McDuck backstrokes through their endless piles of NIL cash would be just about the most Mark Few thing of the NIL era.

Still Gonzaga

That’s precisely what’s made the last 25 years of Bulldog basketball one of the most compelling stories in all of sports. The fact that a school this size has been able to sustain this level of success in this changing financial landscape is, frankly, astonishing. The Players Era Festival offers another opportunity to prove to recruits that Big Money does not equal Big Wins while still directing some of that Big Money right into the pockets of its players.

Gonzaga’s alumni network and available local business partnerships may be dwarfed by those of other schools; no other program in the country also has two former players—Chet Holmgren (OKC) and Andrew Nembhard (Indiana)—playing starting minutes in this year’s NBA Finals. No massive media market. No pay-for-play cloak-and-dagger “brand partnerships.” Just structure, development, and results. The only other school with players on both NBA Finals rosters is Kentucky—a university that graduates about as many students each year as Gonzaga even enrolls. That comparison says a lot about just how far above its weight class Gonzaga has been punching.

This year’s Players Era Festival won’t crown a new national champion (Oregon somehow beat Alabama in last year’s championship matchup, after all), but it could very well help reshape the perception of what schools like Gonzaga can offer their players in 2025 and beyond. The Zags will never have the booster network and alumni base of Texas, Michigan, or Florida. That’s just a simple fact. Never. But year after year, the Zags have still found a way to stay competitive.

What the Players Era Festival offers is a rare opportunity to showcase that competitive edge while connecting dudes with legit financial opportunities. It’s an NIL move that still lets the basketball speak for itself.

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Is Missouri football close to landing transfer portal QB? Reports say so

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53 minutes ago

January 3, 2026

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Updated Jan. 2, 2026, 5:25 p.m. CT

Missouri football does not appear to be wasting much time on the most important question on its roster.

Multiple reports landed Friday, Jan. 2, indicating that the Tigers are the team to watch for Austin Simmons, who, at the beginning of the 2025 season, was widely expected to be the starting quarterback for the Ole Miss Rebels under then-head coach Lane Kiffin.

Simmons, according to a report Friday from national ESPN reporter Pete Thamel, has entered the transfer portal with a no-contact tag. That typically means that a player has a good idea where they would like to end up, and it bars other schools from reaching out to him or his representatives.

Also according to Thamel, and several other national reporters, Simmons’ most-likely landing spot is in the SEC with Missouri and head coach Eli Drinkwitz.

The move makes sense for Mizzou, which definitely needs a quarterback this offseason but had options in terms of portal strategy.

Missouri can bring back freshman Matt Zollers, who has a talented arm but still needs refining and work to become an SEC starter, as exhibited by an up-and-down day in a Gator Bowl loss to Virginia.

The Tigers are expected to lose 2025 QB1 Beau Pribula to the transfer portal, and while there has been no confirmation from his camp, backup Sam Horn is still widely expected to join the Los Angeles Dodgers’ farm system this year as a highly touted right-handed pitcher.

So, Missouri’s options were two-fold:

Bring in a QB with immediate starting caliber and let Zollers develop behind him.
Bring in a QB who Zollers can compete with over the next eight months.

Simmons, if he does end up committing to Mizzou, would be closer to Option No. 1.

Before Trinidad Chambliss became one of stories of the 2025 college football season, the feeling in Oxford was that Simmons was a highly capable replacement for first-round draft pick Jaxson Dart.

But Simmons picked up an ankle injury in a Week 2 win over Kentucky. While he was limited in September, Chambliss — a Division-II transfer from Ferris State — took over the reins.

Ole Miss is now headed to the CFP semifinals as a 13-1 ball club. It will face Miami in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 8 for a spot in the national title game.

That’s a potentially important date. The current expectation is that Simmons will finish the season with the Rebels before making a transfer decision.

Now, he could announce a transfer decision before then. But he also might wait.

He is from Miami, Florida, and is listed at 6-foot-4, 215 pounds by the Rebels.

In 2025, Simmons completed 60% of his 75 pass attempts for 744 yards, four touchdowns and five interceptions. He rushed 21 times for 82 yards and one touchdown. He also had three fumbles.

Simmons, who is left-handed, has two remaining years of eligibility.

More than two-thirds of his passes were play-action looks, according to Pro Football Focus, which is more than Ole Miss has run with Chambliss. That’s an interesting stylistic difference. For comparison, both Pribula and Zollers ran play-action — a fake handoff into a pass — less than 30% of the time, per PFF.

Comfort with play-action could be a useful tool with how strong Mizzou’s running sets up to be with Ahmad Hardy and Jamal Roberts returning. Play-action looks tend to keep defenses honest defending the pass against strong running outfits, which MU has struggled with recently.

Now, Simmons would not automatically come in and be named the starter. The Tigers would make him earn it over Zollers, based on recent history at the position in Columbia.

But, he would be the favorite. SEC starters don’t come cheap in the NIL age. Players don’t tend to move — think of Pribula last year — without reason to believe they’ll start at their new school.

Like Zollers, Simmons’ best quality is his arm talent. Kiffin, in a story with Thamel at ESPN, compared Simmons to Tua Tagovailoa.

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College football transfer tracker: With portal now open, where will top players end up?

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9 hours ago

January 3, 2026

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We’ve known Leavitt was going to leave Arizona State for a couple weeks now after a social media post, but he’s officially in the portal as of this morning.

He played in seven games this season before suffering a foot injury that required him to have surgery and miss the remainder of the year. In those seven games, he threw for 1,628 yards and 10 TDs along with three interceptions. He also ran for 306 yards and five TDs. The previous season, he threw for 2,885 yards and 24 TDs with six interceptions while running for another five rushing TDs.

The former four-star prospect originally committed to Michigan State before transferring to ASU, where he’s been the last 2 years.

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SEC team linked to star transfer WR Cam Coleman

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10 hours ago

January 3, 2026

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Auburn wide receiver Cam Coleman announced his intention to enter the transfer portal on Dec. 29, a move that assuredly had high-profile programs queuing up for his services.

Four days later, and a day until the transfer portal officially opens, an apparent leader for those services emerged: the Texas Longhorns.

The Houston Chronicle’s Kirk Bohls reported that Texas is saving NIL money in an effort to land Coleman in the portal – even though the star wideout’s asking price could be as high as $4 million.

I can confirm Texas WR Parker Livingstone is entering the transfer portal because the Horns are saying their money to land Auburn’s Cam Coleman.

— Kirk Bohls (@kbohls) January 2, 2026

Texas in good position with Coleman and has an edge over A&M because of Arch Manning, but the Auburn WR is wanting big money. One source says he may ask for $4 million.

— Kirk Bohls (@kbohls) January 2, 2026

Coleman is arguably the top overall player to announce plans to enter the transfer portal this offseason, having accounted for over 1,300 yards in 2 seasons at Auburn despite inconsistent quarterback play on the Plains.

According to Pro Football Focus, Coleman caught 57 of his 88 targets this season. His average depth of target was 13.4 yards, which was third among SEC receivers with at least 75 targets.

Adding Coleman to the Longhorns would be a major coup for an offense that ranked 45^th in the country both in passing yards (250.7) and scoring (30.5) in 2025. Arch Manning is set to return for his junior season after throwing for 3,163 yards and 26 touchdowns against seven interceptions.

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Texas WR Parker Livingstone to enter the NCAA transfer portal

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11 hours ago

January 3, 2026

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Turnover in the Texas Longhorns wide receiver room continued on Thursday with the unexpected news that redshirt freshman Parker Livingstone will enter the NCAA transfer portal when it opens.

The 6’4, 191-pounder’s decision comes in the wake of Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian opting to retain position coach Chris Jackson as Livingstone becomes the third departure, joining junior DeAndre Moore Jr. and redshirt freshman Aaron Butler.

Ranked as a consensus four-star prospect out of Lucas Lovejoy in the 2024 recruiting class, Livingstone was the No, 270 prospect nationally and the No. 46 wide receiver, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. With 35 offers, Livingstone took official visits to Texas and South Carolina before committing to the Longhorns. Other offers included Arkansas, Auburn, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Miami, Michigan, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, and Texas A&M, among others.

As a freshman, Livingstone appeared in four games for the Longhorns, playing 28 snaps and receiving two targets without recording a catch.

Entering the 2025 season, Livingstone drew buzz during the spring for his development and emerged as a seven-game starter during his redshirt freshman season, flashing early with three touchdowns and 175 receiving yards on six receptions over the first two games.

Livingstone finished the year with 29 receptions for 516 yards and six touchdowns, ending the campaign as the fourth-leading receiver in receptions, the third-leading receiver in receiving yards, and the second-leading receiver in touchdown catches.

The promise that Livingstone showed during his breakout second season on the Forty Acres didn’t lead to a third year in Austin even though he was a roommate of quarterback Arch Manning and grew up a Longhorns fan.

So that marks Moore and Livingstone as major contributors who are leaving the Texas program as Sarkisian and general manager Brandon Harris push to upgrade a position that finished as a net disappointment with the possibility increasing that the Horns will target multiple wide receivers in the portal, including a high-profile target like Cam Coleman.

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College football season now guaranteed a happy ending, plus it’s portal time

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12 hours ago

January 3, 2026

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In the first two years of the 12-team Playoff era, teams with first-round byes went 1-7. But five of those seven were underdogs or tiny favorites anyway, and the lone winner just humiliated Alabama by 35 in easily the greatest moment in program history (so far). So I think it’s a wash.

Either way, college football has joined the NFL and MLB debates on whether it’s bad or good to get a free pass to the second round. Happy New Year!{{/ifContains}}

Absolute Cinema: What a fresh final four

The best story still on the table in this college football season is pretty obvious, because it’d be one of the best stories in American sports history: the ever-hopeless Indiana Hoosiers (38-3 vs. Alabama in yesterday’s Rose) winning it all for the first time ever, almost literally out of nowhere.

But most of us can agree it’d feel nearly as good, if more of an LMAO kind of good, to see Ole Miss (39-34 vs. Georgia in the Sugar, a game-of-the-year contender) spite Lane Kiffin by winning the Rebels’ first title since their 1962 claim, right? Based on their scores in games against Georgia, maybe they’re better without him anyway.

If neither of those happen, we could have a far worse consolation moment than Oregon (23-0 vs. Texas Tech in the Orange) getting its first ring after several cruel near-misses during its decades-long rise. These relentlessly aggressive Ducks are never boring. Either Indiana or Oregon would be FBS’ first new national champion since 1996 Florida.

Five-time champ Miami (24-14 vs. Ohio State in the Cotton) is the closest thing to a historical ringer here, but anyone who remembers the 1980s or 2000s could honor a sixth by regaling the youths about the Hurricanes of yore. Plus, the championship’s in Miami. Imagine the Canes vs. Fernando Mendoza, whose high school is across town from Hard Rock Stadium.

Look at those four teams. There’s no evil empire left. The Hoosiers and Rebels just knocked out the Tide and Dawgs. Miami handed Ohio State the biggest upset in Playoff history on Friday. Anyone still mad at, I dunno, Clemson can rewatch the Pinstripe Bowl. Brian Kelly’s unemployed, not that he ever won anything big anyway. The vibes are immaculate.

Remember when guys with big microphones told you the NIL era would permanently entrench college football’s uppermost layer, ensuring nobody new ever got to do anything cool? Are those guys ever right about anything?

Now look at us. Those of us without teams still in this fight: We can’t lose. This is gonna rule. Though, yes, America’s primary team is from Bloomington.

Title odds, per Austin Mock’s projections: Peach Bowl opponents Indiana (35 percent) and Oregon (29 percent) lead, with the Fiesta’s duo splitting the rest. The Hoosiers are football championship favorites. Say it until you can believe it’s real. (BetMGM opening lines: Indiana -4 and Miami -3.)
Since the Sugar Bowl ended late, you gotta catch up on everything that happened in the final minute. Trinidad Chambliss heroics and Rebels kicker Lucas Carneiro nailing his third bomb of the night were the sensical parts. After that, Georgia’s desperate kick return resulted in a safety. Confetti fell. But the refs put a second back on the clock, the Dawgs recovered an onside kick, Ole Miss again thought it’d won, Georgia ran around for a while and then the Rebels finally won. Entertainment!
So much about Ohio State’s season now feels telling in hindsight. All those nondescript gimmes against overmatched teams. The annual Ryan Day consternation is here, one month later than usual.
Despite all the (justified) game-management jokes in the world, Miami’s here because of Mario Cristobal.
Texas Tech’s big-money season (there’s the money mention again) looked like it was about to go down as a total success, regardless of what happened yesterday. Getting shut out changed that.
“The Audible,” up late last night: Indiana has no interest in being a mere Cinderella.

Hey, side note: Remember all those takes about JMU’s 17-point loss to Oregon in Round 1? How it allegedly proved the entire G5 should go join the NAIA or something?

Unlike the Big 12 champions yesterday, the Dukes managed to score on Oregon. Got 34 points, in fact. (And no, they weren’t all against backups. I saw Dante Moore still throwing, late in the fourth.) JMU outrushed Alabama’s two-game Playoff effort by 135 yards, too. Is Joel Klatt gonna express condescending sympathy for the Crimson Tide, one of the most helplessly outmuscled teams in Playoff history?

A year prior, various SEC figures slammed Indiana for getting humbled by Notre Dame in an opening-round game, allegedly having stolen a spot from a three-loss SEC team. Anyway, that conference then got swiftly erased from last year’s Playoff as supposed snubs Bama and South Carolina lost their bowls.

In both years of the 12-team era, to issue a bold proclamation based on the first couple results has meant looking kind of silly just a few days later. It’s OK to let things happen.

Quick Snaps

🅾️ For much of this season, college football’s highest-rated team was Ohio State, while the lowest-rated team in Division III was just two hours away: Oberlin, which went an emphatic 0-10. Guess which team had more fun? (Fun fact: The Yeomen were also the last Ohio team to beat the Buckeyes in football, getting it done in 1921.)

🏆 Coaches on two different sides of yesterday’s ledger:

“This is a playoff, and in my opinion, should’ve been played in Lubbock, Texas.” Dan Lanning’s right, even though it would’ve made things tougher on his Ducks yesterday. (Maybe not 23 points tougher.)
Elsewhere, Kirby Smart saying the Sugar Bowl felt at times like a road game wasn’t sour grapes. Giving every top seed a home game, even at the expense of those apparently risky byes, will surely be part of somebody’s case for a 16-team Playoff.

📺 The NFL had 84 of 2025’s 100 most-watched TV events, per Sports Business Journal. College football was the second-biggest presence, with half of the other 16. Bet 2026 started hot, too.

Still Alive: Welcome to the all-at-once portal era

Because there isn’t enough going on, today is the first day of 2026’s only football portal period, lasting through Jan. 16. In the previous world, a 30-day December window was followed by 15 days in April. Now there’s only one shot to get it right.

“This is a new deal for all of us. You can’t fix it again in May if you mess it up. We have to be great during these 14 days and be efficient with our time and resources. If you miss on a kid, you can’t fix it. Our kids’ and coaches’ lives will be determined by these next 14 days.”

That’s Tulsa head coach Tre Lamb, explaining part of the thinking behind the Portal House. In a five-bedroom, Xbox-laden house near the Golden Hurricane’s campus, Lamb’s staff will host visiting prospects day and sometimes literally night. The viral-friendly experiment might sound like a gimmick, but it’s kind of the opposite:

“You’re saving money because you’re not taking guys to Ruth’s Chris and Polo Grill every night where it’s $2,000-$3,000 dinners every single night. … You’ve got $180,000 in your recruiting budget. We would rather bring guys to campus and to this house.”

If this works well, expect it to be copied once the portal re-opens … in 2027. More here.

As for the big names to know:

Probably gonna link to this another time or two, so you might as well just have it open: 2026 transfer QB rankings, to be updated with destinations and more names. As noted, Cincinnati QB Brendan Sorsby could be this cycle’s money man.
Top five portal players at each non-QB position. Highest upside: Auburn WR Cam Coleman. Best name: NC State RB Hollywood Smothers. Most decorated: Utah edge John Henry Daley, potentially a major get for Kyle Whittingham’s Michigan.
In those two links, No. 7 QB Rocco Becht and five of those 50 non-QB players are all leaving Iowa State. Would’ve been Big 12 contenders, now following Matt Campbell to Penn State?

More portal next week, and more on the site until then.

January Madness: SEC’s bowl record matters as much as you want

The SEC’s mark in this season’s postseason games against non-SEC teams: 2-6. Average score against ACC, Big 12 and Big Ten teams: 27-20.

Neither of those two wins merits much bragging, either. Ole Miss won a home Playoff game against an 11th-seeded Tulane team that it’d already beaten in the regular season, and No. 13 Texas beat an interim-coached No. 18 Michigan 41-27 in the Citrus.

Otherwise, it was a lot of stuff like No. 23 Iowa winning 34-27 in Tampa, putting to rest talk of No. 14 Vanderbilt having been a Playoff snub.

The SEC has failed the likes of whoever sponsors the Music City Bowl these days (Illinois 30, Tennessee 28). How much does that matter? Two simultaneous truths:

Bowl results have always said dubious things about how good any particular team might be. In the modern era, that’s due to opt-outs and coaching changes, but it’s been a thing for decades. The polls didn’t unanimously start counting bowls toward national titles until the 1970s. Even a decade ago, when rosters were quaint in their stability, teams in bowls simply did not behave like themselves. Ask anyone who’s ever worked with computer power ratings. So the SEC’s ugly winter (and mere 13-11 record across the previous two postseasons) might not accurately reflect team quality.
But if the SEC’s gonna talk our ears off about its depth, it has to dominate, regardless of context. It had a mostly good non-con during this regular season, which mostly backed up this summer’s schedule-strength PR. Thing about PR, though: You don’t get to choose which games the public ignores. Football still happened this past week. We saw it.

Tonight, we’ll see if 5-7 Mississippi State can impress in the Mayo Bowl against 8-4 Wake Forest. Very funny to consider how many serious narratives hinge on which coach takes a mayo dump to the skull.

After that, if the Rebels win the national championship, these things will become mere fun facts. But if they don’t reach the title game, these things will be especially fun facts for those who enjoy SEC schadenfreude.

Other bowl note: Citrus Bowl star Arch Manning’s probably about to be a two-time offseason Heisman favorite. First to pull that off without winning it in the meantime since … a former Citrus Bowl star named Peyton? (Trevor Lawrence was really close to doing it.)

That’s it for today. Just nine games left, including today’s four bowls on the watchability calendar below. Don’t forget Sunday’s Division III championship in Canton, Ohio’s Stagg Bowl (three-trophy dynasty North Central vs. high-scoring upstart Wisconsin-River Falls) and Monday’s FCS title game in Nashville (10.5-point BetMGM favorite Montana State vs. road warrior Illinois State). See you Tuesday.