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Like any red-blooded American, I loathe the University of Michigan. I cannot stand them. However, being a red-blooded American, the loathing I feel for Ohio State is just that much greater than my loathing for Michigan. So when the Wolverines intercepted the Buckeyes wtih 25 seconds left in the game to seal a 30-24 victory, I was pretty happy. Today is the one day a year I will cheer for Michigan. Tomorrow I go back to loathing Michigan and sincerely hope they loss a grinding battle with the University of Iowa in the Big Ten championship game. But just for today I am happy Michigan won.

Throughout today and tomorrow, numerous college football rivalries will be renewed. Rivalries like Ohio State-Michigan and Auburn-Alabama will be played until there are no more people to play college football. But due to conference realignment, we'll be losing out on many historic rivalires that should be played every year.

Oregon-Oregon State play at 8:30pm EST and having been playing each other since 1894. But that ends after tonight, with no agreement in place to keep the series going after Oregon leaves the sinking ship formelry know as the Pac-12 for the Big 10. Washington is also leaving the Pac-12 and it's interstate rival Washington State for the Big 10. At least in UW-WSU's case, they have an agreement to keep the series alive until 2028. A series which began in 1900.

Earlier conference realignment stopped the University of Pittsburgh and West Virginia from playing each other every year, Pitt and Penn State don't play each other evey year. Realignment has taken a lot of the regionalism and tradition that helps make college football so magical. I doubt people get hyped up when Pitt plays Wake Forest or North Carolina State.

It's not all bad, admittedly. Conference realignment means Texas and Texas A&M play each other again starting next season in the SEC. Same goes for BYU and Utah when they both join the Big XII next year. But realignment has brought more bad then good, and has broken up many passionate rivalries that make college football so captivating. It really bums me out, and work is slow enough today that I can make a long rambly post on Newgrounds about it in between calls.

TL;DR Conference realignment and it's consequnces have taken a lot of the magic out of college football and broken up great rivalries.

Edit: Due to the BIg XII abosrbing new teams and changes to scheduling, Iowa State and Kansas State will not play each in 2027. This breaks the streak of these teams playing each other every year, which they have done since the series' inception in 1917. More proof to the pile as to why realignment stinks.

FYI, the seucrities market closes at 1pm EST today. Meaning if you want the trade date for that stock or mutual fund you're buying shares of to be for today, you have to place it before 1pm EST.

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I make a dime

Tha'ts why I poop on company time.

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Jimbo Fisher is the head football coach for Texas A&M University. After going 45-25 since being hired in 2018, the university is moving to fire him from his position. Firing Fisher will require the university to buy out his contract, which will run A&M a cool $76,000,000 to do so. What I want to know is how can I become the head of a major college football program? That way when I underpreform expectations and put a mediocre product on the field, I can get tens of millions as they kick me out the door.

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InnocentGirl96 is up to her usual tier of posts again

Her foul language and white hot rage don't bother me, for the most part I find it amusing. I just want to know who pissed in her cornflakes to get hear this heated. There's a good chance this is a particularly obnoxious troll, but she's so committed to the bit that I'm thinking this is her being for real.

Got 'em.