"Every team is horrible except for Ohio State, which crushed 17th-ranked Illinois in Champaign yesterday. Unless Ryan Day manages to outdumb himself somehow, the Buckeyes are gonna bulldoze their way to a repeat. Every quarterback is ALSO horrible. Yes, that includes Arch Manning, who is now at the "get lavish praise merely for winning a game in which you failed to crack 200 yards" stage of bustdom that Bryce Young is currently enjoying."
"You already know that Bill Belichick's nascent tenure as head coach of the Tar Heels has been an unmitigated disaster. It's gotten to the point now, just five weeks in, where people inside the UNC program used the Tar Heels' idle week to leak every nasty detail they'd heard about Belichick's administration, probably in hopes that the school could wriggle out from the coach's onerous contract. Belichick is clearly in over his head. He treats players like shit."
"He thought recruits would take less NIL money just to play for him (they didn't). He used the team's brief off period this month to frolic with his girlfriend in Nantucket rather than hit the recruiting trail. VIOLATIONS! Yes yes, Bill Belichick committed many "serious" (gasp!) NCAA infractions, which still means something! IT'S ABOUT ETHICS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL, DAMMIT! But you know about most of those reports already. In fact, you intuited them the moment UNC hitched its program to a 74-year-old sociopath."
Ohio State remains the lone strong team, routing 17th-ranked Illinois and appearing poised for a repeat conference run. Most other college teams performed poorly. Quarterbacks across the sport are underwhelming, with Arch Manning receiving lavish praise despite failing to reach 200 passing yards. Penn State has declined from disappointing to outright bad, intensifying criticism of James Franklin. North Carolina's Bill Belichick experiment has become a disaster marked by internal leaks, alleged player mistreatment, recruiting miscalculations regarding NIL, a Nantucket absence during a key off period, and reports of serious NCAA infractions. Mike Lombardi appears repeatedly in the controversy.
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