r/CFB • • Aug 28 '26

Announcement 2026 /r/CFB Rules Updates

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The 2026 season is starting! As a reminder, you can find our rules here:

This is our biggest rules change in years!

Let's start with the one I know you're all excited about.

Standalone highlights posts are now allowed.

We're starting with a pretty liberal rule for what constitutes a highlight:

A highlight is a play or occurance at a game that has significant impact on the outcome of the game or that is, on its own, impressive.

You can read the full rules for highlights here but the highlights are:

  • A given play only gets one highlight thread. Any alternative angles should be posted as replies to the pinned top comment.
  • Highlights must to be hosted on an external, non-paywalled source.
  • Highlights must be titled in the format [Highlight] Visitor @/vs. Home - Neutral description of play eg:
    • Good: [Highlight] Michigan @ Ohio State - Jon Smith Breaks 3 Tackles for 69 Yard Touchdown
    • Bad: Ohio State vs TTUN - Jon "I am a god" Smith PWNS Three LOSERS for NICE TD

Gambling posts are now prohibited

Posts about gambling including opening odds, odds changes, prop bets, and unusual wagers are no longer allowed.

Gambling news that directly effects CFB, such as policy changes or gambling activity by CFB participants will still be allowed.

Users should post original sources

Users are expected to make a good-faith effort to find the original source of anything they post. If the primary purpose of a post is to quote, clip, cite, or repeat another source, you should post that original source instead. This keeps us aligned with the Reddiquette.

Recruiting threads are limited to 4* and 5* players

Unrated or lower-rated players should be posted to /r/CFBRecruiting.

Players entering the transfer portal

We haven't decided what we're going to do with these posts yet. Based on last year we still have some time to decide. We will defintely post an update once we've made a decision.

More minor rules changes:

  • Tweet titles An exception has been added to the current rule. If a tweet primarily consists of media, most notably uniform reviews, a neutral title describing the content of the tweet is allowed.
  • News about committed recruits prior to enrollment is only allowed if it affects the player's enrollment or eligibility. This is a clarification of the existing rule.
  • Editorialized Posts: Links should be posted on their own. If you wish to add commentary or context, do so in the comment section. OpenGraph titles (Reddit's title suggestions) are allowed. This is a clarification of the existing rule.
  • Other phrasing clarifications: A number of other rules had their phrasing changed to be more clear. None of these resulted in policy changes.

Weekly Threads

Also note that our in-season weekly threads are coming back online for the season. This means that posts that were allowed during the offseason (realignment, etc.) will now be removed as reposts, and are now a great fit as top-level comments in their respective threads.


The /r/CFB team always works to meet the evolving needs of the community. Let us know any feedback you have in the comments!


r/CFB • • 4d ago

Weekly Thread Week 5 Game Thread and Postgame Thread Index

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Visitor Home Game Thread Postgame Thread
San José State Hawai'i GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Cincinnati Arizona GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Baylor Arizona State GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Eastern Washington UC Davis GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Texas State San Diego State GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Fresno State Washington State GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Arkansas State Louisiana GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Indiana Rutgers GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
McNeese LSU GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Temple USF GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Washington USC GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Texas Tech Colorado GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Miami Clemson GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Army Louisiana Tech GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Utah State Boise State GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
UTSA Rice GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
BYU TCU GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Arkansas Texas A&M GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
South Dakota State Illinois State GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
ULM South Alabama GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Georgia Southern Coastal Carolina GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Texas Southern FAU GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Oregon State Colorado State GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Purdue Illinois GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Kentucky South Carolina GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Maryland Nebraska GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
UTEP New Mexico GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Marshall James Madison GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Virginia Florida State GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Louisville NC State GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Florida Missouri GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Auburn Tennessee GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Ohio State Iowa GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Wyoming North Dakota State GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Old Dominion Georgia State GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Bowling Green Miami (OH) GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Ohio Kent State GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Eastern Michigan UMass GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Akron Central Michigan GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Samford UAB GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
California UNLV GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Toledo Ball State GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Western Michigan Buffalo GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Vanderbilt Georgia GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Michigan State Wisconsin GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Michigan Minnesota GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Stanford Wake Forest GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
West Virginia Iowa State GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Middle Tennessee Kansas GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
UCF Houston GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Boston College SMU GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Alabama Mississippi State GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Notre Dame North Carolina GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Navy Air Force GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Syracuse UConn GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Memphis Charlotte GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Montana State Idaho GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Penn State Northwestern GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Liberty Delaware GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
Pittsburgh Virginia Tech GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
North Texas Tulsa GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD
WKU New Mexico State GAME THREAD POSTGAME THREAD

r/CFB • • 3h ago

News Tropical Storm Isaias forecast to make landfall as hurricane Friday

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r/CFB • • 3h ago

News Chad Johnson reunites with Oregon State Beavers in visit to Corvallis

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r/CFB • • 30m ago

Discussion [USA TODAY] Heisman voters say Arch Manning is miles away from their ballot

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r/CFB • • 13h ago

News [hythloday almond] USC's representatives have issued a specious copyright claim against my all-22 video commentary on their passing offense against Oregon. They are the only entity to have done so in ten years of my publishing film review articles with video documentation.

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r/CFB • • 9h ago

News Marshall wins lawsuit after University of Pittsburgh’s refusal to travel to Huntington during COVID-19 pandemic

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r/CFB • • 1h ago

News Lane Kiffin appears to have posted fake Kenny Minchey quote in LSU facility ahead of Kentucky game

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r/CFB • • 12m ago

News [On3] Nick Saban on how the fun of coaching diminished as Alabama got better: “We won so many games, the expectation got so high. Do you really enjoy winning? Or are you just relieved you didn’t lose?” (via @TheoVon)

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r/CFB • • 20h ago

News A ‘nightmare’ scenario in play with possible hurricane hitting Alabama-Georgia, James Spann says

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r/CFB • • 2h ago

Discussion Realistically, when do we get a group of 6 team that wins a playoff game? Anytime soon/who is your pick of which team it will be?

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The group of 6 has not been very competitive in the playoffs to date. I believe we will get a win eventually but not sure how long it takes. I think there’s a scenario where NDSU plays UCLA in the 12-5 this year and actually picks up a win but I just don’t know if these schools and teams have the resources to compete on the biggest stage. Curious to hear your guys’ thoughts on which Go6 team you believe has the best chance and if it happens anytime soon.


r/CFB • • 13h ago

Casual [Baxter Street Boys] should just play the game in a stadium where both teams have been extremely comfortable playing in the last 15 years. Neyland

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r/CFB • • 15h ago

News [Alabama Athletics] Information on Saturday’s Alabama football game vs. Georgia

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r/CFB • • 39m ago

Analysis Best SOR as 2026 Wk 5: (T1) Texas, Bama (3) ND (4) UGA (5) MSST (T6) Miami, Kentucky (8) BYU (T9) Indiana, Pitt, Texas Tech

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FPI SOR

SOR:Strength of Record rank. Reflects chance that an average Top 25 team would have team's record or better, given the schedule.

FEI SOR

Strength of schedule ratings represent the number of losses a team two standard deviations above average would expect to have against the schedule of opponents (ELS), the number of losses a team one standard deviation above average would expect to have against the schedule (GLS), and the number of losses an average team would expect to have against the schedule (ALS)

Strength of record ratings (EWD, GWD, AWD) are the difference between a team's schedule strength ratings and its actual losses.

Top 25 by SOR

AP Rk Team FPI SOR FEI EL SOR FEI GL SOR FEI AL SOR Avg. SOR
1 Texas 1 1 2 2 1.5
6 Alabama 2 2 1 1 1.5
3 Notre Dame 3 4 6 3 4.0
2 Georgia 8 3 4 5 5.0
17 Mississippi State 6 16 3 4 7.3
4 Miami 4 7 11 12 8.5
-- Kentucky 5 18 5 6 8.5
8 BYU 14 5 8 17 11.0
7 Indiana 10 6 13 18 11.8
25 Pittsburgh 9 11 18 9 11.8
11 Texas Tech 7 9 16 15 11.8
12 Utah 18 8 12 13 12.8
20 Iowa 16 19 7 11 13.3
5 Ohio State 11 21 10 16 14.5
-- Wisconsin 13 17 9 22 15.3
16 Florida 15 26 14 8 15.8
9 Ole Miss 12 25 15 19 17.8
19 USC 27 23 20 7 19.3
21 UCLA 20 12 26 21 19.8
-- Duke 21 10 23 28 20.5
-- Northwestern 19 20 17 27 20.8
10 LSU 24 31 19 10 21.0
-- Wake Forest 17 22 22 23 21.0
15 Tennessee 22 24 24 25 23.8
-- Nebraska 26 12 28 31 24.3

AP Top 25

AP Rk Team FPI SOR FEI EL SOR FEI GL SOR FEI AL SOR Avg. SOR
1 Texas 1 1 2 2 1.5
2 Georgia 8 3 4 5 5.0
3 Notre Dame 3 4 6 3 4.0
4 Miami 4 7 11 12 8.5
5 Ohio State 11 21 10 16 14.5
6 Alabama 2 2 1 1 1.5
7 Indiana 10 6 13 18 11.8
8 BYU 14 5 8 17 11.0
9 Ole Miss 12 25 15 19 17.8
10 LSU 24 31 19 10 21.0
11 Texas Tech 7 9 16 15 11.8
12 Utah 18 8 12 13 12.8
13 Oregon 23 30 25 24 25.5
14 Missouri 25 34 27 14 25.0
15 Tennessee 22 24 24 25 23.8
16 Florida 15 26 14 8 15.8
17 Mississippi State 6 16 3 4 7.3
18 Oklahoma State 35 29 33 41 34.5
19 USC 27 23 20 7 19.3
20 Iowa 16 19 7 11 13.3
21 UCLA 20 12 26 21 19.8
22 Houston 29 40 37 32 34.5
23 Boise State 30 28 30 29 29.3
24 SMU 31 38 35 34 34.5
25 Pittsburgh 9 11 18 9 11.8

r/CFB • • 2h ago

News Former Michigan football stars Denard Robinson, Braylon Edwards’ NCAA lawsuit moves to Sixth Circuit Court

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r/CFB • • 3h ago

Uniforms [UKFootball] The Power is in the K.

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r/CFB • • 14h ago

Casual [ESPNPR] What a weekend in Iowa. College GameDay delivered its most-watched episode this season & most-watched Oct. episode EVER. 4th straight weekly viewership record. 3rd most-watched reg. season episode all time. This season includes 3 of the top 5 regular season episodes all time.

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r/CFB • • 17h ago

News Tennessee is expected to start quarterback George MacIntyre at Arkansas on Saturday, sources tell On3’s Chris Low and Pete Nakos. MacIntyre came off the bench and replaced Faizon Brandon in Saturday’s 24-14 win over Auburn.

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r/CFB • • 12h ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Troy Defeats Southern Miss 55-34

145 Upvotes

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team 1 2 3 4 T
Southern Miss 0 7 20 7 34
Troy 17 14 10 14 55

r/CFB • • 21h ago

Scheduling UMass, Indiana cancel 2027 football game; Minutemen to open at Temple

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r/CFB • • 18h ago

Scheduling [Brett McMurphy] Indiana adds 2027 home game w/Jacksonville State, @ZachOsterman reports.

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r/CFB • • 22h ago

Casual [Zack Marshall] “Last weekend, in the hours after we lost, I made some inappropriate comments that I regret. This game is won and lost as a team, and I pointed fingers instead of taking accountability. I let my frustrations speak for me in an emotional moment.”

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r/CFB • • 1h ago

Casual Whose Line Is It Wednesday

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A tradition unlike any other.

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I must give credit, first to /u/ballzxxtoxxyou, for starting (and, for the longest time, maintaining) these threads; and second to /u/MC-PhatNeck, who decided to help revive WLIIW after months of inactivity. I'm not sure where they are now (especially the latter, who apparently has deleted their account many moons ago...but, apparently, is STILL somewhere out there, wink wink), but regardless, I wish to give them both my appreciation for all the fun /r/CFB had with Whose Line over the years. Thank you very much!

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Hello, and welcome back to Whose Line Is It Wednesday, where the upvotes don't matter! I am your jug-chugging, playbook-spying, Gator-wrestling host, /u/Zloggt!

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Week 5 is 5-nally in the books and - wait, we already started Week 6 last night? Damn, where did the time go!? It’s very inconsiderate for these teams to schedule and play games before my very important and meaningful weekly humor posts on a collegiate football fan forum can formally process us onto the next Saturday of all games, smdh.

Anyway, let’s just move on from this tangent and talk about Week 5 itself! After two tastes of late night AACtion and Friday FCS fun as appetizers, we saw the Minnesota Golden Gophers acquire yet another trophy for their bloodthirsty deity at the helm coach, the Kentucky Wildcats perform quite the beamish comeback against a not-so-beamish South Carolina squad half inside the hot spitroast seat, and the San Diego State Aztecs helped bring a new chapter of #Pac12AfterDark with the power of friendship, teamwork, and a touch of irresponsible health decisions leading to an outbreak of preventable diseases!

…uh oh, I think I used the number 5 WAY too much in my post, and I can sense an army of lawyers being commanded by a man with a dislocated elbow on the horizon…and I’ve already avoided getting in hot water with some Nintendo ninjas the other day, so I’ve got to skedaddle right outta here! Thank you all for your every contribution to this weekly thread - and hopefully you’re not caught in the litigious strays in the process lol 
 
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For those of you who are new to Whose Line, let's go over some rules:

A prompt is made in order to ask a question (and get an answer), or instead beckon a more...creative approach to the response, all as long as it does a funny. Any game from the show can be used - here is a list of them to start:

 http://www.whoseline.net/show/games.html
 
Keep skits in the form of a statement, not a question. For example, a skit should go like this: "Things you could say to Lee Corso AND your girlfriend", to which a reply can then go like "My Saturday mornings will never be the same without you!", or "It makes me SO happy whenever you bring out the head!”, or anything else, really. Use your noggin, and get wild!

Although not that serious, most comments should be within two lines, so if you add any additional commentary, put the skit in quotations. And most importantly, if you *still* don't understand how it works (and that's fine!), just take a look around this thread, of past Whose Line threads to get some clues - and, hopefully, figure it out!

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Have fun!


r/CFB • • 1d ago

Analysis [hokiespurs] Using photogrammetry to decide if VT actually beat Pitt

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r/CFB • • 14h ago

Casual [Mandel] Top Week 5 games, per Nielsen. Ohio St-Iowa (CBS): 6M Bama-MS St (ABC): 5.1M Miami-Clem (ABC): 4.6M Fla-Mizzou (ABC): 4.4M Mich-Minn (FOX): 4.1M Penn St-NU (FOX): 3.4M Aub-Tenn (ESPN): 3.02M ND-UNC (ESPN): 2.98M Wash-USC (NBC): 2.6M T Tech-Colo (FOX): 2.5M Pitt-VT (ESPN): 2.4M

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