2026 Other College Football

[HogOfWar]

In all seriousness, that is probably exactly the reason he wasn't hired.  Too edgy and profane.  Silverfield seems to be the exact opposite.

Another fine Christian man.

[Show-Me Hog]

We're "nameless, faceless misfits."  Sounds about right.

Actually, I think the connection he tries to make between "social media" on the one hand, and on-field fan behavior on the other, is tenuous at best, and completely made up at worst.  We have no idea if the actions he cites are message board people, or related to message boards at all.

 

Mike Elko walked it back Monday, which should make the burning bile in your gut rise a little bit higher.

The nameless, faceless misfits won again.

And what happens when the dregs of social media are emboldened, you ask? When they leave the protection of their anonymous message board bomb throwing and have to function in the real world?

You get a 40-something Alabama fan, hepped up on canned courage and undoubtedly with too much Bama in him, slapping and pushing the helmet of Georgia linebacker Raylen Wilson after the Tide's home loss to the Dawgs.

You get those same nameless, faceless throwing objects from the stands at Georgia players.

You get pathetic gnats sprinting on the field at Kentucky — not to celebrate a big win over LSU, but to find Tigers coach Lane Kiffin and give him the middle finger. All while recording on their phones.

Because, you know, "influencers."

"I think everybody knows I appreciate our fan base and everything they're about, and everything they mean to Texas A&M," said Elko, whose third season as the Texas A&M coach has hit some tough times on the field. "Outside of that, I'll leave it alone."

Yeah, I won't. Nor should any of us.

This isn't about the loyal and passionate fans, those who spend money, time and emotion bleeding for their schools. Where victory is glorious, and defeat is deflating.

While that's the wide majority of fans who frequent the TexAgs message boards, you'd be absolutely foolish to think there isn't also a "cesspool" — as Elko said after a loss to Missouri — of the loud and gutless.

Just like everywhere, on any platform, of social media. Sports, politics, life. You name it, everyone has their incandescent vituperation — and you're going to hear it.

They bully, they threaten, they dox — all within the safety of their miserable, anonymous existence. The insular and the unaccountable, as dangerous a combination as you'll find.

So Elko blew it when he called out the vocal minority by using the name of the owner of TexAgs, and conflating the two. Foolish, no doubt.

But he was spot-on with the assessment of the mindless clout-chasers on social media, the nattering nabobs of negativism who frolic through the mud with their absolute and unquestioned right to complain.

The whole ecosystem — the philosophy, the execution of it all — is so bizarre. Drop verbal bombs wherever and however, stalk family and friends of coaches and players, and complain about their dad/wife or son/daughter.

Then sit back and watch the carnage unfold.

"Dude that was SO cool."

Actually, it's stupid. And dangerous.

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: social media is the best worst thing ever. It emotionally connects us like nothing ever has — yet physically separates us to the detriment of all.

It's a voice for the needy, and a megaphone for the unfiltered. It's beautifully sadistic and wildly temperamental. 

Until the moment comes when those within the insular world believe it's real.  Believe what plays out on a minute by minute basis in narcissistic crazy town is truly how the world revolves.

Spoiler alert: it's not.

So you get an idiot fan leaning over the rails at a game, taking swipes at a man twice his size and half his age. He can't hurt me, he doesn't know me — and he's surely not coming into these stands after me. Until he does.

Or you get four nobodies chasing the most high-profile coach in college football, Pavlov's phones stuck at arm's length. Nobody is going to stop me, they don't even see me.

Until the state trooper trailing the action does.

And then in the irony of ironies, those attempting to reset the social media madness — in any way they can — become the heavy. The death of fun.

That Alabama "fan" is lucky Wilson didn't reach into the stands, grab him by the sweaty shirt with one hand, and give him the people's explanation of college football with the other. If you know what I mean.

Wilson later responded to the incident on his Instagram — because where else would he? — and said, "I thought the dude was a UGA fan tried to dap him up."

Nope. Just another in a long line of faux social media muscle. Take a stand, make a statement — but only with the cloak of anonymity.

Meanwhile, Mike Elko is the problem because of his awkward way of calling it out. Go leap into the cesspool with that victory, misfits.

It's right in your wheelhouse.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/10/14/college-football-fans-social-media-mike-elko-idiots/92236058007/

[DrMongoose]

Saturday is going to be epic

https://x.com/boxscore_fb/status/2110136867245171018?s=61&t=yqgft3mqzhJjVNQN1flX9A

[DrMongoose]

Thank goodness the cfp chairman didn't hire the p6 playoff coach to be his football coach

https://x.com/uclafootball/status/2110502762018738552?s=61&t=yqgft3mqzhJjVNQN1flX9A

https://x.com/3xoptionshow/status/2110122946320556198?s=61&t=yqgft3mqzhJjVNQN1flX9A

[animal]

Too bad those small timer guys would never work in the SEC

[buff2.0]

24 team CFP next year because fuck you

[egregious]

24 team CFP next year because fuck you

That means win 5 conference games and you are in if the nonconference part has no embarrassments.

24 teams mean the SEC gets 8 just about every year.  9 game schedules mean the just above breakeven is 5-4.

What is really going to be great is watching them argue for half the show about the 9th SEC team vs. the 4th or 5th Big 12 team.  That is where the cutoff will be.

[animal]

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Arkansas getting ready for being a bottom in the new era of football. 

[SwahiliSteve]

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50192570/southern-nazarene-safety-tyler-ulrich-dies-injury

Yikes

[Loma]

Saturday is going to be epic.

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[DirkPiggler]

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50192570/southern-nazarene-safety-tyler-ulrich-dies-injury

Yikes

Football needs to go away.  Seriously.

People are dying or turning into vegetables from it.  Plus all my teams suck.

[egregious]

Football needs to go away.  Seriously.

People are dying or turning into vegetables from it.  Plus all my teams suck.

Gladiator fights were mostly not fatal immediately back in the day.  They would be fucked up though and die sooner than expected.  Football is like that, between the roids or whatever unnatural shit they now take and the CTE.  Everything is about money, always has been but it gets more and more obnoxious.  I dumped the NFL way back before Kapernick because every week being so "important" wore me down.  I felt manipulated.  CFB is getting that way.  The only reason I hold on is that it is literally the only sport I have left. 

[Show-Me Hog]

All in all, I wish we would have hired Barry Odom when we hired Pittman. Or, when he went to Purdue.

They might lose to Washington tonight, but he's got them playing like an actual football team, which they haven't done for a few years.

[HughJasole]

All in all, I wish we would have hired Barry Odom when we hired Pittman. Or, when he went to Purdue.

They might lose to Washington tonight, but he's got them playing like an actual football team, which they haven't done for a few years.

Didn't realize Shibest was Odom's special teams coach and Kiero Small is their strength and conditioning coach.

[Texzilla]

Next step will be all d 1 teams make the playoffs yet Arkansas will miss out

[animal]

48 team playoff and we would still never make it

[BleedinRed]

I love the expansion.  Should have been done on day one.  

[Zoso]

I love the expansion.  Should have been done on day one. 

I was against it. But McAfee is against it so now I'm for it.

[buff2.0]

Kid that just made that kick on GameDay is going to be swimming in it for the rest of the weekend.

[HogOfWar]

Pat McAfee looks like Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.