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- You all aren't going to believe this, but Pat Fitzgerald feels "100% vindicated."
- You're actually not going to believe this one. Luke Fickell is sticking around into at least 2026 at Wisconsin. I mean, the coaching market is pretty busy right now, so I get it. But Wiscy fans probably aren't stoked.
- We've got a pretty great slate of one-off uniforms across CFB this week. Boston College honors a hero from 9/11, Marshall remembers the tragic loss of the 1970 team, UCF goes Space U, and Tulane makes a snow cone. Wait, what?
- The YouTube TV/Disney dispute continues apace. Enshittification continues.
- Coming to you from FOIABall, a relatively new indie publication, they've got internal documents from DHS showing just how overarching their surveillance network is. They're using facial recognition at, amongst many other locations, college football games. This is a both horrifying and incredibly well researched long read. The modern panopticon is already in place. It will only get worse.
- And now for something completely different. An Oakland County, Michigan resident has fled her home due to an infestation of raccoons. Insult to injury, her management company has refused to fix the hole in the roof (through which the adorable but sneaky gremlins have entered) until the raccoons are gone. She's withholding rent, as she should. Who's the real rodent in this scenario?
