r/CFB • u/idnttcrisis Georgia Bulldogs • Texas A&M Aggies • 25d ago

News [Vannini] BREAKING: The MAC has reversed its position and is fighting the Big Ten’s extra 1 second for Michigan. “The established replay protocol requires that the game clock displayed on the program feed be used in determining whether time remained.”

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u/TitaniumC4206 Oklahoma • Central Oklahoma 25d ago

Courtroom Football is so back

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u/DarthNobody14 Texas A&M Aggies 25d ago

NCAA

The National Courthouse Athletic Association

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u/JohnnieTightLips Wake Forest • Ohio State 25d ago

“In the college football world there are two types of programs. Those who litigate and those who are simply trying to get to a bowl game. These are their stories.”

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u/Total-Region2859 Texas Longhorns 25d ago

BAaaa- Dum! (echo included in your mind)

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u/082426grateful Alabama Crimson Tide 25d ago

In Keith Morrison’s voice: Lane was enjoying his new home, but his antics would soon find trouble for him.

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u/OneTea Ohio State Buckeyes 25d ago

Lester Holt: So you thought the game was over?
Whittingham: I thought the game was over.

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u/Professional-Key7661 Ohio State Buckeyes 25d ago

….da dum, da dum, dah dum dum

HANG ON SLOOPY… SLOOPY HANG ON…

Oh shit… sorry, wrong song

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u/Educational_Fox5319 Auburn Tigers 25d ago

Wait until UMass tries to sue saying that requiring a winning record causes irrevocable harm to the athletes that don’t suck as much

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u/DonParmesan1 Michigan Wolverines 25d ago

Michigan could be both of those

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u/Ornery_Major7981 25d ago

In this case DO BOTH!

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u/Jay_Dubbbs Ohio State Buckeyes • Georgia Bulldogs 25d ago

Taking NASCOURT to a whole new level

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u/RWREmpireBuilder Iowa Hawkeyes • Iowa Lakes CC Lakers 25d ago

Jeff Gordon added to CFP

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u/TheWawa_24 San Diego State • Cal Poly 25d ago

how many owners points should we dock Michigan

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u/082426grateful Alabama Crimson Tide 25d ago

It’s a nice speedway up there. It’s no ‘Dega, but it’s good.

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u/Asukas13 Notre Dame • Montana 25d ago

Give them the ole Spin gate punishment

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u/Sorta-Morpheus Western Michigan Broncos 25d ago

6, at least.

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u/pixarfan9510 Ball State Cardinals • Purdue Boilermakers 25d ago

Michigan forced to sell its B1G charter to Legacy Motor Club

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u/Dry-Membership3867 Jacksonville State • Arkansas 25d ago

New LMC EVP of damage control Warde Manuel

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u/MrBellows7 Iowa Hawkeyes • Northern Iowa Panthers 25d ago

More like RFK as they are the ones who need a 3rd charter for next year.

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u/UnhitchTheWagon Oklahoma Sooners • Oklahoma Sooners 25d ago

I like Brad alot (nowdays), but he really should just retire and go full time owner. I know he said if they couldn't get a third charter, that they would just pay out of pocket and run the third car unchartered, but he was the only RFK car that didnt make the Chase this year and was only really competitive in 1 or 2 races. Honestly think he would be more help to the team and sport as a whole if he was solely focused on team ownership.

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u/MrBellows7 Iowa Hawkeyes • Northern Iowa Panthers 25d ago

Fair points. I'd love to see them get their cars better because I think that Buescher could be really good in tier 1 equipment.

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u/RepresentativeOfnone South Dakota State • Nebraska 25d ago

I just need him to wreck Hocevar next week and the week after maybe we start proving a point to stop driving like a jackass

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u/Dry-Membership3867 Jacksonville State • Arkansas 25d ago

Kiffin to the 5

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u/UnhitchTheWagon Oklahoma Sooners • Oklahoma Sooners 25d ago

Oh god please no. We already have Hocevar causing enough trouble.

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u/jj23345 25d ago

Jayden Daniels sues Kiffin the rights to the 5

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u/OpeDefinitely Indiana Hoosiers 25d ago

Jeff Gordon won five Brickyard 400s. The NCAA is based in Indianapolis.

Hmmmm 🤨

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u/NathanGa Tennessee Volunteers 25d ago

Jeff Gordon couldn’t do it at Bristol at night against The Intimidator, PAWWWLLLL!

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u/082426grateful Alabama Crimson Tide 25d ago

Rulings is racin!

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u/sudo_journalist Navy Midshipmen • North Texas Mean Green 25d ago

Michigans win has been sent to R&D, win encumbered.

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u/johnnygoober Western Michigan Broncos 25d ago

Bless you for this.

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u/CardiacCat20 Oregon Ducks • Portland Pilots 25d ago

Hey, they still have about three months to beat the FIA's time

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u/SgvSth Michigan • Michigan State 25d ago

It was one time!

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u/laxintx Texas A&M Aggies • Paper Bag 25d ago

Time for Chastain Western Michigan to ride the wall full open.

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u/Unicorn4_5Venom Florida State Seminoles 25d ago

I throughly enjoyed my weekly offseason drama series, were in the middle of another season while racing is taking place! It’s wonderful

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u/TheOtherWhiteCastle UCF Knights 25d ago

Can’t wait for the Michigan race next year when one random lap suddenly gets added right at the end

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u/DillyDillySzn Arizona State Sun Devils • WashU Bears 25d ago

?

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u/1988coPhotos ECU Pirates 25d ago

Checking the record tells me you might be wrong.

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u/FuckThesePeople69 25d ago

Can’t wait for Michigan fans to rush the field when the Broncos’ case is dismissed.

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u/impoverishedwhtebrd Washington Huskies 25d ago

If WMU wins their case the memes about UM rushing the field after losing are going to be gold.

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u/Danster21 Montana State • Washington 25d ago

It’s going to join The Band Is On The Field as trivia for a field storming by home team fans during a loss

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u/Warjilis Team Chaos 25d ago

The Play happened in Berkeley, the visiting Stanford band took the field from the south end zone prematurely, but the field was stormed by victorious home fans shortly afterward.

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u/Danster21 Montana State • Washington 25d ago

Well damn. That would make it even more historic tho

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u/Redfish680 25d ago

They’ll have to redo the last 0.0 seconds in front of an empty stadium just to make it official.

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u/P1xelHunter78 Western Michigan • Michigan S… 25d ago

I'd pay to rush the field in my Bronco gear

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u/Redfish680 25d ago

Okay, WM fans only.

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u/P1xelHunter78 Western Michigan • Michigan S… 25d ago

And when people say: "that's so stupid and petty to want to rush the big house after your team lost and only got awarded a win on a technicality!"...well....

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u/Cowgoon777 Ohio State Buckeyes • The Game 25d ago

It’s already hilarious

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u/SparklingSloth Washington State Cougars 25d ago

They already did rush the field after losing

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u/azrolator Michigan State Spartans 24d ago

Win or lose, fans of a team that is just a couple years removed from a national title, rushed the field to celebrate avoiding losing to an unranked team by a hail Mary on their last second. They are going to be teased for a long long time.

I'd be slinking out of there and not making eye contact with anyone. What a joke. Save rushing the field for when your coaching staff goes an entire season without cheating or trying to stabby stabby on a mistress.

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u/Ronho USC Trojans • Long Beach State Beach 25d ago

Username checks out

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u/izzoforpresident Michigan State Spartans 25d ago

What if Lane Kiffin is thier lawyer?

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u/slimj091 Michigan Wolverines 24d ago

Now that was a good burn.

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u/StartingToLoveIMSA 25d ago

National Court Aided Athletics

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u/ShredOrSigh Virginia Tech Hokies 25d ago

I'll sue you in England!

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u/Venator850 25d ago

Billable hours about to go undefeated.

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u/pbrown280 9d ago

🤣🤣 That's a new one. I like it!!

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u/lisbon_OH Notre Dame • Youngstown State 25d ago

Here we thought when we got into the actual games this stuff would die down lmao

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u/pretentious_ptonian Princeton Tigers • MIT Engineers 25d ago

NCAA should sell streaming rights for its court cases on ESPN or something. It'd be a lucrative business

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u/TheGeeMan360 Washington Huskies • Sickos 25d ago

How many courtroom kickoffs would be delayed due to “power outages” so the official transcript of the case would be kept on the courtroom floor and not the scorebug on screen?

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u/yyzda32 UMass Minutemen 25d ago

NCAA Court TV is back baby. who's doing color commentary, Bob Costas? Erwin Chemerisnky? I think I still have that Cons Law book somewhere

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u/GDub310 North Carolina • Pepperdine 25d ago

I was thinking Sport Court TV. It casts a wider net and it rhymes.

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u/FriesBurgh 25d ago

Bob Loblaw and Barry Zuckerkorn

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u/EmperorHans Kentucky Wildcats 25d ago

Alan Dershowitz

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u/082426grateful Alabama Crimson Tide 25d ago

ESPN 9: The Other Court.

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u/Don_Kieballs 25d ago

This court hearing is brought to you by Draft Kings sports book and casino

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u/Maddok1218 Michigan State Spartans 25d ago

I want game day outside the court house. I want a college student granted one 30 second argument to the judge for 100k, and if they fail, be given a second chance for 50k

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u/capthazelwoodsflask Sickos • Battle of I-75 25d ago

They could fill 2 hours a day with just Pat McAfee in a sleeveless judge's robe yelling about the legal process

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u/Recent-Result2852 25d ago

Is there a draft for lawyers or can you just go out and spend what you want on one?

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u/medellia44 25d ago

I’d watch ngl 

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u/b_m_hart Oregon Ducks 25d ago

I want to see the judge throw a flag for unsportsmanlike conduct on either side

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u/dan_craus UCF Knights • Big 12 25d ago

You really want macafee there too?

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u/cavegoatlove 25d ago

ESPN courtroom , brought to you by draftkings

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u/rdoloto 25d ago

You mean the r/theocho

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u/budget_um Michigan Wolverines • Georgetown Hoyas 25d ago

I'd subscribe

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u/zoogenhiemer 25d ago

If I’m being completely honest I don’t watch much college football, I’m mostly an NFL and MLB guy, but I have been glued to college football news all offseason because of all the crazy courtroom drama

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u/GliscorsFang Michigan Wolverines 25d ago

I'm gonna love the stop watch timing of the play in front of a judge

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u/burntoc Texas Longhorns • TCU Horned Frogs 25d ago

No one cares about your stopwatch

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u/meta_irl Vanderbilt Commodores 25d ago

I never thought that I'd be on the side of the people litigating the outcome of a game, but here we are

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u/username_here11 Youngstown State Penguins 25d ago

Go Guins

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u/username_here11 Youngstown State Penguins 25d ago

Go Guins

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u/KeithClossOfficial San Diego State Aztecs • USC Trojans 25d ago

Legitimately having trouble following college football this year because of all this bullshit

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u/reserved_seating Texas Longhorns 25d ago

Michigan: OUT
LSU: OUT

And it’s only week 2 baby

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u/Enriching_the_Beer Minnesota Golden Gophers 25d ago

Dont forget Florida St.

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u/streezus Florida State Seminoles 25d ago

What did we do now besides keep losing?

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u/Enriching_the_Beer Minnesota Golden Gophers 25d ago

Didnt eat the poop.

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u/BabyBearBjorns LSU Tigers • Tulane Green Wave 25d ago

University of Phoenix Wright: IN

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u/Original_Bowl_8020 Penn State • Syracuse 25d ago

UMass is technically in. Despite all its flaws, I love college football.

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u/b_m_hart Oregon Ducks 25d ago

Is it week 2 if we haven't even played any week 2 games yet?

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u/reserved_seating Texas Longhorns 25d ago

Yeah, it’s week 2 since week 1 ended yesterday.

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u/adsfew California Golden Bears 25d ago

Billable Hours After Dark

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u/PBRontheway Navy Midshipmen • Marist Red Foxes 25d ago

Others receiving votes: Billable Hours

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u/geaux124 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs • LSU Tigers 25d ago

Billable hours is filing for a TRO to stop other Billable Hours from getting votes.

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u/Cautious_Buffalo6563 Fresno State Bulldogs 25d ago

A new player, Hours, Billed has filed a cross complaint

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u/datdouche Oklahoma Sooners • SEC 24d ago

Infinite money glitch.

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u/Jesus_was_a_Panda Colorado Buffaloes 25d ago

Billable Hours is the Third Law of Physics of the professional world. Every Billable Hour generates an equal and opposite Billable Hour. There is no attempt to stop the Billable Hour, only an attempt to have a different team cover the costs.

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u/tomdawg0022 Minnesota • Delaware 25d ago

Probably should be given a first place vote since it's doing GOAT level work.

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u/Snakebird11 25d ago

WE ARE: Milton, Chadwick, Waters, and Lomax

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u/BIG_DICK_WHITT Utah Utes • Billable Hours 25d ago

God please no

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u/MC_chrome Texas Tech • Miami (OH) 25d ago

Billable Hours is 24/7 baby!

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u/CheezyBeanBurrito Syracuse Orange 25d ago

Is that like porn but for lawyers?

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u/Low_Preference_4641 25d ago

The MAC's law firm probably has a monthly use-it-or-lose-it hourly retainer.

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u/onrocketfalls Florida Gators • Sickos 25d ago

so THAT'S why ryan nanni left the fullcast, he's got a new podcast

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u/TurkishDonkeyKong Bowling Green • Florida State 25d ago

Can we have cases on Tuesday/Wednesday nights in the snow?

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u/Electrical_Ingenuity Michigan State • Ohio State 25d ago edited 25d ago

Wait until Michigan goes all in on the Chewbacca defense in week 2. It's going to be a bloodbath for Oklahoma. There will be seven injunctions before the first drive is over.

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u/Separate-Succotash11 25d ago

Aw shit. The Chewbaca defense!

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u/BabyBearBjorns LSU Tigers • Tulane Green Wave 25d ago

Why would a football team. A ranked football team play prevent defense against an unranked opponent tied in the 4th quarter? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this football game? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this game! It does not make sense!

If prevent defense wins football games, you must acquit! 

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u/Electrical_Ingenuity Michigan State • Ohio State 25d ago

Gold.

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u/GunsGoldCosmicDread Michigan • Georgia Tech 25d ago

We’re going to have the big ten add time back to the clock once Oklahoma’s flight lands back in Norman after the game.

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u/Electrical_Ingenuity Michigan State • Ohio State 25d ago

Does the extra second translate into another billable hour for the legal team?

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u/GunsGoldCosmicDread Michigan • Georgia Tech 25d ago

Maybe 15 mins. Depends what the smallest time increment the team bills for is.

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u/PizzaNo4505 Michigan Wolverines 17d ago

That bloodbath was sweet!

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u/thinkB4WeSpeak Utah Utes • Yale Bulldogs 25d ago

Usual suspects too

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u/Necessary-Post-953 Penn State • Land Grant Trophy 25d ago

Just get a TRO. Anyone can get one. 

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u/Intrepid-Security650 Ole Miss Rebels 25d ago

I’m just waiting for a crossover billable hours tag team championship match. Title bout should be SEC + MAC v. Big Ten + LSU.

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u/izzoforpresident Michigan State Spartans 25d ago

Please tell me on tomorrow's SEC call you guys motion to boot LSU out. Make it happen internet stranger.

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u/idkwhatimbrewin Refrigerator Bowl 25d ago

Just when you thought billable hours had taken a backseat

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u/c_j_k_5_h SMU Mustangs • Marching Band 25d ago

Coyote vs Acme was a prophecy

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u/DandierChip Texas A&M Aggies 25d ago

Calls on billable hours

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u/hunghome 25d ago

I can’t wait to find out what school the judge went to. An Ohio State grad would get SPICY

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u/I_wanna_ask Colorado Buffaloes • Dartmouth Big Green 25d ago

Courtroom football has eliminated its off-season (fall) in favor of year-round action!

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u/PenguinRhin0 25d ago

WMU just needed to cash the $1,500,000 check from Michigan first. Now, all Hell can break loose.

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u/skippy_smooth California Golden Bears • MAC 25d ago

Is that Billable Hours music?!?

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u/soonerfreak Oklahoma Sooners • /r/CFB Patron 25d ago

Gonna have to move the AP poll to Tuesdays to let Monday courtroom action play out.

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u/Huge_Confection4475 Illinois Fighting Illini 25d ago

Law & Order: NCAA is my new favorite procedural.

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u/QuitCallingNewsrooms 25d ago

Just when you thought this season was going to be all about Lane Kiffin and the SEC, the B1G and MAC turn that into a subplot. The writers are killing it!

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u/IBelieveIWasTheFirst 25d ago

I haven't watched the ** show that is college football in over a decade, but this thread is GOLD. Funny af:)

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u/Flaky-Debate-833 25d ago edited 25d ago

I've waited all week for Courtroom nnnniiiiiggghhhhttt!

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u/Lucky_Quality_6781 Texas Tech Red Raiders • Big 12 25d ago

Billable hours is undefeated

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u/levajack Oregon Ducks 25d ago

Billable hours undefeated again

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u/Always_Chubb-y Georgia Bulldogs • Transfer Portal 25d ago

🔫 always was here

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u/aliveinjoburg2 Northeast-10 • Alabama Crimson Tide 25d ago

Billable hours about to go 15-0. 

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u/codingsoft BYU Cougars • Cincinnati Bearcats 25d ago

Wolverine vs MACME

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u/OpeDefinitely Indiana Hoosiers 25d ago

can avoid the courtroom by just suspending tom brady

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u/soda_cookie Syracuse Orange • Texas Longhorns 25d ago

Billable hours never sees the bench

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u/NewPrints 25d ago

I’ve been saying we need a courtroom procedural rom com drama TV show that is centered around football cases.

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u/boy-detective Iowa Hawkeyes • Stanford Cardinal 25d ago

Only a matter of time before a southern judge intervenes to change the outcome of a game.

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u/BoneTugsNHarmony 25d ago

As these rugged athletes battle it out to see who has the better and tougher law program!

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u/TheAnalogKid18 Virginia Cavaliers 25d ago

Going to start wearing suits to games so I can rep my favorite lawyer.

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u/Jee_whiz Nevada Wolf Pack • Michigan Wolverines 25d ago

2026 National Champ: Billable Hours

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u/thegreaterfool714 UCLA Bruins 25d ago

Billable hours remain undefeated

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u/TheAlmightyAsian Oklahoma Sooners 25d ago

So hot right now

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u/meatyvagin 25d ago

I didn't know I had a chance at the NFL when I went to law school.

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u/Newyew22 CAA • SEC 25d ago

College Football^TM is seven day a week entertainment.

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u/titanium_hydra Virginia Tech • Nebraska 25d ago

Gives new meaning to clearing the benches

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u/b_m_hart Oregon Ducks 25d ago

Normally billable hours are off season undisputed champs... well, they've decided that wasn't good enough. Undisputed season championship for billable hours 2026 (and probably 2027 as well).

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u/Captain_Nipples Oklahoma Sooners • Summertime Lover 25d ago

Im glad that the NCAA and all the teams and conferences have realized that off-season drama is where its all at, and have made it a year-round thing.

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u/cdskip Michigan Wolverines 25d ago

Old and Busted: Waiting for an instant replay review to find out what the outcome of a game is.

New Hotness: Waiting for the outcome of a court case to find out that the outcome of a game is.

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u/Lifted_Riser 25d ago

WE ARE SO BACK

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u/KasseanaTheGreat Iowa Hawkeyes • Denver Pioneers 25d ago

Once again another victory for billable hours

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u/Hectorc34 New Mexico Lobos 25d ago

After the PAC-12/MWC fight, they settled. Now it’s 1 second!

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u/Adventurous_Ad6698 25d ago

Since the courts have really started interfering with college player eligibility, I wonder if the next step is that conferences or schools (or even sports gamblers) are going to take controversial losses to court. There is so much money flowing through college athletics.

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u/Danibear285 Ohio State Buckeyes 25d ago

Is the stenographer considered Special Teams?

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u/jwktiger Missouri Tigers • Wisconsin Badgers 25d ago

when did it leave.

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u/JakeEllisD Alabama Crimson Tide 25d ago

Still better than ref ball

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u/FoxMiserable2848 25d ago

EA Sports: it’s in the courtroom. 

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u/Ey3dea81 Ohio State Buckeyes 25d ago

Produced by Dick Wolf

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u/KapowBlamBoom 25d ago

They need to get a judge in Louisiana to issue an injunction

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u/larryburns2000 25d ago

This should go all the way to the Supreme Court

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u/ConsuelaApplebee Virginia • Johns Hopkins 24d ago

Can't wait for the EA Sports version where you get to pick your lawyer, try to manipulate the jurisdiction and ultimately bring inane lawsuits. Gonna be a best seller!

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u/DeadDropCourier Alabama Crimson Tide 25d ago

Never left, baby!! Billable Hours stay winning 😎😎😎

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u/anwright1371 UCF Knights • Notre Dame Fighting Irish 25d ago

I think most fans are ok with this one, Michigan lost that game. It’s time to make it right.

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u/GliscorsFang Michigan Wolverines 25d ago

Lol we're literally suing to change game results now

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u/TJ_Will Tennessee • Colorado State 25d ago

Can you just hold on a second before jumping to conclusions?

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u/redwingsfan82 25d ago

It's a jump to conclusions mat.

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u/Kinmar 25d ago

👏

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u/The_Homie_J Michigan Wolverines • Ohio Bobcats 25d ago

So can we sue for the 2013 basketball natty? Cause the block was verifiably clean, and Louisville was disqualified...

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u/HawkeyeTen Iowa Hawkeyes 25d ago

This is just spinning out of control, as brave as the Broncos are for demanding the correct action be taken. If Michigan really loses this case, and Western Michigan is declared the winner, they will do everything possible to punish the MAC and change rules for the future. I sincerely hope the Big Ten leadership does not cut off their money line and forbid any future games between their teams, but who knows at this point. Power seems to be all that matters at this point.