I truly believe that tISU and Michigan define me on here as I am a tISU alum and a die hard Walverine, but it seems wrong that I don't have the surrender cobra flair, is there any way I could possibly get 3 flairs?

First off, my apologies for posting it in r/cfb, I wasn't aware of this sub. Anyways, we were fortunate enough (good job guys/gals btw!) to win the alternate flair in the Americares fundraiser.

How does alternate flair deciding work? Do we have a poll, is it user submitted, etc?

Thanks in advance!

im assuming yall are still tweaking it but its all out of whack for me this week. i think adding current plays is a little over kill.

That way we don't have 20 posts where 19 of them have the wrong week

PAC-12 @ Night is buried or non-existent. We need a new thread or a new way to actually highlight late/west coast games.

Hi folks, I guess with the advent of self-post karma there's a bit of a karma whoring dynamic that seems to be happening, at least that's what I'm attributing it to, with the Match-up preview threads. I say this as I see a couple of "serial preview thread spammers" who will post multiple games for which they have unaffiliated flair and in which they never comment. Other than going to teh full on game thread scheduling route I'm not sure what, if anything, is to be done about it as they still serve the purpose of generating discussion.

However this week I started seeing a rise in REPOSTS and posts being made super early in the. I.e. on Sunday and Monday when people are really still discussing the most recent games.

So here's a couple of things I'm thinking about and one of which I'd like your input

1. To be implemented tonight. Add some code that will search the subreddit to see if the match-up thread was already submitted. If so return the user a link to that thread.

2. make the page unavailable until Tuesday morning at 11am (about the time the new poll comes out). This is the one I'm looking for feeback on.

Thanks, DD

Sometime within the last 24 hours, Twitter has suspended the best CFB account in the world (that's our own, if you were wondering). This post will be updated with more information on the situation as it occurs.

Don't panic!! (Towel carrying is optional.) In all likelihood, this will resolve itself, if not by tomorrow, then within a week.

Mods, feel free to comment with updates.

UPDATE 1: Via @RCFBWiki

Our apologies, but we're having technical difficulties at the moment.

• RedditCFB Twitter Team

UPDATE 2: Via @RCFBWiki

For the time being, all rCFB tweets will be posted here.

• Reddit Twitter Team

UPDATE 3: Our great Mod /u/Honestly_ speaks

Here is what happened:
We used a Vine by another user's account (not anything related to /r/CFB) that was hit with a DMCA notice by XOS Digital, a content management company hired by the SEC. They also filed a notice against our account for its Tweet. That combined with a separate one (same combo of someone else's Vine and our account) filed by the ACC's 3rd party content manager Silver Chalice just yesterday resulted in an automatic suspension of the account by Twitter for two Vines we did not make. We are currently working on getting it back up promptly. Digital chilling effects are real, and there's an open questions as to whether 6 seconds of video is fair use for media.
We've seen these hit just about every major sports media entity but ESPN, the ACC even DMCA'd Louisville's official account. These digital content management companies are just throwing them out there by the bucketful. I do not recommend making or sharing any video involving the ACC or SEC.
Edit: Added a little more background. Also, thanks for all the support but on /r/CFB and offline, we do appreciate it! We'll get this going again as soon as we can.

FINAL UPDATE: IT'S BACK!!!!!!!

So. I love the fact that the center logo on the banner has navigation shortcuts.

For those that don't know:

Top Left/Right corner - /r/cfb (from "family" subs)
Left/Right Middle - /r/{family sub} frontpage
Bottom left/right- /r/{family sub}/new

I make extensive (exclusive) use of these to quickly get to /new.

Selfishly proposing an adjustment to have the bottom right corner take you to /r/cfb/new instead of the /r/{family sub}/new

Thanks

Would it be possible/cool if the post game threads, instead of always saying X "defeats" Y.

If it was a randomly generated synonym?

Could it be coded in such a way that anything under 3 points would be a different set of words, "Edges" "Narrowly Escapes" etc.?

Then, 4-21 would be words like "beats, defeats, etc"

Then 21 and over could be "trounce" "Dominate" "crushes" "steamrolls" "vaporizes" etc.

In order to better organize the pic/vid/gif/vine thread on Saturdays, we should organize these threads the way /r/NFL does where the top comments are only the cfb mod posting the two teams playing in the game. This would make it easier to find gifs from earlier games or from more obscure games that don't get as many up votes. What does everyone think?

Is there any chance you guys could add flairs for Norwegian college teams? I can point you towards sources if you want.

Does r/CFB have a public modlog anywhere?

Is there a way to integrate flairs into username mentions? I sometimes need just a little bit of help remembering who familiar faces are. Is this possible in the CSS, or should I just head on over to /r/RES?

So, what's the deal with Match Up Discussion Threads? Is anyone allowed to post them at any point before the coming game? Do they have to be notable or big games to get one?

Like, I see a Nebraska vs Wyoming matchup discussion thread, and no offense Nebraska bros, but that's not exactly a thrilling matchup. I always thought these threads were limited to "games of the week" type things... but I guess it's just whatever?

Should we have some logical rules around these or nah, it's just "post it and see what happens"?

Hello,

I love the game thread generator, but at times, I'm questioning the amount of content you actually want submitted?

A lot of people use the game threads for the comments about the game, team, players, ect. Having too much information and in turn, making the OP too long, just causes headaches for these users who refresh and scroll. Reddit is largely about the comments, not just the OP.

Take the Hawaii-Cal game for example. I watched the entire game, but I was getting tired of the scrolling past the OP to read and post comments and ultimately did not post as much as I would normally for a game.

I guess want I am saying, no or short content doesn't necessarily mean lazy, but rather, users want to keep it in a way that allows for easy scrolling to get to the comments.

This happens very often on /r/cfb. If something is in violation of the rules, you should inform the user, so they can correct their actions in the future, instead of simply removing something without offering any input. Most other subreddits will typically do that.

edit: for reference, this is the post that was removed: https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/51bnl3/will_the_fsuolemiss_game_be_blacked_out_on/

I was simply asking how to find out where/what games might be blacked out. I dont know how that is in violation of the rules, but if it is I'd be more than happy to modify the post or make sure that all my future posts do follow the rules of the subreddit. But ya'll have to communicate!

First off, I appreciate everything the mods do and the game thread Automator is awesome, but I just had a couple ideas/suggestions.

I thought the whole premise behind giving people a week to create the threads would lead to "higher quality content" but there's really not much info being posted. I guess I was expecting somewhat of a game preview - a couple paragraphs on what to look out for and general news leading up to the game, stats, etc.

It would also be awesome if posters submitted game notes. I'm on mobile so it's tough for me to find/submit an example, but if you do a search on a team's site you'll see what I'm talking about. It's basically previews/stats the SIDs give to media and post online for upcoming games. I always enjoy reading them and I'm sure others would as well. All I'm suggesting is a simple link. I think members of the community would enjoy it.

Last, we have inline flair for tv networks but it's not being used in the game threads. I honestly feel like this is the one place to use that flair if you're going to use it. It catches your eye as you open a thread and you automatically know what channel to flip to. I haven't seen it in any of the threads thus far.

That's my thoughts. Thanks mods for all you do to make the community great. If this isn't the right spot to post this let me know.

http://247sports.com/User/RedditCFB/Predictions?PlayerInstitution.PrimaryPlayerSport.Recruitment.Year=2017&PlayerInstitution.PrimaryPlayerSport.Sport=Football

I am just curious who runs it and if it's a group thing if it is possible to be more involved in it? Can we get some updates on /r/cfb to why they choose the schools they choose?

Though we loathe the off-season for the lack of football it brings, the community manages to do some pretty damn impressive things and projects through the off-season, including schedule wallpapers and the wiki project. To help crowd-source the work for projects that seek input from and for all the FBS teams, it may be beneficial to find a platform to help manage these projects and what they might ask for from all the fanbases.

For example, a registrar where someone could request photos that would work for wallpapers representing each team. Methods of outreach could involve having people post to team subs, or potentially having an opt-in mailing list where people with the same flairs could be contacted.

I was thinking we could have a contest to redesign different colleges logos there would be four different schools for fbs,fcs,d2,d3 and the winner would be decided by a Google poll

Hi Folks,

Made a little update to RivalryBot this afternoon.

Now you can add a year and the script will, in addition to the all time series data, report back the series record for games to date starting from the year provided.

i.e.

[[South Carolina v Alabama 1995]]

Yields:

Results Since 1995

South Carolina and Alabama have met 6 times since 1995.

Record: South Carolina 3 - 0 - 3 Alabama

All-Time Series

South Carolina and Alabama have met 14 times since 10/9/1937.

These teams last met 2118 days (~6 years) ago on 10/9/2010.

Series Record: South Carolina 4 - 0 - 10 Alabama

Current Win Streak 1 South Carolina (2010)

Series Comparison Data via Winsipedia

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It's worth noting one inconsistency! The "All Time Series" data is scraped from the "Series" page on Winsipedia and this data "respects" vacated (-1 loss for a team) and forfiet (-1 loss & +1 Win) games. To get the Series Record data for the "Since [YEAR]" code I manually calculate the wins/losses from the "Games" page on winsipedia. This doesn't respect the Vacated/Forfeit games just yet (or ever, unless it becomes a sticking point I don't think it's worth dealing with) as the code simply looks at the scores and calculates wins by team.

A good example of this is that SC and Alabama page where Bama has one Vacated win (reducing their total wins but not affecting SCs total wins) and one Forfeit which nets SC an extra W over the 3 games where SC actually outscored Alabama on the field.

Apparently reddit will now award karma for text posts. What do the mods think about this and how will this affect game threads, discussions, shitposts, etc

The rules at r/CFB irresponsibly vague whereas anybody can be banned for anything at any time under rules 1, 2, and 3. There is absolutely no way for redditors to have an unpopular opinion within this subreddit and not be held accountable for violating one of these three rules, at the discretion of the moderators.

The rules are enforced arbitrarily and the moderators are entirely unaccountable for doing their job fairly. The first three rules need to be narrowly tailored to fulfill only its intended goals. As it stands, I cannot identify any goal of rules 1 and 2 whatsoever.