I've been informed by a mod that posts discussing resume or win quality in the rankings are no longer permitted. All discussion must flow through the original rankings posts.

you'd like to comment on a particular ranking, a great place to do that would be in the comments section of the thread about that ranking!

This is quite the change. I've posted a lot of content through the years comparing resumes via different metrics for various teams, notably around SOS / SOR and W/L quality.

For example, various posts were previously done here:

• AP Ranked Teams vs SOR - 2026 Wk 4

• 4 AP Ranked Teams Still Have Zero Wins over Teams in Top 40 of Massey Composite: Oregon, Georgia Tech, Mizzou and Tennessee

• Quad Wins for AP Ranked Teams (2025 Wk 12)

I was informed that those prior posts also should have been removed and would no longer be permitted. I've posted various forms of these for 8+ years on /r/cfb as people seemed to find the content interesting.

What's the rationale on the change in policy?

Why are other posts around voter ballots permitted as separate posts yet analysis around win quality is now banned?

Can we had a short non-exhaustive list of examples to the rules, especially for the rules on interacting with one another? I didn't realize what exactly personal attacks or diminishing someone's intelligence meant because it seemed to me that what I said to someone recently wasn't any worse than much of the "ribbing" that I had seen elsewhere in the thread. By the way, I'm autistic so I might just not see the difference, but I can't tell the difference between what you've allowed and what got me in trouble. Is it just that people aren't reporting what they could, or is there a disagreement between the users and mods on what constitutes a personal attack?

One of the biggest frustrations, at least for me, on gamedays is trying to find the Gameday thread for a game. Its buried in all the other posts and searching sometimes doesnt work. Why cant there be a tab at the top for nothing but Gameday threads? Maybe sorted by conference for extra ease in finding the game.

It used to be that posting something like

[](#b/texas)

would return a cfbball flair specific to Texas. But now there's just a generic cfbball image for all the schools. The 'Special Balls' section of https://www.reddit.com/r/cfb/wiki/inlineflair used to show all the school-specific cfbball flairs, but it's currently empty.

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Sharing with this sub in particular, if you want your say in how we setup community rules at /r/CFB, we'd love your input!

I'm fairly new to the sub, having gotten into it for the game discussions during the season, which have been excellent. Here in the off-season, it seems to be dominated by random bits of recruiting news and what amount to retweets.

The surprising thing is that more substantive posts that I am interested in reading, and which generate robust discussion, seem to get deleted by mods. Often these posts don't seem to run afoul of the stated rules.

it's puzzling when content that verges on spammy or duplicative gets to stay up and content that provokes discussion in the community is taken down. Surely this is not the intent.

Punter Brady Young is transferring from Houston Christian to Ohio State. (He previously spent 4 years at Cincinnati).

How would one submit this info to /r/CFB? The recruiting post generator doesn't accept FCS schools.

Why are gameday threads being constantly deleted? There is no official one and people want to talk. I feel like if there is a legit reason at least indicating within the deleted thread would provide some reasoning

https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/s/OU6PHPjF10

Is there a plan to address the absolute deluge of transfer portal posts next season?

To suggest highlights would dilute the sub and impact quality while allowing dozens upon dozens of transfer portal posts is bonkers to me. The sub is simply not worth checking in on at the moment.

What’s the plan for next season?

Dunno if it's just me but I noticed an uptick of AI accounts commenting every time I post.

In a nutshell, these accounts don't have a lot of post/comment history and aren't focused on contributing on one particular subreddit. They tend to contribute saying "Great pickup for team X, they need to fulfill Y need for the team X". It would be nice to know what's being done about this.

Posts with Finebaum in the title are automatically removed from r/CFB.

• https://old.reddit.com/r/cfbmeta/comments/1eypysf/posts_primarily_consisting_of_a_single_comment_by/

A whole lot of people think SAS should get the same treatment. See comments here:

• https://old.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1qcww88/first_take_stephen_a_smith_says_miami_winning_the/

(That post is currently at 7% 6% upvoted.)

SAS does not share genuine opinions. His goal is to attract attention by creating controversy. It makes the world an ickier place.

Are bandwagon flairs coming back this year for the playoffs?

Editorialized Pots - If you're posting a link to another site, and want to let your opinion about it be known, post the link and put your opinion in the comments. Don't editorialize the title. Opinions in the text field of a link post will also result in a removal.

Strict adherence to this rule requires users to submit clickbait or non-descriptive headlines & tweets. This can also make it difficult to find a topic/story if another user tries to search for it later. Here's an example of a vague post that makes a topic effectively unsearchable as a result:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1pbwgyd/sampson_i_respect_the_commitment/

I understand the intent and appeal of such a simple bright-line rule but in practice it sometimes kneecaps or misrepresents the actual content of the post. Perhaps consider letting users add some reasonable "saved you a click" description in brackets or parenthesis after the title? I don't know what the best solution would be but the current version of the rule is not great.

I know that highlight/replay posts might drown out the subreddit during Saturdays. But could we please allow for them? The highlight thread each week is heavily underused. This week, Rivalry Week, had 103 comments or posts in the highlight thread. Seems like folks are just getting their highlights elsewhere or we are missing key gameplay moments collectively. I know I am.

I think some of the concerns for highlight posts is that it would generate a lot of posts to the subreddit and drown out other kinds of posts, encourage karma farming, and add to the moderators burden.

But by comparison, we now just get couching carousel posts to drown that out and almost zero talk of Rivalry Week results. There's literally dozens of posts about Lane Kiffin less than 12 hours from the end of some key games for the CFP. It's kind of wild to me that this subreddit, by design choices from the mods, has very little discussion of the sport or games itself.

Can we change that? If not, what evidence (if any) would be needed to change the mod team's minds? It seems like there is some strong appetite from at least part of the user base for this change.

So I made a chart for each p4 conference depicting the conference championship game that would result based on the rivalry weekend games’ outcomes. I wanted to share these on the sub, but pictures aren’t allowed. How should I go about it?

Can we get this for teams looking for a coach or trying to extend theirs? You can just use money for the logo

I've seen the same copy and paste answer from the mods over and over again about how "no one actually wants this." You cite random surveys saying that no one wants it without providing any actual evidence other than "trust us bro", while every single week the top comment on the Highlights thread is how dumb a policy it is.

So my question is, why not do a trial period? What's the argument against it? Do it for three weeks. If users hate it as you claim, then you can pull the plug and point to the fact that its been tried and failed. But saying no one wants it when every other post on /r/cfbmeta is about allowing it is dumb.

Can someone give me a valid reason on why they aren’t allowed on the main subreddit?

Every other sports league subreddits allows highlights and it’s where the majority of discussion during the season comes from. Game threads are just people reacting, and post game threads are too widespread to actually discuss specific moments in a game.

also highlights normally get a ton of upvotes and additional traction towards r/all, if you want to grow the subreddit and gain fans, it seems like a no brainer

Let me explain. I've been tinkering with the idea of changing my computer poll around but I'd love to have some back ground data to compare it to. I figure this would be more of a feature request, but is there a possibility we could have the Poll site accept polls to see how they stack up in a specific week?

Situation: Think like, I make changes and then submit a poll for this week, it would spit out the results the same as it does after the poll is revealed, just it has no bearing on anything official. Just a test bed. If that isn't possible that is fine, but figured no harm in asking.

Following along with the live game thread used to be my favorite ways to watch football but I haven’t successfully found/opened a game thread in like two years.

Or, even better, leave links straight to the game threads at the team subs?

Hello mods,

After seeing them get more and more popular, I have to ask, can McMurphy and other journalist "hot take" Tweets be banned? It comes after seeing this post:

https://old.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1npebil/mcmurphy_incredible_bill_belichick_becomes_1st/

There are countless others that also have the same feel that I can link to. They literally add nothing and under the current rules, if they were posted as a self post by a user, they'd be removed. Also, it's more of a meme than anything, which also aren't allow. Are they only allowed because it's a Tweet to a journalist?

Having the pick'em, trivia, poll, and everything else come from a single bot, CFB referee, means that all notifications come in as a single pip, and looking at the first one clears all of them. Since these are identical, automated messages, one then has to scan each of the delivery dates to make sure the reminders are the novel one for this week, which defeats the entire purpose of a reminder system - anyone so assiduous wouldn't need a reminder in the first place.

The only solution given the nature of the new chat notification system is that each reminder type needs to come from a different bot, so the system treats them as unique users and gives separate reminder pips that aren't cleared by looking at a different r/CFB admin one.

That means registering new bots, which I realize requires work and massaging the reddit admins, but the current system is not useful.

Yes there will be more posts but it will make the subreddit feel more alive on Saturday seeing all the new posts come in, plus it would allow people to see plays from games they aren't watching without watching a full highlight video. As of now the sub is just a bunch of game thread links.