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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 06/09/2026

Michigan storming the field in Ann Arbor against a MAC school in 2026. Respect the MACtion supremacy

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 08/04/2026

Turns out you can get some solid concert pics on your phone in the pit. Who knew?

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 07/04/2026

Hey everyone! No SID Sports this week, I’m pretty swamped at work. But there’s something absolutely massive coming to your inboxes next week! Maybe it has something to do with the branding change?

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 01/04/2026

If you asked most people in college football what’s wrong with the sport, most would answer the calendar. So we fixed it. You’re welcome, NCAA. 📰: open.substack.com/pub/sidsport... #CFBSky

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Fixing College Football Part 3: The calendar

The calendar is nonsensical. Let's change that

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 30/03/2026

Ever wonder how someone that's worked in college athletics would fix college football? Wonder no longer, as I'm breaking down how I would "fix" five major problem areas of modern college sports. Today, we tackle realignment. 📰: open.substack.com/pub/sidsport... #CFBSky

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Fixing College Football Part 1: Realignment

Taking a sledgehammer to today's random nonsense we call "conferences"

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 13/03/2026

Does Sacramento State's move to the MAC actually make sense? Digging into the details, I found a surprising amount of sense. And a ton of nonsense. The best of both worlds, right? 📰: open.substack.com/pub/sidsport... #CFBSky

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Sacramento State to the MAC both makes more sense and is crazier than you think

Numbers can tell many different stories

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 27/02/2026

@homefield.bsky.social I'm begging for a rinkside hoodie for BG

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 25/02/2026

In case you haven’t heard, the Mountain West added North Dakota State. They also just signed a new media deal. Can the Mountain West become the West’s premier college football conference? It may be more possible than you think. 📰: open.substack.com/pub/sidsport... #CFBsky

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The Mountain West is taking big swings

How the battle for Western supremacy is shaping up

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 19/02/2026

(btw canadian friends, i only dislike you during international hockey competitions)

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 19/02/2026

Free Bird on the speakers. Upset Canadians. We're on top baby. Absolutely electric ⚡🦅🇺🇸

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 11/02/2026

Is regulation coming back into college football? I took a look at three cases from this portal cycle to see if the schools can actually reign in the unlimited transfers and what may be coming next 📰: open.substack.com/pub/sidsport... #CFBsky #NIL #transferportal

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Is that...regulation?!

How three cases are going to shape regulation going forward

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 04/02/2026

You haven't lived until you quad box curling

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 04/02/2026

Stop me if you've heard this before, but the College Football Playoff made tweaks to the format. Again. What changed and how will it affect the playoff going forward? SID Sports has your answers 📰: open.substack.com/pub/sidsport... #CFBsky #CFP #collegefootball

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Stop your fiddling and stick to a decision

No amount of tweaks is going to make the CFP better

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 03/02/2026

I really think college football has a lot to learn looking at European football (soccer). Both sports have massive financial gaps and a ton of teams, yet people care deeply about their teams at all levels. Promotion and relegation is just one piece of that puzzle, I think

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 03/02/2026

That's brilliant! Imagine a prime-time Pop Tarts Bowl kicking off the season instead of the Chik-fil-a Kickoff Game or whatever they're calling it nowadays

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 03/02/2026

Interesting! So it would be like how international posting works for baseball players. I could see something like that happening, especially as smaller schools are looking for ways to fill the budget and retain talent. Not sure if the power schools agree, but it's a solid idea!

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 03/02/2026

If you could change one thing in college football - or college athletics as a whole - what would it be? 🤔 Let those ideas fly!

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 28/01/2026

My favorite part of doing a Season Preview is to go back and take a look at what I got right and wrong. With over 300 pages and 125,000 words in my preview magazine, there's a lot of takes to cover. Here are my hits and misses for 2025: open.substack.com/pub/sidsport... #CFBSky #collegefootball

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Looking back on the Season Preview

Predictions are no fun if you don't make fun of them, right?

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 26/01/2026

take that ravens, browns now have the worst pro bowl quarterback

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 22/01/2026

Indiana pulled off the stuff of legends when they won the #CFP National Championship. How special was their run? And how does it rank against other massive turnarounds in modern sports. 📰: open.substack.com/pub/sidsport... #CFB #Indiana #IUFB #NeverDaunted

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1ndiana: Worst to second-worst to first

The story of the greatest turnaround in modern sports history

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 20/01/2026

So we just don't care about Beltran's role with the Astros? I mean, as a player he's a Hall of Famer for sure, but it's a little weird that one of the biggest recent scandals isn't having an impact

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 20/01/2026

1NDIANA ON TOP Hoosiers are your National Champions. Worst to first. Absolute magic. Indiana is the first first-tome national champion since Florida in 1996 and the first 16-0 team since Yale in 1894(!)

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 20/01/2026

Man, I love seeing Malachi Toney play. He's uber-talented and the definition of an unselfish player

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 19/01/2026

Hosting a #CFP National Championship watch thread over at SID Sports, so no posting here. Come on in and hang out! open.substack.com/chat/posts/2...

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Griffin Olah in SID Sports

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP CHAT >>>>

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 19/01/2026

For the last time this season, it's Gameday! I've got everything you need to know about tonight's National Championship here, including keys to the game, stats and notes on interesting tidbits that will impact tonight's outcome. 📰: open.substack.com/pub/sidsport... #CFBsky #CFP

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The end of the line: A coronation or a return to form?

Previewing tonight's National Championship game

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 07/01/2026

Some year-end numbers for SID Sports from 2025: - Subscribers up 63.4% from Jan. 1, 2025 - Post views up 74.6% from the 2024 calendar year - Over 31,000 views of posts Absolutely humbled by those numbers. There's room for more! Come join in on the fun and check out my yearly recap post:

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Here's to 2025 and onto 2026

A much-delayed recap and look ahead

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 10/12/2025

if i know anything from playing too much cfb26, its that steve sarkisian is on a plane to michigan as we speak

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 07/12/2025

fire bubba ventrone into the sun

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 07/12/2025

"we evaluated all the conference championship games and felt like Alabama's getting rocked by Georgia didn't matter" get out of here Hunter Yurachek. Show me the difference between Bama and BYU getting boat raced and why BYU deserved to fall and Bama didn't

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 07/12/2025

Love Rece pushing Yurachek on the Miami-ND issue. How are they taking teams each week if they're only looking at side by side teams? Aren't they supposed to 'rank from scratch' each week?

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 07/12/2025

Bring back conference divisions. Better yet, shrink the conferences so you can actually play everyone and we can ignore the tiebreakers entirely

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 07/12/2025

The worst thing about this CFP selection is that it's going to push us closer to a Super League that nobody wants. Don't lose 3 games and you'll make the playoff. JMU and Tulane didn't and won their conferences. They deserve to get in and get a seat. But Texas and Vandy might win it all if in?

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 07/12/2025

SECSPN continues to pull the strings

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 30/11/2025

A little late, but Duke's win over Wake Forest ends the ACC Championship hopes of Georgia Tech and Miami. The Yellow Jackets are officially out of CFP contention, Miami is still alive in the at-large race

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 29/11/2025

Ah, you're absolutely right!

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 29/11/2025

Ohio State's win over Michigan locks in an Indiana-Ohio State Big Ten Championship with a playoff bye on the line. Michigan is bounced from CFP contention. Oregon is relegated to an at-large bid. With a win against Washington, the Ducks are likely in. Plus, Ryan Day finally gets his golden pants

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 29/11/2025

Pitt's loss to Miami eliminates the Panthers from ACC/CFP contention. Duke is also eliminated with Miami's win, taking the most fun chaos scenario off the table. ACC is still wide open as we head into the second slate of games.

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 29/11/2025

Pitt is somehow out Miami-ing Miami with these penalties

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 29/11/2025

Pitt is exposing this Miami secondary with deep attacks. Seems like Mason Heintschel can do whatever he wants on those long routes

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 29/11/2025

Malachi Toney is one of those guys, isn't he?

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 29/11/2025

Never mind, false start nixes that

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 29/11/2025

Massive Fourth down in Ann Arbor

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 29/11/2025

Follow-up on last night's Territorial Cup: Arizona's win ends the Big 12 Championship chaos scenarios. Regardless of today's outcomes, it'll be Texas Tech against BYU, likely with a playoff spot on the line

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 29/11/2025

Texas A&M’s loss to Texas puts Georgia into the SEC Championship game. Alabama can clinch with a win tomorrow. It also re-introduces the Longhorns to the CFP at-large conversation and, based on the head to head result, eliminated Vandy.

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 28/11/2025

What a time for Georgia Tech's defense to make a play. MASSIVE interception of Gunner Stockton early in Clean, Old Fashioned Hate.

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 28/11/2025

Haynes King looks shaken up on the first drive. Dude's got more guts than anyone I've ever seen, so we'll see how it affects him going forward

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 28/11/2025

Following a solid Egg Bowl win, Ole Miss is basically a lock to host a first-round CFP game. They're also alive in SEC Championship convention. Losses by Alabama (at Auburn) and Texas A&M (at Texas) send the Rebels to Atlanta. Of course, all this hinges on Lane Kiffin's Saturday decision.

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 28/11/2025

Utah gets the win. A loss by Texas Tech (vs WVU) and wins by Arizona State (vs Arizona) and BYU (vs UCF) gets the Utes to the Big 12 Championship. Playoff hopes are still very much alive. #CFBsky

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Griffin Olah @sid-sports.com · 25/11/2025

Any of the Ivies would be so unfair with their booster shooting money out of a cannon and making Cody Campbell look broke. I was more looking at defunct as in no longer exists. I'll look into Rider University!

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