Sub has been closed for multiple years and the link is still there. Just curious. Guess there’s nothing wrong with it but it’s a bit weird to still have there.

I think r/cfbmeta's existence is fine for the normal discussion of how r/cfb should be run, but I believe it is inadequate for the debate that has been playing out across Reddit this week.

This is due to the fact that this issue at its root isn't a practical discussion about the functioning of the subreddit, but a philosophical and political question that nearly all users will have a strong opinion on based on their values.

For such an issue, it makes more sense to let democracy rule. And it will be impossible to achieve anything approaching democracy in a subreddit like this that only a tiny fraction of r/cfb users frequent.

Should a discussion/poll on the future use of Twitter occur on the main r/cfb page?

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I reached out to the mods of r/cfb and they sent me here.

I would like the cfb sub to decide on whether or not this should happen. Similar moves have happened over at r/hockey, r/nba, and r/nfl as well as countless other subs.

Appreciate the consideration

Hockey nba and nfl links

I acquired r/cfb_highlights yesterday and I'd like to make it the de-facto place for cfb highlights to be posted since y'all don't allow highlight posts on your sub. I also believe there's a lot of potential for my sub to grow as I have seen some complaints about highlight posts not being allowed in the main sub so having a separate subreddit dedicated to posting highlights would help in that regard. My question to you guys is if/when would be a good time for me to self-promote my sub in the main sub. Also if you guys could could add r/cfb_highlights under the "list of related subreddits." I'm sorry if I shouldn't have made a post here and instead should've send a message through modmail but I found that this place exists and figured it would receive more attention here. And I didn't want to make a post and send a message since I feel like that'd come off as being too pushy.

Why is the banner different? It looks kinda bad and I can barely tell which teams are playing. I looked forward to seeing the meme logo on the teams that lost.

CFB book doesn't have the Penn St-ND game available for betting, just the OSU-Texas game.

Let me just start off by saying I can kinda understand (even if I don't agree with it) why highlights are condensed to their own thread during the regular season; there are a TON of games and the new tab would be flooded with highlights.

Why not allow highlights to be posted during bowl season when there are many fewer games than the regular season? And potentially have it as a possible test run for regular season highlight posting?

I don't think it could be a BAD thing to allow them at least during bowl season. And if that goes well, maybe allow them during the regular season?

I have been a participant in /r/cfb for 13 years now, and this is easily the WORST aspect of the sub IMO. The stickied highlights thread barely gets any posts considering how many games there are.

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There are semi-regular posts and comments that "Game Threads should have flair" (though none here in CFBmeta), and I wanted to make this post to be a definitive answer of: Yes, there is and always has been flair on Game Threads, the problem is Reddit is broken and needs more people to submit bug reports to the admins (see below how)

tl;dr: Game Threads do have flair, I'll prove it several different ways. What you're probably unhappy about is filtering. Reddit mods do not have control of filtering. Reddit changed it and broke it; you can help by submitting bug reports to the Reddit administrators.

(thanks to those who helped me compile various shots from the Reddit App, which I do not use)

What is the actual issue?

For a moment, let's assume that I'm not lying and that Game Threads do indeed have flair.

The actual issue, as best I can tell (I'm not an app user), is that the Reddit app has default filters for flair and "Game Thread" is not among them.

Some of you who have been around Reddit long enough know that the Admins make changes without realizing they're breaking other things along the way.

If it is possible for Reddit moderators to choose what filters appear in the app, none of the /r/CFB mods have been able to determine how. (If you know how to do this, we would love to know, we'll credit you send you special award flair)

For whatever reason, "Game Thread" is the only flair we've received complaints about not being able to filter by*. As someone working in technology, if every aspect of a thing works except for one, that is a strong contender to be called a bug. Per Reddit's documentation the appropriate way to submit a bug is by posting to /r/bugs. Please be sure to read that documentation first as it lays out the information you'll need to provide in order to have the bug appropriately handled. The more people that do this, the better.

*As demonstrated below it is possible to filter by Game Threads but it's not in the default filters.

Okay, let's go back to assuming I'm lying about Game Threads having flair:

Proof that Game Threads have flair

Reddit on desktop:

(This is the default Reddit experience, also known as sh.reddit or "shreddit")

• /r/CFB Home page [Screenshot] - Game Thread appears in white text on a green pill. This is the Game Thread flair.
• Viewing a game thread [Screenshot] - Game Thread appears in white text on a green pill. This is the Game Thread flair.
• Filtering by Game Threads [Screenshot] - Clicking either of the above pills will take you to /r/CFB filtered to only show Game Threads. I'll admit Reddit could do a better job making it clear what's going on here, as they do on mobile. This page may be reached at https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/?f=flair_name%3A%22Game%20Thread%22

Old Reddit

(This is the old Reddit interface still availble at https://old.reddit.com)

• /r/CFB Home page [Screenshot] - The football next to the thread title is the Game Thread flair. Using Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), you can disable subreddit styling to see that the text of this flair is Game Thread ([Screenshot]).
• Viewing a game thread [Screenshot] - The football next to the thread title is the Game Thread flair. Using RES, you can disable subreddit styling to see that the text of this flair is Game Thread ([Screenshot]).
• Filtering by Game Threads - This is not a feature of Old Reddit. However, there are a variety of ways to accomplish this with RES.

Reddit app on Android:

• /r/CFB Home page [Screenshot] - Game Thread appears in white text on a green pill. This is the Game Thread flair.
• Viewing a game thread [Screenshot] - Game Thread appears in white text on a green pill. This is the Game Thread flair.
• Filtering by Game Threads [Screenshot] - Clicking either of the above pills will take you to /r/CFB filtered to only show Game Threads.

Reddit app on iOS:

• /r/CFB Home page [Screenshot] - Game Thread appears in white text on a green pill. This is the Game Thread flair.
• Viewing a game thread [Screenshot] - Game Thread appears in white text on a green pill. This is the Game Thread flair.
• Filtering by Game Threads [Screenshot] - Clicking either of the above pills will take you to /r/CFB filtered to only show Game Threads.

The Reddit API:

This would take a lot of extra work, which certainly could be done, but I'm hoping by this point you see that the flair exists.

Its quite annoying on mobile to have to scroll through posts to find a game thread.

If there was [Game Thread] tag we could search with it would also alleviate this problem.

No game threads, random things stickied, no moderating for harassment..why are the mods not doing their jobs at all?

I'm not sure if this has been going in a while or just came up, but almost every new post has had bot comments of either the generic word-word-number variety of some sort of persons name as their username.

https://imgur.com/a/g1E1nxY

I'm doing this on old reddit on my phone so I have no idea if the above will hyperlink, but I've collected screenshots of a ton of comments in the last 6 hours of just bot slop

Particularly Calybear13's recent post about a playoff was just inundated with bot crap. reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1hd8f6z/4_team_playoff_almost_started_in_2008_what_teams/

Maybe they've found a new way around filters?

I've

The pick'em this week has 46 bowl games, including the future bowl games where one or even neither of the teams playing are known. How are you supposed to select for those games?

This discussion has been had previously this season, but the fact the mod team has allowed individuals and groups of individuals to repeatedly target specific other individuals in the community is plain wrong. The mod team has seemingly taken the approach that is it is upvoted then it's okay. But simply because bullying a user may be popular doesn't mean it doesn't violate the subs rules.

Please do better mod team. There have been several threads recently that should have been nuked in a half because the comments were an off topic chain tagging an individual or expressing vitriol toward that individual. These aren't on-topic for the post and, at risk of sounding like a broken record, are bullying and harassment.

The moderation team 3 months ago implemented a rule that inflammatory or 'hot take' posts of analysts, jockeys, or talking heads would be removed. The team specifically targeted this based on the results of information collecting on Tweets or articles centralized around Paul Finebaum.

It isn't an unknown presence that user lostacoshermanos contributes text posts that are clearly meant as radical, unlikely, or unpopular opinions to varying degrees. I am arguing that these posts are equally as valueless and consistently the same depth of content as the posts shared of Paul Finebaum, but simply under a different style of delivery.

You can look back on post history and see that you would need to back 6 months of self posts in /r/cfb to find just a single one that has a non-zero amount of points for upvoting; you would need to go back a full year to find more than one post with a positive point count.

This kind of content is not appreciated, as demonstrated by the reaction from the sub in how it votes for content, and consistently allowing it is not promoting positive discussion. For the record, I am not advocating the ban of the user, but it's clear that an opinion has been determined about what the community thinks of this kind of post.

I'm getting xml errors when I try to see any of the historical banners.

Persists across Chrome, FF, Brave, and Edge.

Is the scoreboard (https://scoreboard.redditcfb.com/) open source?

I have would like to suggest it save the settings in the browser or as url parameters so that if the page is refreshed, I don't have to re-configure it again.

If it is open source, I'd be submit this request on the repo and possibly implement the solution (if I know the language).

Is there a ruleset that determines featured games? Or is it just a selection by the mods with no set criteria?

About the only rule that seems to definitely be in place is Ranked vs Ranked (although if that's true: is it recalculated each week? I've never checked to see if the featured games slate in the future changes as the rankings change or not)

After that, it doesn't appear to be any of the following:

Games with a top 10 team Games with a top 10 team where the line is less than 2 scores Games with a ranked team where the line is 1 score or less

And fundamentally, line based rules seem tricky because of how much the line changes.

Oklahoma State vs Utah just shifted 5 points in like 6 hours, which points at potential news. Worth a discussion or rumor mongering and would be deleted?

Didn’t there used to be a “rumor” tag I could use when posting? Didn’t see that tag available.

To start, I'd like to throw out there that I don't particularly like Florida State or its fans very much right now either and I am reveling in the Seminoles' on-field misfortune.

I would say I've been around this board for a while now and I have no idea what the controversy was with PFB. I remember he would post articles about FSU's rivals regularly, but Reddit is a content aggregator for lack of a better term, and if FSU's rivals kept doing dumb things sharing them seemed warranted. I vaguely remember some controversy about him becoming a moderator for a week sometime between 2019-2022, and then the community said he did something when he hadn't even been given modding privileges yet, and it just became a mess and he stepped down. That is all I know about the guy.

Threads like these don't really seem kosher. This is an old controversy, and the sub keeps growing with people who do not know who this is (along with oldheads who don't know what the hell is going on), nor can the people who keep bashing on him actually articulate what he did wrong. It seems as though comments about him get upvoted just because it is a way for users to feel that they are "in the know" about this board's lore. Posters are using his history of sharing institutions' and public figures' very public screw-ups as license to attack him as a person. This continued "piling on" of an account that isn't even that active here anymore seems extremely disrespectful.

Is that still a thing that gets updated?

NAIA conference flairs replaced by networks

Rivalry trophy flairs are all mismatched

Alternate/trophy flairs are wrong or outright missing

'Miscellaneous' flairs are in complete chaos

And many more examples.

Over the last few weeks, even months, we've seen an influx of posts primarily consisting of a single comment, sometimes taken out of context, by a media presenter. This has mainly manifested itself in the form of Paul Finebaum "takes". These posts do nothing to contribute to any positive discussion, with their sole purpose in most cases being to generate clicks. These posts are also being downvoted en masse.

Mods, I as a user, and I'm sure I speak for many more, believe these types of posts need to be banned, or alternatively caught more frequently by the spam filter. At the very least we feel Finebaum posts need to be removed.

Any idea why it's gone? Can't find neither the older posts or a new one.

(Didn't know this sub even existed, thanks for u/guttata for the tip!)

I've been a member of the subreddit for a while now, I upvote, I comment, I participate. Why does it still automatically remove my posts and tell me I haven't met participation requirements yet?

Please forgive me if should have done this via modmail or not, but I figured it might be more permanent to post it here. Seeing as the first was Realignment Day, I figured it would be a good idea to mention how it seems the Recruit Post Generator hasn't been updated since 2018. In that time a few schools have made the jump to FCS and some have moved down or been dropped completely.

Additions

LIU

Merrimack

Utah Tech

Tarleton State

St. Thomas

Lindenwood

Stonehill

Texas A&M–Commerce

Mercyhurst

West Georgia

UTRGV (Joining the Southland in 2025)

Removals

Savannah State (Dropped to DII)

Jacksonville (Dropped program)

We've had a plethora of posts where people just want to talk about the new game but they all keep getting removed. Why? I get that not everything deserves a comment, but they're going to keep coming up because its obviously something people want to talk about.

Both On3 and 247 composites are allowed, and Grant was a composite 5* on On3 at the time of this posting. After it was posted, On3 updated his profile from 2025 to class of 2024 and it removed all his rankings. But when this was posted, he was a 5*.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1cr3xti/2025_5_cb_tarrion_grant_reclassifies_to_2024_and/

Using commit from UGA today to highlight profile differences, On3 has an easier to follow ranking summary. They show the composite alongside each individual service's rankings with a link to the player profile within that service.

https://www.on3.com/db/thomas-blackshear-176889/recruiting/

For team rankings, I do not care. The 247 team rankings are probably easier to follow (if people care) but the composite is a lot cleaner and more informative on On3 for players.

Can we get a megathread or just outright removal of these posts? There are so many posts of just dumb twitter drama on the sub right now and there's no way to filter them out at all.

I know it's the offseason but they're just clutter at this point.

Since all recruiting posts have to go through a standardized phrasing, and that phrasing uses conclusive language ("commits" "decommits" "transfers" "has entered"), does that mean that such posts are inappropriate if the supporting source doesn't match that finality?

That is, if there's no direct statement from the player, or journalist saying "this has happened", but rather a reporter saying "I expect this will happen" or "my sources tell me this is in the works", then for anything else we have a mechanism to indicate that: alter the post title to indicate the hedge. But since recruiting posts can't do that, are recruiting posts with sources like that therefore effectively stating something as fact which is still speculation? Is this sufficiently against policy and should be reported?