I heard a rumor that the cup was going to come back in 2022. Is there any truth to this rumor?

After 12 seasons, the Fulmer Cup Committee has decided to end the Fulmer Cup. For those who do not know, the Fulmer Cup is a parody award akin to the Razzies and Ig Nobel Prize, and is meant to track the criminal achievements of various college football programs during the offseason and declare a "winner."

The Fulmer Cup was created in 2006 by Spencer Hall of Every Day Should Be Saturday, and run by his website for six years. In 2014, he handed the award off to /r/CFB, who ran it for 6 more years at /r/TheFulmerCup.

After talking it over with the Fulmer Cup Committee and the /r/CFB subreddit moderators, we are discontinuing the award. There are a few contributing factors to this decision, which include:

• Last year’s award season was canceled due to Covid 19 causing confusion and uncertainty in the schedule, making the timing of the Fulmer Cup season unclear.
• The availability of the team has been reduced.
• Larger discussions around criminal justice, plus the severity of several crimes this year, have made it difficult to administer in a light-hearted way.

It has always been tricky to incorporate a humorous angle to the award, given the sensitive nature of the subject. Although the moderating team has tried to strike that balance, it has become more difficult in recent years. In addition, the number of players scoring points has been trending down. Here is a chart of the 6 years /r/CFB administered it:

While we have been entertained by some of the crimes players, coaches, and administrators have committed over these past six years, we no longer have the capacity nor comfort to continue the award.

The Twitter account, @thefulmercup, may continue on as a purely informational account in a more limited capacity, but without the larger structure of the annual award. If a group has a good proposal for how to run this in a way that appropriately addresses all the above concerns, we are open to handing it off as it was handed off to us, but our inclination is to let it end here.

Thanks,

The Fulmer Cup Team

Will the 2020 Fulmer cup ever be tallied and awarded? It looks like the decision to split the award completely killed off the competition. It also looks like 2021 isn't being tracked either. Is the Fulmer cup just dead for good?

Hello everyone!

We know there hasn’t been a Fulmer Cup update this season, but this has been, to put it mildly, an odd offseason. Unfortunately, that update will not be today as no quorum has been met on the offseason’s incidents. However, ratings should be available soon and a proper update will be made.

There is a bit of news to report, however. Due to the odd arrangement of the upcoming college football season, we have decided to create a “split” Fulmer Cup season.

• Teams playing in the fall: their Fulmer Cup season ended at 9 p.m. on August 29th, when the Austin Peay–Central Arkansas game kicked off.
• Teams with postponed seasons: their Fulmer Cup season will continue until a date to be determined, which will depend on if/when games are played

As such, there will be two champions in each of the award categories this season. The champion of the first group will be unveiled shortly once the results have been tabulated; the champion of the second group will be unveiled at some point in the future.

We hope that you are doing well and staying safe.

Now that football games are being played, we normally have an end to the Fulmer Cup.

But is it still going on for Pac 12 and Big 10 teams? Did anyone keep up with the stats? Are we just saying that only Covid won and everyone else lost?

I'd hate to see this great tradition just be lost.

#Sooners RS-Soph defensive lineman Jalen Redmond was arrested for DUI early this morning and booked into the Cleveland County detention center at 3:34 am.

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