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    ****2025 FBS Preseason Conference Polls & Awards****

    https://www.secsports.com/news/2025/07/preseason-sec-football-media-poll-all-sec-team-announced SEC Preseason Media Poll SEC Champion 1. Texas - 96 pts 2. Georgia - 44 3. Alabama - 29 4. LSU - 20 5. South Carolina - 5 6. Oklahoma - 3 7. Vanderbilt - 2 7. Florida - 2 9. Tennessee - 1 9...
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    History of Conference Realignment

    The Sun Belt looks to be adding Louisiana Tech from CUSA to replace Texas State in their league. https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/45737935/louisiana-tech-returns-sun-belt-conference-14th-team
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    ****2025 FBS Preseason Conference Polls & Awards****

    Will post preseason polls and awards from the FBS conferences in this thread. Big 12 Link: https://big12sports.com/news/2025/7/6/big-12-announces-2025-preseason-all-conference-football-team.aspx Offensive Player of the Year Sam Leavitt, Arizona State (QB) Defensive Player of the Year Jacob...
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    History of Conference Realignment

    Today being July 1st means that today is also official conference realignment day. - Conference USA is adding Delaware and Missouri State as its 11th and 12th members, moving up from the FCS ranks. Those two become the 135th and 136th FBS schools. - Massachusetts leaves the independents and...
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    History of Conference Realignment

    Texas State will join the Pac-12 in 2026, which will give the Pac-12 eight football playing members (Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Utah State, Oregon State and Washington State........Gonzaga will join as a non-football member)...
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    History of Conference Realignment

    Sacramento State has withdrawn from the Big Sky and will join the Big West. Sacramento State is attempting to move their football program to the FBS, if denied, will compete as an FCS Independent. https://x.com/RossDellenger/status/1935342904471347225
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    Today in History - March 14

    March 14 1743 - The first recorded town hall meeting in America was held in Boston at Faneuil Hall. 1794 - The cotton gin was patented by Eli Whitney. 1879 - Albert Einstein, the scientist who would revolutionize physics and the human understanding of the universe, was born in Ulm, Germany...
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    Today in History - March 11

    March 11 1861 - The Confederate States of America adopted its constitution. 1888 - A torrential rain storm hit the East Coast. The rain turned to snow the next day, becoming the "Blizzard of 1888," the most famous snowstorm in American history, resulting in more than 400 deaths. 1918 - What...
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    Today in History - March 10

    March 10 1496 - Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere as he left Hispaniola for Spain. 1629 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament and rules alone for 11 years. 1785 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed minister to France. 1848 - Congress ratified the...
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    Today in History - March 6

    March 6 1820 - President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave state and Maine to join as a free state, while banning slavery in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory. 1836 - The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas fell as Mexican...
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    Today in History - March 4

    March 4 1789 - The U.S. Constitution was declared in effect as the first Federal Congress convened in New York. 1791 - Vermont became the 14th state. 1801 - Thomas Jefferson was sworn in as the third president of the United States and became the first president to be inaugurated in Washington...
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    Today in History - March 3

    March 3 1845 - Florida became the 27th state. 1849 - Congress established the U.S. Department of the Interior. 1863 - President Abraham Lincoln signed the act creating the National Academy of Sciences. 1879 - Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first female lawyer to be admitted to...
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    Today in History - February 12

    February 12 1554 - Lady Jane Grey, queen of England for nine days in 1553, was executed for high treason. 1733 - Led by philanthropist James Edward Oglethorpe, the first English colonists arrived in Georgia, at present-day Savannah. 1809 - Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United...
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    Today in History - February 11

    February 11 1805 - Lewis and Clark's Shoshone guide, Sacajawea, gave birth to a son, Jean Baptiste. 1809 - Robert Fulton received a patent for his steamboat. 1847 - American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio. 1858 - St. Bernadette of Lourdes first saw a vision of the...
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    Today in History - February 6

    February 6 1778 - During the American Revolutionary War, the United States won official recognition and military support from France with the signing of a Treaty of Alliance in Paris. 1788 - Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. 1862 - During the Civil War...
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    Today in History - February 5

    February 5 1811 - After King George III was declared insane, the Prince of Wales became Prince Regent of England, and later King George IV. 1917 - Mexico adopted its present-day constitution. 1917 - Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917, overriding President Woodrow Wilson's veto, an...
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    Today in History - February 4

    February 4 1783 - England proclaimed the formal end to the hostilities with the United States. 1787 - Shays's Rebellion, an uprising of Massachusetts farmers, was defeated. 1789 - George Washington and John Adams were elected the first president and vice president of the United States. 1801...
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    Today in History - January 31

    January 31 1606 - Guy Fawkes, a co-conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot to assassinate Britain's King James I and blow up the Parliament, was executed. 1863 - During the Civil War, the First South Carolina Volunteers, an all-Black Union regiment composed of many escaped slaves, was mustered into...
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    Today in History - January 30

    January 30 1649 - King Charles I of England was beheaded on charges of high treason. 1933 - Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany. 1945 - During World War II, a Soviet submarine torpedoed the German ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic Sea, killing more than 9,000, most of them war...
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    Today in History - January 29

    January 29 1802 - John Beckley became the first Librarian of Congress; he was paid $2 a day. 1845 - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" was published. 1850 - Henry Clay introduced the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Senate. 1861 - Kansas became the 34th state. 1886 - Karl Benz received a...
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