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The renovations are set to cost an estimated $450 million, with $225 million coming from private donations.

Memorial Stadium has undergone some renovations here and there dating back to the 1960s, but one of the areas that has remained untouched is the south end of the stadium. The latest plans call for a complete removal and replacement of the south stadium, making it unavailable to fans for at least the entire 2025 season, and quite possible the 2026 season as well. Included in those renovations are a new seating bowl, loading dock area renovations, new restrooms and concessions, and "vertical transportation opportunities" for fans.

The areas on the east and west side of the stadium will get new restrooms, concessions, and chair back seating while the north stadium will be renovated to expand the existing sports performance areas to be used by all other sports outside of football.

With all the changes outlined, the seating inside Memorial Stadium will undergo a reduction, going from room for 90,000 fans to room for 80,000.

For fans, they will get a refurbished menu at concessions, and will benefit from the field level concourse being connected 360 degrees, while the main level concourse will be connected 270 degrees around the stadium.

Place	Team	Points	#1 Votes	Movement
1	Texas	168	1	-
2	Michigan	154	1	-
3	Florida State	148	1	+1
4	Ohio State	142	1	+1
5	Washington	140	0	+1
6	Penn State	134	0	+2
7	Georgia	133	3	-4
8	Oregon	123	0	+3
9	USC	117	0	-2
10	Oklahoma	113	0	-
11	Utah	99	0	+4
12	Alabama	96	0	+5
13	North Carolina	83	0	-
14	Notre Dame	75	0	-5
15	Duke	66	0	-1
16	Washington State	62	0	+6
17	Miami (FL)	61	0	+3
18	LSU	60	0	-2
19	Ole Miss	42	0	-7
20	Kansas	32	0	NR
21	Tennessee	28	0	+2
22	Texas A&M	28	0	NR
23	Oregon State	27	0	-4
24	Missouri	23	0	-
25	Louisville	20	0	NR

Others receiving votes: Fresno State (15), Kentucky (14), Liberty (11), Wisconsin (11), Rutgers (9), Maryland (8), Florida (7), Kansas State (7), Iowa (5), Ohio (5), Syracuse (5), BYU (2), James Madison (2)

Link to check out the spreadsheet of responses here

Max Johnson (what a name) believed to be the starter for the rest of the season.

Kiffin started the modern incarnation of black unis against scar. And given the implications after last year I like the call. Admittedly I'm not as into dark mode as the smoky grey, but if it gets the kids fired up...

Games this week with over 1M viewers:

• CU @ UO: 10.03M
• tOSU @ ND: 9.98M
• FSU @ Clemson: 6.71M
• Ole Miss @ Bama: 4.61M
• Iowa @ Penn State: 2.75M
• USC @ ASU: 2.63M
• Texas @ Baylor: 2.63M
• Battle for the Golden Boot: 2.44M
• Auburn @ TAMU: 2.18M
• 0U @ Cinci: 2.17M
• Rutgers @ Michigan: 1.94M
• NC State @ UVA: 1.59M
• 2Pac Championship Game (OSU @ Wazzu): 1.48M
• UCLA @ Utah: 1.32M
• Maryland @ Sparty: 1.24M
• Wiscy @ Purdue: 1.19M
• Cal @ UW: 1.16M
• UAB @ UGA: 1.08M
• BYU @ KU: 1.03M

Number 1 OT in the nation and number 24 overall per 247.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1abj2ymvtTc

Wouldn’t be right to have the Deep Souths Oldest Rivalry without a friend reminder that Auburn sucks

1. Georgia (4-0)
2. Michigan (4-0)
3. Texas (4-0)
4. Ohio State (4-0)
5. Florida State (4-0)
6. Penn State (4-0)
7. Washington (4-0)
8. USC (4-0)
9. Oregon (4-0)
10. Utah (4-0)
11. Notre Dame (4-1)
12. Alabama (3-1)
13. LSU (3-1)
14. Oklahoma (4-0)
15. North Carolina (4-0)
16. Washington State (4-0)
17. Duke (4-0)
18. Miami (FL) (4-0)
19. Oregon State (3-1)
20. Ole Miss (3-1)
21. Tennessee (3-1)
22. Florida (3-1)
23. Missouri (4-0)
24. Kansas (4-0)
25. Fresno State (4-0)

Others receiving votes: Kansas State, Kentucky, Colorado, Louisville, UCLA, Maryland, TCU, Tulane, Syracuse, Wisconsin, Air Force, Clemson, Texas A&M

Some absolute barn burners this week. The PAC had at it with some (not so) surprising results. Plus one score outcomes for several teams that maybe should or should not have been in that situation. What say you c/cfb?

Here are this week's game results. I didn't have time this week to add a home/away column but I will see if I have time next week to add it in.

^18^ Colorado, ^T-24^ BYU, ^12^ Ole Miss, ^19^ Oregon State, and ^9^ Notre Dame are this week's ranked teams that fell. We didn't have as many upsets as last week, but most top teams still seem vulnerable. I wasn't able to watch many games last night but hopefully ToasterOverlord did and can provide some ranked v. ranked game recaps in the comments.

	Thursday	September 21
Georgia State	defeated	Coastal Carolina	30-17

	Friday	September 22
Wisconsin	defeated	Purdue	38-17
NC State	defeated	Virginia	24-21
Boise State	defeated	San Diego State	34-31
Air Force	defeated	San José State	45-20

	Saturday	September 23
Marshall	defeated	Virginia Tech	24-17
Kentucky	defeated	Vanderbilt	45-28
^10^ Oklahoma	defeated	Cincinnati	20-6
^4^ Florida State	defeated	Clemson	31-24
Syracuse	defeated	Army	29-16
^2^ Michigan	defeated	Rutgers	31-7
Troy	defeated	Western Kentucky	27-24
TCU	defeated	SMU	34-17
Texas A&M	defeated	Auburn	27-10
Tulsa	defeated	Northern Illinois	22-14
Toledo	defeated	Western Michigan	49-31
Georgia Southern	defeated	Ball State	40-3
Ohio	defeated	Bowling Green	38-7
^14^ Duke	defeated	Connecticut	41-7
Louisville	defeated	Boston College	56-28
^15^ Utah	defeated	UCLA	14-7
Maryland	defeated	Michigan State	31-9
^11^ Oregon	defeated	^18^ Colorado	42-6
Nebraska	defeated	Louisiana Tech	28-14
Illinois	defeated	Florida Atlantic	23-17
West Virginia	defeated	Texas Tech	20-13
Old Dominion	defeated	Texas A&M-Commerce	10-9
Miami (OH)	defeated	Delaware State	62-20
New Mexico	defeated	UMass	34-31
^20^ Miami	defeated	Temple	41-7
Kansas	defeated	^T-24^ BYU	38-27
^17^ Alabama	defeated	^12^ Ole Miss	24-10
Iowa State	defeated	Oklahoma State	34-27
South Florida	defeated	Rice	42-29
^23^ Tennessee	defeated	UT San Antonio	45-14
Jacksonville State	defeated	Eastern Michigan	21-0
Central Michigan	defeated	South Alabama	34-30
East Carolina	defeated	Gardner-Webb	37-0
Liberty	defeated	Florida International	38-6
Georgia Tech	defeated	Wake Forest	30-16
Tulane	defeated	Nicholls	36-7
^16^ LSU	defeated	Arkansas	34-31
Arizona	defeated	Stanford	21-20
^22^ Washington State	defeated	^19^ Oregon State	38-35
Wyoming	defeated	Appalachian State	22-19
Texas State	defeated	Nevada	35-24
Arkansas State	defeated	Southern Mississippi	44-37
Colorado State	defeated	Middle Tennessee	31-23
Florida	defeated	Charlotte	22-7
Houston	defeated	Sam Houston State	38-7
^5^ Ohio State	defeated	^9^ Notre Dame	17-14
South Carolina	defeated	Mississippi State	37-30
^8^ Penn State	defeated	^21^ Iowa	31-0
^3^ Georgia	defeated	UAB	49-21
^1^ Texas	defeated	Baylor	38-6
Northwestern	defeated	Minnesota	37-34
^T-24^ Missouri	defeated	Memphis	34-27
Indiana	defeated	Akron	29-27
Louisiana	defeated	Buffalo	45-38
^13^ North Carolina	defeated	Pittsburgh	41-24
Kansas State	defeated	UCF	44-31
James Madison	defeated	Utah State	45-38
UNLV	defeated	UTEP	45-28
^6^ Washington	defeated	California	59-32
Fresno State	defeated	Kent State	53-10
^7^ USC	defeated	Arizona State	42-28
Hawai'i	defeated	New Mexico State	20-17