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#1 Sorsby Hits the Parachute 

After a Texas judge issued a restraining order that would’ve delayed Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby’s trial until February–effectively allowing him to play during the 2026 season despite horrid gambling accusations–all hell broke loose in college football. Things got much worse when Texas attorney general Ken Paxton threatened the Big 12 with a lawsuit but that bluff was called.

Instead, the Big 12 petitioned a federal judge for injunctive relief against Paxton and a declaratory judgement that it was allowed to enforce its rules and presumably make Sorsby ineligible to play for Texas Tech.

Mere hours later, Sorsby declared for the Supplemental NFL Draft. And now, for the time being, this dark chapter in college football is over.

#2 Recruiting 

Summer recruiting is sizzling now. Notre Dame lost commit Amarri Irvin, a linebacker out of IMG Academy who subsequently joined Virginia Tech’s class. The scuttlebutt was that Notre Dame wasn’t sad and/or was fully prepared for Irvin to leave the class. You may remember his brother, running back Sedrick Irvin, was once a Notre Dame commit, as well. Sedrick ended up at Stanford where he’s a rising senior with 300 yards on 85 career carries.

In more positive recruiting news, defensive end Abraham Sesay committed to the Fighting Irish, a top 50 prospect in the Composite and just outside 5-star status.

Back to bummer news, after the beat media thought linebacker Kaden Henderson was all but done for the Irish, the Floridian ended up committing to Texas A&M on Thursday afternoon. The five-star prospect was the no. 1 linebacker in the country according to the Composite so that one hurts.

#3 The PCSA Advances

With a 19-9 vote, the Protect College Sports Act has passed through a committee vote and could make its way to the Senate floor for a full vote. From Yahoo Sports:

The Protect College Sports Act would allow the NCAA to limit transfers and eligibility, enforce a spending cap, give conferences the option to pool their television rights and prevent coaches from leaving their teams before the end of the season. It also forces schools to commit to preserve their women’s and Olympic sports programs.

Citing concerns about media rights (mostly) the Big Ten and SEC are not in support of this current version of the bill. Will it be revised?

Uniform of the Week

TCU has released their special alternate uniforms for their regular season opening game across the pond in Ireland against North Carolina. You may have noticed the Horned Frogs wore very basic (especially for their program) uniforms in 2025. I’m talking about plain colors, almost no striping, or otherwise funky patterns that have come to define TCU football in the past. For their trip to Ireland at least, they have juiced things back up. Here’s a look:

Four-leaf clover vs. shamrock debate again.

I haven’t seen a side shot of the pants, although I suspect they remain plain black. The numbers have a very subtle frog-skin pattern in them and there is a four-leaf clover stuck on the helmet in the frog’s mouth. The pattern on the collar and shoulders looks kind of like lightning bolts but is supposed to mimic the rigid and sharp back of the horned frog.

Media

I’m a bit sad. Let me explain. I dove into the return of the college football video game a couple years ago and had a really good time. For a while. Yes, the game left a lot to be desired in dynasty mode and it never really felt like the good old days. I’m also much older and a bit of a hack, I just want to play games, dominate, and then it’s quickly not that fun anymore. I’m thinking about jumping back in again with the new College Football 27 later this summer and maybe going with a small school build up situation. That would extend the life of a franchise mode save.

The new game does look great, and a big jump up in graphics compared to the 2025 version. Check out the end of this video and you’ll see the weather changing in South Bend. That was completely missing in the game from two years ago. It made the gameplay get so shockingly stale. I haven’t read too much about any of the new features this year, although the few snippets I’ve seen have me itching to get back in again. I didn’t like the way recruiting was handled in 2025, so hopefully that’s experiences an overhaul.

Tunes

We only got 5 albums from Outkast (I don’t count Idlewild among them) and it’s a shame. They went out on top back in 2003 (again not counting Idlewild) so in that sense it’s nice that Andre 3000 and Big Boi left the industry with nothing more to prove. I have to think they are constantly asked if they’ll ever record again. That could be pretty annoying. Did you know Andre 3000 made the New York Times list of the greatest 30 American songwriters alive today? I was thinking about some of the best outros in modern history and landed today on “B.O.B.”

This song definitely got overplayed and really saturated Outkast into the American consciousness. I embedded the lyrics video today and I have a challenge to anyone. Try to rap along with Andre 3000 in the opening verse. It’s so fast! It’s so long! It’s not even easy to read along with him as he’s rapping. This is truly genius work.

One More Thing

Don’t forget the 2026 season marks the beginning of jersey sponsors in college sports. This week, I saw that Michigan State has announced their partnership with MSUFCU, Michigan State University Federal Credit Union. The Twitter replies to the announcement were brutal in their indignation to the Spartans doing this. I do agree that the patch being bordered in a different color to the jersey makes it look too amateurish. My first rule with jersey advertising patches is making them look as much like they aren’t patches.

Curiously, the Reddit comments on this news were all nearly universal in their praise of Michigan State for choosing MSUFCU. Apparently, it’s an awfully swell credit union and treats people right. Good on Michigan State for going down this route, then. But, does this mean Michigan State is kind of paying itself to advertise their own university credit union. God knows we need better corporations out there in the United States, but if Notre Dame signed up with a credit union the lack of aura would bug me.