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#PMARSHONAU: When college football really is about effort, refusing to give in Phillip Marshall 4–5 minutes College football owes TCU a debt of gratitude. At least for three-plus hours Saturday, we could believe again that the game really is about effort, determination and refusing to accept the notion that something can’t be done. If you go by recruiting rankings or supposed talent metrics that use how many stars a player had before he ever played a college game, TCU didn’t have much of a chance in its playoff semifinal against Michigan. But TCU won 51-45 in the biggest upset in College Football Playoff history. TCU didn’t win any of the analytics that threaten to swallow college football whole. None of the made-up systems that somehow came to be viewed as real would have given the Horned Frogs much of a chance. With the help of constant promotion – I can’t think of a better word – by ESPN, Fox and national sports columnists – only a handful of teams are deemed to actually be worthy. TCU reminded us that there remains much about a game played by college students that can’t be measured with a stop watch or a bench press or how somebody is rated in a summer camp or how they look getting off the bus or by NIL money. And sometimes, regardless of what any analytics say, the bounce of the ball means more than all the plays designed by highly paid football coaches. Key players are lost to injuries. Great players sometimes don’t play like great players. Average players sometimes play like great ones. If Ohio State's Noah Ruggles, a talented and consistent kicker, had made a 50-yard field goal with four seconds left against Georgia, everything about that game would be viewed today in a different light. We wouldn’t be talking about Stetson Bennett or Georgia’s talent. We’d be talking about C.J. Stroud and Ryan Day’s redemption, even though none of those had anything to do with that fateful final kick. We’d be wondering what happened to Georgia’s defense after it gave up 850 passing yards in the last two games. So many of us have strayed so far from the actual game. The bookies in Las Vegas don’t set point spreads based on what they believe will happen. They set point spreads to attract the maximum amount of money bet on both sides. Yet, there are those – apparently including Alabama coach Nick Saban - who believe those bookies’ opinions should be considered in ranking teams. We talk about so-called QBR, a rating of quarterbacks that someone made up and convinced others that it is a real thing. I could go on. No analytics can account for a fumble at the 1-yard line. The odds might favor going on fourth-and-two, but maybe not if the players on the defensive line are better than the players on the offensive line. No analytics can account for a defensive back slipping and falling down and giving up a touchdown or the very human thing of a player performing at a higher level than he ever has or a lower level than he ever has. No analytics can decipher targeting or why it is called when it is called. Auburn won a national championship in 2010 and played for one in 2013, losing in the final seconds. Did it have more talent top to bottom than Oregon or Florida State? Probably not. It didn’t matter. Could analytics predict Auburn’s basketball team would lose in the national semifinals in 2019 because an official looking directly at the ball didn’t call a flagrant double dribble that would have ended the game? 2COMMENTS For a bettor, betting on the more talented team is probably the right way to go. The more talented team is going to win more often than not. Bad teams don’t often win unless they are playing other bad teams. But teams with enough talent to have good records in strong conferences can win, even over teams that are believed to have more talent. TCU players and coaches believed that last Saturday. No matter what they do against Georgia in the championship game, they did a great service for college football. ">247Sports

Auburn transfer QB target withdraws from portal River Wells 1–2 minutes Auburn won’t be getting the services of Coastal Carolina quarterback Grayson McCall, but it seems as if no other team will, either. McCall was the No. 2 transfer quarterback in 247Sports’ portal rankings, but according to 247Sports’ Chris Hummer, he won’t be entering the portal at all. It seems as if McCall will stay at Coastal Carolina for another year, ending the sweepstakes for what would have been one of the most anticipated prospects in the portal. Buy Tigers Tickets Hugh Freeze and the Tigers were set to host McCall in an effort to woo him to the Plains, but McCall canceled his visit at the last moment and did not reschedule due to an “academic issue”. This appears to be the only visit he had set up, and it appears he’s now withdrawn his name from the portal and is expected to continue to play for Coastal Carolina this coming season. Auburn has not brought a transfer quarterback in as of yet, and it’s looking unlikely that the team will do so as the marquee prospects come off the board.

A look at the best shots of Robby Ashford from the 2022 season Zac Blackerby ~2 minutes Robby Ashford was counted out by almost everyone when discussing Auburn's quarterback battle in the spring and fall. Zach Calzada and TJ Finley dominated the talking points with discussions of who would be Auburn's starting man under center. Over the course of the fall, it became a two-man race and rotation at quarterback between Finley and Ashford. After a Finley injury, Ashford never gave up the job. He played with fight and through injury. In a Hugh Freeze offense, his skillset could elevate his play to the next level. Here are some of our favorite shots from Robby Ashford's 2022 season after transferring from Oregon. Todd Van Emst/AU Athletics Jason Homan/Auburn Daily John Reed-USA TODAY Sports Todd Van Emst/Auburn Tigers Eric Starling/Auburn Daily Zach Bland / AU Athletics Austin Perryman/ AU Athletics Matt Bush-USA TODAY Sports © Matt Bush-USA TODAY Sports Trey Lee / Auburn Daily Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports Eric Starling/Auburn Daily Eric Starling/Auburn Daily Eric Starling/Auburn Daily © Jake Crandall / USA TODAY NETWORK Todd Van Emst/AU Athletics Eric Starling/Auburn Daily Eric Starling/Auburn Daily

i hope bird does not see the pic with the bird button on it. he might get the big head.

when i said sonny dykes would be a great head coach folks laughed at me for mentioning it. i heard all the excuses.the main one was his schools he coached at are too small as he would never succeed with the big boys. i remember a couple of you but not all so since you professionals are probably realizing he has his team in the natty. so come get some crow boys as you know who you are ..........grins. and this of course is in fun..................

to be fair and to be honest i never saw it until it was over and assumed the thread was deleted or whatever.i have no idea what was said and that is the truth. i was a member of vle which was a no ban sports site where you could tell the mods exactly what you thought regardless of how bad it was. but racism killed the board. i do not care for racists at all. and i could give a good damn what color they are either. me and proud butted heads a million times on the pol boards. but look. folks say the same about you and i am not sure you understand this either do you? i certainly do not want to get banned but you get curious you message me where the convo is private and i will tell you plain and simple. you can agree or disagree but i will say right now i do not want anyone reading my personal comments. i will not say anything i am ashamed about but stuff can be redone to make it look like i said something i in fact did not. so if i can trust you on that aspect and you tell me i can we can talk all this out. i do not hate you. i do not dislike so and if i ever said so in public i was angry. i imagine you do things that are outstanding in the real world. you love auburn and that is a plus. i do not even wish anything bad on you or yours.ever. this is as plain as i can be. i am taking my 67 year old behind for a steak and i am willing to discuss it. but remember this when all the smoke clears. i do not talk about you behind your back unless i complained to a mod. and yes i made a typo earlier i said i was 57 but it was a mistake. and due i will never shut up ok? it is a discussion board. i have had many timeouts here and a few were deserved. so it seems you think i am a racist because i missed something? thats rich. one last thing is i hate racism,period. i have personal reasons i will not go into. message me and we can clear all this up but never expect me to shut up. ever................

now you are fudging cole. you said bo was not very talented but he made the heisman list. and again i take up for my friends. that makes it my business. but hey remember to tell everyone how wonderful you are. you take too much pleasure in trying to embarrass folks. i have been watching you for a long time and so have others. so you can re imagine the truth all you want. i address what you do. you just add stuff in an argument to make things look bad and you just an innocent poster. any hoo i am going to stop because i do not want to shut the thread down.

i never cry over you dude. you and your look how wonderful i am posts are tiresome. and i will defend anyone i like on this board. people laugh at you regular and you are either too stupid to see it or ignore it because you think you know it all. just for the record you cannot hurt me at 57 because you are a loud mouth that loves to pick on folks or did until they made you calm down. and those go" run tell dat" to the mods is laughable because they keep a pretty close ye on you. like i said i am not the only one that sees through you.when you have to tell folks how wonderful you are is pretty sad. you got a day to turn over a new leaf.

if freeze does not work out i would love KSU's coach to come to Aubunr. he won four nattys at a lesser division.

so the guy that claims to be a know it all says bo has no talent?I am pretty sure he was on the heisman list. what a joke.

you are one of my faves on here tim.i thought i would take the time to tell you so.

i woke up and i am blessed! mad love for the board and i just want to say i am turning over a new leaf this year. well actually i lied and i am not. i plan on owning the top crazy spot on the fam. you know. the kind you set on the porch and show off to the neighbors.....grins. in all honesty i hope blessings are bountiful to all my friends and even you cats that care little for me. i hope your year is special. we have a new year before us and new hope. our football team finally seems to be moving in the right direction.

now david show me where the gentlemen are. i see lots of dudes but no gentlemen.

ladies and gentlemen this should be a fun watch with a ton of stories.................

These 3 big pieces of Biden’s agenda kick off Jan. 1 Big pieces of the landmark Inflation Reduction Act that President Biden signed into law four and a half months ago are set to come online in 2023. On Jan. 1, an array of the law’s provisions will touch many corners of American life from the costs of prescription drug costs and a new corporate minimum tax to a host of new tax credits as part of Washington’s biggest attempt to turn the tide on climate change. “We’re just getting started,” President Biden recently said in a speech, which previewed some of the changes, adding that the effects will be felt “from healthcare to clean energy.” Here are some of the key provisions in the law set to take effect. Health care changes that represent ‘the most aggressive action in a generation’ Two much-touted portions of the bill concerning health care start on Jan. 1. The soon-to-be implemented changes include a new inflation cap that limits how much drug manufacturers can change the price of prescription drugs and new rules that insure that people enrolled in a Medicare prescription drug plan don’t pay more than $35 for a month’s supply of insulin. The law also will allow many Medicare Part D beneficiaries to receive vaccines for $0 in the new year. These changes are often discussed by President Biden who earlier this month said “it’s real savings to people, and it’s just about to kick in.” President Joe Biden speaks about lowering prescription drug costs during a visit to Hallandale Beach, Florida in November. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque) Another key provision of the bill allows Medicare to negotiate for prescription drug prices beginning in 2023. The previous law prohibited Medicare from intervening in the talks between drug makers and health plan sponsors. While these changes are projected to save Medicare nearly $100 billion over the coming decade, the effects of the renegotiated prices aren’t expected to be felt by seniors until 2026. The law also institutes a cap on out-of-pocket expenses for many Medicare recipients, but those won’t begin until 2024. In 2025, it will fully kick in with a hard cap on out-of-pocket expenses of $2,000 per year that will be indexed to inflation afterward. During a recent Yahoo Finance Live appearance, Chris Meekins, a Raymond James health care policy analyst, noted that the actions in total represent “the most aggressive action in a generation against the pharmaceutical industry related to regulating drug pricing.” But he added that some of the effects will be felt most strongly within the Medicare system and may have a more limited impact on the sector as a whole. For example, the new law doesn’t change the price of a new drug at launch so “when a drug is first coming on the market, they can do whatever they want,” Meekins noted about the companies. Two big changes to the tax code for corporations The law also has two big changes to the tax code that will affect businesses in 2023. First, a new 15% corporate minimum tax on corporations with book income above $1 billion takes effect and will set a new floor for many of America’s biggest businesses when it comes to tax time. Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation reported in early August that about 150 companies could see their tax situation change as a result of the new rules. But the final tally may be less after last-minute changes were made to the bill to include some exceptions for manufacturers. A another analysis by University of North Carolina Business Professor Jeffrey Hoopes found that the revised law is likely to hit companies like Amazon (AMZN), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A), Ford (F), AT&T (T), and eBay (EBAY) the hardest based on what they paid in 2021. “It's going to target companies who have a lot of financial accounting income, but pay relatively little in tax,” he said. Amazon infamously paid $0 in taxes in both 2017 and 2018 even while making billions in profits thanks to a host of tax credits, loopholes, and exemptions. A video protest sign on a truck drives past the Washington DC mansion of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to protest the low taxes his company has often paid. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) Also going into effect for 2023 is a new 1% excise tax on stock buybacks. The non-deductible tax will cover stock that is repurchased by a corporation or by certain corporate affiliates and will cover transactions from Jan. 1 onwards. The IRS released new guidance this week around both the alternative minimum tax and the excise tax outlining more details about how it works and — in the case of the minimum tax — how companies can know if they are included. The two new taxes are projected to raise about $296 billion over the coming decade to pay for other parts of the massive new law. Former U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) predicted in a Yahoo Finance Live interview this week of the tax change that “corporations will say that there’s a significant problem with them, but I don’t think there’s a significant problem honestly.” He added that taxes like the corporate minimum tax are needed to prevent companies from skipping out entirely on their tax bill. An array of new tax credits for clean energy A third headline provision of the law taking effect this weekend will impact the clean energy economy. An array of tax credits will be available in the new year, especially for Americans looking to decrease their home’s climate impact. A new credit for 2023 offers households up to 30% to cover the costs of certain energy-efficient improvements like upgrading a home’s weatherization or buying new appliances like a heat pump. Fred Closter of Boynton Beach, FL shows off the $40,000 rooftop solar power system he recently installed on his home. (Susan Stocker/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) There are also changes coming around the tax credits available for clean vehicles. Many households will be able to receive a $7,500 tax credit in 2023 when they purchase a new electric vehicle and $4,000 when purchasing a used EV. But there remains some confusion over how the credit will be applied in 2023 because of rules around if the vehicle was assembled in North America and where the materials for the battery came from. The IRS released new guidance this week, including a list of vehicles that are expected to qualify for the credit on Jan. 1. The bill also includes tax credits around the production of electricity from renewable sources, the building of new renewable energy projects, the domestic manufacturing of clean energy components, and the development of alternative fuels — all of which come online Jan. 1. All told, the act "includes some two dozen tax provisions that will save families money on their energy bills and accelerate the deployment of clean energy, clean vehicles, clean buildings, and clean manufacturing" wrote John Podesta, Biden's senior advisor for clean energy innovation and implementation, in a recently published guidebook of the plan's various investments. Ben Werschkul is a Washington correspondent for Yahoo Finance.

i think coach wants better competition in the QB room. it makes everyone work harder for the starting job. and i bet all the qb's will get their chance at practice. and coach said he couldnot wait to work with robby and while that might be coach speak i think he plans to make our QB's better whether they start or not.

this is why i say i am a five point nam vet versus a ten point nam vet. you would think people would know the difference.

What really drives anti-abortion beliefs? Research suggests it's a matter of sexual strategies 3.1k Martie Haselton, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles and Jaimie Arona Krems, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Oklahoma State University Thu, December 29, 2022 at 9:04 AM CST·6 min read There's an interesting evolutionary benefit for some women if the consequences of casual sex are high. Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Many people have strong opinions about abortion – especially in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, revoking a constitutional right previously held by more than 165 million Americans. But what really drives people’s abortion attitudes? It’s common to hear religious, political and other ideologically driven explanations – for example, about the sanctity of life. If such beliefs were really driving anti-abortion attitudes, though, then people who oppose abortion might not support the death penalty (many do), and they would support social safety net measures that could save newborns’ lives (many don’t). - ADVERTISEMENT - Here, we suggest a different explanation for anti-abortion attitudes – one you probably haven’t considered before – from our field of evolutionary social science. Why do people care what strangers do? The evolutionary coin of the realm is fitness – getting more copies of your genes into the next generation. What faraway strangers do presumably has limited impact on your own fitness. So from this perspective, it is a mystery why people in Pensacola care so strongly about what goes on in the bedrooms of Philadelphia or the Planned Parenthoods of Los Angeles. The solution to this puzzle – and one answer to what is driving anti-abortion attitudes – lies in a conflict of sexual strategies: People vary in how opposed they are to casual sex. More “sexually restricted” people tend to shun casual sex and instead invest heavily in long-term relationships and parenting children. In contrast, more “sexually unrestricted” people tend to pursue a series of different sexual partners and are often slower to settle down. These sexual strategies conflict in ways that affect evolutionary fitness. The crux of this argument is that, for sexually restricted people, other people’s sexual freedoms represent threats. Consider that sexually restricted women often get married young and have children early in life. These choices are just as valid as a decision to wait, but they can also be detrimental to women’s occupational attainment and tend to leave women more economically dependent on husbands. Other women’s sexual openness can destroy these women’s lives and livelihoods by breaking up the relationships they depend on. So sexually restricted women benefit from impeding other people’s sexual freedoms. Likewise, sexually restricted men tend to invest a lot in their children, so they benefit from prohibiting people’s sexual freedoms to preclude the high fitness costs of being cuckolded. Sexually restricted adults may feel that when casual sex has more potential consequences, it protects their own family relationships. Halfpoint Images/Moment via Getty Images Benefiting from making sex more costly According to evolutionary social science, restricted sexual strategists benefit by imposing their strategic preferences on society – by curtailing other people’s sexual freedoms. How can restricted sexual strategists achieve this? By making casual sex more costly. For example, banning women’s access to safe and legal abortion essentially forces them to endure the costs of bearing a child. Such hikes in the price of casual sex can deter people from having it. This attitude is perhaps best illustrated by a statement from Mariano Azuela, a justice who opposed abortion when it came before Mexico’s Supreme Court in 2008: “I feel that a woman in some way has to live with the phenomenon of becoming pregnant. When she does not want to keep the product of the pregnancy, she still has to suffer the effects during the whole period.” Force people to “suffer the effects” of casual sex, and fewer people will pursue it. Also note that abortion restrictions do not increase the costs of sex equally. Women bear the costs of gestation, face the life-threatening dangers of childbirth and disproportionately bear responsibility for child care. When women are denied abortions, they are also more likely to end up in poverty and experience intimate partner violence. No one would argue this is a conscious phenomenon. Rather, people’s strategic interests shape their attitudes in nonconscious but self-benefiting ways – a common finding in political science and evolutionary social science alike. Resolving awkward contradictions in attitudes An evolutionary perspective suggests that common explanations are not the genuine drivers of people’s attitudes – on either side of the abortion debate. In fact, people’s stated religious, political and ideological explanations are often rife with awkward contradictions. For example, many who oppose abortion also oppose preventing unwanted pregnancy through access to contraception. From an evolutionary perspective, such contradictions are easily resolved. Sexually restricted people benefit from increasing the costs of sex. That cost increases when people cannot access legal abortions or prevent unwanted pregnancy. An evolutionary perspective also makes unique – often counterintuitive – predictions about which attitudes travel together. This view predicts that if sexually restricted people associate something with sexual freedoms, they should oppose it. Indeed, researchers have found that sexually restricted people oppose not only abortion and birth control, but also marriage equality, because they perceive homosexuality as associated with sexual promiscuity, and recreational drugs, presumably because they associate drugs like marijuana and MDMA with casual sex. We suspect this list likely also includes transgender rights, public breastfeeding, premarital sex, what books children read (and if drag queens can read to them), equal pay for women, and many other concerns that have yet to be tested. No other theories we are aware of predict these strange attitudinal bedfellows. More sexually restricted people may in turn become more religious. maximkabb/iStock via Getty Images Plus Behind the link to religion and conservatism This evolutionary perspective can also explain why anti-abortion attitudes are so often associated with religion and social conservatism. Rather than thinking that religiosity causes people to be sexually restricted, this perspective suggests that a restricted sexual strategy can motivate people to become religious. Why? Several scholars have suggested that people adhere to religion in part because its teachings promote sexually restricted norms. Supporting this idea, participants in one study reported being more religious after researchers showed them photos of attractive people of their own sex – that is, potential mating rivals. Sexually restricted people also tend to invest highly in parenting, so they stand to benefit when other people adhere to norms that benefit parents. Like religion, social conservatism prescribes parent-benefiting norms like constricting sexual freedoms and ostensibly promoting family stability. In line with this, some research suggests that people don’t simply become more conservative with age. Rather, people become more socially conservative during parenthood. Restricting everyone to benefit yourself There are multiple answers to any “why” question in scientific research. Ideological beliefs, personal histories and other factors certainly play a role in people’s abortion attitudes. But so, too, do people’s sexual strategies. This evolutionary social science research suggests that restricted sexual strategists benefit by making everyone else play by their rules. And just as Justice Thomas suggested when overturning Roe v. Wade, this group may be taking aim at birth control and marriage equality next. This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts. If you found it interesting, you could subscribe to our weekly newsletter. It was written by: Jaimie Arona Krems, Oklahoma State University and Martie Haselton, University of California, Los Angeles. Read more:

i would love to grift my foot right up his azz.i just wish my foot was a bigger size. and no this is not hate but lets hold some folks accountable................

not really no. everyone counts or no one counts. i know you were tongue in cheek so it is not an attack on you. christianity is big money and as long as they can throw their "horror" of the week out there for donations which does not have a damn thing to do with love. how refreshing it would be to see certain people meet somewhere and bask in the glory of jesus without bashing those we do not care much for. no money. no politics. no hate. if you are pushing anything like this in the name of jesus you break his heart over and over again. jesus dies for our sins and what have we done with it? talk a big game and do the same ol crap at the expense and hurt of others. so my best guess is he is still weeping at those who change his words to fit a different narrative that does not have a damn thing to do with love. and folks if you pay attention to what jesus is saying it is simple.jesus is the higher law. he never gave you a list of whom to hate. the truth is many out there make themselves feel better by coming down on others. it makes me want to puke. and i am fine with jesus but not so much with many many churches. come at me. call me a hater all you want. i am not but neither am i a fool. some of you people tried to turn trump into the second coming of jesus. but go ahead and blast me. hell i expect it.

Transfer Portal 2023: Breaking down the state of the transfer QB market Chris Hummer 7–9 minutes The transfer portal dominos are falling fast as the calendar charges toward the new year with 40 of the top 50 transfers in the 247Sports transfer rankings currently committed. But the quarterback market isn’t moving quite as quickly. While several high-profile quarterbacks like Devin Leary (Kentucky), Hudson Card (Purdue) and DJ Uiagalelei (Oregon State) have come off the board, there are still some significant names – and teams – in search of a starting signal caller. With the spring semester set to begin nationwide in the coming weeks, here’s a look at some QB-needy teams in the portal and where they could turn. Notre Dame Fighting Irish Notre Dame has quietly been the top dog in the quarterback market all offseason. With some long-term questions about Tyler Buchner – both health and production – and Drew Pyne headed to Arizona State, the Irish need to add another arm to their room. They’re likely to do so with Sam Hartman in the coming days. Hartman, a graduate transfer by way of Wake Forest, has been speculated as a potential transfer for weeks now, and the Irish have always been at the forefront of that conversation when talking to industry sources. There will be other schools who pursue Hartman, the leading passer in Wake Forest history, but Notre Dame is the favorite to land him. Hartman has a transfer rating of 94 per 247Sports and is the No. 1 quarterback transfer per our rankings. Oklahoma State Cowboys There’s a quarterback question in Stillwater for the first time since 2018 during Spencer Sanders’ true freshman season. While Sanders didn’t win the job that year, he’s held it down every campaign since – until now. Sanders opted to enter the transfer portal on Dec. 5, and the Cowboys need to bolster a QB room that only includes second-year passer Garret Rangel and Gunnar Gundy, a former walk-on QB who’s also the head coach’s son. Brennan Armstrong is the Cowboys’ main target. The former Virginia QB, who ranks as the No. 37 overall player in 247Sports’ transfer rankings, took an official visit to Stillwater ahead of the dead period. Armstrong could step in right away and help OSU contend in the Big 12 next year. The Cowboys are competing with Wisconsin and NC State for Armstrong. Illinois Fighting Illini With Tommy DeVito officially moving on, the Illini need an impact starting quarterback. Illinois made a strong run at Card before he picked Purdue, so they’re very much in the market. The name to watch here is former Ole Miss quarterback Luke Altmyer. The No. 196 overall player in the 2021 class, Altmyer brings an intriguing amount of upside wherever he ends up. Altmyer visited Illinois ahead of the dead period, and I think the Illini are in good shape with him. Others in the mix include Baylor and NC State. Altmyer ranks as the No. 10 overall QB in the 247Sports transfer rankings and is a four-star prospect. Auburn Tigers One of the teams at the forefront of the quarterback carrousel this offseason, the Tigers made notable runs at Devin Leary and Grayson McCall. Leary picked Kentucky and the Tigers ultimately moved off McCall. So, who’s next? I reported last week the Tigers have had exploratory conversations with Sanders, the former Oklahoma State quarterback. Sanders is considered a good system fit for the offense of new Tigers head coach Hugh Freeze. Even if it isn’t Sanders, expect Auburn to add someone this offseason. The Tigers want more competition in their quarterback room alongside Robby Ashford, a former transfer himself. Louisville Cardinals Malik Cunningham is gone, which creates a question we haven’t seen at Louisville in a long time: Who will play quarterback? Brock Domann was the program’s backup in 2022, and while he handled himself reasonably well in relief of Cunningham in multiple outings, he still completed 54.9% of his passes. There’s room to upgrade and you better believe new coach Jeff Brohm will be looking to do so. The obvious name to watch here is Jack Plummer. A 12-game starter for the Cal Bears this season, Plummer threw for 3,095 yards and 21 touchdowns this season while completing 62.5% of his passes after transferring in from Purdue. Plummer started 12 games for Brohm across three seasons in West Lafayette, so it’d be a natural reunion at Louisville. Plummer would be an ideal bridge QB for a season. Cal Golden Bears Speaking of Plummer, the Bears have several openings in their quarterback room after losing both Plummer and his backup, Kai Millner, to the transfer portal. A name to watch with the Bears is Louisiana-Monroe quarterback transfer Chandler Rogers. An under-the-radar name for most CFB fans, Rogers had the seventh-highest adjusted completion percentage in the FBS this year, per PFF. Other Schools To Watch For Transfer QBs: Wisconsin: The Badgers already added former Oklahoma QB Nick Evers via the transfer portal, but they’d like to bring in a more experienced arm as well. They’re in the thick of it for Armstrong. NC State: The Wolfpack have what many people think to be their QB of the future on campus (MJ Morris), but they are exploring options in the portal. Armstrong is particularly interesting given that NC State's new OC, Robert Anae, served as Armstrong's play-caller at Virginia in 2021 when Armstrong led the Power Five in passing yards. Ole Miss: The Rebels have an established starting quarterback with Jaxson Dart, but sources indicate they want to add another QB to the room to bolster depth and create competition. Sanders is a name to watch in Oxford. Baylor: The Bears have a starting quarterback (Blake Shapen) and ... that's it. Baylor lost 2021 four-star Kyron Drones to the transfer portal and saw high-profile 2023 recruit Austin Novosad flip to Oregon on the first day of the Early Signing Period, which leaves Shapen as the lone wolf in the QB room. The Bears have to add someone to the mix via the portal. Stanford: The Cardinal are in a new, more aggressive era with the transfer portal under head coach Troy Taylor, which could mean a portal addition at QB with Tanner McKee off to the NFL. Missouri: The Tigers appear to be set at quarterback with 2022 starter Brady Cook eligible to return and 2022 four-star Sam Horn on campus. But they’re still a team to keep an eye on with lots of offensive changes happening on the coaching staff. 1COMMENTS A Quick Note On Grayson McCall I’d be remiss not to mention McCall in this piece. Arguably the top quarterback in the transfer portal – 247Sports ranks him third behind Hartman and Leary – McCall would be an instant additive offensively wherever he ends up. But his status is a bit more complicated than just a football fit. Auburn had to cancel his transfer visit initially, per a source, due to some academic concerns, and those questions aren’t exclusive to Auburn. McCall would be a huge add for any QB-needy team. It’s just a question of whether a school and McCall can make it work. McCall played in Coastal Carolina's bowl game Tuesday evening, suffering an apparent head injury. ">247Sports