It’s hard to talk about sports after the 2024 elections

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Good morning, Winners. Thanks for reading Morning Victory today. Thank you for visiting our site. You could be anywhere on the Internet, but you are here with us. And that means a lot. Especially today.

I won’t miss the elephant in the room. One of the most important elections in recent American history began Tuesday. The signal hasn’t officially sounded yet, but at the moment everyone is just playing until the final whistle. Donald Trump will become president USA again.

I’m not sure how you feel about this. I won’t go into detail about my point of view on this, mainly because if you’re reading this, you probably already know. But honestly, I don’t think it matters much anymore. Results are results, and we all have to live with them.

But this is what I struggle with the most today. How can we live with them? How can we continue?

For The Win is where you go on the internet when you need a break from everything else. We like to make fun of things. We try not we take ourselves too seriously. We love to have a good time and we love to show everyone else that it’s a good time.

But it’s hard to have a good time these days knowing that our country is in an irreparable state.

America must be a nation whose people stand together, “indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,” as they say. This is supposed to be what sets us apart from other countries in our world. In all things, we must prioritize compromise and unity over the herd mentality that seems to plague this country we all love. It doesn’t have to be us versus them, but that’s exactly what we’ve felt for the last eight years.

This is the pervasive feeling I see this morning. It’s everywhere. On my social networks. In my text threads. Everywhere. It’s inevitable. I don’t blame people, given the circumstances of everything that’s happening today. I won’t sit here and act like I’m immune to this or I’m above it. But it’s so difficult to come to terms with someone who loves our country and wants to believe in its people.

That’s where I am today. I would like to write about college football playoff rankings or Joel Embiid’s suspension, or – literally – anything else today. But the divisions that pervade our country have been a hard pill to swallow for me, and I’m sure they will be for you too.

I don’t know how we can move forward. I don’t know what’s on the horizon. But I just hope that somehow we can find a way to get back to where things were before things got really weird.

Because that’s not it.

While you were spinning your fate…

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The ratings for the first college football playoff of the year have dropped. While I won’t be writing about them myself today, our own Blake Schuster has made a point that I think is worth considering on this topic.

Oregon is in first place, followed by Ohio (2), Georgia (3) and Miami (4). OSU has the best chance to win. But things will change. Inevitably. Such is the nature of this beast.

Here’s Blake and more:

“A year ago, when the first rankings were released, Ohio State was No. 1, Georgia was No. 2 and Florida State was No. 4. None of these teams made it into the final four-team group.

With an expanded 12-team playoff this season, early rankings should tell us more about which teams are in the bubble than which teams are safe.

That doesn’t mean Tuesday’s ratings won’t have an impact. We are already seeing the national title odds changing based on the first committee poll.”

Guys, this is going to be a long and strange season.

Recaps: CFP winners and losers… NFL trade deadline takes… and more

— Here’s Blake Schuster with the winners and losers from first round of College Football Playoff rankings.

– Christian D’Andrea five teams that got better and three that got worse at the NFL trade deadline.

– And so WITH Christian, again, with his weekly QB rankings. Lamar Jackson remains the best of the best.

– Here Robert Zeglinski with Trade Deadline Winners and Losersincluding a look at Jerry Jones.

– Were here 8 Distractions on Election Day we came up with a staff that can still apply to you today.

– Here’s Meg Hall with Highlights from the first day of women’s college basketball.

This is the end, guys. Thanks for reading. Please be healthy today. World. See you tomorrow.

-Sykes