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HOUSTON- The ongoing discussions about revenue sharing with student-athletes inside college athletics continues to be a tough conversation without many answers. In the current landscape, Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh says we’re all ‘robbing the same train’ when it comes to profiting off athletes in all sports.
Taking the stage this weekend in Houston before his team takes the field on Monday night to play for a national championship, Jim Harbaugh tried to be a voice for college athletes.

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In the biggest game of his young NFL career, rookie C.J. Stroud delivered for the Texans
C.J. Stroud is no stranger to bright lights.
But the lights he played under Saturday night at Lucas Oil Stadium were the brightest he has ever seen.
Sure Stroud has played in some big games before, such as multiple games against Michigan during his days at Ohio State, or in a College Football Playoff semifinal against Georgia in the Peach Bowl.

Indianapolis Colts fans are still reeling over Saturday night’s heartbreaking loss. But no one feels as bad as Tyler Goodson.
It all came down to a fourth-and-1 play from the Houston Texans‘ 15-yard line. With just over one minute remaining in the game, quarterback Gardner Minshew threw a quick slant to Goodson. The play call was spot-on, the first down was there, but the running back couldn’t hang on.
Texans take over on downs and advance to the playoffs. The Colts’ 2023 season is over.

TYLER GOODSON DROPS IT ON 4TH DOWN pic.twitter.

For the recruiting industry, the College Football Playoff championship game matchup of the Michigan Wolverines and Washington Huskies on Monday night represents a bit of a crisis. The Wolverines and Huskies shouldn’t be here. This doesn’t compute.
The established formulas for projecting how good recruits will be—and how many of them each team has—are largely at odds with this reality. Michigan and Washington’s rosters are made up of what was rated as good, but not elite, talent. They are reminders that recruiting is inexact and quantifying it is elusive.

Welcome to the Super Bowl of Parity. It’s the last day of the NFL regular season, and even flat bad teams have a chance to make the playoffs.
It’s what NFL commissioner Roger Goodell loves – virtually all 32 teams still in the hunt over the last month. Entering Sunday games, 19 teams carried in chances of reaching the playoffs – 11 in the NFC and eight in the AFC. Of those, eight are 9-7 or worse, six are .500 or below.
Everybody doesn’t get a trophy. But many get to pretend they might until very late.

The Washington Commanders are expected to fire coach Ron Rivera on Monday, according to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero and Ian Rapoport. The team is entering its final game of a disappointing season with a 4–12 record and it will be the last game of Rivera’s four-year tenure with the franchise. 
Rivera was hired in January 2020 after an impressive stretch with the Carolina Panthers that included a Super Bowl appearance and two AP Coach of the Year awards, but he was never able to replicate the same success in Washington. Since he was hired, the team has compiled a 26–39 record.

If you’re asked to pick the top quarterbacks of the last 20 years, a lot of people will quickly rattle off names like Brady, Manning, Mahomes, and Rodgers. However, 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan has another name to throw in the mix: Joe Flacco.
There was always that debate over whether or not Flacco was an elite quarterback even after he led the Ravens to a Super Bowl win. A Super Bowl win, coincidentally over the 49ers.
Now, with Flacco helping the Cleveland Browns to an improbable playoff run in his late thirties, that debate is flaring up again.

The Montana Grizzlies brought some serious heat with the team’s hype video for the FCS title game.
Montana faces South Dakota State down in Frisco, Texas for the FCS national title, and it should be an outstanding game.
FCS football is criminally underrated, and it’s great to mix it in with some NFL action today. It should be an absolute dogfight on the field.
As we always say at OutKick, you can’t have a major college football game without a great hype video. Well, the Grizzlies certainly didn’t miss.
Montana plays South Dakota State in the FCS title game.

The reason for Dabo Swinney’s disgusting black eye has finally surfaced.
The Clemson football coach went viral after appearing (check out Zach Dean’s breakdown) at the program’s basketball game against UNC looking like he got jacked in the face.
It didn’t just look like a minor bruise. Swinney looked like he got absolutely rocked, and everyone seemed to notice. The biggest question was what happened to the famous football coach?

That’s quite the shiner. pic.twitter.

Here’s a pocket of history about the Indianapolis Colts: after moving abruptly from Baltimore for the 1984 season, the team played the first 24 seasons of their existence in the RCA (formerly Hoosier) Dome. It took a minute to find their footing, but the Colts eventually drafted Peyton Manning, won the Super Bowl, and rode their newfound cache into shiny Lucas Oil Stadium in 2008.
However, ESPN’s graphics department has an alternative view.