Kentucky
The CFB Playoff Reveal Show was Terrible, but it was Great News for Kentucky
Wow. That was something. The first-ever 12-team CFB Playoff bracket was revealed on ESPN and that was one hour of my life that I will never get back.
The CFB Playoff Bracket Reveal Show was terrible when there were four teams in the field. It somehow got worse when they added eight more.
Booger McFarland is still spewing nonsense. Joey Galloway won’t let his bad take — Indiana should have benched Kurtis Rourke vs. Ohio State — fade into oblivion. Nick Saban has been outstanding on television, except when he talks in circles about strength of schedule to defend Alabama.
Those gasbags aren’t what makes the show bad. What makes the show bad is they don’t talk about the CFB Playoff games.
CBS cracked the code years ago. Here are the one-seeds, now let’s show you who’s playing. It’s not that hard. One year they tried to change things and college basketball fans rioted. That experiment only lasted one year.
College basketball’s Selection Sunday special lasts 30 minutes and you can immediately begin filling in a bracket. It took 30 minutes for ESPN to share who got byes. Then 15 more to reveal the rest of the field. While showing one more side-by-side of SMU and Alabama, Rece Davis acknowledged, “I don’t mean to drag this out,” all while dragging it out even further.
The length of the CFB Playoff Bracket Reveal Show is not the only thing that makes it terrible. College basketball’s Selection Sunday is a celebration of what’s to come in March Madness. Rather than focusing on the teams that made it, ESPN prioritized the teams that didn’t make the final cut, which is actually great news for Kentucky fans.
The Consequences of Alabama’s CFB Playoff Absence
Folks, we might just get to keep playing the Governor’s Cup after all.
When Oklahoma and Texas were added to the SEC, there was a push to increase the number of SEC games per year from eight to nine. A coalition led by Mitch Barnhart and Mark Stoops pushed against that at the Spring Meetings. The argument was made under the guise of protecting inter-conference rivalry games, but let’s be honest with one another. Kentucky has a hard enough time with an 8-game SEC schedule. Adding another could be devastating.
Coaches and administrators ultimately decided to table the discussion for two years for two reasons. One, ESPN wasn’t going to pay the SEC more money to play more SEC games. Two, no one in the SEC knew how the CFB Playoff Committee would act in a 12-team format.
Nick Saban turned the tide, no pun intended, by siding with Stoops and getting everyone to agree to play the waiting game and temporarily stick with an 8-game SEC schedule. The first thing Saban said on ESPN after the results were revealed was to question why Alabama should play non-conference games against Notre Dame and Ohio State when the CFB Playoff Committee is not incentivizing teams to play a challenging schedule.
The first 12-team CFB Playoff has given the SEC a good reason to stick with an 8-game league schedule for the foreseeable future.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – Recent heavy rainfall has left soil across the state completely soaked, contributing to localized flooding in some areas.
When rain falls, some water soaks into the ground through a process called percolation.
Soil can only hold a limited amount of water. Once the small air spaces within the soil fill with water, the ground becomes saturated and additional rainfall has nowhere to go.
Soil type plays a role in how quickly water drains.
Much of Kentucky has clay-heavy soil, which is made up of very small, flat particles packed tightly together.
That composition makes it harder for water to move through. In clay soil, water may drain at a rate of only 0.02 to 0.17 inches per hour.
When rainfall comes down faster than the ground can absorb it and water cannot drain into a stream or storm drain quickly enough, it begins to build up.
That buildup is what leads to localized flooding.
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) – Cyclosporiasis is a microscopic parasite that can contaminate food and water — is making people sick across several states, including Kentucky.
Dr. Patricia Tellez-Watson said, the illness is caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis and spreads when someone ingests contaminated food or water. “It is an intestinal infection caused by this water-borne, food-borne microscopic parasite,” she said.
Symptoms can include diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.
Tellez-Watson said, cases are often sporadic, but outbreaks can happen — especially during hot, wet months, when the parasite can survive in the environment long enough to become infectious.
Health experts recommend taking extra precautions with food and water. Washing hands and thoroughly rinsing produce before eating or cooking can reduce risk.
Watson also urged people to be cautious with fresh produce, particularly pre-packaged items, and to consider using bottled water.
Officials have confirmed cases in Bowling Green, though it’s unclear how many.
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