College Football Moveing To A 12 Team Playoff

To make the College football playoffs there is a few things you must accomplish. First, having a great record with significant wins over other good teams. Next, winning a conference championship is almost a sure way of making the playoffs. Finally, the College Football Playoff Committee must select the four best teams to play in the playoffs.

This season college football fans witnessed an undefeated, conference champion team in Florida State, miss the college football playoffs. The College Football Committee was quoted saying, “Florida State, without Jordan Travis (starting QB) is not one of the four best teams in the nation.” Florida State won the conference championship without Jordan

The postseason tournament will grow from four teams to 12. As of now, the 12 teams in the bracket will include the six highest-rated conference champions, according to the CFP Rankings, and the next six highest-ranked programs. The top four conference champions will get byes into the quarterfinals. 

The expansion takes place in 2025 along with all the conference realignments. Conferences like the Pac-12 will no longer be a thing. The Big 10 is moving to an 18-team conference, which is the largest in the country. The Big 10 now goes from coast to coast.

Drew Bessey, a former Morningside Mustang football player says that he wants to see the NCAA move to a two-conference system, much like the NFL. In this scenario, there would be no playoff committee and your best teams would prove their worth for the playoffs on the field.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-playoff-bowl-projections-how-a-12-team-bracket-looks-after-third-cfp-rankings-release/#:~:text=The%20postseason%20tournament%20will%20grow,get%20byes%20into%20the%20quarterfinals.

Homer, a 16-year-old Polar Bear, was found dead in his habitat earlier today.

Homer is referred to as a very curious and playful polar bear. You could often find Homer playing in the snow, or hunting for trout in the child pond. Homer lived with 2 other polar bears, 10-year-old Mckenzie and 9-year-old Yukon. Both Mckenzie and Yukon are healthy bears.

The zoo plans to perform a necropsy to determine the exact cause of death to Homer. Earlier this month a 10-year-old bobcat died due to renal failure, and a 6-year-old giraffe named Kenya had died due to breaking her neck. The zookeepers reported that neither one of these deaths had anything to do with the death of Homer.

Florida State out of Playoffs, even with ACC conference win & Undefeated Season

Yes, you read that correctly. This weekend the College football playoff committee decided Michigan, Washington, Texas, and Alabama were the top 4 teams in the country, therefore they are in for the playoffs. This comes as a surprise as Florida State had a historic season and has a better record than both Alabama and Texas. In almost every other season winning your conference gives you the best shot at getting a bid to the playoffs, an undefeated conference win almost always guarantee your spot in the final four.

The committee explained that they believe that Florida State isn’t the same team as they wore from week 11, they are not entirely wrong in that statement. Florida State star QB Jordan Travis suffered a broken leg in the week 11 matchup, therefore the committee ruled them not a top 4 team. Even with the star QB going down, Florida State went on to win their next game and then on to flinch the ACC conference.

I talked with Morningside Alum Drew Bessey about his thoughts on the situation. Bessey was furious with the decision to leave Florida State out of the playoffs, he says “an undefeated power 5 team has to make the playoffs, period.” Bessey went on to talk about how Alabama shouldn’t have the 4 seed, he says, “Alabama lost to Texas, snuck by Arkansa and got save by a hail-mary to beat Auburn. Those close loses should tell the committee that Florida State deserves the 4 seed.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/04/sport/florida-state-left-out-college-football-playoffs-explainer-spt-intl/index.html

Morningside Choir to perform SDMEA Conference Friday

This article discusses the Morningside Choir team and their performance at the South Dakota Music Educators Conference. They performed on October 27th. Along with their performance, there was also a keynote speaker.

I would consider this article to be news. It’s old news, but still news. The audience for this article is Morningside students, and people involved in the choir world. This could be anyone who is currently in a choir or someone who enjoys listening to a choir.

The purpose of this story was to spread awareness about the Morningside Choir and some of the events they have attended. This particular article only talks about the event at the South Dakota Music Educators Conference.

Readers of this story will gain knowledge about the Morningside Choir. If they want to know more about the choir there is a link in the article to take the reader to the school of visual & performing arts. In this article, you will not find anything more than what took place at the SDMEA event.

Morningside gains better awareness with this article. More people will be aware of the Morningside choir and what they will be up to from this article. Better awareness could lead to more people coming to their events, and this in turn grows popularity for Morningside University.

https://www.morningside.edu/news/morningside-choir-to-perform-at-sdmea-conference-friday/

Feed the Soul Foundation Provides $850k of Support to Culinary Businesses through Restaurant Business Development Grant Program

On November 28th, 2023 the Feed the Soul Foundation, a non-profit provided financial relief and solutions for marginalized businesses that experienced the hardest constraints by the pandemic.

Juana Collins is the Executive Director of Feed the Soul Foundation. She has over 30 years of experience in nonprofit organizations. Juana Collins says that she is inspired by this fast-growing, national organization’s drive and accomplishments. She will continue to make a profound difference in lives and legacies.

The stories that I saw on PR Newswire seemed to all have a positive outlook on things. Most news stories I have seen are about drugs and violence and what’s wrong with the world, PR Newswire seems to report stories that are positive.

It is a nice change of pace to see all the positive things that are happening in the world rather than the negatives.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/feed-the-soul-foundation-provides-850k-of-support-to-culinary-businesses-through-restaurant-business-development-grant-program-301999576.html

Dayne is a very determined individual. Not only does he spend his free time taking photos for the sports teams, but he also sells shoes. Just a few weeks ago Dayne took some amazing photos for the Morningside Football team, many of the photos were posted to social media. When I asked Danye about why he enjoys photography he said that he enjoys talking photos of people doing something they love. This shows through his work, many of his photos capture raw emotions from players competing.

Piroulines can be described as a flakey, crunchy, tubular cracker that is filled with a sweet milk chocolate center. When holding the chocolate stick you can easily break it in between you fingers, the crust is very brittle. The chocolate stick itself is about 4 inches long and has a swirling chocolate design up the cracker. The cracker is a brownish tan and the chocolate is a deep brown.

When you take your first bite the crust will crunch off into your mouth. While you crunch away on the crust the sweet milk chocolate will start to dissolve in your mouth. The closest thing I could compare it to is a more brittle kit-kat.

This morning, after rolling out of bed I came down stairs to make breakfast. My roommate Drew Bessey was also coming out of his room for breakfast. He heard me making pancakes in the kitchen and he immediately came over to snag a pancake. As he walked over, still half asleep, I noticed that he had used the rest of the water in the Brita.

As Bessey refilled the Brita and I made pancakes for the two of us, we talked about what we had going on for the day. Bessey talked about how he has to fire someone at his job today, witch I found interesting. I told Bessey about my classes I had then what was going on with work, he was not interested.

As we ate our pancakes we talked about what we thought was going to happen in tonights NFL game. “I like the ravens to win,” Bessey said. I disagreed and we discussed why the Bengals have a shot at winning.

Before Bessey left for work we talked about my dog and when he was going to come back from Omaha. “I miss Chris, the house has been to quiet,” claimed Bessey. I quickly agreed with him and announced that he would most likely be back after Thanksgiving.

He then walked out of the door to go to his job. I ate my pancakes and went to get ready for my first class of the day.

Stuart Scott is an ESPN announcer; he is battling cancer while trying to live his life.

Stuarts Scotts speech is both moving and empowering. He speaks with such grace and power that it makes you want to fight for him. In his speech he says “When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner of which you live. So live” This quote is powerful to many, he challenges people to live their best lives, no matter your situation.

Scott talks about how people in his life help him with his fight, he says “fight, and when you are too tired to fight, let someone else fight for you”. He discusses how his loved ones fought for him when he was too weak to fight. His wife would sit in his hospital room with him every night. His daughters would talk with him and keep him going.

Scott goes on to talk about how the greatest thing that he will ever do is not beat cancer, not win this award, but to raise his two daughters. Scott tells his daughters that without them, he wouldn’t be on the stage.

 The depth and power that Scott speaks about empowers people to fight whatever they are going through and fight because that’s what we are supposed to do. It may be hard, and it may seem impossible, but when it comes down to it, we must fight.

Adam Johnson dead on the ice

Adam Johnson is a former NHL hockey player, he played 13 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins between 2018-2020. On October 28th, he was killed in a “freak accident” while playing professional hockey overseas.

While skating down the ice Matt Petgrave kicked his leg out and caught Johnson in the neck with the blade of his skate. This sliced Johnsons neck and later resulted in his death.

Police are treating this like any other homicide case, Petgrave is currently in police custody.

This article is very interesting, after all it’s not everyday a person dies while playing a professional sport. The article follows the inverted pyramid and gives details of the incident.

Along with giving details of the accident, it follows it up by telling the reader what steps the police are taking to come up with a solution to this incident. The article goes on to give some details about Johnsons life and everyone that was involved in it.