Daily Bullets (May 11)

Football News

The 1988 college football season would have been a playoff committee’s nightmare. [Football Study Hall]

Three different maps that show the most popular teams in America. [SB Nation]

Where does OSU rank in 2016 preseason top 25s? [PFB]

How OSU’s track program continues to benefit Mike Gundy. [PFB]

Big 12 Expansion

Colorado State, Houston, Central Florida and Memphis are all writing letters to the Big 12 expansion committee. And FedEx is involved (which is definitely a big deal). [FedEx CEO Fred] Smith also wrote that FedEx would be prepared to sponsor a Big 12 championship game. [ESPN]

The problem here with splitting up good/bad teams is that those teams won’t always be good/bad. See: Baylor and Oklahoma State from the early 2000s. [CRFF]

Recruiting News

Hey we have Twitter cards now. Pretty cool. Hey we have a recruiting arm on Twitter now. You should follow. Kyle B. continues to crush with The Reload (we even have a logo for it coming soon!)

The Reload: #OKState offers 2017 DE/OLB, four-star safety continues his interest, and an update on TE Nick Robinson. https://t.co/q93cD64Ic9

— PFB Recruiting (@PFBrecruit) May 11, 2016

Four-star safety names OSU in top seven. [PFB]

Other Sports

Great headline, great recap of Thunder-Spurs by Royce. [Daily Thunder]

OSU is hosting the Special Olympics starting today. [okstate]

More stuff I’m reading

Amazon is trying to take on YouTube when it comes to making your own videos. [Next Web]

Why people pay to read the New York Times. [Medium]

The problem with everyone building platforms. [Medium]