Zach Bigalke (he/him/his)
@zbigalke.bsky.social
Husband
Puppy papa
Former pro cook
Unapologetically profane sport historian
Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor
Penn State Kinesiology
Secretary
Society for American Soccer History
Book Review Editor
Sport History Review
NSHOF voter
Puppy papa
Former pro cook
Unapologetically profane sport historian
Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor
Penn State Kinesiology
Secretary
Society for American Soccer History
Book Review Editor
Sport History Review
NSHOF voter
Pinned
So I dusted this off this week and set it up for the 2025 season.
Here's how things rank out after last weekend's games. The ranking uses game results from all games between Division I teams, dropping any games against D-II, D-III, and NAIA competition.
More details in this thread...
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Here's how things rank out after last weekend's games. The ranking uses game results from all games between Division I teams, dropping any games against D-II, D-III, and NAIA competition.
More details in this thread...
🧵 1/x
I am publishing the full rankings of all 265 Division I teams here each week, if you wish to see where everyone ranks (and give me shit about where your favorite team landed this week): sites.psu.edu/zbigalke/col...
I'll be updating the rankings each Sunday through the regular season.
I'll be updating the rankings each Sunday through the regular season.
They've already got eight of the fifteen letters to replace "CAMERON BARRACKS" with "ARBEIT MACHT FREI"...
November 29, 2025 at 10:22 AM
They've already got eight of the fifteen letters to replace "CAMERON BARRACKS" with "ARBEIT MACHT FREI"...
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
Moose
Grizzly bear
Elk
American bison
Pronghorn antelope
Moose
Grizzly bear
Elk
American bison
Pronghorn antelope
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
Black bear
White tailed deer
Coyote
Snow shoe hare
Bald eagle
Black bear
White tailed deer
Coyote
Snow shoe hare
Bald eagle
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
- Hedgehog
- Toad
- Kingfisher
- Squirrel
- Fox
- Hedgehog
- Toad
- Kingfisher
- Squirrel
- Fox
November 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild
Moose
Grizzly bear
Elk
American bison
Pronghorn antelope
Moose
Grizzly bear
Elk
American bison
Pronghorn antelope
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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Endowing a faculty position runs about $2–3 million, in case you were wondering
LSU confirms Kelly was fired 'without cause' and is owed his full $54 million buyout
Former LSU coach Brian Kelly has received a letter from LSU confirming that he was fired without cause and is owed his full $54 million buyout.
apnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Endowing a faculty position runs about $2–3 million, in case you were wondering
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
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A country where the president can ask election officials to 'find' another 11,780 votes and not be prosecuted, while citizens are brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights is not a nation of laws.
THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.
THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
A country where the president can ask election officials to 'find' another 11,780 votes and not be prosecuted, while citizens are brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights is not a nation of laws.
THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.
THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.
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Not just athletic performance.
Life is messy and complex, and sex and gender are part of that glorious, complicated mess.
Humans are social animals. GCs' obsession with a mythical "reality" of bioessentialism is a naive phantasm that sits well within a fascist worldview.
We MUST reject it.
Life is messy and complex, and sex and gender are part of that glorious, complicated mess.
Humans are social animals. GCs' obsession with a mythical "reality" of bioessentialism is a naive phantasm that sits well within a fascist worldview.
We MUST reject it.
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Not just athletic performance.
Life is messy and complex, and sex and gender are part of that glorious, complicated mess.
Humans are social animals. GCs' obsession with a mythical "reality" of bioessentialism is a naive phantasm that sits well within a fascist worldview.
We MUST reject it.
Life is messy and complex, and sex and gender are part of that glorious, complicated mess.
Humans are social animals. GCs' obsession with a mythical "reality" of bioessentialism is a naive phantasm that sits well within a fascist worldview.
We MUST reject it.
The only reason for a board of trustees to fight to keep its documentation private is because they're doing some nefarious shit behind closed doors.
Penn State Asks Pa. Supreme Court to Stop the Release of Internal Trustee Documents
The move is the latest in a yearslong dispute over records that the secretaries of state agencies use in their roles of Penn State trustees.
www.statecollege.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The only reason for a board of trustees to fight to keep its documentation private is because they're doing some nefarious shit behind closed doors.
You have to be one of the most entitled dipshits on planet Earth if you think you're entitled to platform your lies on another person's account.
A person with that level of delusion about what they are owed is oozing self-centered entitlement out of every deplorable pore.
Fucking pissbabies.
A person with that level of delusion about what they are owed is oozing self-centered entitlement out of every deplorable pore.
Fucking pissbabies.
I’ve just been informed that not permitting scientific misinformation on my feed, including claims that SARS-CoV-2 is airborne HIV, is “tone policing”.
It’s actually fact-checking. I don’t give a shit who is posting misinformation or why. Zero tolerance.
It’s actually fact-checking. I don’t give a shit who is posting misinformation or why. Zero tolerance.
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
You have to be one of the most entitled dipshits on planet Earth if you think you're entitled to platform your lies on another person's account.
A person with that level of delusion about what they are owed is oozing self-centered entitlement out of every deplorable pore.
Fucking pissbabies.
A person with that level of delusion about what they are owed is oozing self-centered entitlement out of every deplorable pore.
Fucking pissbabies.
Beyond the ad hominem attack, just one demonstrably false claim after another...
Now we have the president calling a female New York Times reporter ugly because he's mad about a story she wrote.
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Beyond the ad hominem attack, just one demonstrably false claim after another...
Okay, Zach, today is the day to get into editor mode.
November 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Okay, Zach, today is the day to get into editor mode.
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Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
This might be the most perfect statement I've yet read in my years on Bluesky.
Women being attracted to RFK Jr is how you know heterosexuality is NOT a choice.
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This might be the most perfect statement I've yet read in my years on Bluesky.
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you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
The day that media institutions no longer serve their role as the fourth estate speaking truth to power — the day that they capitulate and cower at the feet of power — is the day that they are no longer serving their intended function as a public watchdog and educator.
Historian Rutger Bregman is a well-respected proponent of a universal basic income. The Guardian has called him “the Dutch wunderkind of new ideas.”
The BBC invited Bregman to give this year’s Reith Lecture series.
Before airing, the BBC removed one sentence from his lecture, “A Time of Monsters.”
The BBC invited Bregman to give this year’s Reith Lecture series.
Before airing, the BBC removed one sentence from his lecture, “A Time of Monsters.”
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The day that media institutions no longer serve their role as the fourth estate speaking truth to power — the day that they capitulate and cower at the feet of power — is the day that they are no longer serving their intended function as a public watchdog and educator.
It shouldn't really boggle my mind that legacy media outlets around the globe have proven that each one is just yet another bloated corpse reanimated by bigots, but my brain still doesn't initially want to comprehend this bullshit.
the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.
they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It shouldn't really boggle my mind that legacy media outlets around the globe have proven that each one is just yet another bloated corpse reanimated by bigots, but my brain still doesn't initially want to comprehend this bullshit.
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Also, what they mean by meritocracy: survival of the richest
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Also, what they mean by meritocracy: survival of the richest
Dershowitz?!
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Dershowitz?!
I didn't go beyond Cub Scouts, but you know who was there helping with most of our activities?
Our mothers.
On one hand, I love seeing the military take their hands off of Scouts. It's about time.
On the other hand, fuck Hegseth and his misogynistic cronies and then fuck them some more.
Our mothers.
On one hand, I love seeing the military take their hands off of Scouts. It's about time.
On the other hand, fuck Hegseth and his misogynistic cronies and then fuck them some more.
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts n.pr/3M48mr2
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. Military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formally known as the Boy Scouts
n.pr
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I didn't go beyond Cub Scouts, but you know who was there helping with most of our activities?
Our mothers.
On one hand, I love seeing the military take their hands off of Scouts. It's about time.
On the other hand, fuck Hegseth and his misogynistic cronies and then fuck them some more.
Our mothers.
On one hand, I love seeing the military take their hands off of Scouts. It's about time.
On the other hand, fuck Hegseth and his misogynistic cronies and then fuck them some more.
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Hey. Here's a wild idea. How about you stick around AND TRY TO FIX THINGS?!?
These modern conservatives and their self imposed lack of agency...
These modern conservatives and their self imposed lack of agency...
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Hey. Here's a wild idea. How about you stick around AND TRY TO FIX THINGS?!?
These modern conservatives and their self imposed lack of agency...
These modern conservatives and their self imposed lack of agency...
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Y’know, believing there’s a kind of racism that isn’t hurtful or insulting is itself quite revealing.
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Y’know, believing there’s a kind of racism that isn’t hurtful or insulting is itself quite revealing.
Two of the four projected playoff matchups remain the same this week in the BCS rankings, even as Jeff Anderson released his first poll of 2025 & allowed for full calculations. The top four stayed the same, but there was some shakeup lower down.
Here are the BCS standings after Week 13 play...
Here are the BCS standings after Week 13 play...
November 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Two of the four projected playoff matchups remain the same this week in the BCS rankings, even as Jeff Anderson released his first poll of 2025 & allowed for full calculations. The top four stayed the same, but there was some shakeup lower down.
Here are the BCS standings after Week 13 play...
Here are the BCS standings after Week 13 play...
My latest computer ranking still has Notre Dame at #1 ahead of unbeaten Ohio State, Indiana, and Texas A&M.
I might tinker with the formula in the offseason, but I want to see how things play out w/the current iteration.
See the full list of 265 Division I teams here: sites.psu.edu/zbigalke/col...
I might tinker with the formula in the offseason, but I want to see how things play out w/the current iteration.
See the full list of 265 Division I teams here: sites.psu.edu/zbigalke/col...
![Rankings calculated by Zach Bigalke on 23 November 2025 after Week 13 of the 2025 college football season for games through 22 November 2025
[previous week in brackets]
1. Notre Dame (FBS) [1]
2. Ohio State (FBS) [2]
3. Indiana (FBS) [3]
4. Texas A&M (FBS) [9]
5. Georgia (FBS) [6]
6. UConn (FBS) [8]
7. Oregon (FBS) [4]
8. Ole Miss (FBS) [7]
9. Alabama (FBS) [11]
10. Oklahoma (FBS) [10]
11. Texas Tech (FBS) [5]
12. Vanderbilt (FBS) [12]
13. North Dakota State (FCS) [14]
14. Tennessee (FBS) [17]
15. Utah (FBS) [13]
16. BYU (FBS) [16]
17. Texas (FBS) [20]
18. Michigan (FBS) [19]
19. Missouri (FBS) [18]
20. Washington (FBS) [21]
21. USC (FBS) [15]
22. North Texas (FBS) [22]
23. LSU (FBS) [28]
24. Miami (FL) (FBS) [23]
25. Auburn (FBS) [41]
26. Arizona (FBS) [29]
27. Iowa (FBS) [27]
28. Lehigh (FCS) [34]
29. Virginia (FBS) [31]
30. Mississippi State (FBS) [37]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ms5j47xkromwbom7gcibgqcu/bafkreiapocvewvzckkdvenoikdm7xxlnktjupavlysek7k3o3rhs3ystx4@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My latest computer ranking still has Notre Dame at #1 ahead of unbeaten Ohio State, Indiana, and Texas A&M.
I might tinker with the formula in the offseason, but I want to see how things play out w/the current iteration.
See the full list of 265 Division I teams here: sites.psu.edu/zbigalke/col...
I might tinker with the formula in the offseason, but I want to see how things play out w/the current iteration.
See the full list of 265 Division I teams here: sites.psu.edu/zbigalke/col...
It looked like Lando had a hand on the WDC trophy by the time the fireworks popped off at the end of the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
By morning the WDC race was even tighter after both McLaren drivers were disqualified for excessive skid wear on the cars.
24 points. That's the gap now.
24 points.
1/x
By morning the WDC race was even tighter after both McLaren drivers were disqualified for excessive skid wear on the cars.
24 points. That's the gap now.
24 points.
1/x
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It looked like Lando had a hand on the WDC trophy by the time the fireworks popped off at the end of the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
By morning the WDC race was even tighter after both McLaren drivers were disqualified for excessive skid wear on the cars.
24 points. That's the gap now.
24 points.
1/x
By morning the WDC race was even tighter after both McLaren drivers were disqualified for excessive skid wear on the cars.
24 points. That's the gap now.
24 points.
1/x
I knew I'd do this sooner or later this season, especially this late in the semester. Went to post race pace stats from yesterday's grand prix and realized I forgot to put up São Paulo.
Had them finished, just forgot to post them.
So let's dive into these numbers before getting to Vegas...
1/x
Had them finished, just forgot to post them.
So let's dive into these numbers before getting to Vegas...
1/x
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I knew I'd do this sooner or later this season, especially this late in the semester. Went to post race pace stats from yesterday's grand prix and realized I forgot to put up São Paulo.
Had them finished, just forgot to post them.
So let's dive into these numbers before getting to Vegas...
1/x
Had them finished, just forgot to post them.
So let's dive into these numbers before getting to Vegas...
1/x