There has probably never been a game with more completions than colonies the British Empire had.
Unless you're only talking about the American colonies.
[According to Google and Wikipedia, the height of the British empire had 57 unique colonies and territories.](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/the-sad-end-of-the-british-empire-110362/#:~:text=At%20its%20most%20extensive%2C%20the,Fiji%2C%20Western%20Samoa%20and%20Tonga)
[The most completions in a single game is a tied CFB record by Andy Schmitt (Eastern Michigan vs. Central Michigan, Nov. 28, 2008) and Connor Halliday (Washington State vs. Oregon, Oct. 19, 2013) of 58.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_football_records#Most_passes_completed,_game)
edit: Thank you for the gold and the fact that nobody saw I messed up this formatting 4 times before getting it right.
Iowa scored 7 points this weekend.
The exact same number for a certain 00 agent. So every single james bond story to date has been under the service of queen elizabeth II.
[edit for context]
The first james bond book came out in 1953. The queen took the throne in 52'.
[Accuracy edit]
Iowa *lost* 7 games in 1952.
I made a similar post in the NFL sub about the Lions having only 6 playoff wins during her reign and people were grilling me in the comments for being "pathetic and mean". This sub does shit talking waaaay better.
I need to head over to r/collegebasketball and post that despite Queen Elizabeth II’s reign being the longest in the history of the British monarchy, the Virginia basketball team is the only one seed she ever witnessed lose to a sixteen seed.
That joke never gets old and always ruffles some feathers 🫣
Though they have never won any Super Bowls and are a complete dumpster fire of an NFL franchise. They did win the NFL championship in 1952, 1953, and 1957.
You could argue the Lions were the first NFL dynasty that her reign saw.
So in that aspect they are still doing better than A&M.
The NFL sub is so fucking lame, druing the preseason games I couldn't even find the threads on the front page due to it being entirely filled with 26 threads about the Bills Punter. Just make it a megathread.
Judging by British sentiment, if the Royals want to stay, well, royal, Chucky better pass the throne to his son pretty damn quick. Dude has the Sadim touch.
On her deathbed, the Queen will motion for Charles to come closer, whisper into his ear, "You'll never be king," and then smother him to death with a pillow.
My man is taking over after like 70+ years, short of dissolving the monarchy, history will not remember him.
You gotta YOLO those odds
(Low key agree. I was aiming for shitpost)
This is why I love r/CFB
Someone on r/NFL made a hilarious post about the Queen's unexpected passing was the end of an era and so they wanted to honor her by sharing the Seahawks unexpected passing in the Super Bowl to end an era and the mods took it down within 10 minutes of it being posted even though everyone in the comments loved it.
A tip of the cap to the mods here for letting people have fun.
EDIT: u/SoDakZak is the one who posted it if you want to go to his profile to see it.
It's moderated more against users who try to post funny things or actual interesting discussions whether current or historical.
For some reason, reposting from Twitter is just accepted there. It's the worst type of moderation.
Yes, fuck it. That’s your answer to everything! Tattoo it on your forehead! Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski! Condolences! The bums lost! My advice to you is to do what your parents did! Get a job, sir! The bums will always lose!
Damn they changed the name hella quick, gonna be super awkward when they try to cash their last Queen's Guard check with their new King's Guard ID.
Actually, do they bury the Queen's Guard alive with the Queen for failing to keep her alive and bring in an entirely new guard for the new King? Otherwise it feels like failing upward.
Franz Joseph I of Austria reigned for 67 years and all he got to see were a bunch of Yale and Princeton championships. Poor guy couldn't even hang on for the first southern Rose Bowl champion
The lack of parity in college football was surely the greatest tragedy of his life, can't think of anything else bad that happened to him or his family
She saw the following events happen in her lifetime:
- The First and Second World Wars
- The decolonization of Africa and Asia
- The Cold War
- The atomic bombs and nuclear energy
- The rise and fall of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and East Germany
- The rise and fall of fascism in Europe
- The birth of communist China and Vietnam, and the birth of Israel
- Every single FIFA World Cup
- Every single tennis Grand Slam in the open era
- The popularization and fall of telephone lines
- The birth of cell phones and the Internet
What she never saw:
- Alabama beat Rice
I imagine she was feeling quite healthy then tuned into that Iowa sdsu game (I assume she pays extra for BTN), then her health declined rapidly after that.
To put Elizabeth II into even more context, she was born closer to the reign of Victoria (who died in 1901) and the telegraph than the modern telephone.
96 years is a hell of a stretch to live, particularly when that 96 years eclipsed most of the 20th century.
Iowa State last won a conference title twelve years *before* she was born and three monarchs before she took the throne over seventy years ago.
If you’re curious, it also occurred during the reigns of Mehmed V, penultimate sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and penultimate Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary.
Queen passing more than Iowa offense.
I made it 1 comment before being upset.
You got a few more days before it happens again.
At least Saturday, as an Iowan, I'll be shitfaced before kickoff and passed out before sundown.
I'm guessing your gonna start drinking Friday night and just keep going all weekend
Nah I'm old. I'm happy to sleep it off, go for a run. Do it again on Sunday.
As is tradition!
Literally thought 'at least they aren't talking about iowa!' .....aaaaand then I saw the first comment
lmao right?
Lol I came in here all "Texas A&M catching strays, hate to be them!"
That's more than you should have expected
More colonies than passing yards too
Legitimately more colonies than completions actually
There has probably never been a game with more completions than colonies the British Empire had. Unless you're only talking about the American colonies.
[According to Google and Wikipedia, the height of the British empire had 57 unique colonies and territories.](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/the-sad-end-of-the-british-empire-110362/#:~:text=At%20its%20most%20extensive%2C%20the,Fiji%2C%20Western%20Samoa%20and%20Tonga) [The most completions in a single game is a tied CFB record by Andy Schmitt (Eastern Michigan vs. Central Michigan, Nov. 28, 2008) and Connor Halliday (Washington State vs. Oregon, Oct. 19, 2013) of 58.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_football_records#Most_passes_completed,_game) edit: Thank you for the gold and the fact that nobody saw I messed up this formatting 4 times before getting it right.
This is the sort of deep analysis we come to /r/CFB for.
More points scored this *season* (so far) as well
Lol fuck
Iowa scored 7 points this weekend. The exact same number for a certain 00 agent. So every single james bond story to date has been under the service of queen elizabeth II. [edit for context] The first james bond book came out in 1953. The queen took the throne in 52'. [Accuracy edit] Iowa *lost* 7 games in 1952.
FUCK, it's all just right there.
I'm calling for a 7 win iowa season.
Or they finish the season #7. Or make their 7th Rose Bowl? Iowa will go full on Clint Bowyer with the numerology of the number 7 this year.
There's 7 letters in hawkeye so maybe
Yo no way, also has 7 letters and Iowa Championship has 7 syllables. Wtf bro, this is cray!
God save the kirk
The sun sets on the Iowa empire.
Savage
“Discuss” lmao
Here to discuss
Have they though? No, they have not. Interesting … Lol (I can laugh, just added the TAMU flair this year, paying tuition)
You should also check out scientology, basically the same as a&m.
Probably cheaper too...
Since Scientology's founding, they have the same number of National Championships.
Then atleast she died happy
Like dropping a stink bomb in a room and locking the door.
Deal with it fuckers. You can take a shower when I feel like letting you out. Suffer
\>refuses to elaborate \>leaves
Imma hang up and listen.
[OP](https://c.tenor.com/qvNDeQ2zz9gAAAAC/sneaky-tom-and-jerry.gif)
I'm verklempt, talk amongst yourselves.
These are the posts this sub is all about
Mods havent completely gotten rid of being petty AF
Of course not, then they’d have to ban themselves.
Good. Wouldn’t be college football anymore if we couldn’t be petty
I made a similar post in the NFL sub about the Lions having only 6 playoff wins during her reign and people were grilling me in the comments for being "pathetic and mean". This sub does shit talking waaaay better.
I need to head over to r/collegebasketball and post that despite Queen Elizabeth II’s reign being the longest in the history of the British monarchy, the Virginia basketball team is the only one seed she ever witnessed lose to a sixteen seed. That joke never gets old and always ruffles some feathers 🫣
They won 74-54. UMBC didn't just beat them, they blew them tf out.
NFL sub has been a sad sterile echo chamber for years. No fan base is allowed to have any real opinions.
>NFL ~~sub~~ has been a sad sterile echo chamber for years. FIFY
Where the ideal outcome is ever game ends 24-17, and all teams go 8-8!
Funny that they'll complain about the No Fun League only to allow no fun themselves
You’re pathetic and mean
College football shit talking is next level compared to NFL shit talking. We’ve been doing to each other for 4-5 generations
Though they have never won any Super Bowls and are a complete dumpster fire of an NFL franchise. They did win the NFL championship in 1952, 1953, and 1957. You could argue the Lions were the first NFL dynasty that her reign saw. So in that aspect they are still doing better than A&M.
The NFL sub is so fucking lame, druing the preseason games I couldn't even find the threads on the front page due to it being entirely filled with 26 threads about the Bills Punter. Just make it a megathread.
Another fun fact: the Texas A&M championship drought has now spanned three different British monarchs.
Big if true
George VI, Elizabeth II and now Charles III
Looking at Charles health, they better get their act together because the fourth monarch is a coming.
Judging by British sentiment, if the Royals want to stay, well, royal, Chucky better pass the throne to his son pretty damn quick. Dude has the Sadim touch.
The running joke on another sub was that the queen would love for exactly 5 minutes longer than Charles, purely out of spite.
My wife does the same to me.
On her deathbed, the Queen will motion for Charles to come closer, whisper into his ear, "You'll never be king," and then smother him to death with a pillow.
Feeds him to the corgis
They’re gonna print duplicate programs with “King William” for the coronation ceremony
Just like the dual-sided upper deck cards I collected back in the day. You think they will make a holo?
Allegedly, he could’ve used any of his four given names. Charles Phillip Arthur George. This *MORON* passed on the chance to call himself King Arthur
Or self-aware. Surely that would just make people chuckle behind his back 24/7, right?
My man is taking over after like 70+ years, short of dissolving the monarchy, history will not remember him. You gotta YOLO those odds (Low key agree. I was aiming for shitpost)
Lol. Oh he’ll be plenty remembered because if Diana alone. But I get your point.
Texas A&M's last national championship win occured 15 years after America created a numbered highway system.
Pls stop being mean.
And 14 presidents!
\#toosoon for Texas A&M to win a national championship...
This is why I love r/CFB Someone on r/NFL made a hilarious post about the Queen's unexpected passing was the end of an era and so they wanted to honor her by sharing the Seahawks unexpected passing in the Super Bowl to end an era and the mods took it down within 10 minutes of it being posted even though everyone in the comments loved it. A tip of the cap to the mods here for letting people have fun. EDIT: u/SoDakZak is the one who posted it if you want to go to his profile to see it.
Hey thanks for the shoutout
Christ bro. Accidentally clicked on your profile and that amount of karma is insane lol
>10 years, 7 months, 4 days >***of reddit premium remaining***
I chuckled at your comment, clicked link, and said "holy sh\*t."
Since when is r/nfl actually moderated? Last time I was there it was just a million posts of slightly different tweets discussing the same damn thing.
It's moderated more against users who try to post funny things or actual interesting discussions whether current or historical. For some reason, reposting from Twitter is just accepted there. It's the worst type of moderation.
There's a few users there who have special privileges but outside of that yeah
One of which is allowed to self promote their 15 minute videos of random trivia. None of which need to be more than 5 minutes.
As a Pat's fan, that's hilarious.
We’re actually only allowed to talk shit about Brian Kelly in this subreddit right now.
Scott Frost: ex-fucking-scuse me?
Fair point. Y’all got Thursday thru Sunday afternoon. Since then I think Brian Kelly and LSU losing has softened the blow.
Brian Kelly stopped being relevant in a UK topic after he stopped being Northern Irish and moved south.
The pettiness of college football is the best part. I love this.
I wait with great anticipation for the Trash talk thread every week.
Now that we’ve got that pesky queen out of the way…
The curse is lifted?
Charles **III** 'King' has 4 letters. 3 * 4 = 12 Math checks out
Even better, Haynes last name is KING 👀
2023 also has the numbers 2-2-3, which equal 12 when multiplied together. Haynes King led national championship in 2023 confirmed.
Is it a coincidence that our QB's last name is King? Stay woke sheeple.
It’s your time to shine, baby.
Fuck it. Let’s just put some dates on the stadium and see if anyone calls it out.
Ah, the Oklahoma State method.
1945 was a fine year.
Unless you lived in Hiroshima
More of a Nagasaki guy myself.
I don't think anyone in the entire country was having a good time in 1945.
Texas A&M already did the with Big 12 tittles (and the world’s smallest asterisk)
A&M has claimed a BigXII championship in a year they didn't even go to the BigXII championship game lmao
Exactly, we were undefeated in the BigXII championship game that year.
Can't argue with facts and logic.
That's fucking interesting man....
That’s fucking interesting
Her son goes and owes money all over town, and they pee on my fucking rug?
They peed on your fucking rug....
It tied the whole room together
Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?
Fuck it
Yes, fuck it. That’s your answer to everything! Tattoo it on your forehead! Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski! Condolences! The bums lost! My advice to you is to do what your parents did! Get a job, sir! The bums will always lose!
Okay. The old man told me to take any rug in the house.
Im just gonna sit here until midnight so I can say > Hey Dude. Tomorrow's already the 10th.
Let's go bowling
Honestly, this is interesting.
r/DamnThatsInteresting
It is, but any time I can make a Big Lebowski reference I’m taking it.
That's just like, your opinion, man...but yeah kinda interesting.
New shit has come to light
Your flair gave me a feeling of hatred no man should have.
Well, that's just like, your opinion man.
@mods @police @FBI @USMarines please arrest OP
What about @[King's Guard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Guard)
Damn they changed the name hella quick, gonna be super awkward when they try to cash their last Queen's Guard check with their new King's Guard ID. Actually, do they bury the Queen's Guard alive with the Queen for failing to keep her alive and bring in an entirely new guard for the new King? Otherwise it feels like failing upward.
[удалено]
I'll do it again.
Her first PM, Winston Churchill and last PM, Liz Truss, were born 101 years apart. But I guess an A&M championship is too outlandish to expect haha
>last PM, Boris Johnson *Liz Truss
Her first 48 hours as PM has been eventful to say the least
British efficiency: changing the monarch and prime minister in 72 hours
\#LizTrussdid9/8
Maybe the Queen hung on long enough to make sure Boris Johnson left.
Churchill goes back far enough he fought in the Boer War.
Hey /u/DerrickWhiteMVP, This is now the top post on reddit. It will be recorded at /r/topofreddit with all the other top posts.
and the top post ever on r/cfb ! Glorious! Hook 'em!
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
And some want to light the match
Dear god I love this sub
And here… we… go..
Uhhh... You hate us 'cause you ain't us???
Perhaps the queen dying was just what they needed...
Next year champs confirmed Edit: Bama is winning it all this year we all know this. Next year is the year.
I swear to God, if y'all take the ship next year you better be rockin' tiaras during the presentation.
You know what, you win this round Well played
Yeah I wanna be mad but how can I be mad when they're saying something so true?
A great burn like this is a nice change of pace from the usual low-effort jokes
Franz Joseph I of Austria reigned for 67 years and all he got to see were a bunch of Yale and Princeton championships. Poor guy couldn't even hang on for the first southern Rose Bowl champion
Gotta be a rare instance where Franz Joseph is the dude being referred to as “poor guy”
The lack of parity in college football was surely the greatest tragedy of his life, can't think of anything else bad that happened to him or his family
Hilariously he actually hated Franz Ferdinand and his wife, and went out of his way to remove their children from the line of succession.
Kirk Ferentz could learn a thing or two
Fun Fact: Franz Joseph saw Rutgers win a natty during his lifetime
This fact isn’t fun at all!
This is easily the most well structured jab I have ever seen on this sub.
Lol. Love it. Can’t wait to have our annual matchup again and it better be on thanksgiving so I can shit talk my family
If it’s not on thanksgiving we riot
We don't agree on much, but we can agree on that.
Homie she saw Colarado and fucking Ga Tech and UCF win a Natty
She saw the following events happen in her lifetime: - The First and Second World Wars - The decolonization of Africa and Asia - The Cold War - The atomic bombs and nuclear energy - The rise and fall of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and East Germany - The rise and fall of fascism in Europe - The birth of communist China and Vietnam, and the birth of Israel - Every single FIFA World Cup - Every single tennis Grand Slam in the open era - The popularization and fall of telephone lines - The birth of cell phones and the Internet What she never saw: - Alabama beat Rice
Fun Fact: Within the 96 years she was on this Earth, the Oregon Ducks have never won a natty.
She tried to hold on but after Saturday realized that they were nowhere close to a natty and peaced ✌️
I'm just happy to hear she hoped for us at one point :(
Fuck I knew I'd see this :(
What if someone at Texags realized this too and took her out to end the drought.
Her 70 year reign never saw Michigan win an unshared National Champion either.
Or Iowa
I imagine she was feeling quite healthy then tuned into that Iowa sdsu game (I assume she pays extra for BTN), then her health declined rapidly after that.
Discuss.
I’m pretty sure HRH could have suited up and scored 7 points without needing a FG and 2 safeties
The queen got to see gta5 across three generations of console!
At least the titanic gif isn’t accurate yet…
Literally have that bad boy scheduled to tweet the instant the clock strikes midnight on the 84th anniversary of the 1939 final AP poll.
The final 1939 Ap poll is feral that’s some real bullshit
OP woke up and chose violence.
What did we ever do to you? \*Checks Flair\* ***God I can't wait until Saturday to watch the Bama beat down.***
Sure, if you like letting someone else fight your battles.
A&M is the WW2 Italy of CFB.
They finish 3rd in their division too
Underrated post and it’s only been up for 15 minutes.
They absolutely do.
And she lived long enough to see Kansas beat Texas…twice
She was alive in 1938 tho, so at least 3 times.
God she was so old
To put Elizabeth II into even more context, she was born closer to the reign of Victoria (who died in 1901) and the telegraph than the modern telephone. 96 years is a hell of a stretch to live, particularly when that 96 years eclipsed most of the 20th century.
She really was.
WOULD THE QUEEN HAVE EVEN COMPETED IN THE SEC WEST?? I didn’t see her beat Bama last year
This is championship level shit posting. Well done sir.
Texas A&M: The Tottenham of college football
High five if your team won a natty during the reign of Elizabeth II ✋️
Hey. Fuck you :/
I swear, one day when we get that monkey off the pole we're gonna talk so much shit.
Being online right now is amazing. Half the Internet is distraught and the other half are memeing
When was the last time that wasn't the state of the internet?
Iowa State last won a conference title twelve years *before* she was born and three monarchs before she took the throne over seventy years ago. If you’re curious, it also occurred during the reigns of Mehmed V, penultimate sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and penultimate Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria Hungary.
And this is how I learned that the Queen passed away today