We are here to try something entirely new with Meet at Midfield.

For years, I’ve felt there was nowhere on the college football internet that was the right place for me.

Like most of you, I have spent way too much time scouring the recruiting site message boards. I even spent several years working for Rivals, covering recruiting for Ohio State and Pitt football. I loved the arguments and the minutiae of obsessing over individual college football teams and every part of their program, but I couldn’t stand the boomers who run those message boards and set the culture.

I’ve wasted hours of my life on r/CFB – a place I don’t particularly like. If I see one more “What’s up Tiger bros?” comment under some post about LSU or Clemson, I’m going to jump off of a bridge. No one has any blood in the game; it’s a place for casuals or people engaging in bad faith, just like Twitter.

Podcasts like Shutdown Fullcast and The Solid Verbal are very funny and were critical to inventing a new generation of college football media, but don’t get into the serious side of the game in the way that gets my blood pumping.

The Athletic has tons of talented writers (less by the day in college football, unfortunately), sound analysis and breaking news, but has no interest in building a community for fans. It’s a digital native newspaper operation, lacking the message boards that embody the spirit of college football fandom.

At Meet at Midfield, we want to take the best parts of all those corners of the college football internet and concentrate them. We want the fans who want to freak out about their team’s strength and conditioning not getting the job done. We want those who are deeply annoyed by their head coach’s off-field comments. We want the fans who spent every fall Saturday flipping through 18 different games across 14 hours and three simultaneous screens.

We want you posting with us on our message boards, comparing gambling picks and telling us why your offensive coordinator is a loser who needs to be fired. We want the memes about Dabo Swinney’s TikToks and the discussions about Jim Harbaugh’s latest appearance on OANN. We want analysis of the Mountain West Conference title race, just like we want excitement over Oregon State going 7-5 – and a discussion about how it’s a great benchmark to build off of for the program.

All of this is why we love the sport; the serious and the unserious. We want to share it with you. Post on our forums, listen to our podcasts, tweet with us and read the articles. Embrace the sport in a way you can’t anywhere else on the college football internet.

Welcome to Meet at Midfield, your new college football home.