David Ubben
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We'll be live for Bunch Formation After Dark tonight on YouTube when Texas-Georgia ends. Come hang and let's talk about the day in CFB.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLHX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLHX...
Week 12 Live Reactions! - Bunch Formation After Dark
YouTube video by Bunch Formation
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November 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
We'll be live for Bunch Formation After Dark tonight on YouTube when Texas-Georgia ends. Come hang and let's talk about the day in CFB.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLHX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLHX...
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Going live now
We'll be live for Bunch Formation After Dark tonight on YouTube when Texas-Georgia ends. Come hang and let's talk about the day in CFB.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLHX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLHX...
Week 12 Live Reactions! - Bunch Formation After Dark
YouTube video by Bunch Formation
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Going live now
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This is what South Carolina looks like when @davidubben.bsky.social plays as them in our dynasty. Actually that's not true, my Aggies struggled far more gracefully against them than these Aggies are
November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is what South Carolina looks like when @davidubben.bsky.social plays as them in our dynasty. Actually that's not true, my Aggies struggled far more gracefully against them than these Aggies are
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Texas Tech a top-5 job in college football?
In this new era, @davidubben.bsky.social says few jobs are better.
Full discussion on today's Bunch Formation: linktr.ee/bunchformation
In this new era, @davidubben.bsky.social says few jobs are better.
Full discussion on today's Bunch Formation: linktr.ee/bunchformation
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Texas Tech a top-5 job in college football?
In this new era, @davidubben.bsky.social says few jobs are better.
Full discussion on today's Bunch Formation: linktr.ee/bunchformation
In this new era, @davidubben.bsky.social says few jobs are better.
Full discussion on today's Bunch Formation: linktr.ee/bunchformation
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The Halloween episode of Bunch Formation revealed @davidubben.bsky.social never went trick-or-treating as a kid??
Plus an FCS officiating conspiracy theory, why the NCAA lifted gambling bans, Week 10 picks and more.
🎧📺 linktr.ee/bunchformation
Plus an FCS officiating conspiracy theory, why the NCAA lifted gambling bans, Week 10 picks and more.
🎧📺 linktr.ee/bunchformation
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The Halloween episode of Bunch Formation revealed @davidubben.bsky.social never went trick-or-treating as a kid??
Plus an FCS officiating conspiracy theory, why the NCAA lifted gambling bans, Week 10 picks and more.
🎧📺 linktr.ee/bunchformation
Plus an FCS officiating conspiracy theory, why the NCAA lifted gambling bans, Week 10 picks and more.
🎧📺 linktr.ee/bunchformation
What if I told you there was a road to four ACC Playoff bids?
Bubble Watch!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
Bubble Watch!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
College Football Playoff bubble watch: How many teams could the ACC get in?
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
What if I told you there was a road to four ACC Playoff bids?
Bubble Watch!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
Bubble Watch!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/675...
The Bunch Formation Bowl is live.
Kickoff shortly.
Me vs. @chrisvannini.com in our online dynasty with some media friends.
No. 3 South Carolina vs. No. 13 Oklahoma. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbz0...
Kickoff shortly.
Me vs. @chrisvannini.com in our online dynasty with some media friends.
No. 3 South Carolina vs. No. 13 Oklahoma. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbz0...
October 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The Bunch Formation Bowl is live.
Kickoff shortly.
Me vs. @chrisvannini.com in our online dynasty with some media friends.
No. 3 South Carolina vs. No. 13 Oklahoma. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbz0...
Kickoff shortly.
Me vs. @chrisvannini.com in our online dynasty with some media friends.
No. 3 South Carolina vs. No. 13 Oklahoma. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbz0...
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🎮🏈 Alert: The Bunch Formation Bowl is tonight at 9 pm ET on our YouTube channel.
@davidubben.bsky.social and I face off live in our CFB26 media dynasty. Oklahoma vs. South Carolina.
Follow the channel for the link tonight: www.youtube.com/@BunchFormat...
@davidubben.bsky.social and I face off live in our CFB26 media dynasty. Oklahoma vs. South Carolina.
Follow the channel for the link tonight: www.youtube.com/@BunchFormat...
Bunch Formation
Your new favorite college football show. The Athletic's senior reporters Chris Vannini and David Ubben take you inside the biggest stories in the game in a fun and engaging show. With exclusive insigh...
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October 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
🎮🏈 Alert: The Bunch Formation Bowl is tonight at 9 pm ET on our YouTube channel.
@davidubben.bsky.social and I face off live in our CFB26 media dynasty. Oklahoma vs. South Carolina.
Follow the channel for the link tonight: www.youtube.com/@BunchFormat...
@davidubben.bsky.social and I face off live in our CFB26 media dynasty. Oklahoma vs. South Carolina.
Follow the channel for the link tonight: www.youtube.com/@BunchFormat...
Penn State took drastic measure to try and escape the darkness.
But they're not alone.
The darkest situations in college football, from being trapped in a loveless marriage to a dream hire that's turned to a nightmare. www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...
But they're not alone.
The darkest situations in college football, from being trapped in a loveless marriage to a dream hire that's turned to a nightmare. www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...
Which college football teams feel hopeless at midseason? Wisconsin, UNC and more
Some big-name coaches are on the hot seat. We looked at 10 teams deep in the darkness alongside Penn State.
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Penn State took drastic measure to try and escape the darkness.
But they're not alone.
The darkest situations in college football, from being trapped in a loveless marriage to a dream hire that's turned to a nightmare. www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...
But they're not alone.
The darkest situations in college football, from being trapped in a loveless marriage to a dream hire that's turned to a nightmare. www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...
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🎙 The Week 7 picks episode of Bunch Formation is a big one!
Both @davidubben.bsky.social and I will be on sites.
🎧📺 Listen/Watch: linktr.ee/bunchformation
Both @davidubben.bsky.social and I will be on sites.
🎧📺 Listen/Watch: linktr.ee/bunchformation
October 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🎙 The Week 7 picks episode of Bunch Formation is a big one!
Both @davidubben.bsky.social and I will be on sites.
🎧📺 Listen/Watch: linktr.ee/bunchformation
Both @davidubben.bsky.social and I will be on sites.
🎧📺 Listen/Watch: linktr.ee/bunchformation
Two years ago, Ahmad Hardy was a zero-star recruit with one FBS offer.
Now, he's the nation's best running back.
... How?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/670...
Now, he's the nation's best running back.
... How?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/670...
How Mizzou’s Ahmad Hardy went from ‘zero-star recruit’ to nation’s top rusher
Hardy leads the nation in missed tackles. Two years ago, all of college football's major programs missed on him.
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Two years ago, Ahmad Hardy was a zero-star recruit with one FBS offer.
Now, he's the nation's best running back.
... How?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/670...
Now, he's the nation's best running back.
... How?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/670...
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Good hustle by @davidubben.bsky.social here getting to the bottom of a viral highlight from last weekend's Louisville-Pitt game: www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...
Louisville ball boy on viral scramble for football with Pitt players: ‘I am very serious about this job’
"I was just trying to do my job," Zephian Wade said. "I didn't know it was going to turn into this.”
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Good hustle by @davidubben.bsky.social here getting to the bottom of a viral highlight from last weekend's Louisville-Pitt game: www.nytimes.com/athletic/667...
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🎙️ New Bunch Formation!
🐷 What makes the Arkansas job so unique, from Arkansan @davidubben.bsky.social
🔥We give props to all the QBs who are playing well, not the preseason hype ones
🏈 David talked to the Louisville ball boy about what happened
🎧📺 Listen: Watch: linktr.ee/BunchFormation
🐷 What makes the Arkansas job so unique, from Arkansan @davidubben.bsky.social
🔥We give props to all the QBs who are playing well, not the preseason hype ones
🏈 David talked to the Louisville ball boy about what happened
🎧📺 Listen: Watch: linktr.ee/BunchFormation
September 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🎙️ New Bunch Formation!
🐷 What makes the Arkansas job so unique, from Arkansan @davidubben.bsky.social
🔥We give props to all the QBs who are playing well, not the preseason hype ones
🏈 David talked to the Louisville ball boy about what happened
🎧📺 Listen: Watch: linktr.ee/BunchFormation
🐷 What makes the Arkansas job so unique, from Arkansan @davidubben.bsky.social
🔥We give props to all the QBs who are playing well, not the preseason hype ones
🏈 David talked to the Louisville ball boy about what happened
🎧📺 Listen: Watch: linktr.ee/BunchFormation
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🎙 Who could Virginia Tech and UCLA hire? And which is the better job?
Plus, @davidubben.bsky.social and I sort through contenders and pretenders after a wild Week 3.
New Bunch Formation!
🎧📺 Listen/Watch: t.co/6h9nb4pi3W
Plus, @davidubben.bsky.social and I sort through contenders and pretenders after a wild Week 3.
New Bunch Formation!
🎧📺 Listen/Watch: t.co/6h9nb4pi3W
September 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🎙 Who could Virginia Tech and UCLA hire? And which is the better job?
Plus, @davidubben.bsky.social and I sort through contenders and pretenders after a wild Week 3.
New Bunch Formation!
🎧📺 Listen/Watch: t.co/6h9nb4pi3W
Plus, @davidubben.bsky.social and I sort through contenders and pretenders after a wild Week 3.
New Bunch Formation!
🎧📺 Listen/Watch: t.co/6h9nb4pi3W
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📺 @davidubben.bsky.social and I will be LIVE on YouTube tonight for Bunch Formation After Dark with Week 3 instant reactions following the night game window: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiCh...
Week 3 LIVE REACTION - Bunch Formation After Dark
YouTube video by Bunch Formation
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September 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
📺 @davidubben.bsky.social and I will be LIVE on YouTube tonight for Bunch Formation After Dark with Week 3 instant reactions following the night game window: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiCh...
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Read this story, because David nearly passed out of exhaustion in the Clemson press box and that wasn’t even his last stop.
College football is in the midst of a rapid, unpredictable evolution.
I began my season driving to six games in five days in search of its soul.
Here’s what I found: www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
I began my season driving to six games in five days in search of its soul.
Here’s what I found: www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
Six games in 5 days: What a college football road trip taught me about the state of the sport
On college campuses and even cavernous, neutral-site venues, the sport remains a way of life, a through-line for its communities.
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Read this story, because David nearly passed out of exhaustion in the Clemson press box and that wasn’t even his last stop.
I was looking for the nearest cot in the second quarter
Read this story, because David nearly passed out of exhaustion in the Clemson press box and that wasn’t even his last stop.
College football is in the midst of a rapid, unpredictable evolution.
I began my season driving to six games in five days in search of its soul.
Here’s what I found: www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
I began my season driving to six games in five days in search of its soul.
Here’s what I found: www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
September 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I was looking for the nearest cot in the second quarter
College football is in the midst of a rapid, unpredictable evolution.
I began my season driving to six games in five days in search of its soul.
Here’s what I found: www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
I began my season driving to six games in five days in search of its soul.
Here’s what I found: www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
Six games in 5 days: What a college football road trip taught me about the state of the sport
On college campuses and even cavernous, neutral-site venues, the sport remains a way of life, a through-line for its communities.
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
College football is in the midst of a rapid, unpredictable evolution.
I began my season driving to six games in five days in search of its soul.
Here’s what I found: www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
I began my season driving to six games in five days in search of its soul.
Here’s what I found: www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...
I’m going to six college football games this weekend, starting tonight.
Come along for the ride.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
Come along for the ride.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
Come along for the ride: 6 college football games in 5 days during Week 1
By my rough count, it’s about 1,300 miles and 20 hours by car. It'll be a lot. It'll be worth it.
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I’m going to six college football games this weekend, starting tonight.
Come along for the ride.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
Come along for the ride.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...
We asked 57 players what their best purchase was with their NIL money.
Got some fascinating answers.
Texas Tech QB Behren Morton is Tim Riggins. #TexasForever
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Got some fascinating answers.
Texas Tech QB Behren Morton is Tim Riggins. #TexasForever
t.co/ihJxM8ZsSf
August 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
We asked 57 players what their best purchase was with their NIL money.
Got some fascinating answers.
Texas Tech QB Behren Morton is Tim Riggins. #TexasForever
t.co/ihJxM8ZsSf
Got some fascinating answers.
Texas Tech QB Behren Morton is Tim Riggins. #TexasForever
t.co/ihJxM8ZsSf
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🎙 New Bunch Formation
- Week 0 reactions
- Are we selling Avery Johnson stock?
- Jalon Daniels might be BACK
- The impact of SEC going to 9 conference games
Plus @davidubben.bsky.social is done with exporting big CFB games internationally.
🎧📺 Listen/Watch: linktr.ee/bunchformation
- Week 0 reactions
- Are we selling Avery Johnson stock?
- Jalon Daniels might be BACK
- The impact of SEC going to 9 conference games
Plus @davidubben.bsky.social is done with exporting big CFB games internationally.
🎧📺 Listen/Watch: linktr.ee/bunchformation
August 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🎙 New Bunch Formation
- Week 0 reactions
- Are we selling Avery Johnson stock?
- Jalon Daniels might be BACK
- The impact of SEC going to 9 conference games
Plus @davidubben.bsky.social is done with exporting big CFB games internationally.
🎧📺 Listen/Watch: linktr.ee/bunchformation
- Week 0 reactions
- Are we selling Avery Johnson stock?
- Jalon Daniels might be BACK
- The impact of SEC going to 9 conference games
Plus @davidubben.bsky.social is done with exporting big CFB games internationally.
🎧📺 Listen/Watch: linktr.ee/bunchformation
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🎙🔥 PSA: The Until Saturday podcast is not coming back.
HOWEVER, @davidubben.bsky.social and I started a new independent show, Bunch Formation. We've been having a blast.
On today's show, we go deep on why we love college football.
🎧📺 Please check it out! linktr.ee/bunchformation
HOWEVER, @davidubben.bsky.social and I started a new independent show, Bunch Formation. We've been having a blast.
On today's show, we go deep on why we love college football.
🎧📺 Please check it out! linktr.ee/bunchformation
August 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🎙🔥 PSA: The Until Saturday podcast is not coming back.
HOWEVER, @davidubben.bsky.social and I started a new independent show, Bunch Formation. We've been having a blast.
On today's show, we go deep on why we love college football.
🎧📺 Please check it out! linktr.ee/bunchformation
HOWEVER, @davidubben.bsky.social and I started a new independent show, Bunch Formation. We've been having a blast.
On today's show, we go deep on why we love college football.
🎧📺 Please check it out! linktr.ee/bunchformation
How often do CFB players actually transfer now?
I looked at the top 50 prospects at every position from the Class of 2021 and tallied how many times each transferred.
Then we told some of their stories.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/652...
I looked at the top 50 prospects at every position from the Class of 2021 and tallied how many times each transferred.
Then we told some of their stories.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/652...
How often do college football players actually transfer?
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
How often do CFB players actually transfer now?
I looked at the top 50 prospects at every position from the Class of 2021 and tallied how many times each transferred.
Then we told some of their stories.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/652...
I looked at the top 50 prospects at every position from the Class of 2021 and tallied how many times each transferred.
Then we told some of their stories.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/652...
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NEW: @davidubben.bsky.social and I played around with #CFB26 Dynasty Mode.
Here's what's new, what we like and what we'd still like to see.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/644...
Here's what's new, what we like and what we'd still like to see.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/644...
June 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEW: @davidubben.bsky.social and I played around with #CFB26 Dynasty Mode.
Here's what's new, what we like and what we'd still like to see.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/644...
Here's what's new, what we like and what we'd still like to see.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/644...
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🎮 We've played the new #CFB26 playbooks and they're a LOT of fun.
New motions, Gadget, more Wildcat, throwbacks. (Check out Penn State)
"The possibilities here are endless" - @davidubben.bsky.social
We discuss on the new Bunch Formation. Watch/Listen: linktr.ee/bunchformation
New motions, Gadget, more Wildcat, throwbacks. (Check out Penn State)
"The possibilities here are endless" - @davidubben.bsky.social
We discuss on the new Bunch Formation. Watch/Listen: linktr.ee/bunchformation
June 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
🎮 We've played the new #CFB26 playbooks and they're a LOT of fun.
New motions, Gadget, more Wildcat, throwbacks. (Check out Penn State)
"The possibilities here are endless" - @davidubben.bsky.social
We discuss on the new Bunch Formation. Watch/Listen: linktr.ee/bunchformation
New motions, Gadget, more Wildcat, throwbacks. (Check out Penn State)
"The possibilities here are endless" - @davidubben.bsky.social
We discuss on the new Bunch Formation. Watch/Listen: linktr.ee/bunchformation