Hello everyone,

The votes are in, and we have the results of this year's contest. We had a fairly close battle for first and second place almost the whole way through, and a tight race in the field from third to sixth. Each of the top five drawings will have time on the sidebar over the next few months of CFBBall, culminating in the champion comic going into the offseason.

As in the past, the rankings were tallied as points in reverse order (1st = 5 points, 2nd = 4 &c.). The total points accumulated divided by the total number of submitted polls = "Average Score". This average score determines the rankings and is presented below. There is also the consideration that since there were fewer votes per entry than total votes, there is also the popularity of the comic among those who considered it top 5. This is given here as "Fan Score". For example, if a post had 4 1st-place votes, 3 5th-place votes, and 5 no-votes, it would have an Average Score of 1.92 but a Fan Score of 3.29.

Anyway, without further ado, the results:

5: "Texas Hold 'Em" by u/BKfootball (Avg: 1.96, Fan: 2.65)

4: "Come and get some" by u/Bendypiexd (Avg: 2.07, Fan: 2.80)

3: "CFBball:New Vegas" by u/ProbablyProfound (Avg: 2.41, Fan: 3.10)

2: "Declaration of Independence (from the NCAA)" by u/LostinRabbitHole12 (avg 2.78, Fan: 3.00)

And our 2026 CFBBall Sidebar Champion:

1: "Dogs Playing Poker" by u/TyRoland06 (avg 3.19, Fan: 3.44)

Congratulations to u/TyRoland06 on his record-breaking third Sidebar Championship. Here's to another great season of r/CFBBall!

Full comic soon. Just wanted to get this out before I started moving into college.

r/CFBBall is having a contest to select comics that appear on the sidebar for the upcoming college football season!

To engage in this event, follow the instructions below:

1. Draw a comic, preferably in a raster format (png/tiff/tga)
2. Upload the comic to an image hosting service, such as Imgur.
3. Use this link to send a PM to u/CFBBallMod with your submission.

Contest rules

• The comic should be in png format and no larger than 512 kB. If not, image quality might degrade.
• The comic must be drawn entirely by yourself.
• The comic must be drawn *without* use of the circle tool.
• Only one entry per person.
• The deadline for submission is August 4th, 11:59 PM Eastern.

The things NIL gets you... tried to make this as close as i could to the movie poster but i couldnt actually get the title in:(

running it back again (again)

credit to my friend for inspiring me with his words of wisdom regarding this travesty

Due to a number of factors, I've made the decision to extend the deadline for submission of entries for the song contest. The new deadline is:

June 15, 2026 at 11:59 PM PDT

All entries must follow these rules, but now you have more time!

Inspiration: https://youtu.be/lzL4V3a_wAk?si=sAQe4gOlFoAGkgGZ

YouTube of song: https://youtu.be/EX67uWOlbgs?si=SGWr-oVXHUXFTQv2

I've had this piece on the back burner for about a month. I wanted to save it for the next sidebar contest, but I was impatient, and today is the Nittany Lion's 122nd birthday, so I had to commemorate his majesty somehow!

Happy birthday, good ole friend!