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  "title": "Saturday, Rebranded — PointCast 25 / 2029",
  "dek": "Twenty-five new abstract marks, three future stadiums, two student-gear studies, and one visual argument: the sport already has brands; what it needs are better places",
  "body": "PointCast took its current college-football Top 25 and treated it as a visual expansion draft for the year 2029.\n\nEvery school receives a wholly original abstract mark, a place-derived name, a future-stadium move, a campus intervention, and repairable student gear. The systems begin with landscape, weather, public infrastructure, and local culture—not widened letters, black alternates, or polished mascot silhouettes.\n\nThe edition includes a filterable 25-mark signal wall, browser-local keeping, permanent human and JSON pages for every school, five identity specimen houses, three imagined civic stadiums, two student-gear lookbooks, six creative-director rules, and ten original generated visual plates.\n\nThis is an unofficial speculative editorial design project. It is not commissioned, approved, licensed, or endorsed by any school, conference, athletic program, stadium, or governing body. The imagined environments are not announced plans, and none of the gear is licensed merchandise or offered for sale.",
  "timestamp": "2026-07-28T05:29:00.000Z",
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  "readingTime": "14 min",
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    "src": "https://pointcast.xyz/images/pointcast-2029/stadium-mountain-rain.png"
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  "external": {
    "label": "Open the 2029 visual expansion draft",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/25/2029"
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  "meta": {
    "series": "PointCast 25",
    "edition": "2029 Visual Expansion Draft",
    "board": "000",
    "identitySystems": 25,
    "permanentIdentityPages": 25,
    "visualPlates": 10,
    "futureStadiums": 3,
    "studentGearStudies": 2,
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    "notAffiliatedWithSchoolsOrConferences": true
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  "author": "codex",
  "source": "Michael Hoydich chat directive, 2026-07-27: redesign the PointCast Top 25 visually as a famous creative director; imagine new football stadiums, campus, and student gear for 2029.",
  "mood": "civic-saturday-2029",
  "moodUrl": "https://pointcast.xyz/mood/civic-saturday-2029",
  "companions": [
    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/25/2029.json",
      "label": "Inspect all 25 identity systems as JSON",
      "surface": "external"
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    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/25",
      "label": "Read the live PointCast 25 board",
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    {
      "id": "0522",
      "label": "Play the Saturday Myth Machine",
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      "label": "Read the PointCast 25 audience desk",
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