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Let's hope grasshopper can pull it off What to know about 16-seed Oregon's WCWS matchup with the reigning champion Oklahoma Sooners

Oh my, MTV, Blockbuster, Casey Kasem & "America's Top 40" buying movie tickets at the door, HBO was cool. Players sitting at a table, 3 hats spread out in front, he feints picking that one. Then picks your team!!! And it mattered. National Signing Day stopped being the same a while ago. It's still big. you want to bring in the blue chips, but the urgency isn't there, the transfer portal, it's amazing actually how much stability there is now.

Thanks Darren! I agree with you. It's a new world with money being involved. The players deserve a chance to be compensated for their talent. Oregon coaches and the NIL group Division street are doing well in the portal. They are working the Portal to fill needs, and spending wisely. Money is being spent but they are refusing to be the highest bidder for unproven talent. Our Beloved Ducks are proving that eventually players will want to be coached well and play for a winner.

I get what you're saying Jon, and I can't get behind what Sankey thinks the playoffs should be. I personally believed the playoff should've been eight from the start. It was mind-blowing that there were five power programs and Notre Dame( they're special) but only four spots. I can't get into that again though. I hate the static scheduling the SEC does. Meaning each SEC team plays the exact same conference schedule in consecutive years but the home field is flipped. My reason for creating this topic was to point out a concerning trend with teams backing out of series like Nebraska did to Tennessee within ten months of the game to be played, and SEC teams refusing to play nine game schedules but still saying they deserve more respect because top to bottom the league is tougher. Texas is running from a home away game but insisting that Texas gets to host a night game next year. What if Ohio State says no?

Back in 1981, Video Killed the Radio Star was the very first music video ever played on MTV. It represented a big change in the way media was absorbed and signaled a huge shift in the music industry. The transfer portal has done the same to college football regarding how teams acquire players. Even Mr. FishDuck had to take... Portal Killed the Recruiting Star | FishDuck FISHDUCK.COM Darren Perkins of FishDuck.com believes that the transfer portal in college football has taken much of the lustre off of recruiting.

Best to the ladies tomorrow (I am guessing hey are called the Lady Ducks but don't know). Either Oklahoma or Texas will be a daunting challenge I was sorry to see the Ducks eliminated in the men's CWS. The National seed Georgia Bulldawgs may not be far behind. Georgia is an enigma--left-handed pitching is their kryptonite and Duke threw nothing but lefties at them today. And they will be facing one of the best lefties in the country in the losers bracket tomorrow. Their problem is plate discipline, specifically swinging at far too many balls out of the strike zone.

I'm starting to feel the 12 team playoff is as good as it gets. It appears the B1G and the eSECpn want to wait until their current contracts end before just taking their beach ball away and going to another beach. South Carolina, Bama and Ole Miss simply screwed up. They lost to non playoff teams, and feel they still deserved a shot at the playoffs. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Ole Miss stomp pedestrian Wake Forest, but South Carolina and Bama lost to comparable B1G teams? SEC coaches still want to preserve their regular season records, while claiming they have the toughest schedules (yeah, two Pluto State caliber opponents really makes up for that tough run against Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Auburn, and a misunderstood Oklahoma. Your conference has nothing to cry about when nearly half your teams won half or less of their conference games (especially when that number would climb if they played nine conference games). Not to mention, the SEC could (and probably would ) prove it by replacing Mater Dei Catholic with a Big12 and ACC opponent each. That would not only solve a big issue, it would shut up the ACC and Big12 for good ( because they would have to put up or shut up). I also do not want to disparage the SEC crew that visits this forum regularly, because despite my penis envy, I do like and respect the SEC. But let's be real, this decade has been Kirby and Saban. LSU got a B1G product in Joe Burrow, as did Texas for that matter. Tennessee, Florida and Auburn are like us old geezers-better days long past (though I REALLY like Florida this year-the road to the title game requires defeating a very loaded Gator team). So in essence, there are three gimmie playoff teams in both conferences, and frankly, I'm not impressed with potential as we saw what Niko was, what Ole Miss has been the past two years, and it didn't take much for Texas to claim their spot by winning games they should. In other words, win 10 or take your potential to a bowl game and lobby how tough you are while the real teams vie for a Natty. I say stay at 12 and force teams to win 10. Even better, have play in games interconference. Then Ole Miss can demonstrate they can beat the third best team in the Big12 or ACC. So can Bama, and South Carolina. Except they'd have to play the Illinois, Indiana, and Miami circa 2024. That makes more sense than saying my schedule is tougher than yours. In fact, that would make way more sense than the models proposed. As far as I see it, despite having a talent advantage, the SEC sounds like those snooty students that never worked a day in their life talking about how to run businesses. Playing two rounds of games against said lessor opponents in lessor conferences just might prove you really have a strength of schedule argument. This notion you earn a spot just because sounds rather elitist without providing some substance. Josh Pate always says you aren't what your record says you are. Well, let's just see that. Except you can't host a play in game if your record includes potato state as four of your victories.

10-8 Cal Poly wins. I am locking the thread, as I do not need to see people post who never do unless it is negative. And I don't need "Nah-Nah" posts that are meant as salt-on-the-wound, as I've already deleted one of those. We had a great season, but fell short. It happens.

That is an embarrassing performance by the pitching staff, absolutely pathetic, particularly by the relief pitching. Other two teams had relief pitchers who pitched with confidence, our guys pitch like they were scared to death, not getting ahead in the count. We aren't going anywhere unless we start playing actual good teams in the non-con, or the B1G steps up. It is an absolutely unacceptable result to get swept out of the regional.

And we all whined about our low seeding Maybe the RPI is smarter than we thought. A lot of ranked or seeded teams going down though.

Season over. Pitching fell apart at the end. Disappointing to lose both games in your own regional.

10-8 Cal Poly after eight innings. Boy our pitching...

9-8 Cal Poly after seven innings, as Oregon's Drew Smith and Jeffery Heard hit back-to-back home runs over center field! Who would have thought that the replacement for Aroz would hit two dingers today? But then the worst of two worlds happened...the Ducks put in Ian Umlandt--which I cannot understand, as we will need him as a starting pitcher in a later game...and then the Mustangs hit-the-heck out of him.

Originally Posted by Jon Joseph Do you take one of the 5, or do you like the field? One of these five teams will win the 2025-26 CFP National Championship WWW.YARDBARKER.COM The 2025 college football season is getting closer.

According to the radio broadcast, Aroz and the Ducks football team are watching the game at the Moshofsky Center

Oregon yard sale! Now 8-5 Ducks on dingers by Smith and Heard

6-5 Ducks! This is after six innings, as the replacement for Anson Aroz...Jeffrey Heard, got a dinger over the center field fence to tie it. Then Oregon's Burke-Lee Mabeus got a blooper single in shallow left field to set up The Pride of Portland Oregon, Ryan Cooney, who blasted a two-run homer over center field as well. The crowd went nuts... There is a stiff wind blowing out toward center field, so anything up in the air can get carried long, and Cal Poly got a HR that way.

Way too close for comfort at 6-5, but Oregon uniforms finally answered the signal.

4-3 Cal Poly after five innings, as the Ducks' Carter Garate singled to get to first, got to second on a wild pitch, and then was advanced to third base on a wild pitch. Then came a LONG at-bat with Dominic Hellman, who fouled off tons of pitches, and with two outs and a runner on third...we needed this. He got the pitch he wanted and blasted it out of the park and into the left field scoreboard for a two-run homer! The crowd was razzing the pitcher, and went crazy with the HR. The Mustangs are hitting Oregon's Grinsell much more than I would have thought...

A look at the 2025 opponent, Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State Cowboys Football Preview 2025: Prediction, Win Total, Top 10 Players, Keys to the Season - College Football News | College Football Predictions, Analysis and Updates

Coach Bielema asked for the SEC #s, and CBS delivered. Illinois coach Bret Bielema asked, so we answered: How the SEC has fared against Power Four in recent years - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Crunching the numbers on just how good the SEC has been in recent years It's a small sample size since NIL and largely unregulated transfers, but it appears that the B1G is closing the on-field results gap. Why the need for Sankey to beat this drum over and over again? What's the point? I guess, 'We'll play 8 conference games and the PO committee should put at least 6 SEC teams in the field every year."

CBS Chimes In. Lacking CFP clarity, SEC faces blind decision on 8- or 9-game schedule with soft deadline looming - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Commissioner Greg Sankey said two years ago he was hoping to land the plane on a decision The ADs and the Coaches were not on the same PO format and scheduling page, and the ADs didn't know this before gathering in Florida? Come On Man!

Here is my 2¢ . . . I'm always of the opinion that unless the call is the last call of the game, it did not "cost" the game (MLB still needs to reverse Jim Joyce's incorrect call that cost Armando Galarraga a perfect game). There were a couple of innings to go. If the play stood as safe, then the batting order, pitch selection etc. would have all changed and maybe we don't score a run in the ninth. It could also have gone extras and still lost. So, I'll go with it affected the game.

3-1 Cal Poly after four innings. Sigh…

Burke-Lee Mabeus is called out on strikes without a pitch being thrown, ending the inning for the Ducks, a clock violation.