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CBS's Tom Fornelli's Week 11-12 PO Take - https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-playoff-rankings-projections-fornelli-acc-champion-sec-big-ten-big-12/

That jump to add Texas State may have been a bit too premature? Since 2015, Texas State is: 3-9 - 2015 2-10 2-10 3-9 3-9 2-10 4-8 4-8 8-5 8-5 3-6 this season Should they have added North Texas? New Mexico? Wyoming?

Week 11 - SP+ 1. Ohio State/ 2. Indiana/ 3. Oregon/ 12. USC/ 15. Iowa/ 18. Michigan/ 20. Penn State/ 21 UW/ 23 Illinois/ 25 Nebraska

Would that be the Texas state program, aka Sam Houston State, that just beat the front runner of the Pac what-the-heck conference?

This is a seriously BIG club (pun intended). Give a quiz to all the Ad's for an explanation. Or, maybe hire Larry Scott to negotiate a deal that exceeds all expectations until the next round of media deals in a couple of years.

I understand why the deal raises some concerns. A $2.4 billion deal is not an under the radar transaction. It could make political waters somewhat choppy for collegiate sports. To over simplify, it is a high interest loan. The deal looks to sell an “estimated 10% of assets” to a pension fund. The pension fund now shares media revenue for twenty years. Including participating in any future increases/decreases as media contracts are renegotiated. My guess is that the fund is expecting the revenue share returns the original 2.4 billion in capital, with another 2 to 3 billion profit. If capital is needed, this is one way to acquire it. But, it is not the only way.

I do not put much stock into this due to the inclement weather the past two games, but interesting nonetheless. This was the Ducks lowest 2-game point total (39) in consecutive games since a 32-47 bowl loss to Oklahoma on 12/29/21 followed by the 3-49 loss to Georgia in the season opener on 9/3/22. We also combined for only 17 points in two non-consecutive Utah blowouts in ‘21. In the same season, you have to go back to 2019 in consecutive wins against Stanford (21-6 on 9/21/19) and Cal (17-7 on 10/5/19). I don’t miss Mario-ball one bit.

Hey, isn't that an insult to Spam? Just kidding. But excellent point!

I'll take the Big 10 hazing over fighting for respect in the old Pac 12...

Canzano is to journalism as Spam is to charcuterie.

A Texas, country mile! 😉

I agree with all the comments. It's great to have the most capable rushing attack in the country, but you have to be careful about how you use it. I think we all agree it should be used more than it was against Indiana and not as much as it had to be against Iowa. I think we should try to marry it with more tempo and create rushing sets where we don't sub to keep beating a defense back on their heels.

Fisch didn't do himself any favors with Florida with yesterday's loss to Wisconsin. Two guys who won't be headline hires but could be in the mix for 'lesser' openings are Jim Mora, who never should have been fired by UCLA AD train wreck Dan Guerro, and Jack Dickert, who caught a plane out from Wazzu to Wake Forest. In the 2024 and 2025 seasons to date, Mora at Independent in football, UConn has two more ACC wins than Mike Norvell at Florida State. More conference wins in 2025 than Dabo Swinney. Dickert, with the lowest budget in the conference, has Wake at 6-3 with upset wins over SMU and UVA. Jason Eck, who led Idaho to many FCS wins, has New Mexico at 6-3, and the Lobos put up a fight against Michigan in Ann Arbor. Ken Niumatalolo has done a good job at San Jose State without running a triple option offense. I'm not sure that guys with no head coaching experience will be a sure thing hire.

If Stein leaves and MSU cans Smith, let's hire him for our OC.

"It seemed like he went to MSU because he had to. Not because he wanted to." Coach Smith unequivocally left Corvallis because he wanted to. There's no question about this. Ask any woodrat, including some of my own family, he left them in the middle of the night, leaving some of his Beaver gear at a local thrift shop as well (the story goes).

Never a discouraging word regarding OSU and WSU's spendthrift waste of millions of dollars in a futile attempt to have a reconfigured, so-called Pac-12 qualify as a Power conference. Or whatever the goal may have been. Nothing about the two Pac left behinds destroying the Mountain West conference, only to end up with a Mountain West minus Las Vegas, plus Gonzo as CBB partner, and a Texas State program two time zones away. Journalism is about the search for truth and justice without concern for money, right?

Ooops. I prematurely articulated here. My bad!

A country mile, to be exact.

This is way over my head! 🤔

I think he is playing both sides beautifully; he reports really well on Oregon, but does so also for Beavis. The way he brings out how Oregon is the only former Pac-12 team doing so well....which implies conspiracy, and feeds into the insecurities of Beavis at this time? Oregon doing well is bad?

To me, the fact that a conference leading showdown between Texas and Oregon on ESPN (via partnership with Pac 12 network) never happened is a huge part of the Pac's demise. Also, just look at all the major media markets that kept hitting the snooze button since the Pete Carol era. LA (SUC, UCLA) Phoenix (ASU), Denver (CU), San Francisco (Cal) and Seattle (fuskies) were all mostly no shows the entire time in football. Only OBD (Portland), Stanford (San Jose) and Utah (Salt Lake City) were competitive for any long stretches of time. The Pac spent way too much time squandering viewership in it's biggest local markets while thumbing it's nose at a national one (ESPN) while relishing in badminton and tiddlywinks championships. The Pac got what it deserved and sometimes the truth hurts.

I've been confused on how will this affect realignment, I've seen some say it will stop it completely and other say that there's new members being considered but that they will come alongside the deal. Either way this is hella controversial

Pardon my French, but 🤡 is such a knob. Gaslighting pranks feeding into victimhood. He’s hitched his wagon to the new PAC and should be trying to pivot. IMO, the PAC was dying a slow death as soon as it didn’t scoop up Texas and Oklahoma to expand, we just didn’t fully realize it until the last media deal expired.

By a mile...

This smells on so many levels, kind of the college football equivalent of a payday loan.