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College Football News with a Favorable 2025 Preview of UW. https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/washington-football-preview-2025-jedd-fisch-huskies-year-two

Was OBD's 13-0 record on the way to the conference title a B1G anomaly? Why Steve Sarkisian and oddsmakers are exactly right about the new era of the SEC - Saturday Down South WWW.SATURDAYDOWNSOUTH.COM Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said the quiet part out loud about going undefeated in today's college football.

Since I don't bet money, measure your response to my recommendation, take Illinois and the points!

Oregon Ducks' Dakorien Moore Reveals Motivation After Evan Stewart Injury The Oregon Ducks could potentially be without wide receiver Evan Stewart for most of the 2025 season. Fortunately, coach Dan Lanning and co. have an elite five-star freshman in Dakorien Moore, who could now contend for the team's starting receiver role. Oregon Ducks' Dakorien Moore Reveals Motivation After Evan Stewart Injury WWW.SI.COM The Oregon Ducks could potentially be without wide receiver Evan Stewart for the entire regular season after recently suffering a torn patellar tendon. After p

Illinois went 5-1 in one-score games in 2024, so caution is advised. However, Illinois returns 18 starters who won 10 games last season, including the 2nd-ranked B1G QB, Luke Altmyer, and, according to USA Today, plays the easiest B1G schedule. The Fighting Illini +630 to make the PO is one of the best available future bets. With a game at Duke, Illinois may not go 3-0 OOC, but it will be no worse than 2-1. The two toughest conference road games will be at Indiana and UW. Illinois hosts USC and Ohio State. It's sweet to draw Purdue, Rutgers, Maryland, and Northwestern. +630 for Indiana, 12th most difficult schedule per USA Today, is also worth a look if you believe QB Mendoza out of Cal will be as effective as Kurtis Rourke, coming over from MAC-member Ohio, was in 2024. The opening B1G game for both teams sees Illinois playing Indiana in Bloomington.

There's some B1G recruiting happening. 2026 college football recruiting class rankings - top 25 schools - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM We break down the best recruiting classes so far in the 2026 cycle. Don't count your Ducks before they hatch in December. I'm reasonably certain OBD will out-recruit Rutgers. SC has the numbers going for it.

Underdogs Michigan (+220) USC (+590) Illinois (+630) Indiana (+630) Nebraska (+680) Iowa (+710) Don't see Washington, measured hype for USC and how about the "Emerging Superpower at +630.

FWIW, one gaming site's Big Ten odds to make the 2025-26 PO. Big Ten Football: Betting odds to make College Football Playoff in 2025-26 SATURDAYBLITZ.COM Odds have been released for teams’ chances to make the 2025-2026 College Football Playoff. Similar to last year, this season's bracket will feature 12 teams, in Ohio State, OBD, and Penn State are odds-on to make the PO. OBD at -260 means you have to put up $260 to win $100, plus the $260 wagered back.

No baseball, Ford was a center om Michigan's back to back football champs, 1931-32.

QUACK! What the NCAA house settlement means for Oregon Football DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM The NCAA house settlement will bring widespread change to college football, but the Oregon Ducks stand to benefit.

Agreed. Uconn Women's basketball has been a dynasty for decades, but Uconn football brings in more money. Fair and equal are not the same. Football is the Machine.

AP coverage of the Title IX-based appeal to the settlement. Female athletes appeal landmark NCAA settlement, saying it violates federal antidiscrimination law APNEWS.COM Eight female athletes have filed an appeal of a landmark NCAA antitrust settlement. They argue that women would not receive their fair share of $2.7 billion in back pay for athletes who were barred...

Point well made. Do you feel the same regarding the PGA male golfers earning far more in prize money than the LPGA female golfers? Women pro golfers play 3 rounds to determine a winner instead of the PGA's four rounds, and draw on average 930,000 viewers compared to the PGA's 2.2 million viewers. Should the LPGA money be the same? The marketplace says: "No." Close to 80% more viewers watch Men's Major events compared to the women's Majors. Why would sponsors put up the money to reward women golfers the same as male golfers? 'But Title IX does not apply to pro sports; it does apply to college sports.' I agree. Because a school accepts federal funding, it's only fair and equitable that athletes who earn no money for the school be paid the same as athletes who produce the revenue that is being shared? This is certainly not the case in the capitalistic business world and and college sports are big business. In a business sense, Title IX is a relic of an amateur athletic system that no longer exists. Title IX has been a boon to women's sports, and it's terrific to see women receiving college scholarships and the appropriate stipends. However, it was not fair and equitable from the inception of Title IX to include football scholarships in the fairness calculus when there is no comparable women's sport. It was not fair to men that men's teams were cut to make women's sports equal to men's sports. $20.5 million is the year one House settlement direct payment cap. Allocate 50% to women's sports, and the result will be a significant reduction in men's and women's sports teams. No big-time athletic program has budgeted revenue sharing in the same dollar amounts to non-revenue sports as distributed to revenue-making sports. Baseball players will not receive the same revenue slice as football and male basketball players. If you distribute the revenue equally, there will be a drop in Men's football and basketball talent, lesser merchandise sales, and a reduction in attendance, which will equate to a significant drop in the revenue available to be shared. If we're talking FAIRNESS, revenue should be distributed as earned. This is how the marketplace defines fairness. It will be interesting to see if this Title IX complaint is sustained. If the complaint is found to be meritorious, such a finding will hurry along the coming NFL and NBA Lite.

Some in Congress are trying to help college sports. Congress introduces new bill to provide uniform national guidelines for college sports TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM A proposed bill would create uniform national rules for college athletics that all schools and conferences would be required to follow I don't see congressional relief coming before a collective bargaining agreement is reached between Athletes and Management. School A is directly paying Athlete B. But it's 'Revenue Sharing' and not a salary, but Athlete B is not an employee, right? This is SSDD NCAA semantics designed to thwart what the marketplace has delivered. The IRS does not care whether income arises from NIL deals; it's all income and subject to taxation.

also .. were the players wearing gloves back in those days?

Let me guess. One of the Michigan teams was captained by Gerald Ford

Great post. None recently, but six B1G teams have won NCAA baseball titles. Minnesota has won three and Michigan two. All titles were won before the Beavers won their two titles.

So yeah, we would love to have 4 viable QB's which is never going to happen at the level the Ducks are playing now. Uncle Phil will make sure we always have two, as I am guessing is the biggest reason Novo is still in the room, as long as there is NIL and a hint at a post-football-career could be in the mix as well. There may be a third RS or Soph with high hopes and just barely possibly a fourth but the latter two won't have seen the field very much. In that sense we are indeed in deep doo doo for the rest of whatever season that happens. It could turn out to be opportunity to test whomever is left and see who fits in best. My guess is that the same scenario exists for any other top 10ish team. Our room will probably always have four signal callers, just not four we would want to trot out into most B1G games before we put on a blind fold and maybe took a couple of puffs on a cigarette. Thanks for improving my fuzzy 77 year old memory on the fiasco those 4QB games were. My thoughts must have been improved by the low expectations we had back then and the blow-ups were closer to expectation than they would be today.

Not surprised that Tez Johnson is doing well at Tampa Bay! Tampa Bay's Todd Bowles Makes Bold Statement On Rookie Tez Johnson's Speed, Role WWW.SI.COM The Tampa Bay Buccaneers may have found themselves a steal on the final day of the 2025 NFL Draft when they selected former Oregon Ducks wide receiver Tez Johns

Oregon football extends new offer to 2026 Boise State QB commit The Oregon Ducks extended an intriguing scholarship offer on Wednesday, reaching out to 3-star quarterback Bryson Beaver, from Murrieta, California. He stands at 6-foot-3, 200 pounds. This offer is worth noting because of where the Ducks currently stand in the quarterback recruiting landscape. Earlier this spring, they lost the Jared Curtis sweepstakes, with the 5-star passer committing to the Georgia Bulldogs. They are currently projected to land 5-star QB Ryder Lyons, but there has been some buzz recently that the BYU Cougars are willing to pay him inordinate sums of money to get him to commit. If that is the case, then the Ducks' offering another QB in the class makes a bit of sense. Regardless, they still could feel good about where they stand with Lyons but are just covering their bases with another talented and rising QB prospect. Oregon football extends new offer to 2026 Boise State QB commit DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM The Oregon Ducks have extended a scholarship offer to 2026 quarterback Bryson Beaver, who is committed to the Boise State Broncos.

Oregon Ducks To Land 4-Star Recruit Maximo Adams Over USC Trojans, SMU Mustangs? The Oregon Ducks are looking to begin their 2026 recruiting class with a solid foundation and have locked onto four-star forward Maximo Adams as one of their top targets. Oregon coach Dana Altman is battling with USC Trojans and SMU Mustangs to land the California native. Oregon Ducks Favorites Over USC, SMU For Four-Star Recruit Maximo Adams? WWW.SI.COM The Oregon Ducks have been recruiting four-star forward Maximo Adams for over two years and have spent valuable time in trying to bring the talented California

Hard to not disagree. It is sort of the nature of the balancing act in college football at QB? If the point is, getting down to the #4 QB is so unlikely it never matters, then I would tend to disagree. If the point is, if we get down to the #4 QB and we are probably screwed anyway, I would tend to agree. One only needs to back to 2007 and again in 2008 (and a nod could be given to 2015), to find the point. In 2007, Dixon famously went down at Arizona and turned to Leaf, who also got banged up. Heading into UCLA, Leaf tried to go but left early in the game due to injury. On to #3 Cody Kempt. Kempt proceeded to perhaps have the third worse line at QB (in a meaningful game) in modern Duck history: 6-23 for 52 yards with 0 TDs and 2 picks. The Ducks turned in the second half to #4 QB Justin Roper who went to have probably the second worst QB line (in a meaningful game) in modern Duck history: 1-5 for 8 yards with 1 pick and sacked twice. Oregon, averaging 41 ppg and 506 yards of offense, was the first team UCLA (5-5) shut out in 22 years 0-16, holding Oregon to 148 total yards on 78 plays (yes less than 2 ypp). This wasn't exactly a footnote kind of outcome as Oregon entered the UCLA game still #9 in the nation. In 2008, Oregon started the year 3-0 but Justin Roper hurt his knee late at at Purdue. Oregon turned to Masoli, who actually looked largely in control and Oregon jumped out and looked very solid handling what turned out to be a 12-1 Boise State team. Mosoli gets knocked out with a penalized hit that is absolutely (and still is) avaliable on YouTube and was really just plain poor stuff. Oregon turns to Chris Harper, a very highly touted young QB recruit from Kansas at the time, who goes on to have perhaps the worse QB line in a meaningful game for a modern Oregon QB with 0-3 for 0 yards and 2 picks and a sack. Oregon then turns to #4 QB Darron Thomas (who plays pretty well but can't quite lead a comeback with a pick at 3:47 left really helping seal the deal - it could be argued however having a #4 with a pulse that day actually almost brought a comeback against a very good team). I give 2015 an honerable mention as Oregon entered the season with 2 QBs and a rFR (Mahalak) and a tFR (Jonsen). Adams starts but gets hurt at Michigan State. Lockie manages the next game against a not so hot FCS team in Georgia State team (6-7) and Adams returns. Adams gets knocked out at half in the bowl game with a HUGE 0-31 lead and Lockie proves absolutely ineffective in moving the ball (at all - even alittle) and TCU roars back from down and completes in OT what I believe was the biggest comeback in bowl history at the time. His second half (and OT) line is 7-15 for 36 yards and 0 TDs and O ints. Lockie manages one 17 yard completion on the day so the rest of his line is 6-14 for 19 yards or about 3 yards per completion. Oregon had at that time a #3 and decided not to use him when Lockie was absolutely struggling. It had two freshman, one with a year in the system, and wouldn't give either a chance despite the game collapsing, on that day, having a #3, let alone a #4, was absolutely was a thing.

When I think of Beano Cook and Lou Holtz, I think of Grumpy Old Men. Except with them it's "Delusional Old Men". Beano was high on Penn State, he said somethings might change. But Penn State will usually beat Ohio State, and a program like Oregon could never win consistently against a program like Penn State. He said this in 2011 btw.

I agree. Once you share outside of the team that generated the money it shouldn't matter whether they are male or female, both should benefit equally.

I beg to quibble. There was nothing suspect about Bo Nix except the quality of the teams he played for. The guy was always dangerous for Auburn's opponents, even though Georgia always found a way to "handle" him. Despite the badmouthing he got from Dawg fans, I am pretty sure Kirby Smart would have taken Bo had he wanted to transfer, although if memory serves me, intraleague transfers in the SEC would have required Bo sit out a year at that time. Bo made the right decision and I am sure the presence of a familiar face (Dillingham) was a major factor here.