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I'd prefer that to go lose, win, win...

Don't know how they could ever do this in figuring strength of schedule, but shouldn't some tweak be made for scheduling shafts some teams must endure. One that is irking me at the moment as a Dawg fan is that our two highest regular season opponents, Alabama and Texas were awarded bye weeks before coming to Sanford Stadium to take on my puppies, whereas the Dawgs have league games those weeks. This may prove to be of little consequence in September when we play the Tide, but could prove to be a major advantage for Texas in November when more guys are nicked up and dragging. Sure wish the Dawgs had had a similar advantage last year when we played these teams at their places. Sorry for the whiny rant on such a glorious day--the return of college football. It was grand, no?

Fun random note that’s probably not any less valid than Josh Pate’s prediction. 😆 In the CFB video game playing as OBD, I played PSU THREE TIMES. Beat them in the regular season, lost to them in the B1G championship, then beat them in the rubber match second round of the playoffs.

Charles. Oregon's 1st bye is Week 6, after the Penn State game and before Indiana travels to Autzen, with the second bye in Week 10, after playing Wisconsin at home and before traveling to Iowa in Week 11. Before traveling to Eugene, Indiana also has a bye in Week 6. Like OBD, Iowa has a bye in Week 10 before hosting OBD in Week 11. Penn State is off the week before the Week 5 White Out, but this could be to OBD's advantage as PSU plays three donut holes before the Oregon game. Oregon will be the first opponent with a roster equal to that of PSU. Wisconsin has a bye in Week 8 before playing the Ducks in Autzen on Week 9. Rutgers plays at UW in Week 7, with the game kicking off on Friday, October 10, 2025, at 11 PM Eastern, before hosting OBD in Week 8. So Rutgers will be traveling its longest distance of the season before playing OBD. USC plays Iowa in LA the week before playing in Autzen on Week 13. Week 13 sees UW at UCLA before hosting Oregon in Week 14. UW has a yo-yo of an East-West travel schedule: Week 5, Ohio State, Week 6 at Maryland, Week 7, Rutgers, Week 8, at Michigan, Week 9, Illinois, Week 10, at Wisconsin, Week 11, Purdue, Week 12, Bye. You're making me dizzy 🤪. 2025 is a season with five B1G road games, but the schedule this season is friendlier than the eight consecutive B1G games without a break in 2024. With this kind of travel, Rob Mullens must do his darndest to arrange seven home games every season. It would be better for Rob to schedule Home+Home series with Cal and Stanford instead of OK State and Baylor. First P4 upset of the season today with No. 17, three point favorite Kansas State, falling to No. 22 Iowa State, in Dublin. A week from today, hip-hip-hooray, let's herd some Bobcats!😊

Tez doing his thing in Tampa Bay:

The B1G did not want the other teams. I thought that with such superb academic schools as Cal and Stanford are--they would fit right in. But the revenue they create would take-from, and not add to each B1G members' share of the media contract. Even when they suck...the fan bases of Washington, UCLA and USC bring additional revenue to the Big-10, thus why the invitation. The reduced share to Oregon and Washington is a probationary period to "prove" we provide additional revenue. I think Oregon Has....

Would have been nice if Oregon, Washington, USC, UCLA, Cal and Stanford had approached the BIG together. Heck, throw in Arizona and Utah. No idea if the BIG would have wanted them all......but fighting USC to create equality between USC and Wa St was madness. A lot of wasted energy trying to save the uneconomic PAC and the bacon of Wa St, Or St, Az St and Colorado. ......the result is history.

Tears of joy at being No. 1???

Great perspective, and again--that is why I call you, "The Schedule Maven." Someone brought up how many of the schools that travel to Oregon have a bye the week before, thus can come sooner and get acclimated. Does Oregon have that traveling advantage too?

OBD plays the last three games of this season in the Pacific time zone. Home against Minnesota and USC with the last regular season game at UW. SC plays its last four games in the West; UW the last three, and UCLA two of the last three. Week 13 sees the Bruins in Columbus against Ohio State. In the NFL in 2025, the LA Chargers, 37,186 miles, the LA Rams, 34.832, and the Seattle Seahawks, 31,302, are the top three travelers. Lengthy travel comes with being located out West. OBD's two trips to the Central time zone and two to the Eastern time zone are spread out, so there is no back-to-back travel. All schedules, including football, are under B1G review. I thought the 'Pac-12 teams' would be permanent opponents. Two Pacific time zone trips every season would eliminate a trip East. I'll take the money and the B1G prestige over travel to Tucson, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Pullman.

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I heard on one of those YouTube podcasts "The Monty Show" that there is talk of a twenty team format. According to him the SEC was only holding the nine game card was because they wanted the B1G to agree to their preferred format and by acting like going to nine games was a huge sacrifice that the B1G got a huge win. But others have said Sankey folded. I'm kind of over hearing about realignment and CFP negotiations. Football is officially back! Iowa State won a Big Twelve top 25 showdown vs Kansas State in Ireland. UNLV which is a trendy G05 playoff team is in a twenty four to twenty four point deadlock with Idaho State. Playoff implications in week zero?

We travel to Penn State and Rutgers…why don’t we add Maryland and have ALL the farthest teams on the schedule?

That's crazy. We only have 5 away games right? 3k miles average including a short jump to UW? That doesn't sound right.

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I don't what is crazier...the distances that West Coast teams have to travel, or how little other B1G teams travel? Most of the B1G will travel only half or a third of what the Ducks will!

WTD got taken down about 10 notches during Helfrich 3 and 8 season, when Helfrich was asked in an interview if the team was still winning the day. He responded saying "we're winning some of them." This showed the well had been poisoned, hence when Taggart arrived he got rid of it trying to instill some immediate accountability and agency for the players with "Do Something". I doubt he would have kept it forever, but lucky for us he didn't stick around for us to have to find out. WTD is still solid, based sports psychology, was never adopted by any other school, and represents a highly successful period for the program, so I wouldn't mind if it popped up around the facilities and on merchandise now and then.

Thank you, Steven. Why play the season when USA Today already knows the record for 136 teams? I'm so happy we have college football to watch in about 15 minutes. I Need My Fix! 🤪 https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2025/08/21/college-football-season-record-projections-2025/85755096007/

We are his No. 4 seed with a DeBoer rematch in the Natty with the same result as the last 3 Lanning DeBoer matchups. Oregon Ducks predicted to land in championship game by Josh Pate I'd say part two not happening.

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I get their optimism. I’m a Cowboys fan.

Lots of great takes friends. Should we place bets on which conference gets more teams in the 2026-27 playoff?

I am so tired of all the pre-season wrangling, Let's tee the ball up and get between the lines. There will still be lots to wrangle about guys. I am even planning to take in a couple Week 0 games which I almost never do. It is time for football!!!