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short excerpt from a column in The Athletic on June 3 USC added five-star tight end Mark Bowman, who plays for Southern California power Mater Dei, to its 2026 class on Friday. That was a significant pickup for the Trojans, who have the No. 1 class in the country. Bowman is also the third USC commit from Mater Dei this cycle. Mater Dei has long been a traditional pipeline program for the Trojans, but that well dried up in recent cycles. USC hasn’t signed a Mater Dei prospect since the 2022 recruiting cycle, which was Lincoln Riley’s first as head coach. As we open June, Texas’ 2026 class is ranked 26th nationally in 247Sports Composite. Oregon is 27th. Auburn is 33rd. Michigan is 38th, and Alabama is 45th. Each of these programs finished in the top 10 during the 2025 recruiting cycle. Oklahoma, South Carolina, Nebraska, Florida and Missouri all sit outside the top 35 of the national rankings after signing top-25 classes last cycle. Kentucky ranks 91st after signing the No. 29 class in 2025. updates here: 2026 Recruit Football Team Rankings June and July have become the most important months on the recruiting calendar. (Illinois, Kansas and Rutgers all have top-15 classes at the moment), but things don’t start to feel real until June and July, when the heavy hitters put in the most work to build their classes.

I think former assistant Jimbo Fisher was 1-5 vs Saban. Relative to Lombardi, sometimes it is really hard to beat an established program when it plays less than 30 miles from home.

contact above the waist... Uh, when the catcher drops to his knees, how is that avoidable?

As everyone thinks about the umps, keep in mind the home plate ump called him safe. It was the NCAA review crew somewhere that made the call after a several minutes delay while they checked Aunt Polly's Cookbook for an interpretation.

Oregon Ducks go down in first round of Eugene Regional to Utah Valley WWW.OREGONLIVE.COM The host Oregon Ducks received a mostly strong performance from pitcher Jason Reitz, save for two innings that ultimately cost the Ducks.

Losses today by Top 25 D1Baseball.com ranking (not seed): 6-5 Utah Valley vs 5-Oregon 6-4 S. Mary’s vs 8-Oregon St 11-4 Columbia vs 12-S. Miss 9-6 Murray St vs 15-Ole Miss 11-6 E. Carolina vs 17-Florida 11-2 Miss State vs 19-Northeastern 13-1 USC vs 22-TCU 4-2 ASU vs 23-UC Irvine 5-4 Miami vs 24-Alabama 11-4 Creighton vs 25-Kansas

Temporarily on ESPNNews not ESPNU

This will be Penn State's fourth straight home game. While Oregon is playing Beavis the week before, PSU has a bye. 5 of PSU's first 6 games are at home. 2 of their final 6 are at home.

The early season Apple Cup in Seattle in 2024 was Peacock.

Canzano has a core readership that laps up his woe is me Pac2 columns. They are repeaters on every column he writes on the subject. They consistently comment about how terrible Oregon was to abandon the Pac while ignoring the sequence of USC>UCLA>Colorado being the first to head out the door. Rarely do people who affiliate themselves with WSU complain about the defectors (which I call escapees) and almost never solely target UW with their ire. The Beavis readers have PTSD (Pac Terminal Separation Disease) When the $21M CFP shares kick in during 2026, Oregon's Big Ten conference share will be well worth the jump even during a period of partial media share. archive.ph ARCHIVE.PH

3 men's sports, 3 women's - and seems to be the sports with most D1 schools participating. Not meant to diminish other sports such as men's wrestling, but wrestling for example has much fewer schools participating and what would be the women's equivalent to make 4 men's, 4 women's?

"Oregon State had more Power-4 teams scheduled in the early season" It would be interesting to see their record at the end of the season based on opponent's RPI. They did drop to No. 8 which maybe is a clue, but in comparison to teams that got the 9, 10, 11 seeds how would Beavis compare? The "big wins" over Iowa turned out to be not so much. Iowa was leading the B1G entering the final week, and wasn't picked as an at-large.

The 16 sites pretty much followed the RPI at Walter Nolan's website...except he had 16-Florida and 17-Oregon. Florida didn't make it for a regional. Likely because the ratio of wins vs losses in Quad 1, and losing early in the SEC Tournament.

Oregon vs UCLA at 6:30 PT on May 29.

Four states are home to 2 regionals: Oregon, Tennessee, S. Carolina, Mississippi. Not sure I could have guessed any of them at mid-season. Perhaps the Vandy and Tenn combo.