JabbaNoBargain

Absolutely agree. Just because we’re doing what is best for us in 2025, it doesn’t mean it gets my juices flowing. Most of the B1G conference schedule is a slog, and with the size of the conference and the way the schedule rotates, it would take 25 years before I had a chance of caring about Rutgers, etc. This is all essentially USC, UCLA, Cal, and to a lesser degree ASU & UW’s fault imo. Those should all be great brands, but they greatly underperformed the last 15 years overall, which was absolutely fatal for the PAC. Don’t even get me started on CU, they joined and promptly became irrelevant.

We could easily go 9-3 imo, so yes we could absolutely miss the playoff. There is value in making the playoff even if you don’t expect to win it; $$, a great experience for young players, minimum goal for a successful year, recruiting tool, etc. I personally can’t imagine any scenario where playing in a bowl game is the preference. Making the expanded playoff each year should be the minimum expectation moving forward. Favorable match-ups, key injuries, and getting hot can easily lead to a 4 game win streak and title. ND and OSU both experienced elements of this last year. If we go 10-2, I think when and how we get a second loss is everything. Generally speaking, the earlier you lose the better. If we have to have one more loss, losing this week is the best option for making the playoff at 10-2 imo. Going 10-2 with a lopsided loss in Seattle to end the season is what would put us in the most jeopardy at 10-2. Let’s not test that theory 😆

I’ll say again, only 4 teams that made the field last year had fewer than 2 losses, and one of those was G6 Boise. That’s 66.67% of the field with 2+ losses my friends. No reason to expect any different this year. We have a full month of November football to go….stuff will happen. They can talk about their advanced metrics all they want , but until I see otherwise, no 10-2 P2 will be left out of the field imo.

Going in, I thought we’d go 10-2 and win a playoff game at home. Mostly still on target, but PSU completely flaming out probably means we need 11-1 to host. Not everyone currently in the top-12 is going to win out, I have little doubt a couple teams with 2 losses will host a game, but looks like SOS will cost us 3-4 spots in the pecking order.

Horrible clock management all the way around. I don’t think he has that much leeway in the 12-team playoff era. That much talent and 0 for 2 making the playoffs out of the ACC? Guessing he’s gone if they don’t make it next year.

Every carrier has this happen periodically, there’s no perfect answer I know of. Free trial of Fubo over the weekend would probably work though.

If we were in a static universe where no one else ever lost we might be in trouble. Last year, after conference championship week there was a whopping 4 teams with 1 loss or less in the top 15, no reason to expect it to be any different this year. We’re a shoe in at 11-1, and it would be very surprising, imo, not to get in at 10-2. About the only way we don’t get in at 10-2 is if we have a bunch of squeakers and then get shelled by the fuskies to end the year.

There is so much swirling right now that everyone seems to be waiting to see what LSU does before the dominoes start to fall, which is probably increasing the pressure on Florida to strike first. Also adds a dimension of pressure on programs like FSU that may be on the firing fence and will no doubt feel an increased sense of urgency with each passing week. Not the time to have a bad showing. If I was Florida, I’d try to strike first and swipe Fisch. He’s a good coach and picking off a “contending” B1G coach would be as good of a power play as any in the optics war.

Seems to be a pattern of opposing coaches setting expectations once they get deep into game planning for us. 🤔

Panic is such a strong word choice. Was I expecting us to win it all this year? I thought there was an outside chance, but no, I expected 10-2 and a home playoff win. Are we a top-4 team at the moment? I don’t think so, but we’re on the fringe with a pretty young team that could keep improving. Unless something radical happens, next year we should be one of the top contenders. I still hope we can keep improving and take it all this year, but I certainly wouldn’t wager on it. That being said, anything can happen in a tournament format.

Working as intended. We have a brand that IS now our tradition, no need to try to emulate Iowa imo. I’m actually surprised (but not) this is even still a hot topic for some, it’s been 25 years.

Iowa yes absolutely, probably our most likely loss left on the schedule. UW can’t stop anyone to date, IMO they’ll have a punchers chance, but they would need to play an A+ game.

Hmm previous week we had 700 yards and all was well. I’m going to go with it was really wet, we don’t look as focused at home…and yet we still doubled the rushing yards UW usually gives up. Long season and we are 7-1.

IMO with all of the HC openings (and more to come) and the absolutely stupid $$ being tossed around, there’s almost zero chance we won’t need a new OC. I choose to embrace it…the days of a 5 year OC are pretty much gone for us.

Perhaps the Cal QB is enjoying his 1 year, UC study exchange program but will rejoin us next year 😂

If we’re looking for a ridiculous wish in time… How about going back to when we were pretty close to having a PAC16 with Texas and Oklahoma, but no one besides USC could wrap their brains around unequal revenue sharing becoming the world we live in? Texas wanted more of a “merit based” system (that could have been negotiated to actually be based on current merit), but the Beavis’s of the world couldn’t imagine that a smaller piece of a MUCH larger pie would still be a good thing. Long history of teams in that conference not carrying their weight but getting a full share. Ironically, in 2026 I believe every former PAC-North member will be getting something other than a normal share in whatever conference they will be in that year.

Completely awesome, I actually want some merch.

I’m personally a fan of chaos for UW. I’m also not convinced there is any guarantee Stein will be a good HC, it’d be a calculated risk imo. That being said, my guess is UF takes a run at Kiff and DL, but ends up with Drinkwitz.

Brace yerselves for Wisconsin greybeards!

Go Fisch!

Not sure it’s a terrible thought at all. Could well be that Smith is next up, be it next year or the year after, and we go into the portal if needed. There’s no way to groom (and keep) 3 future QBs at once in the portal era.

Maybe if they hadn’t lost their veteran QB. Seems unlikely now, but maybe they have an amazing backup.

Third highest paid coach with 1.5 years of P4 head coaching experience, zero conference titles, and 1 signature win? Seems like a bit of a reach IMO, but I hope he has sustained success.

I mean good lord, there’s getting fired at UCLA or OSU which were/are complete dumpster fires going into the season. But man, to go from top-5 to canned in half a season is just wild.

Wild to handpick an “easy schedule” and start 0-7. Now they end with a more manageable schedule of no names, but who would pay money to see Sam Houston State? They might actually win a couple games soon, but will anyone see it?