JabbaNoBargain

Just trust in the secret formula be driven by ESPN and Sankey, no worries moving forward!

BSU is an interesting one and the new PAC might want to hold their breath a little as they are supposed to be the new shining star. Since COVID, BSU had lost at least 4 games each season up until last year. Not exactly a scintillating trend given who they’ve been playing. From what I saw, they look to be reverting to that norm. Will make for a pretty bad first year of the new PAC next year if they have a collection of 6-6 (or worse) teams, against supposedly worse competition in 2025, joining together to launch things 2026.

Great responses! I’d say the ship has sailed, especially with the expanded B1G. Are they hoping to crack the top-6 in the conference now? Oklahoma may be just behind them on the path of fallen powers.

Agree running could be better, but… There is some cause (B1G schedule) and effect here. New caveman ball oriented conference geared around stopping the run was almost certainly going to result in historically bad run numbers on offense. If I remember correctly, many of our defensive metrics (YPG, Pass YPG, PPG) all set modern era bests or close to it.

We need to bookmark this thread and revisit in 16 months

Moore to Moore

Yes sir, there are HS age kids getting work done on a regular basis and you cannot trust any photograph of anything.

Aside from the ND fantasy…in no particular order; UNC, Duke, Virginia, FSU, Miami, Clemson (sensing a pattern?) probably top the list. B12 is lacking any truly marquee brands to pilfer imo. All kinds of chatter out there, but 2 teams should come from this list. My guess is still that by 2030 this will all be moot.

Yeah. I was perplexed by BSU and SDSU fumbling all over themselves to join like it was an invitation in 1995. They should have held fast with the MWC and made OSU and WSU come to the table eventually. The PIG2 could not have held out forever. Instead they gave up all leverage and decided to go to court for years. Completely moronic, with all due respect and imo. 😂

Great read, thank you! I mean, Chip Kelly is a certifiable offensive wizard that just doesn’t like recruiting. If he didn’t out coach Lupoi as an OC with that much talent, that should be considered shocking. I don’t consider it an inditement to have the D struggle last year against the best of the best in our last 2 games. It was the longest season in history and I do think we ran out of gas a bit. Our secondary personnel wasn’t all that relatively great IMO. We had 10 guys drafted, but not one from the secondary, that’s very general but telling. Jabbar was supposed to be all world and didn’t get drafted. The plodding B1G made the relative secondary weakness pretty easy to mask. Go figure we struggled against a couple of west coast style teams OOC to start the year. Looking forward to moving on, it’s on in a few days lads!

Excellent story my man! Who knew?

I don’t see it as a fall as much as a choice if they continue down the same path. It’s not required to be a football factory if an academic institution wants to say no thanks. If they’re in denial in some corners at the top, that’s a different scenario. I would personally choose and embrace the Ivy route if I was Stanford. Harvard doesn’t seem to be suffering. OSU and WSU are just wannabes that have more in common with Big Sky than P4. Ha!

Isn’t YouTubeTV a legal IPTV?

There’s a city for everyone I guess. 😆

I believe it, not murders row when Indiana at home makes the list of tough games.

Spot on, great read! I’d equate having a good passing attack to having a good 3-point shooting team in college hoops. Any team with a draft-able QB, a couple good WRs and an air first scheme has a shot to win a shootout on a given day, especially at home. The great equalizer for talent which our buddy Mike Leach (RIP) made a career out of. Relying on this probably won’t get you to 10 wins very often, but it can make a team consistently bowl eligible that otherwise wouldn’t be. That being said, there aren’t a lot of air it out “buzz saws” in our new league, so it may take a while to find out if we have the same weakness this year.

Football only lens. Early relative returns on everyone aside from UO and ASU weren’t exactly stellar in year one. Things should be looking relatively up for Utah and UW in year 2, but is anyone else looking remotely good? I don’t mean passable, but good as in having a shot at 9-10 wins? USC had a great recruiting class, but we’re waiting to see if their coach survives the year. Everyone else seems to be hoping for 7 wins on the upside.

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.

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

Indeed, I think the SEC is actually the winner here. I personally don’t think this is going to be the victory we imagined the last 20 years, or as impactful as it would have been during the 4 team playoff era, when there was a P5 and zero guaranteed spots. I read this as a 9-3 (8-4?) SEC team will now get the nod over most 10-win teams in the current playoff structure. 10-2 Indiana over 9-3 Alabama? Nope. I also think this is temporary. There will be some type of 60-ish team top division/super league and about 30-40% of those teams will play in a post season playoff, and much sooner than later.

10 years ago this would have been HUGE. In 2025 this is just the next step/transition that won’t matter with the next expansion of the playoff, IMO.

If this sleeper comes through, could be the difference between 5-7 and 7-5

It just means more!

Some of the sleeper picks seem pretty arbitrary. I mean, the Center at Wisconsin? Be sure to notify everyone when that happens, because no one will notice.

Probably impossible not to have biases in the current system when a league (CFB in this case) has 136 teams in 10 conferences. We don’t even really have a balanced schedule within the B1G, let alone across CFB. Seems like we’ve gone full circle from BCS computers being the answer, to computers are evil, and now back to needing “unbiased” strength of schedule that throws out those pesky humans. My take on current reality? Be in a power-2 conference and win 10 games, or else win 11+ if you want some playoff expectations. Otherwise don’t have playoff expectations.