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Draft Kings must be dubious of whether Grein is back, after her dominating performance against Liberty. The Ducks are No.16; UCLA is No.9. Is that the reason UCLA is favored? Chalk.

The foot that could make all the difference!

SIDEARM Integrations GODUCKS.COM A year after taking in the site of the Women's College World Series, the Oregon softball team earned a spot in OKC this week.

Very glad for this.I don't think he was NBA ready, but after next year, he could be.

"A stopped clock is right twice a day" Yes. Come-on B1G, B12 and SEC, do the right thing, Say NO to Notre Dame!

Without Staci Chambers and Dezianna Patmon, Oregon's season would have ended last week. SIDEARM Integrations GODUCKS.COM They came to Oregon with one year of eligibility and looking to help the Ducks reach OKC, and each played a huge role the past two...

It's looked like Oregon will not put the $$ up for basketball, Oregon is a Football School. UNC, though it did hire BB, Kansas, Kentucky, Duke, are Basketball Schools. Michigan is trying to be both.

Exactly! Oregon should, should have done the right thing? Stayed attached to Beavis and battled it out for space on The CW?

"By Jove, I think he's got it!" Back in the day, when AP & UPI decided the winner, that was fine, sometimes controversy, finer still! Washington split a championship in '91, that was a great team. But then BCS came along, and telling, Oregon was involved in the first mess. Now, we have this. ESPN has made it clear that it's all about the money. When the format was agreed to, ACC & Big12 weren't pushing for their teams to be represented, they wanted the money being a Top seed brought. Yes, not playing the CCG's would put more value on the season, but that is not the value that matters.

They don't. But in my mind, 1 game won't clarify it. Say Team A is 8-1, Team 2 is 7-2. Team B wins, they'd both be 8-2. But Team B is the Champ because they won THAT game? No. In a playoff game, it's win or go home, that's fine. But a Conference Championship is simply a money grab that doesn't decide anything and does devalue the season.

That is very true. Alabama lost credibility by losing to Okie and Vandy, but let's look at my favorite team, Indiana, and examine if the Tuna was right, were they good as their record said they were?

A shill is right, as he's completely wrong. A CCG completely devalues the regular season. At the end, one team has won the most games, last season Oregon won them all. But to "win" the championship they have to beat a team, that didn't do as well. Years ago, former Arizona basketball coach, Lute Olsen, was an outspoken critic of the Pac-12 Tournament. At the time I dismissed his objection, now, obviously I see he was right.

I could not disagree more. If this was the "Jim Rome Show" Klatt has a "Terrible Take Fox Sports’ Joel Klatt pushed back against the straight seeding model for the College Football Playoff in 2025. He used a reseeded bracket for the first 12-team edition if it used the new model. Previously, the 12-team playoff ensured the top four seeds (and byes) would go to the four highest ranked conference champions. Now, that is no longer the case. “The obvious problem with the graphic that you see right over there is that Penn State and Texas, they wouldn’t have been penalized at all for losing the SEC and Big Ten championship game,” Klatt said on his podcast. “Well, that’s obviously a problem, because they’re the winners of those games. Oregon and Georgia aren’t gaining a real advantage. “Maybe you could say the seed that they’re getting is going to be better, because their potential matchup in that quarterfinal round is better. Okay, you can maybe make that argument, but really, what is the incentive of winning and playing hard in that game?” Klatt’s argument is the devaluing of the conference championship games even further. Some made the argument last season because Oregon went undefeated and won the Big Ten, earning the No. 1 seed. However Ohio State, the eventual national champion, didn’t even play for the conference crown and boat-raced the Ducks in the quarterfinals. “Now, what they have done for this season in 2025 by going to a straight seeding model, is that they have devalued the conference championship games, in particular in the two best conferences in the country where our last two national championships have come from,” Klatt said. “These two conferences, which continue to get better and better and better and house the best teams in the country, now you’ve devalued the conference championship game. “None of us like that. So while the seeding might be better for this season, and moving forward, I certainly don’t like the thought of devaluing a game that I think should be very important and should have some real meaning and consequence for the winner and the loser.” Of the four teams that earned the bye last season, none were able to win their first game. That included ninth-ranked Boise State and 12th-ranked Arizona State. It also included the top-two ranked teams in Oregon and Georgia. This comes at a time when there have been discussions about several changes to the College Football Playoff. That includes potential further expansion to either 14 or 16 teams. Those discussions also include proposals that there would be automatic bids that go along with the CFP. In one, it would include four SEC teams, four Big Ten teams, two Big 12 teams, two ACC teams, one Group of Six team, and three automatic bids.

Updated College Football Playoff Prediction: Oregon Ducks, Florida Gators In Straight WWW.SI.COM The College Football Playoff is entering the second year of the 12-team format, but the seeding for the postseason tournament has...

Like The Jane Just a week ago, Oregon fans took over the Jane Sanders Stadium when the Ducks took on Liberty in their Super Regional. With the fans behind them, Coach Melyssa Lombardi and her team won both games and are now advancing to the Women’s College World Series for the first time since 2018.

Ariza: Nice to still be showing up on the lists.

Hmm? That's a tough one? Not.

Thank you. Now that I think back, that's exactly the way it was, made even worse when practically all the players left, a lot of them with White to Texas. With whatever players that remained it was a very rough adjustment for Lombardi and the team. It does look like there's a much better relationship between Mullens and Lombardi.

Like I said earlier, I don't care if USC plays Notre Dame. I don't care if OBD plays Oregon State again. I would miss playing Washington. I've always been more fired up about that rivalry more than "the "Civil War", probably because it was civil. If Beavis won, it was annoying. I do think it was like a big brother playing a little brother. But Washington is that snotty neighbor across the street. More rivalries are starting, osu2, Michigan, Penn State. There's already a good one with Wisconsin. USC is still around but hasn't been a Rival for a while now.

The way Notre Dame is being treated they would only lose money and Playoff viability by joining a conference.

I think you're right, playing the B1G all season didn't help, winning the Tournament wouldn't have mattered either, not losing two to osu2 might have helped.

Okay, our favorite teams are Oklahoma, Holy Cross and Nebraska. One of them needs to do a Liberty and take out UNC.

The host just asked the Chairman of the Selection Committee about Oregon beating Oregon State 4 times. The Chairman responded by not answering the question at all.

Dang, you win a couple of championships, and you get treated like Beavis did. Forget that OBD beat them 4 straight, and while Beavis was lounging around, Oregon was in the Conference Tournament, where they ended up playing an awful game against the home team, who would go on to beat UCLA and win the championship.