30Duck

We ought to just go back to the Pac-8. Expanding with AZ ASU, then, CO. and UT. have just made things worse.

Why did Larry and so far GK, thrive on inertia? It's like they bought in to Frost's now debunked recruiting excuse, and won't accelerate the conference to compete with the other P5's?

Yes they did, but winning the conference needs to be THE Thing to get in the Playoff, and with 'Bama & OH ST., whatever Committee it is, has said, "Who Cares!, Come on, Tide, Buckeyes!" The Committee doesn't care that they're shameless.

Definitely. So far Alabama has made it without winning the SEC, Ohio St. made it w/o even winning its division, and the Penn St. that beat Ohio State, won their Division, and the Conference didn't go, but the Committee says it follows protocols.

I still say that Boise State's with Moore at QB would have cruised past Cincy to make the Playoffs, except Boise St. is from Idaho so the Committee could not have cared less about them, and the Boise St. TV market wasn't appealing either. Meanwhile, Cincy is in Ohio, last year they played Georgia tough (that seems to be a thing, even though Cincy did that last year.) The Committee desperately wants to show that it can include the little guy, and Cincy is perfect.

Those do seem to be the 4 teams, , but I'd go 1. Georgia 4. Cincy 2 Michigan 3. Oklahoma State

Which one of these isn't elite?

In this year's "Take Us to the Playoffs" playing the role of the cute little kid pulling the heartstrings, Cincy!!!!

Could Riley have been California Dreamin'?

Not only the dollar. Riley, though he denies it, made the move to USC because he thinks it will be easier to win there than it will be with Oklahoma in the SEC.

Hey Darren, that was a knockout! Rocky lll is my favorite of the series and who knew that it was made for this 39 years ago!

It could not have been worse when the Ducks were obliterated by Utah two weeks ago. But Oregon has a chance to make up for it, get a 3-peat as Conference Champion, and, the Rose Bowl. Oregon is excited at the opportunity to make up for embarrassing loss to Utah Duck Territory Matt Prehm

Dyer was down, Harris was in.

File this in the Who Cares File if you wish, Fox Commentator Joel Klatt has Utah at No. 10 in his Top 10 poll. We will see where the Committee has Utah and Oregon in a few minutes.

Oh the good old days, and they were good. I remember watching the NFL back in the 70's, and there was a much different feel to it, and baseball and basketball too. But back then, a player making $100,000 a year was big news. Yesterday Matt Scherzer signed a deal with the Mets, 130 M for 3 years! Damian Lillard makes about 50 M per, the Blazers are just good enough to stay out of the Lottery. And of course money has brought about what we have in college football. The Playoff is a television production that killed off bowl games. Can't really blame a player from looking to the NFL instead of playing in the Safeway Re-useable Bag Bowl, Dec.16 at 11 in the morning on TBS.

I've had that sense about Mario as well. He seems determined to build a championship at Oregon. Putting hours and energy to get it done. Miami would mean starting over again, and that doesn't seem to fit.

For better or much worse actually, we have only to look at Mel T, who in what, 5 years has coached for two teams, hasn't won anything, but is now in the top 6? of highest paid coaches.

It didn't even make it to Oklahoma with Riley.

Jon, this of course is what we know to be the case, Stanford couldn't care less about football. ASU has Herm, and is fine with him. UCLA is a basketball school, USC is a front runner. Cal? What is Cal, and of course Washington, with its great history