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ESPN with a big look at the B1G. Big Ten betting - Ohio State favored over finalists Michigan, Washington - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM Win totals, conference championship odds, and national championship futures from the 18-team Big Ten conference. Nationally, Ohio State with the easier schedule has the 1st or second-best odds of making the PO field, Oregon has the 3rd best odds but Oregon is 2X more of a dog, with a B1Gger return on your wager, than Georgia and Ohio State. Big Ten college football preview - Top teams, players, games - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM From playoffs to power rankings, here's everything you need to know about the remade 18-team, coast-to-coast Big Ten. There are better returns for a bet on Oregon on many gaming sites other than Bet ESPN. It looks like a Battle of The Os for the B1G title.

A lot of questions for the team the Coaches believe is the third best in the nation. Bond had 668 receiving yards at Bama last season. He is going to morph into a Bilitnikoff candidate? The Horns D playing in Houston could not stop the UW O. And this was with 2 DL taken in the 1st two rounds of the draft. As a HC, what has Sark won? 4 biggest questions for the Texas Longhorns in fall camp FANSIDED.COM The Texas Longhorns are going to have a lot of hype this season but they still need to answer these questions to prove they're SEC-ready. The word out of camp yesterday is that the Horns No. 1 RB suffered a bad knee injury. The young man was slotted to replace the 1st RB taken in the 2024 draft, J. Brooks. Ignore the 'concern' that Manning will take over for Ewers. This only happens if Ewers is injured. But I think Texas is getting far more credit than it deserves for winning the B12 (with a loss to Gabe and OK) last season. The PO semifinal and final showed us that the TX D was spotty and the Wolverines D was legit. [In other injury news, Notre Dame has lost one of its starting O tackles for the season. The young man replaced Joe Alt, now with the Chargers, and played very well in the Sun Bowl beat down of the Beavers 😍]

Saturday Tradition presents the B1G's 25 best players. Where the Ducks at? 3 OL in the the 25 and no Ducks with Corny and Conerly 2 of the best in the country? 😒 Good to see Jordan James getting the recognition he deserves. Ranking the Top 25 B1G players heading into 2024 SATURDAYTRADITION.COM The Big Ten will be loaded with star power in 2024. This group of players looks to be the cream of the crop entering the season.

As I recall, Tennessee had a pay-for-play coach who was into NIL before the approval of NIL and used the coach's chicanery to fire him for cause. Here's a bit of Rocky Top irony. Tennessee won a Natty the year AFTER Peyton Manning graduated.😁

One picture is worth ... Thanks for another belly laugh.

Convincing this threesome to come to Eugene would be flippin' nice. Oregon Ducks Recruiting: Three Flippable Football Recruits WWW.SI.COM Oregon football has been no stranger to flips this recruiting cycle. The Ducks saw Da'Saahn Brame flip to Tennessee recently, and are on alert for Isaiah Mozee

A recruiting Heads Up. What comes next for Oregon football recruiting in the 2026 class? 247SPORTS.COM The Ducks are surging on the recruiting trail in the 2026 class and we've got you updated on what to watch out for.

Who knew? Down in Dixie, they prefer Duck over Longhorns. But don't get too excited, it's the same poll up North in Saturday Tradition territory. Saturday Down South’s Preseason Top 25 WWW.SATURDAYDOWNSOUTH.COM Who is No. 1? SDS ranks the Top 25 teams for 2024.

It Just Means More, Right Coaches? USA Today unveils preseason Coaches Poll for 2024 campaign WWW.SATURDAYDOWNSOUTH.COM The USA Today preseason coaches poll is out. Nine out of 15 SEC teams, 56.25%, ranked in the top 25. If the SEC played nine conference games would the result be any different? Nine games would mean eight more losses across the conference. Will the Committee so note?

Moore could be in more trouble. Sherrone Moore could face NCAA sanctions stemming from Connor Stalions case, per report SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Sherrone Moore could face sanctions as a 'repeat violator' from the NCAA. Along with Playoff Committee Chair Michigan AD Warde Manuel?

Thanks for posting Feldman's Freaks. Has Ducks Wire Zach Neel done it again? The last player on the post-photo-wise is Preseason AA Michigan TE Colson Loveland. TE Marlin Klein is from Cologne, Germany, and has 1 catch in his career. Klein may be a freak but a freak who cannot get open and/or has hands of Teflon is a Geek and not much of a Freak.😁

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Doctor Ruth, is that you? Gross-burger = Sayonara. Good call my friend. What a terrific and entertaining article.😍 Filled with humor and insight. Somewhere, Mark Twain is smiling. You can have the best-looking tires on the block but you will not know how well they perform, particularly in rough weather, before the rubber meets the road. November games in Ann Arbor and Madison, Wisconsin could mean tough weather conditions. Preseason, it's all good with the algorithms loving the Ducks. FPI, 2nd behind UGA. SP+, 3rd behind UGA and tOSU. The Athletic's Sports Betting Guru Austin Mock's model also has Oregon No. 3, behind the two usual suspects. The FPI ranking would result in Oregon having the 2nd seed and a first-round bye before playing in the Rose Bowl. SP+ and Mr. Mock's mock would have Oregon with the 5th seed and in all likelihood playing the G5 representative in Autzen in the 1st round. So the tires look great before taking it out for a drive in the potato fields but then buckle up when you try to bust a bronco for the first time in four tries. Boise is not a G5 pushover. Then, travel up the road, 😒, to play a bunch of leftover Beavers. 3-0 before the bye and 8 straight conference games without a break is expected but has to be realized on the field. This would be nice. Frankly, it's the last item that concerns me, the schedule. No other P4 program in 2024 plays 8 conference games in a row. The final 4 games in this stretch bring Illinois to Autzen, with the Illini coming off the Red Grange Memorial game against Michigan. Then off to Ann Arbor in early November to play a top-25 Michigan team coming off a rivalry game, at least in the mind of Sparty, vs. Michigan State. Then back home to play a Maryland team coming off an idle week, and then to Madison, Wisconsin in mid-November to play a Badgers team coming off an idle week. Thank you Mr. B1G for giving the two teams Oregon plays at the end of the 8-game stretch the week off before the Ducks game. This schedule is NFL-like and certainly not CFB-light. By the way, on October 12th, OBD hosts the Buckeyes, coming to Autzen off a game vs. Iowa in what could be the most impactful game of the regular season. So I am fired up and positive but that's a wicked 8-game stretch within a 16 or 17-game run to play for a title in Atlanta on January 20, 2025. Whew! Thanks again Darren for the terrific take and Vandalize the Vandals!

Et tu Klatt? Hook 'Em? How about a B1G Horns Double Down! The Klatt Playoff: Miami secures the 4th seed with a 12 ranking and has a bye before playing close to home in the Peach Bowl. Miami knocks out higher-ranked Missouri out of the field. This I would like because leaving a higher-ranked SEC team out of the playoff would get SEC Commissioner Sankey's attention. However, Sankey is one of the guys who came up with this format. 😁 In the 1st-round, Texas would play the G5 representative in Austin, and Oregon would play Penn State in Eugene. Texas wins and it would play Miami in the Peach Bowl, the Orange Bowl is a semifinal site. Win the Peach Bowl and Texas would play its next game in the Orange or the Cotton Bowl. Defeat Penn State and Oregon would play Utah in the Fiesta Bowl which is a favorable 2nd round draw opponent and location-wise. 4 B1G teams in the field with one knocked out in the opening round with Oregon playing Penn State. Ohio State would have a bye and then play the winner of Notre Dame hosting Michigan in the Rose Bowl. Oregon's 3rd round game would be played in Dallas or Miami. How about having to play the Horns in Dallas? UW had to play Texas in Houston last season. Gulp. Two 'conference games' would be played in the 1st round, as noted above, the Ducks vs. the Nittany Lions and Alabama at Ole Miss. The Committee advises that it will not manipulate the matchups to avoid rematches and 1st round conference games but it's about the money and Bama at Oregon and Penn State at Ole Miss would have more national interest. Playing in weaker conferences, Utah and Miami with a 1st round bye rankles but CFB fans will have to live with this jury-rigging for two seasons and so will the Playoff Committee. It's the format more than the Committee but the first and second teams left out with a higher ranking than the ACC, B12 champs, and the G5 representative will not be happy. Again it's the system but immediately after ranking Mizzou 11th, the Committee is going to jump lower ranked Miami above the CoMo Tigers. Will the casual fan tuning into the rankings show for the first time have any clue about what in the heck is going on when people who cover the sport can't get all of the details down? Like SEC champ Georgia playing in the Peach Bowl when the SEC champ is mandated to play in the Sugar Bowl. (This gaff came courtesy of The Sporting News.) As evidenced above, the No. 3 ranked team will have an easier playoff path than the team ranked No. 4. Will the 3rd and 4th ranking be easily justified, or will two teams have the same record? In this case 'Trust Us' will not fly. How do you pick the best G5 representative from five conference champions? 13-0 Liberty with a lousy schedule did not deserve to play in the Fiesta Bowl and flame out vs. OBD and the Flames schedule is as weak in 2024 as it was in 2023. The 4-team playoff canard of the Committee simply relying on records, unless your QB was hurt, is not going to fly. The Basketball Committee using disclosed statistics takes flak for leaving out the 69th and 70th-best teams in the nation. Good luck to the Football Committee. Here's another wrinkle. The chairman of the Committee is Michigan AD Warde Manuel😒 . The sign-stealing scandal is back front and center and could disqualify the Michigan head coach Sherron Moore and perhaps, DQ the Wolverines from participating in the playoff. (And make UW the 2023-24 champ😵? Ugh!) Sit back, try to relax, and enjoy Puddles flight to the Playoff, hopefully landing with a 1st-round bye or the No. 3 ranking.

Red Grange and Dick Butkus have left the building.

The last thing I remember from the Oregon game in Knoxville on 9/11/20 after a home game beat down of Tennesse the year before in Autzen was a 48 to 13 Puddles pasting and many the Vols fans deciding to no longer Volunteer vs. Puddles. NEXT CASE! [Vols fans, please insert why a nothing burger Lefty blew out Tennessee back-to-back opting for the coach sucked, we were worried about going on probation. who gives a whip about a game outside of It Just Means More, Peyton was not on campus, Rocky Top got stuck on a bad grove and turned into Rocky What? Did I just see LaMike reversing course and going for a TD? Have a nice day.

18 things to know for 18 B1G teams. Big Ten expansion: 18 things to know as USC, UCLA, Oregon, Washington kickstart new era for conference - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM With the Big Ten now at 18 schools, here are 18 things to know ahead of the 2024 college football season

Where did the Preseason Coaches Poll post by Steven A go? Is there too much consolidation going on? Coaches Poll top 25 reactions: Michigan, Florida State overrated, Missouri underrated in preseason rankings - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The Wolverines are the first title winner since 1997 to lose their coach the next season If this post is in the wrong spot, please post it where it should go. Thanks.

Michigan fans have SC as the best addition to the B1G, no surprise with the Rose Bowl history, but the Ducks are in second place by only two percentage points. Which new Big Ten addition are you most excited to join? WWW.MAIZENBREW.COM The Big Ten officially announced its four new members, each of which brings some excitement to the conference. But which one are you most excited to join?

A deeper dive into 2024 B1G schedules. The best scheduling quirks of the new 18-team Big Ten football schedule WWW.MAIZENBREW.COM Today, we dive into some of the best, most comical quirks on the 2024 Big Ten football schedule.

Thanks, NJ. If you do not win your conference title, No. 3 is The Sweet Spot! Oregon would play the G5 representative instead of Penn State in Eugene and would play Utah in the Fiesta Bowl instead of tripping to Atlanta to play FSU in the Peach Bowl. No. 4 ranked and 6-seed Texas would host Penn State with the winner playing in the Peach Bowl. The Coaches Poll Preseason Playoff. Sugar Bowl - 1 Georgia vs. 9 Notre Dame at 8 Mississippi Fiesta Bowl - 4 Utah vs. 12 G5 at 5 Oregon ............................................................................................................................................................................................... Rose Bowl - 2 Ohio State vs 10 Michigan at 7 Alabama Peach Bowl - 3 FSU vs 11 Penn State at 6 Texas 4 SEC and 4 B1G teams; however, Texas, Alabama, and Ole Miss would host 1st-round games along with the Ducks. Texas and Ole Miss have easier preseason schedules than Michigan and Penn State. Let's Play Ball!

I understand USC vs LSU, Penn State at West Virginia, and UNC at Minnesota being included in the 10 best Week 0/Week 1 games, but UCLA at Hawaii? The Ten Biggest College Football Games in Week Zero and Week One DEATHVALLEYVOICE.COM Ladies and Gentlemen, we’re just weeks away from the College Football season meaning we all survived the long offseason. While most of the games on the opening

Please, give this man an AMEN! Not you Notre Dame. The Domers have one of the easiest "P4" schedules in 2024 and 12 games and not the 13 that P4 champs and runner-ups will play. College Football's best and worst schedules for success BAMAHAMMER.COM All college football fans know that schedules impact the success or failure of a season. Debates rage for months about the strength of schedules (SOS). Debates If the CFB PO Committee does not factor in the strength of a team's schedule; well, give me Playoff death over giving a bid to a 13-0, no P4 team on the schedule in back-to-back seasons, Liberty. 😒

The Ducks Wire Zach Neel is at it again. An 11-2 finish in the B1G with one regular season loss and a loss in the conference champ game better get you in the PO. If it does not do so, Oregon would be penalized for making the conference champ game and taking a champ game loss. 7 other teams will beat out an 11-2 B1G runner-up for an at-large bid? Come On Man! Zach. Oregon is no longer in the left-behind Pac-12. Oregon is now B1G. Any and every 11-2 B1G and SEC team is a PO lock and likely a top 8-seed host of a 1st-round game.

How should the SC D approach the LSU O? With a White Flag? USC defense must balance caution and aggression against LSU offense TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM USC-LSU is four weeks away. Let’s dive into the matchup between the USC defense and LSU offense.