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Danno ranked third is a tribute to his program building to date and Oregon's potential, not on conference titles won, playoff appearances, and longevity. If he pays any attention to this stuff, I doubt Iowa HC Kirk Ferentz is happy about being ranked 7th, especially after firing his son as OC after the lad's offense turned the Hawkeyes punter into a 4th round draft pick. https://collegefootballnews.com/news/big-ten-college-football-head-coach-rankings-preview-2024 Dan Lanning will have the chance to start moving on up in the B1G and in the nation this season. With Harbaugh Charging off to LA, I understand and support Ryan Day being numero uno. But another coach in LA coming in second is based upon Lincoln Riley's past as much or more than the USC's program's future. Like Dan, Riley has yet to win a conference title since he left Norman for Traveler. Riley does not have the roster advantage he had in the B12 where a litany of Texas coaches did not recruit at a conference-title level. Vanquish the Vandals!

The ACC and B12 have approved the proposed House case settlement. Sources - ACC joins Big 12, votes to settle House v. NCAA case - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM The ACC has joined the Big 12 as the second named party in House v. NCAA to vote to settle that case and related antitrust cases, sources told ESPN.

Great showing by the Oregon Women's Team and by the Pac-12 on its way out. The 1st time in the history of NCAA Men and Women's Tournaments that the Final 4 had 4 teams from the same conference. The Men's tournament was first played in 1939.

According to CBB Torvik Rankings the Ducks Need Dante to be Decent. Evaluating Torvik projections for the upcoming Big Ten men’s basketball season WWW.MAIZENBREW.COM Where do the Wolverines fall in the rankings? And the conference does not have a team ranked in the top 10.

Please Oregon fans, be like Vizen and get the red out of Autzen stadium.

Love the comment! Rash is a hero in the eyes of his attorney who may have taken the case on a win or no-dough contingency. I'm shocked. The Gators booster who is a named defendant is not looking good.

Smart addressed the matter and said he had no problem with Rashada filing suit. Of course, he is suing UGA's SEC rival Florida. Cocktails all around.

How $weet it is! Report: Big Ten Member Schools Each Received $60.5M in 2023; SEC Teams Got $51-52M BLEACHERREPORT.COM Ahead of the impending conference realignment, the Big Ten and SEC are coming off successful years financially. Scott Dochterman of The Athletic reported on…

A Kam Alexander sighting. Under-the-Radar Impact Transfers for the 2024 College Football Season BLEACHERREPORT.COM Keeping up with all of the activity in the college football transfer portal might feel like an overwhelming task. Sure, you noticed Dillon Gabriel leaving…

B1G renovations for the Whiteout U stadium. Penn State Trustees Approve $700M Beaver Stadium Renovation, Release Renderings BLEACHERREPORT.COM The Penn State Board of Trustees approved a $700 million renovation to Beaver Stadium that will make the university eligible to host a College Football… The Pig 2 conference member has nothing to do with PSU's Beaver Stadium. The stadium was named in 1893 after then Pennsylvania Governor and future PSU president James Beaver.

Some love for Dillon G. Predicting the 10 highest-rated B1G players in EA Sports College Football 25 SATURDAYTRADITION.COM EA Sports College Football 25 will debut later this summer, and the Big Ten figures to have numerous star players in the game.

NCAA board reportedly approves $2.8 billion settlement funding plan in antitrust lawsuit SATURDAYTRADITION.COM The NCAA Board of Directors has reportedly approved a funding plan for an estimated $2.8 billion settlement in ongoing antitrust litigation. G5 teams are not happy about their role in settling the House case. I hope OSU and WSU have to pay double.

O’Gara: How did Florida and Billy Napier ever get so desperate for this Jaden Rashada mess to begin? WWW.SATURDAYDOWNSOUTH.COM It's hard to fathom Florida's initial offer that set the wheels in motion for the Jaden Rashada mess to unfold.

2024 CFB storylines to follow. 100 Days Out: College football names, games, storylines to follow as we count down to the 2024 season - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM 100 stories, predictions, names and games to get you excited for the 2024 college football season

1st time in Tournament history that all four finalists are from the same conference. Pac-12's OREGON, Stanford, UCLA, and USC.

Wow! An all Pac-12 Final 4! Future ACC Stanford. Future B1G OREGON, UCLA, and USC. The B1G golf gals had best be ready to play B1G. 1st time in tournament history that all Final 4 teams come from the same conference! RIP Pac-12. BTW, when the Paris Olympics begin Oregon will be a Pac-12 member. When the Olympics conclude Oregon will be a B1G member.

Deion - As the saying goes - All Hat and No Cattle (Buffs?)

You go Gals! Fairways and Greens!

Michigan is ESPN's Mark Schlabach's No. 1 overrated team? 5 overrated college football teams from ESPN's post-spring top-25 rankings FANSIDED.COM We are so incredibly thankful to have something juicy to dissect. On Monday, ESPN.com's Mark Schlabach released his post-spring college football top 25 rankings

Connolly's SP+ rankings release is posted on ESPN+, a pay site. SP+ is a ranking of 134 FBS program's odds of success in winning a game vs an FBS opponent. The rankings take into consideration a team's returning production, recruiting over this and the prior three seasons including transfers brought in from the portal, and recent history in the prior four seasons. SP+ is a good predictive model, a better model than ESPN's Football Power Index. The top 12 - 1. Georgia/ 2. Ohio State/ 3. OREGON/ 4. Texas/ 5. Alabama/ 6. Michigan/ 7. Penn State/ 8. Ole Miss/ 9. LSU/ 10. Notre Dame/ 11. Missouri/ 12. Florida State. We have a good discussion going elsewhere on OBD about Oregon's chances of finishing 12-0 in the regular season. The following are the SP+ rankings of Oregon's 2024 opponents. Idaho - FCS - Not ranked - 4th seed in the 2023-24 FCS playoffs. Boise State - 38 - Top-ranked G5 school. At Oregon State - 55 Idle At UCLA - 26 - The week that Oregon is idle the Bruins play at No. 9 LSU. Michigan State - 82 Ohio State - No. 2 - The week before playing the Ducks in Autzen the Buckeyes play a home game vs 22 Iowa At Purdue - 72 Illinois - 66 At Michigan - No. 6 Maryland - 44 - Maryland is idle the week before playing in Eugene. At Wisconsin - 27 - November 16 in Madison, Wisconsin will be chilly. Idle Washington - 35 - Close to no returning production for the Huskies. The schedule is made more difficult by being the only Power 4 team to play eight games in a row in 2024 without an idle week. Four of the games will be on the road: UCLA; Purdue; Michigan; and Wisconsin. ................................................................................................................................................................. The 2024-25 SP+ Playoff Field. 1. Georgia - SEC vs. 9. Penn State at 8. Michigan (Not a rematch but will the committee try to avoid conference member matchups in the first round?) 4. Kansas State - B12 - ranked 17 by SP+ vs. 12. Boise State - G5 - ranked 38 by SP+ at 5. Oregon. Oregon is ranked No. 3 by SP+. (This would be a rematch of a regular season game.) [Note- Boise and K State knock out No. 10 Notre Dame and No. 11 Missouri. This will not make fans in South Bend and SEC Commish Sankey happy. But Sankey and the then Notre Dame AD were two of the four people who designed this format. I like this possible furor as bumping lower-ranked teams ahead of higher-ranked teams is not the way a post-season tournament should be structured.] 2. Ohio State - B1G - vs No. 10 Ole Miss at No. 7 Alabama - (These two teams do not meet in the regular season.) 3. FSU - ACC - ranked No. 12 by SP+ vs. 11. LSU at 6.Texas. - (This would be another first-round conference matchup but not a rematch.) I and likely no one else, have an idea of how the playoff committee will handle rematches and conference vs conference members 1st round games. Five SEC teams. and four B1G teams in the field (75%) make rematches and conference vs conference 1st round games odds-on. One ACC, B12, and Mountain West team. The ACC implodes and Notre Dame, Clemson, Miami, UNC, and possibly UVA, VA Tech, NC State, and Louisville join one of the Power 2 conferences, the only reason to include the reconstructed ACC, B12, and G5 in the playoff will be to keep the politicians and lawyers at bay. Vanquish the Vandals!

Charles, I agree. 1st season in a new conference and run the table? I don't think that has ever happened before. But at +330, bet $100 win, and get $430 in return, are good odds. FanDuel predicts that Ohio State and Oregon will finish the regular season 11-1 but the Buckeyes are the favorite to win the conference, +155, with Oregon having the 2nd best odds at +250. Ergo, Ohio State wins the B1G champ game played in Indianapolis. Ponder point? For playoff seeding purposes, would Oregon be better off finishing 11-1 with a close loss to Ohio State and Penn State with a victory against Ohio State finishing 11-1 going to the title game losing badly without a Whiteout and finishing 11-2? Instead of traveling to Indianapolis, Oregon would get a week off to plan for its first-round opponent. Oregon at 11-1, would likely be ranked 5 to 8 with a playoff first-round home game. Many unknowns exist about how the playoff committee will see things in 2024-25.

Thanks, Mike, great take. My concern with finishing 10-2 would be the possibility of being seeded lower than 8 and not having a 1st round home game. Several SEC teams could finish 10-2, will the committee continue to favor all things SEC? Make it to the final in Atlanta for the champ game on 1/20/25 and 9-seed Oregon would have to win a true away game vs a highly-ranked opponent, with the opponent likely being located in Dixie, then perhaps a Peach Bowl game in Atlanta vs the ACC champ, then an Orange Bowl game in Miami vs say, Georgia or a Cotton Bowl game in Dallas vs say, Texas, and then back to Atlanta. Wow! Puddles would most definitely be in line for an oil change and a lube job. With the preference being given to conference champs this season and next I expect to see some weird results, your second game vs a team with a bye could be less difficult than your opening game, leading to a Power 2 dictated change in format come 2026-27. Thanks again for the insightful comment. Yes, 8 in a row without a break is cruel and unusual. Ducks are the only P4 team with this burden in 2024. Quack!

Charles, I agree. 1st season in a new conference and run the table? I don't think that has ever happened before. But at +330, bet $100 win, and get $430 in return, are good odds. FanDuel predicts that Ohio State and Oregon will finish the regular season 11-1 but the Buckeyes are the favorite to win the conference, +155, with Oregon having the 2nd best odds at +250. Ergo, Ohio State wins the B1G champ game played in Indianapolis. Ponder point? For playoff seeding purposes, would Oregon be better off finishing 11-1 with a close loss to Ohio State and Penn State with a victory against Ohio State finishing 11-1 going to the title game losing badly without a Whiteout and finishing 11-2? Instead of traveling to Indianapolis, Oregon would get a week off to plan for its first-round opponent. Oregon at 11-1, would likely be ranked 5 to 8 with a playoff first-round home game. Many unknowns exist about how the playoff committee will see things in 2024-25. Big Ten football: Early conference championship odds released for 2024 season 247SPORTS.COM Who is the favorite to win the Big Ten title this season? Nice to see Danno and not Ryan Day here.

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Betting Stuff: Value bets to go unbeaten in 2024 college football regular season WWW.SATURDAYDOWNSOUTH.COM Looking at which teams could go undefeated during the 2024 regular season.