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The B1G got outFoxed. 🤬 Petitti is reviewing the schedule for all sports. One way to make football travel more equitable going in both directions (Michigan State at SC in Week 4 will finish around 2:30 AM Eastern😧 ) is for all four Left Coast teams to have three permanent Left Coast permanent opponents. OBD plays UCLA, SC, and UW every season. It would take longer to rotate trough the other B1G teams, but that's no Big Deal except perhaps for Fox and friends. How about a Super Conference where the B1G and SEC and a few select invitees own, market, and broadcast their own inventory? Former TV exec Tony Petitti needs no help selling the product directly to advertisers, and/or streaming the inventory on the Super Conference Network. In Week 2 as well as in Week 1, the B1G and SEC games were eight of the ten most-watched games.

Haley, like, here's what the machines have to say. Have a really far out day! 😁 FanSidedHumans vs. Computers: Comparing all the Week 3 college fo...The AP Top 25, coaches poll, FPI and FEI don't agree on everything. In fact, the humans and computers couldn't be further apart on USC and Florida State.

Holy Haley! USC beat writer and AP voter Haley Sawyer is going out of her way to prove that the Trojans have a Valley Girl Airhead on the beat. Gag Me With A Spoon! 🤮 'My vote doesn't really matter?" 🤪 FanSidedAP Top 25 controversy raises crucial question: Who should...There's been a lot of scrutiny when it comes to AP voters. While it's not the most efficient system, the AP can't afford to lose credibility either.

Over/Under on The Duck Making a Mission to Lake Michigan? Autzen ZooReturn of the Quack? Duck fans want to see inflatable Duc...Last year at Big Ten Media Days, the Ducks made an immediate splash in their new conference by setting up a giant inflatable Duck outside NCAA Hadquarters.

Dak is High on the List of On3's Week 2 Diaper Dandies. Joined by a PSU Newbie. On3True Freshman Standouts from Week 2 of College FootballOn3 highlights five true freshman standouts from week two of college football, led by a dynamic Penn State pass rusher.

Would Moore of Moore to Moore this Saturday work for you? Northwestern is on the verge of entering Dante's Seventh Circle. 😁 Waste the Wildcats!

I'm with you, friend Solar, but Hubris is a nasty Witch.🙈☠️🙃 Waste the Wildcats!

Go Dawgs. SEC starts to separate on Saturday after Kentucky almost took down Kiffin back-to-back. Vandy at South Carolina should be a very interesting game. And down the road for Georgia lies Georgia Tech, a team that could Wreck Clemson's season on Saturday. GO Dawgs!

- 27.5 / O/U Vegas Insider Consensus 48.5 They're not playing in Wrigley, but Oregon pitches a shutout, +750 NW's best RB is out for the rest of the season. NW Preston Stone to date - 4 picks, 3 TDs. Sorry about last Saturday, my friend. It turned out to be a Trap with USF coach Alex Golesh turning Billy Napier into Gator Goulash. A spitty effort in the Swamp. 🤬

What's the score? You can't see the scoreboard? Yeah, I can see it, but it's on fire! What if I were to tell you that your team scored 69 points on Saturday and finished third in the B1G in most points scored? A dozen Big Ten teams scored 40 points or more. And seven B1G players accounted for 4 TDs or more? Holy Woody Hayes! Except in Iowa City, this is not your Grand Dad's three yards and a cloud of dust Big Ten. Minnesota lights off fireworks every time the Gophers score. This popped up on the Gophers scoreboard early in the 4th period: "We Ran Out of Fireworks - Ope, Sorry!" ('Ope' is a local dialect for Oops. See the movie, Fargo.) 70 points - Ohio State and UW Mighty Oregon 69 points/ Nebraska 68/ Minnesota 66/ USC 59/ Indiana 56/ Rutgers 45/ Illinois 45/ Northwestern 42/ Wisconsin 42/ Michigan State 42. B1G Week 2 - 15-3 - 2-0 vs. the ACC. 1-1 vs. the B12. 0-1 vs. the SEC. No. 9 Illinois 45 - Duke 19. Give Me 5! Five Blue Devil turnovers keyed the Battling Bielema's win. No. 22 Indiana 56 - Kennesaw State 9 - Both of the Hoosiers' QBs finished above the Mendoza Line. Fernando - 3 TD passes. Alberto - 1 TD pass. Iowa 13 - No. 14 Iowa State 16. QB Gronowski threw for 83 yards, almost the length of a football field! No. 14 Iowa State won its first Cy-Hawk game on its home field since 2011. This was the sixth time in the last seven Cy-Hawk games that neither team scored 20 or more points. Maryland 20 - Northern Illinois 9 - Close to home in DC, Terps true frosh QB Malik Washington beats 2024 Notre Dame nemesis Northern Illinois. No. 23 Michigan 13 - No. 13 Oklahoma 24 - Oklahoma puts a stamp on the best home record, to date, in the 21st century. Coach Brent Venables' school's 18-year-old QB Bryce Underwood and (Kirk Ferentz in-waiting?) Sherrone Moore. Michigan State 42 - Boston College 40 - 2 OTs. QB Aiden Chiles was clutch, not choke. Minnesota 66 - NW Wherever 0 - Mother Nature shows that she has a heart. Her arrival led to an early end of a 'We're Out of Fireworks ' beatdown. Week 3 sees the Gophers in a Golden State showdown vs. the Cal Sags, er, Golden Bears. No. 35 Nebraska 68 - Akron 0 - Joe Moorhead needs this? Week 3 sees Houston Christian coming to Lincoln. The Cornhuskers volunteered to not play Tennessee. Northwestern 42 - W. Illinois 7 - Preston Stone rebounds from throwing 4 picks against Tulane to throw 3 TDs against the Leathernecks. If these Leathernecks were the USMC, we'd all be speaking Mandarin. 🤪 No. 1 Ohio State 70 - Grambling State 0 - The battle between Grambling's Best Band in the Land and Ohio State's Best Damn Band in the Land was a toss-up, with the tiebreaker favoring Grambling for the Best Band without the Blasphemy 🤬 No. 4 😍 Oregon 69 - Oklahoma State 3 You don't tug on Superman's Cape; you don't Spit into the Wind; and you most certainly do not (Cow) Poke Danno! 39 wins in a row when the Ducks score first. No. 2 Penn State 37 - FIU 0 - Next up on the Nits OOC Beatdown Cupcake Bakery Tour, Villanova. And then you need a nap? Purdue 34 - Southern Illinois 17 - Not only has new coach Barry Odom doubled the 2024-win total, but he's also the first first-year Boilermaker coach to match Cleo O'Donnell's 2-0 record. Cleo got the gig in 1916. Rutgers 45 - Miami (Not Mari) OH-OH 17. To date, the Greek Rifle QB is firing on all cylinders. But the D? Better call the Sopranos! UCLA 23 - G6 UNLV 30 - What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas? Holy Hankie! Not according to the refs who called 14 penalties on the Bruins and 13 on the Runnin' Rebels. It looks like Nico is being paid far too many Nickels. And Foster's boys aren't frosty. 😧 https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/deshaun-foster-nico-iamaleava-under-microscope-after-0-2-start-why-ucla-coaching-change-could-be-on-horizon/?ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0b&ET_CID=473176&ET_RID=52482716 No. 30 USC 59 - Georgia Southern 20. Lincoln Riley defeats Clay Helton and closes in on matching Clay's winning percentage at SC. Washington 70 - UC Davis 0 - UC Davis, I C a Donut Hole. RB Jonah Coleman has back-to-back excellent games, 5 TDs scored on Saturday, but it happened Way After Dark. A needless Week 3 bye before heading to Pullman for an Apple chomping and then home to play Ohio State, and trying to keep Judd Fisch's no-loss streak in Seattle streak alive. Wisconsin 42 - Somewhere in Tennessee State 10 - I don't think +16.5 is enough points to find a cover against a post-Seminoles Tsunami-like Rolling Tide. Don't miss the wake-up call and turn Wildcats into Mildcats!

Week 4's Civil War game will be a Noon Pacific kickoff on the Big Ten Network. https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/09/08/oregon-ducks-oregon-state-beavers-game-time-set/86045485007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGbaseline&utm_term=Content%20List%20-% Stay with Fox Saturday to watch Pac-12 behemoth Beavis battle No. 21 Texas Tech in Lubbock. Good ruck, Beavers, yuck, yuck. 😊

Ducks Wire with more on the B1G Noon game. 9 AM body clock time for OBD. 11 AM for NW https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/09/08/oregon-ducks-football-big-noon-kickoff-northwestern/86043685007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGbaseline& If you go and have free time on Friday night, check out Chicago's Blues clubs on Halsted Street.

How about the No. 4 seed in the latest AP Poll mock-PO? A field that would not thrill Greg Sankey. 🤬 Rose Bowl - No. 1 Ohio State vs. 9 Illinois at 8 Notre Dame Cotton Bowl - No. 4 OBD vs. 12 USF at 5 Miami 😁(1st round would be a repeat of this Saturday's game.) Orange Bowl - No. 2 Penn State vs. 11 Iowa State at 6 Georgia Sugar Bowl - No. 3 LSU vs. 10. FSU at 7 Texas First two out - South Carolina and Clemson. 4 B1G - 3 SEC. You think Greg Sankey might go back to supporting the AQ model?

Highest rated receiver ever signed by OBD. Preseason All-Frosh all over college football sites. So, I think not. It's a pleasure to watch him play.

Because and as well noted above, it's a very weak slate of Week 3 B1G games. The headliner is 2-0 Wisconsin at 1-1 No. 19 Alabama - 9 AM on ABC. College GameDay will be in Knoxville for No. 6 2-0 Georgia at 2-0 No. 15 Tennessee. ABC 12:30. The only other B1G P4 vs P4 sees 2-0 No. 30 USC at 2-0 Purdue (double the wins from 2024!) 12:30 CBS and 2-0 Minnesota at 2-0 Cal 7:30 ESPN. I thought Big Noon might have been in Iowa City to watch the Hawkeyes defeat UMass for Ferentz's 207th win and the record. But OBD, Penn State, and Indiana all play at Iowa later in the season. I expect USC at Illinois in Week 5 will be a Big Noon game. NW's temporary stadium is high school-sized at 12,000 capacity, but in a beautiful setting on the shore of Lake Michigan.

Herbie is not Ducking about what he sees, wake up to the Ducks! Kirk Herbstreit Reveals National Championship Contender 'Nobody Is Talking About'

Gainesville is so confusing. All of those Waffle Houses to choose from. 😁

CBS has OBD Cruising to the PO. OBD reined in the Cowboys - I'm trying to rein in the Hubris before surviving a White Out.🤔 https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-playoff-traffic-report-where-each-power-four-team-sits-on-road-to-cfp-ahead-of-week-3/

More ESPN love for OBD. Holy Pawalll! 😎 ESPN.comTrue or false? What we think we know about SEC QBs, the B...The start of the 2025 season has been a delightful mess. Bill Connelly tries to make sense of what we've seen.

What happened to Oklahoma State? The Cowboys were Ducked. ESPN.comWhat happened to Oklahoma State? Is USF the team to watch...From South Florida to Oklahoma State, we take a look at key takeaways and performances from Week 2.

The Snap Count from Crushing the Cowboys evidences DM's dive into OBD's depth. https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/09/08/oregon-ducks-snap-count-takeaways-week-2-oklahoma-state/86036120007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=e

The AP's remarks on its eponymous poll. AP NewsAP Top 25 Extra Points: No. 9 Illinois rides 6-game win s...These are heady times at Illinois. The Illini are enjoying their most successful run of football in over two decades.

The B1G Reveal: 9/27/25 Beaver Stadium, State College, Pennsylvania. 4:30 PM NBC. Dress for a White Out!

Thank you, David. Another in-depth article from a writer most certainly not out of his depth. Recruiting, from high school and the portal, is paying (right, Mike Gundy 😁) off. In today's CFB where you have to win three or four games on the way to a title, talent and depth are critical to winning it all. There's no need to revisit 1/1/25 other than to note that we usually learn more from failure than we do success. This team is focused. This Saturday, playing in front of 12,000 fans on the shores of Lake Michigan, will be a flash back for many players to the glory days of high school. OBD Bobbed Bob's Cats, and Lassoed the Cowboys. Wake Up for a '9 AM kickoff' men, and Stone Preston and the Wildcats.

Mike, don't let the door hit you in your back door on the way out the door. 😊 SIForde-Yard Dash: This May Be the End for Several Coaching...Oklahoma State, Iowa and Kentucky are facing similar dilemmas when it comes to declining program legends. Plus, early picks for the CFP bracket.