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It's about the B1G money, Honey. 😁 SEC must grab Florida State, Clemson to close gap with Big Ten Two schools located in the SE will not do the job.

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Is this a commercial for detergent? 🤪There is a lot of cleaning up to do in Tuscaloosa. ESPN.comDeBoer: Tide can still do 'some big things' in '25Coach Kalen DeBoer believes Alabama can still do "some big things" this season, despite the Crimson Tide's season-opening loss to then-unranked Florida State.

Why would any scout want to go to Chapel Bill's Chapel Hill? What's that, Robert Kraft, you can't stop laughing? 🤣 ESPN.comSources: North Carolina, Belichick ban Pats staffNorth Carolina and first-year head coach Bill Belichick have banned the New England Patriots' staff from accessing the Tar Heels' program, sources told ESPN.

4 for 4? I'm feeling like Coach Corso! (OK, not so fast!) FanSided4 under-the-radar games to watch in Week 2Don't touch grass this weekend. Tune in to these underrated college football games instead.

FYI, if you're looking for a wager, Kansas +6.5 at Missouri is worth a look. Jayhawks QB Jaylon Daniels came on late last season and is playing better in 2025 than last season for 2-0 Kansas. This will be Penn State transfer QB Beau Pribula's 1st start vs a P4 opponent. He was neck and neck with QB Sam Horn, who went down last week with a season-ending injury. Pribula's strong point is his run game. How much of a risk will the M1zzou coaching staff want to take with Pribula running the ball? Do Not Bet More Than You Can Afford!

Without the help of Uncle Phil, the Oregon Athletic Department is one of the few in the Black. No accounting chicanery. Statements filed with the Feds have to conform to FASB accounting standards. Come 2031, OBD will be bringing in @$100 million B1G bucks a season. It will be more if the B1G adopts the Eat What You Kill PO revenue model and the Eyes on the Prize media revenue cut. And if CFB consolidates to 32 to 40 teams, OBD will not be left behind. Oregon has been at the forefront of college athletics marketing since Joey Harrington showed up in NYC. Oregon is a B1G Brand and a Big Brand, especially without Mario around to bury the brand. Charisma? No one does it better than Danno. 😍 (Especially Deion and Chaple Bill, notwithstanding all of the clicks.)

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The B1G going 14-2 in Week 1, and 2-1 against the Power 4 was nice; however, B1G teams were the favorites in all of the 14 games won, including now-ranked No. 1 Ohio State's win over Arch-Madness and the now-ranked 7th Texas Longhorns. UCLA's Coach Foster would like you to know that the Bruins were 'this close' to taking down Utah and turning a 43-10 loss into victory, and that the Rose Bowl was sold out with 59,670 UCLA fans disguised as empty seats. Pat Fitzgerald, where are you? Saturday, 9/6/25 - UCLA at UNLV, 5 PM CBSSN. Week Two's B1G Varsity versus Varsity Games - The Headliner - College Gameday, sans Coach Corso, who went out in a blaze of glory, going 6-0 with his picks, will be in Norman, Oklahoma, for the No. 15 Michigan Wolverines +5.5 versus No. 18 Oklahoma, as Wolverines head coach Sherrone Moore returns to his alma mater. (Before Sherrone takes an NCAA-mandated two-game nap, with another one coming in 2026.) An intriguing QB battle could be on hand with Frosh Bryce Underwood, battling Wazzu transfer QB John Mateer, both of whom are better off financially than they were in 2024 🤑. (Perhaps Michigan found Justice with Bama transfer RB Haynes. 😒) This is B1G vs. the SEC in the second of three matchups in 2025. 4:30 ABC. No. 11 Illinois -2.5 at No. 37 Duke. Another interesting QB battle with the Illini Super Senior, Luke Altmyer, going against Tulane transfer, and the reason Murph left for the G6, Darian Mensah. (Darian did not have to be a member of Mensa to make the Durham decision for a reported $8 million two-season Nil deal.) The Battling Bielema's beat down a bunch of FCS leathernecks last Saturday while Duke blew out the less-than-elite Elon. Is Illinois legit? Is the ACC as good as FSU and Miami looked in Week 1? Or was Clemson the tell? 9 AM ESPN. Iowa +3 at No. 16 Iowa State. This season's Cy-Hawk game has ramifications beyond the importance of a traditional rivalry game, where the Iowa Hawkeyes have a lead over the Iowa State Cyclones, 47-24. Last Saturday, Iowa Head Coach Kirk Ferentz tied Woody Hayes' record for wins by a Big Ten coach at 205 victories. He's looking to break the record in a stadium where Iowa has not lost since 2011. This is only the second time in the history of the series where the home-standing Cyclones and not the Hawkeyes are ranked. ALL-FCS QB Mark Gronowski was brought in to upgrade the Hawkeyes' passing attack. Mark was not on the mark, throwing for 44 yards and 1 TD. Iowa ran the ball 52 times for 310 yards. The Cyclones QB, Rocco Becht, is off to a great start. 2-0 Iowa State is the highest-ranked B12 team, and if the conference wants more than one team in the playoffs, it needs a win against a B1G opponent. 9 AM Fox. Michigan State -3.5 versus Boston College. J. Smith and his Spartans are looking for a victory after last season's close loss to BC and then starting QB Thomas Castellanos. (Ring a bell, Kalen 😁) Against Western Michigan, Aiden Chiles was decent at QB, 17-23 for 155 yards, 1 TD, and no interceptions. In Week 1, BC defeated Vince Lombardi's alma mater, Fordham, 66-10. Behind a rebuilt O-line, Sparty's run game busted the visiting Broncos. 4:30 PM NBC No. 6 OREGON -28.5 vs the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Cowboys coach Mike Gundy is broke, busted, and disgusted. After going 0 for the B12 in 2024, Mike took a one-million-dollar pay cut. Mike doesn't believe poor little OK State should have to battle the financial behemoth Oregon Ducks. You'd think a Power 4 coach would have more cents than to talk his way out of a Power coaching spot in Stillwater. We can't compete with Oregon and other programs with more money. OK, State, when the Super Conference arrives, perhaps you'll get a coveted bid and join the Pac-Whatever plus Gonzo. 2nd Week step 2 for OBD on the flight into a Whiteout. Before Gundy opened his trap, Danno may have called off the Ducks. Now? 12:30 PM CBS - On his last broadcasting lap, Gary Danielson visits the Autzen Zoo. Other P4 vs. P4 Week 2 games with a possible PO impact. Saturday, 9/6/2025 - 17 SMU vs. Baylor - 9 AM CW (Clueless What channel this is.) 1-0 Missouri vs 2-0 Kansas - The first Border War game since 2011. Expect the winner to be ranked next week. 12:30 PM ESPN2 No. 12 ASU at Mississippi State - Dilly and Company enter the land of Hell's Cow Bells. 4:30 PM ESPN 2. No. 21 Ole Miss at Kentucky - 12:30 PM ABC - Coach Mark Stoops needs to step up. No. 13 Florida vs. No. 33 and top-ranked G6 team, USF - 1:15 PM SEC Network - Possible trap game for a Gators team on the road next week in Baton Rouge vs. the No. 3 LSU Tigers. Friday Night 9/5/25 - B1G Appetizers 4:30 PM - BTN - Western Illinois at Northwestern, Northern Illinois at Maryland. Other B1G Games on Saturday - 9 AM BTN - Kennesaw State 🤪at Indiana, FIU at No. 2 Penn State, Minnesota vs. NW (Somewhere) State. 12:30 PM - No. 1 Ohio State vs. Grambling BTN, Miami-Ohio at Rutgers streaming on Peacock. The Scarlet Knights and Schiano get the Week 2 Bird. 4 PM - Middle Tennessee (might have been the best fit for young Archie?) at Wisconsin FS1 4:30 PM - Akron at No. 35 Nebraska, No. 29 USC vs. Georgia Southern, Southern Illinois at 1-0 !!! Purdue BTN 8 PM - BTN - UW vs. UC Davis. The 2nd week in a row that a Husky is Hidden under a Broadcast Bushel. 😁 With apologies to the author of 'Solomon Gundy.' Mike Gundy died on a Saturday, Buried on Sunday, And that was the end, Of Mike Gundy. 🤬 Lasso The Cowboys

When Football Alums are leaving the building, look out for a tsunami and not just a Crimson Tide. On3Greg McElroy reveals new Top 25 college football rankings....

Great post, but even with a 'flattened out' field, one of the usual suspects, a team in the PO committee's top 6 in its final poll, will win the 2025-26 Natty. And this time, the team ranked 6th will not be the 8-seed. ASU could have and should have, but for a not-called targeting penalty, defeated Texas in the 2nd PO round. But would ASU have won two more games to win it all? Until it happens, the Usual Suspects, plus move-over OBD, with the resources and Dan to capitalize on the same, will win it all. More than ever, capital in CFB counts and then some.

Mike, an old coach-player colloquium updated for the modern era of CFB. Coach: Son, you've been in this program for years and have never come close to living up to your potential. Is it because of an Intelligence Quotient failure or abject apathy? Player: Coach, I have my dough, so I don't know, and I don't care. 😁 As noted above, Saban bailed for a reason. When the only over-the-table money came from the NFL, no matter what your incoming number of stars, players balled out. Today, you recruit players with competitive zeal, with the love of the game, no matter the money, or the effort may not be there. How would I have handled being 17 or 18 with millions of dollars in the bank: 🤪! It's not just Bama losing that was so out of Saint Nick's Bama team's character; it was the lack of effort and being smash-mouthed in the process. We saw this movie last season vs. Vandy, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Michigan, four teams that on paper shouldn't have had a chance. Perhaps Bama runs the table, or at least loses only one more game, and makes the PO with a win or two? I don't see it.

I think boosters at Bama, as evidenced by DeBoer's recruiting, are willing to open the wallet and are not the problem. Bama is the No. 2-ranked team in 247 Sports Composite Roster Rankings. There is no lack of talent in Tuscaloosa, but a lack of desire?

Is the smartest guy in CFB the TOSU QB who bailed from Bama at the same time as Saint Nick? Just Sayin. 😁 I need to add Caleb (I Don't Give Up 1st) Downs. And Michigan found Justice in RB Haynes.

"We were close." 🤪 And the Rose Bowl was almost sold out, right, Coach? YardbarkerUCLA's DeShaun Foster makes absurd claim about blowout lo...At one point in the second quarter, the Bruins found themselves down, 20-0.

Saint Nick is not pleased. DeBoer got the benefit of the Follow-The-Leader doubt last season, but this season? UW players praised DeBoer for being a 'Player's Coach.' Can he morph into a Saban butt kicker? https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/nick-saban-disappointed-by-alabamas-loss-says-florida-state-dominated-the-line-of-scrimmage-on-both-sides/?eid=c7d8647c6247db8d08c59fe44bc30380a147aa90b9e33099045cd46ddc6a485b&f

One ACC team in North Carolina savored the destruction of Chapel Bill in Chapel Hill. 😁 Ball DurhamDuke fans will absolutely love this graphic shown during...While Duke football got off to a hot start to begin the 2025 campaign, taking down FCS opponent Elon 45-17, the same can't be said for North Carolina in Bill Be

One of Week 2's Biggest B1G Games sees No. 11 Illinois -2.5 at No. 37 Duke One of two B1G vs. ACC Week 2 matchups, the other being Michigan State -3.5 vs. Boston College Ball DurhamEverything to know before Duke vs. Illinois: How to watch...After a decisive 45-17 win for the Duke football program over FCS opponent Elon to begin the 2025 season, the Blue Devils now enter Week Two with a potentially

Playoffs? Playoffs! 1st 2 teams out - Illinois and Florida - 4 SEC + 3 B1G, but the B1G's AQ idea stinks, right? A Dilly sighting in Autzen? AP NewsBuckeyes, Nittany Lions would be 1-2 seeds and Tigers, Bu...Ohio State, Penn State, LSU and Georgia would be the top four seeds in the College Football Playoff based on the first Associated Press Top 25 poll of the regular season with Miami, Oregon, Texas and

Clemson also has SMU, Duke, and FSU at home, and road games at Louisville and South Carolina, both teams it lost to at home last season. After A&M, the only games that could be troublesome for the Irish are SC in South Bend, and at Arkansas and Pitt. Other than No. 19 A&M, there are no currently ranked teams on ND's schedule. Assuming the PO Ct. truly values SOS, LSU had the best win of the weekend, taking down No. 4 Clemson on the road. That's a CBB Quad 1+ win. LSU plays Florida, South Carolina, and A&M in Baton Rouge. Road games at Ole Miss, Bama, and Oklahoma will be tough. That's six games of the next 11 games vs. six teams currently ranked in the AP top 25. GULP!

Miami - No. 5 - Nice win over ND, but - 9/11/21 - OBD 35 - Ohio State 28 Including putting Joe Moorhead in the hospital, and a choke job at ASU, Mario failed to put the icing on what should have been a spot in the PO. Will we see a redux of a late 2024 Miami at Syracuse choke?

Ducks fly up one spot. TOSU at the top. AP NewsNCAA College Football Rankings: AP Top 25 Football PollThe official page for the AP Top 25 college football poll, a tradition since 1936. Keep up to date and view the latest ranking updates each week.

A few Week-1 thoughts. Week 1- 86 transfer QBs started. So, should we 86 recruiting QBs and find our passers only from the portal? Sag on the rebound in 2026? One of the last QBs to transfer, Jake ("I was framed") Retzlaff, led Tulane to a beatdown of Northwestern, with Transfer QB Preston (Hands Of) Stone throwing four picks. NW takes over the Big's No. 18 spot from Purdue. Indiana led the entirety of its first eight games in 2024. In the opener against Old Dominion, the Hoosiers fell behind 11 seconds after kickoff. This had Cig smoking! Whether it's Jim Knowles or Matt Patricia, against TOSU, Sark's O goes dark. Golden Boy Archie threw more ad pitches on Saturday than he did TDs. Despite a pregame decapitation, the Duck and the Ducks carried on for a B1G opening win. Tacos were not on the concession menu, but Taco (Bell) Dowler balled out for the Bobcats. Do Not Blame the Messenger, please—the No. 1 player on Bill Connolly's Week 1 Heisman Ballot - UWho's B1G Co-O Player of the Week Jonah Coleman, with 177 rush yards, 1 catch for 22 yards, and a 26-yard KO return. UW will be 3-0 when 3-0 Ohio State pays a visit in Week 5. Week 5 will be B1G! Ohio State at UW; USC at Illinois; Indiana at Iowa, and a White Out at Penn State 😁! Lasso the Cowboys!

Send help. I can't get up off the floor. 😁

No one🙃 overreacts after Week 1, right? ESPN.comConnelly's Week 1 overreactions: Belichick, Arch Manning,...What happened to Arch Manning? And Clemson?? And Alabama??? We jump to some way-too-early conclusions.