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It impacts the academic status and the ranking of a given university by Forbes and others. For academicians in the B1G and the Pac-12/10, the AAU ranking matters a great deal. Boise State is not a 'selective university.' It has far more acceptances per applicant than a top-drawer university. And IMO, the blue field is a gimmick designed to give Boise more of a home-field advantage. There is no way that 8 Pac-10 schools would vote to add on Boise and there is also no way that a media company would insist on the Pac-10 adding Boise and the Boise, Idaho market.

B1G Saturday guy weighs in. I agree with Ohio State winning the East in the B1G's last season with divisions. Hickey: How I would vote in the preseason poll at 2023 Big Ten Media Days SATURDAYTRADITION.COM See Saturday Tradition writer Alex Hickey's would-be ballot for the 2023 Big Ten predicted order of finish and preseason player...

Ducked, Can he recruit? Heck yes. Can he coach? If you love nailbiters including games vs outmanned FCS opponents then Mari (no O) is your Man. " I never met a QB I couldn't screw up." Thank goodness that The U (a blue blood hemorrhaging for decades) decided to bring Cristobal home to Miami and Dano is on the scene in Eugene.

WOW! Hope you have a complete recovery young man.

Some B12 coach's thoughts on B12 teams including Texas Tech. Tech- 'Awful place to play. Loud as hell.' I'd add, in September, Hot As Hell! https://athlonsports.com/college-football/big-12-coaches-talk-anonymously-about-conference-foes-for-2023

CFN is out with its prediction of the teams that will play in their conference champ games and a win/loss prediction for every game on the 2023 schedule. Pete Fiutak at CFN always comes early with these predictions but on many occasions, his predictions, not necessarily game-by-game, but the teams playing for conference titles have come to fruition. A few thoughts in regard to Pete's projections. ACC - Clemson vs Pitt. I have no beef here but wanted to point out that CFN has Miami and Mari finishing in 5th place. Going bowling in 2023 would be a step up AAC - Love for SMU here with the Ponies predicted to play in the title game. B12 - The champ game nightmare for our B12 'buddies.' Texas vs Oklahoma in the champ game. I'm hoping that Pete is spot-on here. B1G - Michigan plays Wisconsin for the B1G title but with Michigan going 12-1 and Ohio State 11-1 both would be looking good for a spot in the final Final 4. If wishes were Cougars Wazzu will take down Wisconsin back-to-back. Mountain West - Some love for SDSU here with the Aztecs playing Boise for the title. I would love it if SDSU defeats UCLA at the Dragon. And the Bruins best watch out against Coastal Carolina and stud QB Grayson McCall. SEC - Georgia vs Alabama with Georgia coming in 11-1 and Bama at 10-2. And Georgia taking a loss at home vs the Ole Kiffins. Not so fast friend Pete. I see the Dawgs coming in at 12-0 and playing an 11-1 or 10-2 LSU with the Tigers giving UGA a much better champ game fight than LSU put up in 2022. Pac-12 - Pete has an 11-1 USC, with the loss coming in Eugene, playing 10-2 Utah for the title. Pete predicts that Oregon will finish 9-3 taking the L at Texas Tech, Utah, and ASU! The Devils you say! Come On Man! FWIW, I pulled the trigger yesterday and I have OBD at +330 to win the conference title in 2023. My biggest concern in this regard is Oregon coming off the Civil War game while USC in the ultimate week of the regular season plays the University of Nemo (No One.) Your thoughts? https://collegefootballnews.com/predictions/college-football-conference-predictions-what-will-the-final-standings-be

Great take. I'd add Flowe. And all the best to the young man who was and remains a great Duck but Sewell, who I think was a 4* recruit, was a better fit for the game when thumping meant more than versatility. As Charles notes, you need 'freaks' to play DL's (and Kirby Smart's) style of D. The portal gives you a look at a player vs college-level competition. Most 5* deserve the ranking, but some of these guys will not be able to transition from HS to big-time CFB.

Thanks, ND. Sending players on to the League makes a big difference. And there is no doubt that the SEC is the best at sending players to the NFL. THIS is tough to recruit against.

Can't win 'em all. But Dan has a whole lot of skin in the game and will get his share of quality recruits. Making the final Final 4 would help but what also helps UGA and other SEC teams is the number of players they send to the NFL. A fact that's hard to overcome.

Good points. But I'd be far more ambivalent about his if the players who wanted to stay at CU did not have their scholarships honored.

College Football Live on today's show took a deep dive into Prime Time's destruction and rebuild of the CU roster. The faint of heart may want to avoid looking at this pile of garbage. 2022 - Colorado went 1-11 with its lone win coming against Colorado State. Colorado drew approximately 17,000 fans to Folsom Field for its home games. A few of Colorado's 2022 CFB Rankings out of 131 P5/G5 ranked teams. Points Per Game - Offense - 127 / Defense - 127 Yards Per Play - Offense - 125 / Defense - 130 Total QBR - Offense - 130 - / Defense - 130 Points surrendered in the last 6 games - 42, 42, 49, 54, 53 (some improvement at least), and 63 given up to the Utes with Rising taking a seat in for the entire 2nd half. This garbage reminds me of a quote from Oregon graduate John McKay in a post-game presser after his Tampa Bay Bucs team was, yet again, destroyed. Reporter - 'Coach, what do you think about the execution of your offense?' McKay - 'I'm all in favor of it.' If I was the new guy on the Boulder campus and the rules so allow as they do today, I'm following Prime's model all the way including all the way to selling out season tickets for the 2023 season.

CU going Prime Time is going to see a big jump in the numbers of folks watching the Buffs.

Mike, great take. But with 9 B1G conference games plus Notre Dame on the schedule, I don't see SC anxious to play Oregon. Ditto UCLA with Michigan as one of the Bruins permanent scheduling partners. Yes, sending SC would 3 defeats in the conference would be delicious. But with SC playing Utah at home (the week after the trip to ND which could help the Utes) and UW at home I see Troy going at least 1-1 in the two games. Totally agree that the Pac-12/10 does a terrible job in regard to marketing the conference.

Preferably AAU membership. What SMU and SDSU have that Boise does not are being located in major media markets and being competitive in CBB and other sports. And Boise as the little guy that could has lost a lot of its luster. IMO, Fresno, and UNLV both make more sense than Boise but again, for Pac Prez AAU membership matters. ASU recently joined the AAU club.

Gold Nuggets: Post-Media Day edition SATURDAYOUTWEST.COM The Pac-12's best and brightest descended upon Sin City on Friday to meet the media to kick off the 2023 campaign. Whose...

Amen, Charles. The ACC recently outsourced a whole bunch of its sports inventory to CW and what did we hear? Crickets.

David, good thoughts. The SEC's new media deal begins in 2024 and runs through 2036. I think a number of expansion decisions and the direction of college athletics in general, will be affected by players at the P5 level, at least, being deemed to be employees of their university. I also believe that streaming will alter the calculus from media market size to eyes on the prize; how many folks are watching. And streaming could provide the money to expand that has been tapped out on the traditional media front. In Big Business we see size go to size. Growth comes from mergers and acquisitions as much or more than it does from internal growth. Meanwhile, I'm going to kick back and watch Puddles kick booty.

Bama Hammer, guess what team he roots for, weighs in on expansion. College Football may reach a Power Two without more expansion BAMAHAMMER.COM During SEC Media Days, Greg Sankey stated SEC Football (and Basketball) have no expansion plans. In a recent piece by Blake...

A 15-member committee instead of a single overseer with enforcement powers? This should work out well, right?

There is 1 BIG Fish on OBD and he is a heck of a Fischer.

Thanks, Happy, all good thoughts. Without the LA schools, Fox/B1G would not have been able to come close to the SEC media deal. Destabilizing a conference that it broadcast for many years likely never crossed the minds of the executives at Fox. Ditto for ESPN execs when it came to the poaching of OK/TX from the B12. In the case of Fox/B1G the B1G lied by commission. In the case of ESPN/SEC, the SEC lied by omission. In the B1G, UCLA, USC, and SEC Philosophy Departments, Nietzsche has to be the go-to guy followed closely by Machiavelli. Spot on Happy. Expansion if it happens will be about inventory and then how small of a revenue share can you hand say, SDSU and SMU, to convince them to come on board. I think that this call will be made by the conference's media partners as much as it will be made by the conference. If GK advises expansion holdouts that the media deal will not fly without expansion then I expect the votes will be there to OK expansion. It's all about the money. Saying that, with the Pac looking at a lesser deal than the B1G/SEC and with Comcast and SFO office retrofit hits coming, I can see why Pac-10 schools might want to stay with ten teams in anticipation of expansion deck chairs being moved again 5 or so seasons from now. The San Diego market is a decent size market and keeps the conference in southern California. The DFW market is large. On the other hand, SMU football was 69th most watched on average in the nation last season with SDSU coming in at 73. There would be a bump in viewers if SMU and/or SDSU were to move up from G5 to P5, but how much of a bump? I do not expect an ipso facto jump in SMU's media rankings simply because SMU joins a conference located on the west coast. A conference with no natural rivals. If the Pac Presidents were bullish on Central time zone inventory they could have taken in B12 orphans a few years back. If expansion candidates are not immediately accretive in today's media marketplace does it make sense to expand? Based on 2022 viewer numbers, the slam dunk Power 3 accretive teams are Clemson, Oregon, FSU, Utah, and UW. And, of course, the big prize is Notre Dame. TCU and OK St also average more than $1M viewers a game on average. Texas Tech and K State come very close to doing so. I expect that when GK presents the details of the new media deals to the Pac Presidents that the deal will already have expansion factored in. And if I were Oregon and UW I would not blindly approve expansion without a complete understanding of the numbers involved. For the most part, I see an article such as this and in general all articles regarding conference expansion as being idle speculation from folks sitting behind a keyboard without the ability to write the checks that would enable expansion. It may well be in the Pac's best interests to play the long game and go after accretive B12 schools when they become available. TCU, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Baylor, Kansas, and K State would all be better conference additions than SDSU and/or SMU and would provide more than a scintilla of Central time zone inventory. I always enjoy reading your well-thought-out comments.

$? Does the B12 have its own network or a printing press? I know Texas is on the way out the door but the B12 is all hat and no cattle. Or, maybe sheep?

A MUST WATCH! Great film. Helped to pump up Rob Sasser, played by Jason Bateman, who was a driving force in NIKE's climb. Dan Lanning made mention of Strasser's book, From Good to Great at Pac-12 media day. Ben Affleck was great playing the part of an enigmatic Phil Knight. Matt Damon was also excellent playing the part of Sonny Vaccaro who I ran across back in the day in Las Vegas. But Viola Davis, playing Michael Jordan's Mom, stole the show. Sasser and Knight agreeing to share advertising revenue with MJ changed the entire calculus of players receiving a slice of the advertising pie.

Thanks, PA. I think this decision will have as much or more input from media partners as it will from the conference itself. I don't know if the broadcast partners will be happy about exchanging a P5 game for a game against a G5 or FCS opponent. HOPEFULLY, SOS will matter come the 2024 playoff expansion, and teams that play 8 conference games will be dinged for doing so. Well, at least I can wish for this to be the case.