Jon Joseph

With 18 teams and more likely 20 teams, how often will these 2 schools be on the football schedule unless one is a permanent football partner as is the case with UCLA and Michigan? SC will not play Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State every season. SC does play all 3 schools in 2024, at Ohio State and Penn State, and plays Michigan at home but the Trojans also play at Maryland and Illinois. Add Notre Dame and LSU to the 2024 schedule without Caleb Williams at QB and good luck, yuck yuck, Trojans.

EXACTLY. The B1G's new media deal is now down to $65M a school per annum. Take away the LA schools and at least $20M in a media revenue bump and what is so great about the B1G deal? And B1G sports? No CBB title since 2000. 1 college football playoff title. Michigan is playoff 0-2 and Penn State has never made the playoff. Football is these 3 teams and 11 mediocre teams with UCLA on the way to make it 12 mediocre football teams. And will SC's D improve? As to baseball, softball, golf, tennis, track, and field, etc., the B1G is a non-entity. We are living in a Power 1. The B1G money is close but the on-field and on-court results for the B1G are woeful compared to the SEC. And why would any school want football games broadcast on Peacock with its 20M subscriber base? I'd much prefer the Pac to hold together and not to have every road game in every sport requiring 2-time zones+ travel. Oregon's sports existence does not solely rely on media income. And in a 10 to 12-team conference, the odds of making all post-season fields are far better than playing in an 18+ team conference.; including the odds of having two teams make the 12-team football playoff field.

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And with friends like this guy? Gold is a tool. It has been reported that the corner schools are looking to leave. Please cite a sourced report. Regardless, I do agree with his ranking of potential Pac-10 expansion candidates. Personally, I think it would stink to lose Fresno and UNLV to the B12. Gold: Pac-12 pitches — What the top expansion candidates have to offer the reeling conference SATURDAYOUTWEST.COM We're not quite playing musical chairs yet, but pretty soon, a handful of schools might start jockeying for position to fill a hole...

B1G 2023 SOS rankings. "There are no easy games in the B1G." Come on Man! Money does not equal on-field success but the B1G hype never goes away. The SEC deserves and has earned the pub. The B1G? Big Ten strength of schedule rankings 2023: Penn State has easiest road, Minnesota faces challenging slate - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM There aren't many easy games in the Big Ten, but some schedules are more difficult than others

CBS Sports has seven Pac-12 teams going bowling in 2023. I think this number is light by one. Bowl Teams - Arizona - This would continue Jedd Fisch's turnaround in Tucson. A loss is predicted at Mississippi State but a win in Starkville would be great for the conference. Oregon - CBS predicts the Ducks will go under 9.5 wins with losses at UW, Utah, and Oregon State in Autzen. I see Oregon at least splitting the Utah and UW games and defeating the Beavers so to Hector with this. Speaking of Hector, CBS does have Oregon defeating Troy in what could be the game of the Pac-12 regular season in Autzen. Oregon State - CBS has Oregon State going 10-2 with losses against Utah and UW. I do not see OSU losing both of these games in Corvallis. UCLA - A loss would be an upset loss but UCLA best beware of Coastal Carolina in the Rose Bowl and playing at San Diego State. USC - CBS has USC going 11-1, winning in South Bend and the only loss coming in Autzen. I see SC in 2023 with at least 2 losses even with getting Utah and UW at home. Utah - 9-3 - CBS has the Utes defeating Florida in its opener and then winning on the road at Baylor. Losing at SC and UW but defeating OSU in Corvallis. So much of the 2023 season for Utah is riding on the health of QB Rising. Washington - 11-1 - CBS has UW losing only against SC in LA. If this is correct and I do not think it is so, UW would rematch against SC in Las Vegas for the Pac-12 title with UW coming off the Apple Cup game and USC coming off of an idle week. Like Utah, so much rides on UW keeping QB Michael Penix, Jr. healthy. 2022 was the first season that Penix started and finished healthy in his college career. It's going to be a wild ride. I don't think the conference with 5 or perhaps 6 teams ranked in the AP Poll preseason top 25 has ever been this deep. And the 9th conference game will yield an upset or two. 2023 Pac-12 win totals, odds, picks: Predictions as USC, Washington face big numbers thanks to offseason hype - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The Pac-12 has plenty of contenders capable of ending its College Football Playoff drought

Seeing as how TX Tech ran the most plays from scrimmage in 2022 was any team more benefitted than TT with the clock continuing to stop (thank you D3) after 1st downs for at least 1 more season. D best have its roller skates in hand. This O will test the skill and depth of the Ducks D. I expect TT will run at least 80 plays from the LOS. The run game also better show up for Oregon. An under the radar stat from 2022 that I love. Last season 2 RBs in G5/P5 football carried the ball 150 times or more at better than 6.5 yards per carry. UCLA's Charbonnet and Oregon's Mar'Keise (Bucky) Irving. (SEC fans, insert snarky Pac-12 D comment here.)

Great take and a great recall. As HC at the University of Sioux Falls (USF) DeBoer went 67-3 (,957) and led USF to 3 NAIA national championships. Not too shabby at any level of play. In 2023 the Ducks play SC in Autzen but due to a parting gift scheduling on the part of the conference, this is the year UCL A misses both Oregon and UW as did USC last season. Why? Because for some unknown reason, the conference in 2023 decided to maintain the Cali scheduling agreement assuring that both LA schools will again play Cal and Stanford. In addition to this stupidity, SC has an idle week the week prior to the conference champ game while the Civil War and the Apple Cup will be played by 3 contenders for the 2023 conference title and UCLA plays Cal in the Rose Bowl. Bon Voyage!

Don't sell Deion short. He helped make HBCU football nationally relevant by taking a #1 recruit away from FSU and with a great 2-year run at Jackson State. College Gameday visited Jackson, Mississippi because of Deion. His play in college and in pro football and baseball was far from flim-flam. Read his comments as to why he will never coach in the NFL and I see an old-school guy inside all of the flash and dash. CU's spring game sold 47,000 tickets at $10 a pop and CU's 2023 season football tickets sold out in 30 hours. The hire of one man put CU football, floundering for 2 decades, back on the national radar. CU alum Chris Fowler announced the spring game for ESPN, the only spring game broadcast on ESPN, and he couldn't have been a happier CU camper. Will the entire makeover of the CU roster yield results in 2023? Looking at one of the toughest schedules in the nation including opening at playoff runner-up TCU and also playing Nebraska OOC, the answer is probably not. CU is coming to Autzen in 2023. What would the excitement level for this game be if Karl (does it have a heartbeat) Dorrell was still in charge in Boulder? Because of Deion, this game will likely be a national broadcast and not broadcast on the I can't find it Pac-12 Network. A boost for CU, Oregon, and the entire conference that needs a media boost. Deion's hire was not only great for CU but also for the entire Pac-12/10. Oregon will lose a few recruiting battles to Deion who today holds the #1 portal ranking. PS - One of the best CFB performances that I witnessed in person was played at The Big House when Bobby Bowden's go anywhere, play anyone Seminoles team visited Ann Arbor for a one-off OOC game. It was Neon Deion versus Elvis, Elvis Grbac was the starting QB for Michigan. In the 1st half, Deion broke up four passes thrown in his direction and was not thrown at in the 2nd half. FSU left Ann Arbor with an easy win and a piece of the Big House stadium turf (before Michigan Stadium went synthetic) in hand.

Joey Harrington's senior year team waxed a CU team that had destroyed Nebraska in the final game of the regular season. Which team went to the Rose Bowl to play for the BCS championship, Nebraska? But in hindsight, no team in the country was going to defeat the Miami team that blew out Nebraska and its Heisman Trophy-winning QB. The role computers played in choosing the BCS participants was significantly reduced after this in-your-face to Joey and the Ducks. This was 1 of at least 3 occasions when the Pac-12 was BCS hosed over. Yet, the conference approved the BCS x 2, the so-called playoff without doing a thing to take back the Rose Bowl and allowing the Rose Bowl to have the same 'playoff' status as the Peach Bowl. Charles had a terrific post up the other day noting how smartly the SEC has been managed since the inception of the BCS. 'Smart' and Pac-12 management are polar opposites.

Enjoy the poetry if not the words per se. And watch out for bare bodkins!

In regard to Red Raider dreams: True, I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain, born from nothing except frivolous imaginations. Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet

The kickoff time for the TT game is 7 PM Eastern. Most of the 4th quarter should not be going against UT/Bama. Hope a lot of the viewers watching the game of the week will switch over.

I hear you Happy, but last season even with putting Quinn Ewers on the ground and the bench in the first half Bama needed all of the Bryce Young magic to get into position for a walk-off FG. Ewers is back and the Bama QB situation is iffy. And will the new OC from ND, Tommy Rees, be at the level of Bama's last 3 OCs including Sark? But Tuscaloosa is an extremely difficult place to walk out of with a W. I'm fairly certain that as of today's date the UT at Bama game will be going against the TT game on ESPN. And you can bet that Gameday will be in Tuscaloosa. It would be an 11 AM Central start but it would be nice if the game at TT was the Fox Big Noon game. The last time Oregon kicked off on the road at 9 AM Eastern things worked out well, with Oregon saying Goodbye Columbus with a win.

Happy, love the comment but 4M will be very hard to draw; especially, with the game going against Texas at Bama on ESPN. I think 2M would be great.

He doesn't know recruiting but at least he knows O. There is no O in Mari.

I'm not cretin that the man is a moron but he stops counting at 20 when he runs out of fingers and toes. Why would anyone allow 'remnants' to compete against Rutgers, Maryland, Northwestern, Indiana, Minnesota, and Purdue? One thing I do know for cretin, he isn't as Smart as Kirby. Thanks for the Big Dawg support.

Tyler Shough, 8-0 in games he has started and finished at TT and is now in his 6th season of CFB, and the fans in Lubbock will be super fired up for the Ducks flying into Lubbock. Especially, after not so long ago being given a stiff arm by the Pac-12, having been found unworthy to receive an invite from the 'Elite Club.' Hubris is a witch. TT finished the 2022 season with 4 straight wins including a decisive defeat of Ole Miss in its bowl game. The Red Raiders opening game trip to Wyoming could be tricky with Oregon visiting the following week but TT should be 5-0 in its last 5 games when Oregon like a rubber ball, bounces into the land of Buddy Holly. TT defeated both Oklahoma and Texas last season in the process of running the most plays from scrimmage in CFB. The clock not stopping after 1st downs as was going to be the case in 2023 before the D3 objected should help TT's hectic, fast-paced O. In 2023 in a one-off 14-team B12, TT misses both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State Here's hoping that TT will be ranked in the top 25 of the AP and Coaches polls which will give Oregon a scheduling boost. The game originally scheduled to be shown on FS1 will now be broadcast on Fox. https://athlonsports.com/college-football/why-texas-tech-is-the-big-12s-top-sleeper-title-contender-2023

Pick up? Pick up = signing a 2nd recruit, a 3* LB? OK. Will Washington football recruiting pick up soon? SATURDAYBLITZ.COM After an incredible first season with Washington football, Kalen DeBoer looked to have all the momentum in the world on his...

This is a terrific article that discusses not only expansion but why eyeballs matter more than market size when it comes to expansion and also thoughts on college football being in a media bubble. A media bubble = overpayment for a product at a time when technology is rapidly changing. SEC Football: UNC and UVA not expansion priorities but FSU and Clemson are BAMAHAMMER.COM The conventional wisdom is SEC Football will not expand in the near future. There are a couple of reasons why the conventional...

Loved Prime's take the other day as to his never wanting to coach the prima donnas in today's NFL who don't want to practice hard or listen to anyone other than their agent. Notwithstanding some of the verbiage, Prime is an old-school coach. Sorry, Vern, Ralphie is not moving to pastures that are no greener than he can find by staying at home. The B12's new media deal was agreed to in a hurry by ESPN and Fox because it isn't per team a lot more than B12 teams were receiving. Not a bad deal with OK and TX gone but one that will not incent Pac-10 teams to move. And Fox and ESPN are not paying for more B12 inventory and CU is not going to take less than BYU.

If it's free it's for me and I'll take 3! But I would prefer a freebie from Pravda over the Seattle Times.

Oregon State has a terrific in-conference scheduling break this season missing USC (even though its D is suspect until we see otherwise) and getting UCLA, Utah coming off a game vs UCLA, and UW coming off games at USC and Utah, in Corvallis. Oregon plays at Wazzu before Utah. At Cal before UCLA and home against Stanford before UW. And OR ST plays no P5 opponents out-of-conference. The UW game comes the Saturday prior to the Civil War while Oregon trips to ASU the week before. If DJU wins the job he should be far more consistent than he was at Clemson. The Beavers passing game was simply bad last season and has a lot of room for improvement. I think a tougher defensive league although I love the stat you posted, is kind of a chicken/egg scenario. The Miami QB flamed out last season. Hartman at Wake was good, not great. And the Clemson D was lit up by Tennessee in the Orange Bowl. The Pac had better QB play last season than did the ACC. So much of CFB defensive stats depend upon the quality of the opposition's offense.

Minus $5M and counting. And home games on Peacock. This is going to be weird for Trojans fans. Is SC a beneficiary or trustee? Without the LA schools, you can shave at least $20M off of the B1G media deal. And if the LA schools had any scheduling influence both would have drawn Nebraska, only 1500 miles away, as a permanent B1G football scheduling partner. Why Kliavkoff did not go to SC with a bigger piece of the revenue pie offer, a deal that SC had before Larry added CU and Utah to the conference, is unfathomable. Subtract $20M from the B1G deal = $45M to $50M for the B1G which the Pac-12 likely could have come close to with the LA schools in the mix and SC would not be having to travel 2 time zones plus for away games in every sport. Cut to the chase and if Disney/ESPN remains business viable there is really a Power 1 today. Both on the fields of play and at the bank. [BTW, Florida vs LSU for the baseball title. These two conference foes did not play baseball against one another this season! The scheduling scam covers more sports than football.] A B1G patch on Ducks unis? What will the number be that will encourage Oregon to be Rutgers's and Northwestern's junior partner? Thanks for all of the great posts.

Great take but I am confused in regard to Cal at SFO at 2. More money than the Golden Bear spends? I think both LA schools would prefer to have Cal and Stanford as B1G west coast partners over Oregon and UW. Competition wise and also to get UCLA out of the Cal tax. Academics matter not in the SEC but do matter to the B1G presidents. The SFO market is a pro-sports-oriented market and the Oregon Moneyball sports draw far more eyeballs but will this matter to the B1G powers-that-be and more importantly, to Fox?