Jon Joseph

When your (C)alimony payments go down because your ex gets remarried you should be happy. Tough antenuptuial agreement for Cal but the Golden Bears is marrying a gentleman of the P4.

Rob, please cancel all scheduled road games, at Boise and Utah St. to be played at the home of these G5 teams. A B1G team should not be going on the road to play P5 opponents. Ohio State plays Toledo in Columbus and not in the Glass Bowl. Going to Hawaii I get for recruiting purposes and for adding a 13th game to be played in Autzen. That's it. Why play B12 teams Baylor and Oklahoma State? Win the B1G and 1 game vs. an FCS school (if the B1G so allows) and 2 versus G5 opponents, will not prevent a playoff appearance. Play P4 opponents in the conference and in the playoff. Of course, the B1G might go to 10 conference games which means playing any P4 opponent OOC would be a bad move. Playing 7 games (2 G5 opponents in Autzen and 5 conference games) = Bank. Charles, I'm so happy that you will be able to attend the game in person! Who buys the hotdogs? You or Marsh?

Does a Power 2 Premier League need middlemen? Why not take the product directly to market? Sell advertising and streaming. Investment banker(s) to fund the but out of the SEC network and the acquisition of Fox's 61% stake in the BTN.

How did they look? Bowlless, not Priceless.

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I think the Beavers best watch out playing at San Jose State on Sunday against the MW preseason all-conference QB who had his moments against SC. (I am happy that the Beavs will be featured on CBS.) I think SJS QB Chevan Cordeiro could outshine DJU. OSU is currently ranked 61st in 2024 recruiting. I'm not sure there is much of a recruiting budget to cut. OSU's recruiting fits far better in the MW (the AAC has dropped out) than in the P5/4.

Favorite team to root against come 2024. I'm torn between risking my neck and cheering against Rutgers and the Sopranos or being a hazing hater and cheering against Northwestern. As an 'Animal House guy', it's tough for me to root against spraying beer in the pledges' faces. HELP!

The Cradle of Coaches, Miami-Ohio. Want to make money Mic? Just do the opposite of what I recommend. I'm now in a 1-2 hole so it isn't looking good for the Playoff.

A Bowdoin College reference, who knew? I did not know that Bowdoin had a larger endowment than Cal. I need to up my betting game in order to help the Polar Bear cause. Gold: Is the ACC really the best fit for Stanford and Cal? Stanford, maybe. But Cal? SATURDAYOUTWEST.COM Stanford and Cal -- along with SMU -- have left the Pac-12 for the stability of the ACC. For the Cardinal, it somewhat makes sense. For Cal? Not so much.

Sigh of relief coming out of Westwood? Cal made its own decision to join the ACC, so will the Regents parse the deal Cal agreed to and punish UCLA? I don't see it. Cal is in a P4 conference and not a G5 conference which would have warranted UCLA being tagged with a bigger Calimony payment. Stanford non-revenue sports will still be recruiting in a P4 world. Stanford going independent would have caused huge scheduling problems. Seeing as how the Beavers want nothing to do with Puddles and the Stanford/Notre Dame game will kind of be a conference game, let's, as Charles suggests, make the Tree a permanent OOC nesting spot for Puddles. Football, basketball, and all other sports. It will be interesting to see if the Stanford/Notre Dame game will continue to be played every season.

Barnes was on the Money (yuck, yuck) on that 1st pass attempt. Passing the hat in Gainesville to buy out Napier's contract.

Reggie?

My friend, you're discounting the influence of Uncle Jack Daniels.

The bets over and my over also went under. Good call Mic. Down your starting QB, best receiver, starting center, and your play caller on D goes down in the first series. And you win? That's some guts ball. And Florida? Oh my gosh, the heat is on Billy Napier and the not-so-special teams' coach who allowed two #3s to be on the field at the same time. And Mertz? More sacks than a grocery store checkout line. And folks on Saturday Down Soth were chortling over how much bigger and faster the Gators were compared to the Utes. These Utes (youts?) are tough to beat in SLC. And Coach Whit, "I hope the rest of the country now knows that we play football out this way." Perfect.

Who knew that a Husky could turn into a Greyhound?

My good Ducks friends, please forgive me for Playing It Forward on the cusp of Week 1. But if I do not keep old grey matter circulating, I will not be able to make it through the first half of Gators (first out-of-region road trip in 38 years. UF lost at Syracuse) at Utah. I can only imbibe so much Expresso mixed with IPA. And my Barista spouse calls it a night before I do. When it comes to kick-off times, I miss the Left Coast. I am adopting the Charles Fischer 'Easy-Peasy' solution for all sports other than football and men's and women's basketball. West - Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, OREGON, UCLA, USC, Washington East - Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers, Wisconsin For football, and men's and women's basketball, and because I can still divide 18 by 3 and come up with 6, I like the following format. This would give broadcast partners a lot of flexibility when it comes to 4 cross-pod games. (Ohio State vs. Michigan would be a protected game.) 2023 AP Poll preseason college football rankings are shown for ranked teams. West - Minnesota, Nebraska, OREGON (15), UCLA, USC (6), Washington (10) Central - Illinois, Iowa (25), Michigan (2), Michigan State, Northwestern, Wisconsin (19) East - Indiana, Maryland, Ohio State (3), Penn State (7), Purdue, Rutgers. A pretty fair, IMO, distribution of football talent. The last regular season game would feature a matchup of the 3 pod winners and the best wild card team; the winners play in the conference champ game. Hello, TV ratings! Again, mea culpa but I am interested to see better ideas from Ducks fans. GO UTES! MUSS Florida Up! A win over the Gators will help elevate OREGON's SOS when the Ducks win in Salt Lake City.

There is a reason why fire trucks today are yellow, not red, and were never black. Yellow is the easiest color for humans, including even Bodacious Bo, to see. Wear yellow lids, and make opposing DBs turn yellow in fear.

BOseman! Wyo not? Thanks for the article friend Darren, good to have you back at the keyboard. Nice use of Anglo-Saxon onomatopoetic words. You made the late George Carlin's list! Where would the Pac-12 be today if Uncle Phil had been the commissioner with the late Bob Sasser as assistant commissioner? The Pac-12 Prex never met a business decision that they couldn't muff.

Nebraska sets women's sport attendance world record with 92,003 fans at college volleyball game - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM In front of a packed house, the Cornhuskers finished with a 3-0 victory over Omaha

But, going out with a bang. CBS Sports rates the Pac-12 as the 2nd best football conference in 2023 behind; well, you know who. 2023 College Football Conference Power Rankings: SEC at the top, but Pac-12 takes No. 2 spot - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The SEC is loaded with teams ready to make a run at the College Football Playoff National Championship

The Athletic's 2023 Football Hope-O-Meter comes in at 100% for Oregon fans. And also 100% for opponents Texas Tech and UW. SC is in the mid-90s percentile. Apparently, a few SC fans recognize that this is not Arena Football and at least some D has to be played. Stanford fans come in at a robust 0%. 😘

They broke the record! 92,003 fans showed up. Most in-person watched games in the history of women's sports. Now that's B1G! In October, Iowa football's Kinnock Stadium will host a Women's CBB exhibition game, Iowa vs. DePaul. Close to 40,000 tickets have been sold to date. Sorry, Scott Barnes, but going B1G was and is the only way for Oregon to go. Fan interest like this should help Oregon's Women's sports recruiting despite the travel travails.

Last 7 games vs. SC. Ducks 5-2. SC, #8 ranked roster. Oregon is not far behind at #10. But, A+M is up there again and last season I don't believe the TCU roster cracked the top 25.

Who? What?

Rivalry? The Ducks have not played the Trojans since the champ game win in 2020. Puddles is more likely to face off against Traveler in the B1g than in the Pac-12 because the Cali scheduling agreement is going away.