Jon Joseph

Great take and I'd love to see a regular season and a champ game sweep to send Troy on its 'merry way' to re-match after thousands of years, the Spartans. The defense will be the Trojans' Trojan Horse. (Actually, I think the last time SC played MI ST it lost to Sparty in the Rose Bowl?) Dark Horses - UCLA - NO P5 teams out-of-conference with all OOC games played in the Rose Bowl - Easiest Pac-12 SOS Why this gift to another school-blowing town? Great work Merton Hanks. Why with computers and software in the world does Merton have a job? Has anyone seen football refs improving under Hanks' watch? Oregon State - No P5 teams OOC (game at SDSU could be tough) and #8 Pac-12 SOS.

Pete Fiutak at College Football News has one of the best track records as a college football preseason prognosticator. He has ranked teams going into the 2023 season from 1 to 133. Pac-12 Rankings 8. USC - Strength of Pac-12 Schedule (SOS) Ranking - 1 being the most difficult - 10. 9. Washington - SOS - 4 13. Oregon - "The return of QB Bo Nix is huge, but the Ducks lose a ton from both sides, especially up front. The talent is there but it is young." SOS - 11 16. Utah - SOS - 7 18. Oregon State - SOS - 8 27. UCLA - SOS - 12 43. Washington State - 43 - SOS - 9 51. Arizona - 51 - SOS - 5 65. - ASU - SOS - 6 69. - Colorado - SOS - 1 70. - CAL - SOS - 2 78.. - Stanford - SOS - 3 Teams on the Pac-10 Expansion Radar - 55. Tulane 56. Fresno State 66. San Diego State 79. SMU 112. UNLV Oregon P5 out-of-conference opponent - 24. Texas Tech - "QB Tyler Shough is going to be huge leading the high-powered offense." Pete's Top 4 - 1. Georgia 2. Ohio State 3. Alabama 4. Michigan If we had a 12-team playoff in 2023 - 1. Georgia - SEC vs. 9. Washington - At Large (AL) at 8. LSU - AL 2. Ohio State - B1G vs. 10. Tennessee - AL at 7. Penn State - AL 3. FSU - ACC vs. 11. Texas - B12 at 6. Michigan - AL 4. USC - Pac-12 vs. 12. Boise State (MW) at 5. Alabama (AL) Note - Boise State is preseason ranked #54 - makes the field by finishing as the 6th highest ranked conference champion.

Reportedly Phillips, former AD at Northwestern is signing a 3-year extension to stay on as the ACC commissioner. In even more bending over to Notre Dame football, the ACC is dropping divisions but will remain at 8 conference games. Why? Because Notre Dame plays 4 to 6 games every season vs the SEC and Georgia Tech plays Georgia, FSU plays Florida, Clemson plays South Carolina and Louisville plays Kentucky. Hats off to FSU for playing both LSU and Florida in 2023. At this point in time, I see no additional B1G growth until the next media go-round. The B1G deal is locked in and FOX has kept ESPN out of LA. Also, the Pac-10 media rights deal looks like it will extend perhaps into June. I doubt the B1G is going to come after Oregon, UW, or any other Pac-12 teams before it knows the bidding floor for Pac-10 teams. And I do not think that many of the B1G presidents want to be responsible for the complete destruction of the Pacific conference. Also, Ohio State canceling out playing UW in Seattle in 2024 with a return game the following year in Columbus is telling in regards to B1G teams' desire to travel to the Left Coast.

Darren, if a tree falls in the forest ...? Great update on Who Knows if Bo can win the Heisman? But other than the game when USC trips to Autzen in November (and the game best kick off no later than 4:30 Pacific time) will enough eyeballs be on Bo to bring home the prize if Bo plays well enough to earn the reward? Interesting that you mentioned Derrick Henry. As David Shaw said Christenson deserved the award but far more people watched Henry play football in the Big, Bad SEC. How great is it that in 2023 4 Pac-12 QBs, Williams, Penix, Bo, and Rising are in ESPN's top 10 returning QB list? But as Charles cautions the Ducks will need to go 13-1 and win the conference title in a year that has 'cannibal' written all over it.

Why do bird bombs always seem to target my car right after it comes out of the car wash?

No surprise to me that Georgia spends the most on recruiting and has a terrific ROI. Oregon Recruiting: Where Ducks rank among biggest spenders in 2022 DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM College football recruiting has turned into an arms race. So where does Oregon rank amongst the biggest spenders in the nation?

Katz has Oregon ranked at #30. 4th in the Pac-12 behind UCLA, Arizona, and USC. Oregon among Andy Katz's Top 36 teams of 2023-24 DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Andy Katz puts Oregon in his “way-to-early” rankings for 2023-24, suggesting the Ducks’ March Madness drought is about to end.

Thanks my friend but at 76 years of age I'm too worried about what happens beyond the games already scheduled. With SC/UCLA in the B1G fold Ohio State has already paid UW $500K not to play in Seattle next season. We should expect much of the same.

Thanks for this post, PA. I subscribe to JC's site and I recommend the site as being well worth the subscription.

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No advantage over ESPN with its ESPN+ streaming but a potential advantage over the B1G and B12 that do not have streaming as part of their new deals.

Jon, appreciate and understand your reluctance in regard to this subject. But when it comes down to the numbers Oregon was the 7th most watched CFB team in the country last season And THIS was with 45% of the conference football games being "featured" on a network that few (13M subscribers) could watch. It's not like Oregon and the Pac-10 is moving from a terrific media deal to a questionable media deal. Today's media deal is not close to that of the B1G and the SEC and the new deal will not bridge the financial gap. Hopefully. the new deal will come close to the $31.6M a year B12 deal? Hopefully, streaming will take off. I have seen many the take that the ACC and the SEC Networks will both be streaming on ESPN+.

But perhaps start with Vandy and work our way up?

Thank you WK, but the only flour I am interested in comes in cookies and cakes that someone else bakes. This media rights negotiation has been in the oven for a long time but after a long gestation period, baby elephants come out cute and destined to grow into bigger things. Tom Petty: The waiting is the hardest part.

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It is frustrating as an Oregon fan to suffer all the slings and arrows being aimed at the Pac-10 and its failure to complete as of yet, a new media deal. But let's not forget that 45% of the conference games last season were broadcast on the Pac-12 Network. A network with 13M subscribers and a network not available in many parts of the US of A. And the conference commissioner was stuck with this loser of a network and stuck with FOX leading the LA schools to the B1G. Stuck with being lied to by Kevin Warren, the B1G, Carol Folt, and drag-along UCLA. I do not see a streaming component or a partnership with CW and ION as being any less injurious to the conference as was Larry's Lousy Network. A streaming component while coming with risk means that it is coming with perhaps, a huge upside. I do not think any P5 commissioner has been dealt a tougher negotiating hand than George Kliavkoff. Trying to make chicken salad out of chicken spit is not easy.

Update. As of 4/7/22, I have not heard back from Rob. This is as shocking as my once again, not being invited to play in the Masters.

The dreaded affirmation of agreement. To think, we could have a Pac-20 with USC and maybe UCLA getting a bigger share of the revenue pie but SC's Carol Folt led the charge against expansion. It's every Spoiled Child for itself. As a Ducks fan, I wish I had standing to file suit.

More bad news on the new media agreement up on Fansided and The Athletic today. I refuse to post any more of this negative stuff. What's the use? At this point, all of these negative takes are simply piling on. The absence of a deal after months of negotiation speaks for itself.

Great take my friend. We are already seeing the impact of the coming 12-team playoff (which I think will go to 16 in 2027 when ESPN loses its exclusive broadcast agreement) with better OOC scheduling in the SEC and elsewhere. A decade ago I never would have believed that we would see Florida leaving Florida for an OOC game let alone tripping to Salt Lake City. 4 team playoff is a piece of cake for the PO Committee. 2Ls and you are out. But with 12 teams and 6 at-large spots to be filled, I am hoping that SOS is truly going to matter. I am hoping that the OOC schedules UCLA and Michigan played in 2022 and will play in 2023 will automatically DQ you from an at-large spot come 2024/25. Who knows why UGA canceled a H+H with Oregon but it wasn't because Georgia was afraid to play Oregon. Anyone who thinks that has a screw loose. BTW, UGA has a bad OOC schedule this season but playing in the SEC overcomes this kind of OOC schedule. Georgia is a premier CFB program. With the way things are going (not going) media-wise and with OOC big games vs the B12 for the next 6 seasons, I am hoping that the Oregon brand will not suffer.

Georgia canceled a H+H with Oregon as did A+M. Florida is playing at Utah this season. A number of Pac/SEC H+H games have been scheduled over the next decade. Not certain but I think UGA may have a H+H scheduled with CU.

USC has an upcoming game versus an SEC team scheduled. The game will be played in Allegiant Stadium. BYU played a neutral site game there last season. Don't know about Santa Clara and LA.

The ACC is dumping divisions but will stay at 8 conference games. That leaves plenty of inventory if ACC teams want to play 2 P5 OOC games. Notre Dame playing 4 to 6 games every season against ACC teams also mucks things up.

Texas gave Bama all it could handle last season and should be a tough out for Bama in Tuscaloosa this season. Bama has stepped up its OOC scheduling. Arizona has a H+H series scheduled with Bama down the road. Most likely beginning in 2024 Bama and all SEC teams will play 9 and not 8 regular season games.

Good point but Michigan and UCLA in 2023 as they did in 2022, have 3 guaranteed OOC wins. All are being played respectively in LA and in Ann Arbor. Winning in Lubbock (Texas Tech could be a preseason top-25 team,) Waco, and Stillwater is not easy. IMO these are games where Oregon has a lot to lose and very little to gain. And none of these games is must-watch TV. Oregon at this point in time cannot hide its light under a bushel. These games will not result in Oregon being the 7th most-watched team in the nation as was the case in 2022.