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2025 BIG Info, Predictions, Etc. (10)
B1G Time! https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/b1g-time-bryce-underwood-vs-dylan-raiola-hogs-spotlight-as-illinois-indiana-vie-for-cfp-positioning/?eid=c7d8647c6247db8d08c59fe44bc30380a147aa90b9e33099045cd46ddc6a485b&ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0b&ET_CID=475875&ET_RID=524827
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2025 Football Poll Rankings
These FanDuel 'rankings' are bullish on the B1G. An airhead biffs her AP Top 25 vote? No B1G deal. The 'bookies votes' mean $ in one direction or the other. 🤑 Victory Bell RingsBig Ten dominates CFP championship FanDuel odds after Week 3After Week 3, No. 1 Ohio State, No. 2 Penn State, and No. 6 Oregon lead the list for most likely to win the College Football Playoff Championship Game. Per Fan
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2025 BIG Info, Predictions, Etc. (10)
Keep your Bruin paws off of OBD's Stein! https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2025/09/16/realistic-coaching-candidates-ucla-football-coaching-job/86179403007/?utm_source=smg-trojanswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campai
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2025 BIG Info, Predictions, Etc. (10)
Week 4. B1G games and Big Games. AP NewsCollege football Week 4: Conference matchups in spotlight...The college football season has reached the point where conference play starts taking center stage. All three Top 25 matchups Saturday are conference games with intriguing storylines.
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When Oregon Kidnapped the Oregon State Homecoming Queen
Bob, simply fantastic! Further proof that 89 is the new 50. I love the blasts from the past. 'Looked up phone numbers.' Younger OBDers, the numbers were found in a book, not on a handheld computer. 'Prepared maps.' To accomplish this, you needed to examine printed materials and write down the directions using something referred to as a pen or pencil on something called 'paper.' If you got lost, the paper most definitely did not speak to you to get you back on track. I'm guessing here, but I imagine there was less traffic, coming and going, on what is referred to today as the I-5. 'Coats and ties.' Huh? 'Pay phone.' Huh? '1957 Open.' I'm on the verge of becoming a mere octogenarian, and I'm pretty sure you could kick my 'young' butt on the golf course.😁 No Amber Alert? No police dragnet? No disgruntled families, 'victims,' or editors-in-chief. And college authorities with a sense of humor? Who knew? Thank you, Sir, can we have another?
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Dark Knight vs Whiteout: Oregon vs Penn State
All great and interesting comments. With a win at the game's end, let them wear whatever. What are the Forum Fanatics attending the game wearing? Camouflage? It's 5000 of OBD vs. 101,000 of them, and I like the odds 😍. Allar's been Allar, and James been small ball James, since I don't know when. Meanwhile, bash the instigators of faux treachery, the cesspool of avarice, the charioteer of reverse hypocrisy, the receptacle of malice, the disseminator of hatred, the fabricator of lies, the artful backbiter notorious for deception, and Pelt the Beavers! Take No Prisoners! Salt the Corvallis Earth! Let the Civil War see no further birth.
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More Surprises: Oregon Linebacker Jerry Mixon...Big-10 Defensive Player of the Week?
Some more love for Mr. Mixon. 👍👌😎 https://athlonsports.com/college-football/new-oregon-starter-ranks-as-nations-top-graded-linebacker
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Oregon Ducks - OSU Beavers Pre-Game Reports, Interviews, Etc.
College Football News - OBD 47 - Beavis 10 - Oregon covers -35.5! https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/oregon-vs-oregon-state-prediction-preview-2025
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2025 BIG Info, Predictions, Etc. (10)
Week 4 - 10 games with possible PO impact. Saturday BlitzThe 10 most fascinating games on the College Football Wee...Week 4 of the College Football season has arrived, and while it doesn't have as many high caliber matchups as Week 3, this should be another exciting weekend. T
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OFF TOPICS: For Your Interest (8)
Without Golden, the Golden Domers' D has turned to Ash. 😁Notre Dame now has to cheer on for old SC! 🤬 Trojans are Grin(ch)ing. 😍 https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/trojans/football/2025/09/15/chris-ash-notre-dame-football-alex-grinch-usc/86164827007/?utm_source=smg-trojanswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGbaseline&utm_t
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Other Games--GameDay Thread: Week 3!
Mad about Manning? How about mad at Manning? On3WATCH: Texas fans boo Arch Manning, Longhorns amid sluggi.... Multi-millionaire players are not 'student-athletes' and will be subjected to boos, especially when preseason rankings and Heisman odds have no clue. 🤪 Boo Hoo. 🤬
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Other Games--GameDay Thread: Week 3!
On3's Ari Wasseman's Review of Week 3. Ari is one of many writers formerly with The Athletic who have jumped ship and are on board On3. How about Arch Madness coming about with Texas fans mad at and booing Archie? On3Unfiltered Takes after Week 3: Arch Manning, DJ Lagway, T...There is a lot to keep up with on a college football Saturday. Here are some takes to keep you up with what happened over the weekend.
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Dark Knight vs Whiteout: Oregon vs Penn State
SC is ranked 25th in the current AP Poll. SC should take care of business at home Saturday against Michigan State. Then the Trojans play at Illinois, bye, host Michigan, and then play ND on the road. ND will be rooting for Illinois to win at Indiana on Saturday. This Saturday, Notre Dame hosts (and likely hoists) Purdue, plays at Arkansas against a prolific Hogs O, hosts a now off-the-radar Boise State, has a week off, and then hosts SC. SC is not happy with the timing of ND's 2nd bye week, and is not happy that, in addition to traveling to South Bend, it also travels to Illinois, Nebraska, and Northwestern. 2026 is the last game scheduled in the long-running series. ND makes more money from NBC with SC on its schedule. The SC series helps ND recruit So-Cal. Games played in South Bend are but one game where SC has to travel East. SC decides to cancel ND, and I would understand, and I also believe that the cancellation would not shake the very foundation of CFB.
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Dark Knight vs Whiteout: Oregon vs Penn State
I have no beef with Freeman. I have a beef with Georgia and Penn State having played one more game, against an excellent opponent, than Notre Dame last season, and that ND played four G5 opponents in 2024. I also have a beef with an AD having the same voting power as a conference commissioner, at least the Power 2 commissioners. Chris Ash is not doing the job as Al Golden's replacement at DC.
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Poor Rushing Defense: How Realistic Are We?
Great take. It's hard to win football games. The 100% accomplishment vs. NW, there were no penalties called on OBD.
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Poor Rushing Defense: How Realistic Are We?
Bill Connolly's model is MAD about, not at, the Ducks! ESPN.comRanking CFB's 39 unbeaten teams: Who is most likely to st...Bill Connelly separates the contenders from the pretenders among the remaining undefeated teams.
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Foster Out at UCLA; Pry at Va Tech
The Athletic's Bruce Feldman rates the candidates for the UCLA job in this order - USC DC - D'Anton Lynn - 2nd-highest-paid assistant coach in the country behind Jim Knowles. Penn State grad. Lynn was contacted by PSU for the DC job before Lynn was hired. Baylor HC - Dave Aranda - LA guy. Kelani Satke - HC BYU Tosh Lupoi - OBD DC FSU DC and UCLA grad Tony White. Browns OC Tommy Rees New Mexico HC- Jason Eck Rivals has UCLA ranked 49th in recruiting.
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Foster Out at UCLA; Pry at Va Tech
One thing I do know, I'd love to be Pat Fitzgerald's agent. 🤑Pat has to be on the Wisconsin AD's speed dial. AD train wreck, Dan Guerrero, put UCLA athletics in the deep red. Jim Mora never should have been fired. What bona fide coach would want to coach football in Westwood? Basketball, yes. But football. Brent Pry was a graduate assistant at VA Tech before serving as James Franklin's DC at Penn State from 2016 through 2021. Could Michael Vick return to his alma mater? How about a return home for South Carolina coach Shane Beamer? Vandy beat up the Gamecocks yesterday, but the damage was done after QB Sellers left with a concussion. Beamer's done a very good job at USC(e), including on the recruiting front, but the Gamecocks' next SEC title will be the first. At VA Tech, Shane played on 3 teams that won Big East Conference championships.
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2025 Football Poll Rankings
Week 3 AP Poll - 11 SEC teams ranked. Last week, Michigan lost at Oklahoma and dropped nine spots. Yesterday, Tennessee lost at home and dropped 0 spots. 0-2 Notre Dame is still in the top 25. 12-team playoff sees 11 Oklahoma and 13 Ole Miss as the teams knocked out by 12 Iowa State and 32 Tulane. Greg Sankey's response: 🤬🤬🤬 No. 6 seed OBD would host No. 11 Iowa State in the 1st round. Win and it's LSU in the Sugar Bowl. 😧 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.
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Dark Knight vs Whiteout: Oregon vs Penn State
Many of the highly preseason-touted QBs in Dixie have failed to play as advertised. Cade Klubnik, Archie, Lagway threw 5 picks yesterday 😧, even LSU's Nussmeier has not played to the level expected preseason. Gunnar Stockton came threw 😁 yesterday with a late and great TD throw and a toss for a 2-point conversion. Ditto Marcel Reed. And how about Ole Miss backup QB Trinidad Chambliss, who transferred in from Ferris State and won a shootout against Boise State transfer Taylen Green and Arkansas. 0-2 Notre Dame's trip to Arkansas could be the nail in the Irish PO coffin. Other than at LSU, is there a D in the SEC?
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Will Game Day Show UP for Battle of Reigning Conference Champs at Autzen?
UCLA paid the New Mexico Lobos $1,250,000.00 to visit the Rose Bowl and Win the Day in LA. The official attendance was reported as 31,123. Folks on hand say that the 'real attendance' was less than half of the official attendance. Rumor has it that most of Nico's family decided not to attend. 😉
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Will Game Day Show UP for Battle of Reigning Conference Champs at Autzen?
I hope BTN announcers show up in Autzen to do a live broadcast and not an off-screen broadcast from Chicago. How's Rico paying off? At 0-2, with losses to UNLV and New Mexico, the far from frosty Foster's have moved into the Mountain West basement. The basement is located in Cheyenne Mountain, where the Bruins' D is probably safe from being bombed. 😁 UCLA is checking with Cal to see if the Golden Bears will accept an We O U?
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Other Games--GameDay Thread: Week 3!
How about A&M! First win on the road against a top 10 team since 2014. 13 road games vs. top-10 losses before tonight's win in South Bend. ND at Arkansas this Saturday won't be a lay-up for the Irish. The Hogs on the road at Ole Miss were in the game to the very end of a seven-point loss shoot-out. ND, without another top 25-ranked opponent on the schedule to date, could be in PO trouble. With Pitt losing the Back Yard Brawl game to the West Virginia Rich-Rods, USC, 3-0, and a 33-17 winner at Purdue, could be the Domers' only top-25 opponent hope.
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Other Games--GameDay Thread: Week 3!
With Ls vs UNLV and New Mexico, UCLA has secured last place in the Mountain West. Nico - 'This is what I get for coming home?' I hope our friend Nevada Dawg, ND, didn't have to call on an MD as the Dawgs somehow walk away with another W over the Vols. Fantastic game! 1901 - last time TOSU lost to an in-state opponent, but Ohio kept it close until it didn't. Michigan, in a walkover game, decides to play the O it should have last week. Perhaps Sherrone should serve more minutes in the penalty box. Beavis should have snuck out during the weather delay. And Wazzu? Thanks for being the weeds mowed down by The Big Green Machine. 1st huge game of the season next Saturday when OBD faces the top team in the Pac-12, right? This year's Indiana could well be ... Indiana. 73-0 Largest Hooisir shutout since 1901. In honor of two B1G 1901's, Hats Off to Teddy Roosevelt! This year's 2024 FSU could be Clemson. Sue your ACC off at your own risk? USC 33 - Purdue 17 - SC wins its first B1G road game as a conference member and goes 1-9 in its last 10 road games in the Eastern time zone; first win since 2012. Great News! OBD is now 1-1 vs, the NW Wildcats! 1974? What are you good for? Absolutely Nothing!
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Post Northwestern Game…Reactions?
OBD - TCB in CHI 😍