I am right there with you. I will not turn on ESPN unless it is to watch a Duck game. I switched to the Fox kickoff show instead of Gameday a few years ago when they brought on that loudmouth, Pat McAfee. I used to watch Sportscenter everyday. I have not watched in close to 10 years.

I am done with their nonsense.

Go Rams!!

The SEC is now 1-6 in their last 7 games against the BIG?

This looks more better than last year. 🙃

Those are awesome!! Should have maybe wore them for a prime time major network game.

If this is not resolved by Thursday…..Fubo come on down. You are next up on my rotating door of steaming services.

Why didn’t they try and give that $300M to the BIG-12 as a buy in. If that didn’t work, could they have offered to split it equally with the MW to merge under the PAC-12 name to create the top G5 league?

Now they have no future. The money is a very short term fix, but when that runs out, they have nothing.

I suspect the the BIG will agree to the 5+11 model now, assuming the ACC follows suit and goes to 9 conference games.

As part of this, SEC teams will be required to play at least 1 P4 game OOC as well, so that is a win.

I really wish we could get to a place where each league plays 9 conference games with 2 OOC games against the other P4 + one G5 team. Drop the FCS teams all together.

Let’s play games that matter and help sort out the imbalance in the sport.

It looks like that is fake news. Sorry for the misinformation everyone! I tried to remove but I am too late.

Nico didnt win the starting job at UCLA? Wow.

“Sankey went back and said no to the 9 games, but still wants the B1G to agree to the 5+11 model.”

If Tony is smart, he will not budge and leave it at 12 teams until the ACC and SEC agree to go to 9 conference games. Without extra autobids and the current conference schedule discrepancy, the BIG is at a huge disadvantage.

That extra $8M would have ended up mostly in the SECs pockets last year. With the BIG getting essentially nothing and Illinois getting hosed.

I hope Tony is smart and just sits on his hands. The SEC by far has the most to lose in the current format, so just hang out and make them suffer.

This just keeps getting more bonkers! 24 or 28 teams now?? 8-5 teams everywhere in the playoff? No thank you.

https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/08/16/oregon-ducks-big-ten-college-football-playoff-expansion/85690806007/#

Highlight film looks positive. This kid looks to be an elite athlete for his size.

15 hours ago, DrJacksPlaidPants said:

Raleigh is ripe for a NBA team. It’s one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the country and is a hot bed for sports. They would also draw many fans from nearby Durham and Chapel Hill. Also, the Lenovo Center is already decked out in red and black because it houses Canes hockey and Wolfpack basketball.

My thought is Dundan will give it a couple of years in Portland and see how the revenue does. By then the parking garages will be finished at the Lenovo Center and making the move would be a bit more palatable. If a new arena starts going up in The Triangle then we will see the writing on the wall.

I lived in Raleigh from 2011 through 2015. While it may not be a major city yet, it is one of the fastest growing in the US. And there is good reason for that. The climate is fairly mild, outside of a couple hot and humid summer months. The city is highly educated, with Duke, NC State, Wake, and UNC all within a direct shot. At one point I believe Raleigh had the highest percentage of residents holding a masters degree, when compared to all other cities in the US. Cost of living is reasonable, which allows for more activities outside of essentials. In my experience, there is a culture where the city is crazy about their sports teams. The food scene took off while I was living there too.

I could see why an NBA would find Raleigh very attractive. I love Raleigh. I have lived in many cities and several different states for work and Raleigh was my favorite (but I did miss seeing Duck games live).

It still seems like every game I watched within the Cristobal era was a 1 score game until late in the 4th quarter. I know that is not the case, but it still feels that way. It is difficult as a fan to watch games and think, "are they going to find a way to lose this?".

I think the turning point for me was the Cal game at home after the COVID year. Oregon won that game, but the offense was flat out terrible. The fans were booing the play calling and IIRC Mario was upset because he thought they were booing the players.

Nice article! I am so glad we somehow ended up with Lanning out of all this. It was worth all the nonsense from Cristobal and Taggart.

"Do something"? What a joke that was! However, Taggart did have the offense humming. Oregon was averaging over 50ppg when Herbert was healthy that year and there were explosive plays all over the field. How Cristobal took that over and turned it into a pedestrian mid-30s ppg average for three years, will forever stink like low tide in my book. What a absolute waste of talent!

I am probably the only one with this opinion, but if someone told me I had to pick between the two right now, I would probably still go with Taggart. At least the team was excited, showed emotion, scored points, and was not continuously dropping games to double-digit underdogs every single season.

Oh...and actually running out the game clock when the opportunity arises, instead of fumbling the game away.

Huge commitment.

7 hours ago, The Kamikaze Kid said:

Fun topic. Here's my take toughest to easiest.

1. At Iowa. A good defensive game but UO has way too much offense to keep it close. Ducks by 10.

2. At fuskies. Their improving offense gets smothered by UO's relentless defense with no answer for Moore to Moore. Ducks by 14.

3. Indiana. The Hoosiers take a step back this year but are still well coached and put up a fight for awhile. Ducks by 18.

4. SUC. As another humbling season approaches the end, a checked out SUC shows up at Autzen ready for their beatdown. Ducks by 20.

I am in line with this thinking. Iowa and UW are the two toughest games and are on the same list.

Indiana will take a step back. USC still has major problems on both lines. And I am not convinced that Maiava can make a decent decision in crunch time. Ducks by 3 scores.

I don’t really have an issue with the rankings. Maiava made a ton of mistakes in crunch time last season. I am shocked he still had the job. I probably would have had Moore in front of him at 9.

Looking at last season: The 4 extra at large teams would have been South Carolina, Ole Miss, Alabama and Miami. That is 3 SEC teams that would have qualified for the playoff in the final 4 slots. All with 3 or more losses, all while only playing 8 conference games and a bunch of FCS schools.

Because of the skewed rankings and 8 game conference schedule, those three SEC teams had a huge, unfair advantage over Illinois, who was also 10-3 but had to play 11 power 4 schools last year.

Then Illinois went out and beat South Carolina in the post season. There is no doubt in my mind that Illinois was a better football team than South Carolina last year, but they would have been left out due to unbalanced schedule and media narrative.

I won’t even bring up the fact that 8-5 Michigan beat Alabama. Or the fact that the SEC had a losing record in the playoff and has not made the finals in 2 years.

Petitti should never agree to 5+11 without everyone playing 9 conference games. In a 5+11 model, the BIG in most cases is going to be on the outside looking in for those final 4 spots. They will go to the ACC and SEC with less conference games and overall losses.

Thanks for sharing. Hilarious. The data is all skewed by the subjective rankings.

Somebody should tell this guy the BIG went 5-1 against the SEC in the post season last year (2-0 in the playoffs, and 3-1 in bowls).

Props to Florida for playing Miami and FSU out of conference. They don’t need to change anything. The rest of the SEC though?

I hope Petitti holds strong and sits on his hands and keeps the playoff in the current format. Because of the skewed rankings, it’s the middle SEC teams that will suffer the most if the playoff is not expanded to 16 teams. He needs to force them to play 9 conference games.

Tony just needs to sit on his hands, do nothing, and keep the current format. With the skewed rankings and the 8 game schedule, it will be the SEC that is missing out on the extra playoff spots. The pressure will mount eventually.

Three seems fair. Penn State returns a ton on both sides of the ball and gets Oregon at home. osu2 has a 90+% blue chip ranking.

Seems right to me.

If Oregon finishes 3rd behind osu2 and Penn State, that still likely means a playoff birth.

Yahooo!!!

Need one more shooting guard and should be set.