Tandaian

Sleeping giant in Texas State. 36,000 plus undergraduate students. Plus, they keep the trend going with it being a state school. School Undergrad Texas State 36,206 San Diego State 33,839 Oregon State 30,021 Colorado State 26,168 Boise State 23,543 Utah State 25,702 Washington State 21,923 Fresno State 21,318

I'm sorry, lame excuse, "The committee realizes there are hurdles to implementing the quarter format to the game, including the structuring of media timeouts to accommodate commercial inventory." Makes zero sense, since the college women use quarters and the WNBA and NBA use quarters. Quarters are way better IMO, simply because of fouls. 20-minute halves can bog down the game because of the amount of FTs.

I received my notification from the University of Oregon for away game tickets. I'm guessing the Penn State game will sell out quick.

When the list has most of the Ivy League schools and the military schools, you know it is click bait.

If I don't see a contract, I take all this with heaping grains of salt. The 10 million also could be over all 4 years, still staggering, but less eye popping than 10 million for 1 year.

All the talking heads keep saying: The Big Ten and SEC control everything – format and financials – beginning in 2026 for the CFP. Is that all "talk" or is there some contract language that makes it so? I guess they could say to the rest of college football, we are taking our ball on only going to play with the B1G and SEC, but that seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I know the NFL only has 32 teams, but having only 34 teams decide the NCAA championship isn't enough?

The Capital One standings are only about how a team finishes in the sport. It has zero to do with conference finishes. Those standings do reflect teams with many sports, but you do have to finish in the top 10 to get any points. Just because a school has 100 sports, it doesn't just give the school points in the standings. The Ducks are one of the best Universities for bang for the buck. Yes, the spring sports will change those standings and likely improve the Ducks rankings.

Copy of COC Database 2024-2025 Standings of how teams finish in sports, not just conference finishes. tOSU #1 in Men's sports. PSU #1 in Women's sports. If baseball and softball can help Oregon big time.

It is likely going to be football and men's basketball for the majority of schools. Then, however many women's sports it takes to satisfy Title IX. I can see in 10 years where Olympic sports are all but gone from college. Colleges probably don't really think about it, but without Olympic sports at colleges, USA is not going to dominate the summer Olympics in 10 years. Having 300+ colleges supporting all those Olympic sports is huge for our dominance.

I like the elimination of the championship game, but how do you convince the conferences to lose out on millions of dollars? If the games are done in November, they can get all the CFP games, except the championship game, done in December. It won't ever happen because of money, but I would have the first round and quarterfinals play at the better seed's home stadium. Only the semifinals and championship game get a CFP. There are 6 major bowl games, so they would have to rotate every other year.

I wouldn't be broken up about Dana retiring. I'm ready for a new coach. Dana has been a Power 5 coach for 25 years. He has 17 NCAA bids, with Covid year cancelled. 3 sweet 16 runs, 1 great 8 run and 1 final 4. Dana is a very good coach, but if there is an upgrade out there... I think he has run his course, and we won't win a championship with him.

It seems like 2029-2031 will be an interesting time. TV contract expiration. Mountain West expires 2025-26. B1G TEN is the 2029-30 school year. Big 12 is the 2030-31 school year. AAC is the 2031-32 school year. SEC is the 2033-34 school year. The SEC is the SEC, but being last might not be a great place to be. I also don't think 10+ year contracts are going to happen again. B1G TEN did a 6 year contract. That seems like about right. The ACC settlement sets it up, so teams can leave. It will still hurt, but not as much.

Where did this idea of pharmaceutical companies won't be able to advertise on TV? The closest article I could find was from a couple weeks ago, where a proposal of new drugs couldn't be advertised until 3 years after FDA approval. That is a far cry from no advertising at all. The law hasn't even passed yet. I don't think we have to be concerned about advertising money.

I'm not a fan of the B1G TEN announcers being so biased against, UO, UW, USC and UCLA. They aren't even trying to hide it.

The road trips are very similar to what happened during the Pac12 and your travel buddy. Oregon combined tOSU and Penn St. with one flight. Same with Michigan and MSU. The same with Iowa and Wisconsin. Teams coming west will either play UO/UW together or USC/UCLA together. There are one offs in both directions, but typically the B1G TEN did try and get two teams scheduled together when they flew long distances.