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Most are talking heads. Very little experts there. It is mostly about narrative and bias. Look at the SEC standings. All teams undefeated or with 1 loss are all ranked. Some of them have a nice OOC win, but not all. B1G TEN, ACC and Big 12 1 loss teams aren't given the same bias.

Franklin has a 50 million dollar buy out, if he were to be fired at the end of the season. I'm not sure PSU's athletic board has the same nonchalance about throwing away that kind of money like Texas A&M did with Jimbo Fisher. Oregon Ducks are 3-0 vs Penn State the last 2 games. Oregon Ducks beat PSU twice last Saturday.

Chad Powers was initially played by Eli Manning at a Penn St. walk on practice a few years ago. Chad Powers was created by Eli and Payton Manning.

Remember, these are teenagers making their first big life decision for recruiting. Then for the Transfer Portal, there are many reasons to change teams. Should somebody stay at a job that isn't the right fit for them? Don't get me wrong, there are probably many players just frustrated they expected something different. Some are willing to struggle, most want the "easy" path.

Statistical anomaly. Pick and choose what you think is important and make up an equation. FPI and SP+ I think of tendencies. They are paint by number pictures. They aren't going to produce a Monet, Picasso or Van Gogh.

I'm not sure a top 4 seed is all that the CFP thought it would be. Yes, teams potentially play 1 less game, but last year not a single top 4 team won their game. It will be interesting to see if the different seeding makes a difference. Going a month between playing games is not great. Dan Lannings thoughts of starting the playoff sooner will probably start picking up steam, if the bye teams keep losing.

I got an antenna for my TV, so I could get FOX, ABC, CBS and NBC. It doesn't help me with ESPN, Fox Sports or recording, but at least I can watch most of the big games lives, if my cable provider can't come to a deal. I had to drop Dish TV because they didn't have FOX(?) for almost a year.

All SoS and SoR metrics are biased. It is unfortunate, but that is just how they work. If they are going to use these metrics, they should use more than one to try and thin out the biases.

The NBA has a rule requiring existing teams the rights to reject new teams in their home territory. The Charlotte's home territory is considered North and South Carolina. I doubt the Hornets are going to OK a move a NBA team in Raleigh. Especially, when the last 2 years they had the lowest attendance in the NBA. I have heard, Raleigh is a college town, not much of a professional team town. The Hurricanes do well enough with attendance, but I'm not sure a city with Duke, UNC and NCST would do well with a NBA team. I'd put in another professional team, that isn't basketball.

"Evan won't be spending the entire fall in Miami." I understand there are online classes, but I feel like a University of Oregon student should be required to be within driving distance of the campus. I feel like all universities that aren't "online" universities should at the bare minimum require students to take midterms and finals in a classroom. I get it is 2025 and we have great technology, but there should be some requirements of in person attendance at universities. I know I'm definitely getting old....

Sources: Oakmont shuts out Wyndham Clark for damaging locker Sources - Oakmont shuts out Wyndham Clark for damaging locker - ESPN

@JabbaNoBargain It isn't a theory, it is in the rules for the CFP and what every conference wants, besides the B1G TEN. 5+11 The CFP is throwing the group of 6 a bone with no meat.

The different look PAC12 should always be in the running for the last conference championship auto bid. Almost all the best American Athletic Conference football teams left. I'd say 9 out of 10 times, their champion will be the 5th highest ranked conference winner. The B1G TEN and Big 12 are the only 2 conferences that play 9 conference games.

I don't think Eugene has bad enough weather to build a dome stadium.

It has been a full year since OSU/WSU were left because of the football business decisions they made. They are making the best of their "now" situation. They are not stealing anything from any school, since every other PAC 12 team left of their own free will. I remember when the Ducks hadn't yet left for the B1G about discussions leaving USC and UCLA out of PAC 12 payments. The PAC 12 is still a brand name and OSU/WSU are using that. Not that 30 million per school is a little amount, but Oregon will make up the 30 mil in 1 or 2 years? However, OSU and WSU have to deal with being an afterthought probably forever. The bullying of OSU and WSU is kicking a dead horse at this point. Oregon is in a much better financial place, to be angry at OSU/WSU for trying to make lemonade out of lemons........