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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........

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.