Texas Blocks Ohio State Game-Time Change...

[GatOrlando]

It appears the Texas Longhorns are more than happy to play at Ohio State at Noon. Their reason? Well apparently it's because the AD doesn't want to play Sunday night because of personal reasons. I won't mock him for his reason because I understand. However I doubt it's true because Texas has played on Sunday before. Plus Texas has a private jet that could get him from Austin at 2 pm and get to Columbus in two hours.

 

We love football in the South and we have traditional beliefs. But I've never hear of an AD making millions blow so much smoke. Texas is no longer burnt orange, they're yellow. I wonder if Ohio State will try something next year because we all know they're very touchy about slights. I'm sure they're still chapped about Oregon beating them last year off what they call a cheap play, but it was actually Lanning knowing the rules. 

 

I heard the Oregon at Penn State game will be a 7pm btw. That's going to be an awesome environment. Oregon should wear all black and come out to the Darth Vader theme.

 

 

[30Duck]

On 5/31/2025 at 6:21 AM, GatOrlando said:

Oregon should wear all black and come out to the Darth Vader theme.

 

[Jon Joseph]

On 5/31/2025 at 9:21 AM, GatOrlando said:

It appears the Texas Longhorns are more than happy to play at Ohio State at Noon. Their reason? Well apparently it's because the AD doesn't want to play Sunday night because of personal reasons. I won't mock him for his reason because I understand. However I doubt it's true because Texas has played on Sunday before. Plus Texas has a private jet that could get him from Austin at 2 pm and get to Columbus in two hours.

 

We love football in the South and we have traditional beliefs. But I've never hear of an AD making millions blow so much smoke. Texas is no longer burnt orange, they're yellow. I wonder if Ohio State will try something next year because we all know they're very touchy about slights. I'm sure they're still chapped about Oregon beating them last year off what they call a cheap play, but it was actually Lanning knowing the rules. 

 

I heard the Oregon at Penn State game will be a 7pm btw. That's going to be an awesome environment. Oregon should wear all black and come out to the Darth Vader theme.

 

 

 

Compared to the PO posturing of Greg Sankey and his conference, the Longhorns/Buckeyes kick-off time is not that B1G a deal. As I explained in another post, this whole Advisory Committee detente looks like a front for Sankey to pivot and make Tony Petitti and the B1G look like the PO format bad guys.

 

Looks like Sankey is going to sucker punch Pettitti like he did Bob Bowlsby while designing a new PO format and at the same time he was negotiating with Oklahoma and Texas to join the SEC.

 

Before he arrived in Destin, Florida, for the SEC meetings, Sankey was not aware that in 2024-25, with a 16-team PO field and a 5/11 PO format, the SEC would have had six teams in the field? This is duplicitous and disengenuous. According to Greg, he heard for the first time in Florida that his coaches only want to play eight regular-season games, and the majority are not in favor of a B1G/SEC football challenge. He's this clueless about the tenor of his member teams? 

 

There are multi-millions of dollars at play here, and apparently, I'm the only Duck to have his feathers ruffled over what looks to be a S(ec)tab in the back. Sankey is the hero for backing a 5-11 format with Petitti and the B1G being branded greedy, selfish SOBs who care not about 'The Good of the Game.'

 

I'm not throwing shade at you or the other SEC friends who post here. It's simply that I've seen this movie before when Pac-12 'leadership' led to an implosion of the conference. This will not happen to the Big Ten. However, Petitti couldn't see through Sankey's call to him to form an Advisory Committee and move in lockstep on college football issues could pivot into an in-your-face?

 

That a 4-4-2-2-1-1 PO format, the leaked story of ESPN paying more for a 9th conference game, and the leaked story about the SEC wanting to play a football challenge, were only feints before the sword was turned in the direction of the B1G.  

 

I very much doubt the B1G, as it did a week before the SEC meetings, would have approved a 4-4-2-2-1-1, or alternatively, a 4-4-2-2-1-3 PO format, without believing the SEC also backed one or the other format.

 

What are today's stories up on The Athletic, ESPN, CBS, and other CFB sites?

 

"Hurrah! Sankey and the SEC look like they will ride to the PO format rescue." 

 

BTW, I hope the cynic in me is wrong, but I doubt it. If I am right, I expect the supposed detente between the conferences will righteously disappear.

 

As to Texas AD Del Conte, he not only objected to the game being played on Sunday evening because he had to go to church (there are no churches in Columbus, Ohio, open on a Sunday?) but also that Texas with have a short week to prepare for the home game versus San Jose State.

 

I believe the Spartans from San Jose will be four TDs or more under Spartans heading into this game in Austin, Texas. Again, this behavior is both snarky and disengenuous, with no respect shown to Ohio State and AD Bjork.

 

Of course, the Week 2 Michigan at Oklahoma game will kick off at 7:30 EST on ABC. The SEC again jocks the B1G by having a broadcast partner that does everything it can to promote the conference during the week and by showing the biggest (sigh) SEC games in prime time.

 

Fortunately, Fox did not have the option to show OBD at Penn State at Noon EST. This is a 7:30 game on NBC (with a former PSC QB in the booth) and a White Out. PSU and its fans are most pleased.

 

OBD's 3rd game of the season at Northwestern will be a B1G Noon, 9 AM OBD body clock time, kick off. Count on the Penn State at Ohio State game, like the game against Texas, kicking off at Noon in Columbus.  

 

Again, I am throwing shade at Sankey and the B1G's 'leadership,' and not at you. I very much appreciate your, Nevada Dawg, and other fans of other program's posts. 

 

[Jon Joseph]

 

Exhibit, "A(uburn)" -

 

 

Inside the SEC's aggressive bid to get their way with the College Football Playoff

FLYWAREAGLE.COM

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The SEC is unsatisfied with two straight years of being left out of the College Football Playoff Championship Game, and to rectify it, the "It Just Means More"

 

 

[Jon Joseph]

 

When Even Your Friends Don't Get It?

 

 

Why the Big Ten needs to vote for this specific CFP model

SCARLETANDGAME.COM

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With the future of the College Football Playoff yet to be determined, the Big Ten needs to vote for this specific model that has been proposed.

 

A conference's 6th best team should not be in the PO. This is exactly what would have happened last season with 9-3 6th-place South Carolina in the field. 

 

9-3 Illinois, which defeated South Carolina in its bowl game, would have been left out.

 

The B1G has implied that it could get behind the 5-11 format IF the SEC went to 9 conference games. The SEC hinted it was going to 9 games with no intention of doing so. Greg Sankey knew the lay of the land before he arrived at the SEC Spring meetings.

 

Greg had not read the treatise that informs the world that the SEC deserves to have six teams in the field before he arrived in Florida? 

 

Maybe Tony Petitti likes lollipops but I can't believe he is this B1G of a sucker. Sankey and the SEC set the B1G up. And a guy writing on behalf of Ohio State can't see this? 

 

 

[Mike West]

I'm starting to feel the 12 team playoff is as good as it gets.   It appears the B1G and the eSECpn want to wait until their current contracts end before just taking their beach ball away and going to another beach.

 

South Carolina, Bama and Ole Miss simply screwed up.  They lost to non playoff teams, and feel they still deserved a shot at the playoffs.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Ole Miss stomp pedestrian Wake Forest, but South Carolina and Bama lost to comparable B1G teams?

 

SEC coaches still want to preserve their regular season records, while claiming they have the toughest schedules (yeah, two Pluto State caliber opponents really makes up for that tough run against Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Auburn, and a misunderstood Oklahoma.  Your conference has nothing to cry about when nearly half your teams won half or less of their conference games (especially when that number would climb if they played nine conference games).  

 

Not to mention, the SEC could (and probably would ) prove it by replacing Mater Dei Catholic with a Big12 and ACC opponent each.  That would not only solve a big issue, it would shut up the ACC and Big12 for good ( because they would have to put up or shut up).

 

I also do not want to disparage the SEC crew that visits this forum regularly, because despite my penis envy, I do like and respect the SEC.  But let's be real, this decade has been Kirby and Saban.  LSU got a B1G product in Joe Burrow, as did Texas for that matter.  Tennessee, Florida and Auburn are like us old geezers-better days long past (though I REALLY like Florida this year-the road to the title game requires defeating a very loaded Gator team). 

 

So in essence, there are three gimmie playoff teams in both conferences, and frankly, I'm not impressed with potential as we saw what Niko was, what Ole Miss has been the past two years, and it didn't take much for Texas to claim their spot by winning games they should. In other words, win 10 or take your potential to a bowl game and lobby how tough you are while the real teams vie for a Natty.

 

I say stay at 12 and force teams to win 10.  Even better, have play in games interconference.  Then Ole Miss can demonstrate they can beat the third best team in the Big12 or ACC.  So can Bama, and South Carolina.  Except they'd have to play the Illinois, Indiana, and Miami circa 2024.  That makes more sense than saying my schedule is tougher than yours. 

 

In fact, that would make way more sense than the models proposed. As far as I see it, despite having a talent advantage, the SEC sounds like those snooty students that never worked a day in their life talking about how to run businesses.  Playing two rounds of games against said lessor opponents in lessor conferences just might prove you really have a strength of schedule argument.  This notion you earn a spot just because sounds rather elitist without providing some substance. 

 

Josh Pate always says you aren't what your record says you are.  Well, let's just see that.  Except you can't host a play in game if your record includes potato state as four of your victories.  

[GatOrlando]

On 5/31/2025 at 10:46 AM, Jon Joseph said:

 

Compared to the PO posturing of Greg Sankey and his conference, the Longhorns/Buckeyes kick-off time is not that B1G a deal. As I explained in another post, this whole Advisory Committee detente looks like a front for Sankey to pivot and make Tony Petitti and the B1G look like the PO format bad guys.

 

Looks like Sankey is going to sucker punch Pettitti like he did Bob Bowlsby while designing a new PO format and at the same time he was negotiating with Oklahoma and Texas to join the SEC.

 

Before he arrived in Destin, Florida, for the SEC meetings, Sankey was not aware that in 2024-25, with a 16-team PO field and a 5/11 PO format, the SEC would have had six teams in the field? This is duplicitous and disengenuous. According to Greg, he heard for the first time in Florida that his coaches only want to play eight regular-season games, and the majority are not in favor of a B1G/SEC football challenge. He's this clueless about the tenor of his member teams? 

 

There are multi-millions of dollars at play here, and apparently, I'm the only Duck to have his feathers ruffled over what looks to be a S(ec)tab in the back. Sankey is the hero for backing a 5-11 format with Petitti and the B1G being branded greedy, selfish SOBs who care not about 'The Good of the Game.'

 

I'm not throwing shade at you or the other SEC friends who post here. It's simply that I've seen this movie before when Pac-12 'leadership' led to an implosion of the conference. This will not happen to the Big Ten. However, Petitti couldn't see through Sankey's call to him to form an Advisory Committee and move in lockstep on college football issues could pivot into an in-your-face?

 

That a 4-4-2-2-1-1 PO format, the leaked story of ESPN paying more for a 9th conference game, and the leaked story about the SEC wanting to play a football challenge, were only feints before the sword was turned in the direction of the B1G.  

 

I very much doubt the B1G, as it did a week before the SEC meetings, would have approved a 4-4-2-2-1-1, or alternatively, a 4-4-2-2-1-3 PO format, without believing the SEC also backed one or the other format.

 

What are today's stories up on The Athletic, ESPN, CBS, and other CFB sites?

 

"Hurrah! Sankey and the SEC look like they will ride to the PO format rescue." 

 

BTW, I hope the cynic in me is wrong, but I doubt it. If I am right, I expect the supposed detente between the conferences will righteously disappear.

 

As to Texas AD Del Conte, he not only objected to the game being played on Sunday evening because he had to go to church (there are no churches in Columbus, Ohio, open on a Sunday?) but also that Texas with have a short week to prepare for the home game versus San Jose State.

 

I believe the Spartans from San Jose will be four TDs or more under Spartans heading into this game in Austin, Texas. Again, this behavior is both snarky and disengenuous, with no respect shown to Ohio State and AD Bjork.

 

Of course, the Week 2 Michigan at Oklahoma game will kick off at 7:30 EST on ABC. The SEC again jocks the B1G by having a broadcast partner that does everything it can to promote the conference during the week and by showing the biggest (sigh) SEC games in prime time.

 

Fortunately, Fox did not have the option to show OBD at Penn State at Noon EST. This is a 7:30 game on NBC (with a former PSC QB in the booth) and a White Out. PSU and its fans are most pleased.

 

OBD's 3rd game of the season at Northwestern will be a B1G Noon, 9 AM OBD body clock time, kick off. Count on the Penn State at Ohio State game, like the game against Texas, kicking off at Noon in Columbus.  

 

Again, I am throwing shade at Sankey and the B1G's 'leadership,' and not at you. I very much appreciate your, Nevada Dawg, and other fans of other program's posts. 

 

I get what you're saying Jon, and I can't get behind what Sankey thinks the playoffs should be. I personally believed the playoff should've been eight from the start. It was mind-blowing that there were five power programs and Notre Dame( they're special) but only four spots.

 

I can't get into that again though. I hate the static scheduling the SEC does. Meaning each SEC team plays the exact same conference schedule in consecutive years but the home field is flipped. My reason for creating this topic was to point out a concerning trend with teams backing out of series like Nebraska did to Tennessee within ten months of the game to be played, and SEC teams refusing to play nine game schedules but still saying they deserve more respect because top to bottom the league is tougher. Texas is running from a home away game but insisting that Texas gets to host a night game next year. What if Ohio State says no?