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I believe it, not murders row when Indiana at home makes the list of tough games.

Spot on, great read! I’d equate having a good passing attack to having a good 3-point shooting team in college hoops. Any team with a draft-able QB, a couple good WRs and an air first scheme has a shot to win a shootout on a given day, especially at home. The great equalizer for talent which our buddy Mike Leach (RIP) made a career out of. Relying on this probably won’t get you to 10 wins very often, but it can make a team consistently bowl eligible that otherwise wouldn’t be. That being said, there aren’t a lot of air it out “buzz saws” in our new league, so it may take a while to find out if we have the same weakness this year.

Football only lens. Early relative returns on everyone aside from UO and ASU weren’t exactly stellar in year one. Things should be looking relatively up for Utah and UW in year 2, but is anyone else looking remotely good? I don’t mean passable, but good as in having a shot at 9-10 wins? USC had a great recruiting class, but we’re waiting to see if their coach survives the year. Everyone else seems to be hoping for 7 wins on the upside.

Fun random note that’s probably not any less valid than Josh Pate’s prediction. 😆 In the CFB video game playing as OBD, I played PSU THREE TIMES. Beat them in the regular season, lost to them in the B1G championship, then beat them in the rubber match second round of the playoffs.

Lots of great takes friends. Should we place bets on which conference gets more teams in the 2026-27 playoff?

Indeed, I think the SEC is actually the winner here. I personally don’t think this is going to be the victory we imagined the last 20 years, or as impactful as it would have been during the 4 team playoff era, when there was a P5 and zero guaranteed spots. I read this as a 9-3 (8-4?) SEC team will now get the nod over most 10-win teams in the current playoff structure. 10-2 Indiana over 9-3 Alabama? Nope. I also think this is temporary. There will be some type of 60-ish team top division/super league and about 30-40% of those teams will play in a post season playoff, and much sooner than later.

10 years ago this would have been HUGE. In 2025 this is just the next step/transition that won’t matter with the next expansion of the playoff, IMO.

If this sleeper comes through, could be the difference between 5-7 and 7-5

It just means more!

Some of the sleeper picks seem pretty arbitrary. I mean, the Center at Wisconsin? Be sure to notify everyone when that happens, because no one will notice.

Probably impossible not to have biases in the current system when a league (CFB in this case) has 136 teams in 10 conferences. We don’t even really have a balanced schedule within the B1G, let alone across CFB. Seems like we’ve gone full circle from BCS computers being the answer, to computers are evil, and now back to needing “unbiased” strength of schedule that throws out those pesky humans. My take on current reality? Be in a power-2 conference and win 10 games, or else win 11+ if you want some playoff expectations. Otherwise don’t have playoff expectations.

Article in Oregonian this morning mentioning Alabama/FSU WR transfer Malike Benson…seems like the random (to me) transfer, 1 year “rental player” that could have a huge impact. Love paying attention to the roster more once we hit August! 😆

Looks about like what I’d expect for a team starting the season in the lower half of the top-10 from the west coast. Unless we relocate the UO about 3000 miles east it will always be an uphill battle.

I don’t think there’s any controversy. Seems pretty common for coaches to be coy when replacing a starter. Also, in the transfer age, probably strategic to call it an open competition as long as possible. I do remember a large percentage of people clamoring for “not Nix” when he transferred in. We’re fine, barring injury, it’s Moore.

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If only we didn’t start the playoff with a rematch. As to the PAC media deal. I think there’s a ton of fuzzy math and we’re seeing a lot of distortion. One big one, I believe the conference is responsible for producing games on the CW. Not an insignificant cost. There’s a reason they’re being tight lipped, if it was a “clean” $9m per team I think they’d be bragging more. They’re trying to kill shot the MWC with every breath, if the deal was almost double what the MWC is getting, it feels like we’d hear about it, loudly.

I would guess a version of Clownzano’s dream will eventually happen, but not as he fantasizes. There will probably be a formal break away with a new division/super league/whatever you want to call it. Whoever doesn’t become part of that new world order will probably reorganize with other non top tier schools, which could/should include some geographic realignment. What this shift won’t include imo, is arbitrarily elevating current G6 programs based on geography. Quite the opposite.

Yes, as we’ve known for decades, “physical” is often been a euphemism for slow when it comes to the garden variety B1G imo. Are there exceptions at the top? Absolutely.

We’re definitely awesome! But - Great and necessary to have the revenue and exposure, but overall top to bottom, this conference really has nothing competitively on the PAC in its heyday.

😂 As someone with a last name that gets mistaken as “Lucifer” on a regular basis (one letter removed), I have no doubt this happens to him a lot, especially with auto-correct.

Actually is a shocking stat, and that’s pre-NIL. One would think it’s going to become more common. Top programs are going to be creating all-star teams more and more. What’s the motivation to pay freshmen unless they’re good enough to start from day 1?

I didn’t say it was necessarily a good plan that will work 😆…but it does demonstrate some will to attract a theoretical franchise. Hopefully we can summon up the will to try to retain an existing franchise.

We had 350 yards of total offense, averaged 3.0 ypc, had 9 penalties, and were 33% on 3rd down against BSU. That does not scream out good offensive line play imo. Just sayin.

And yet, have put together a MLB package.

Didn’t need elite matchups to get exposed, struggled mightily against Idaho and probably should have lost to Boise. OBD patched it together, to go 13-0…but what does this say about the average B1G team last year? Personally I have little doubt this oline will be better.