Jon Joseph

Thanks, PA. Looking at the photo there does not appear to be a whole lot of downhill skiing going on near Lubbock.

Interesting the way in which the schedule breaks down. Oregon gets Portland State at home in week 1 while TX Tech has a fairly long trip and will be playing Wyoming in Laramie at altitude. Also interesting that Oregon plays at UW on 10/14 with both teams coming off of an idle week. Oregon plays Cal on 10/21 before tripping to Utah while the Utes come off a game at SC. On paper, that's a tougher 2 weeks back-to-back than the Ducks will face.

College Football News ranks the Pac-12 2023 schedules. According to CFN, Oregon is looking good IF you agree with Oregon's schedule being ranked at 11 in the Pac-12. With games against 4 Pac-12 teams preseason ranked in the AP Poll top 25, with two on the road at Utah and UW, I think this ranking is low by at least 5 spots. Then, add in a trip to Lubbock. IMO, Oregon's schedule should be ranked no lower than 5. I do agree with UCLA receiving the bon voyage scheduling gift. https://collegefootballnews.com/cfn/pac-12-football-schedule-rankings-2023 Overall, CFN has Oregon's schedule ranked 47 out of 133. Hardest Game - Washington - not USC 2. CU - Hardest game - Oregon - not USC 4. Stanford - Hardest game - USC 7. Utah - Hargest game - USC 8. UW - Hardest game - USC 18. USC - Hardest game - Notre Dame WRONG! How about at Oregon instead of at ND.

Great point Charles on the 2024 DL. But I think that Dan will again prove to be a masterful Puddles Portal Plucker.

Great take, David. And, your team and games will be covered wall-to-wall by the B1G Network (closing in on 60M subscribers) and not the Yormark Wannabe Network. Down the road, the B1G will not implode. The B12?

Come On Dan! Do the Flipper!

If I were a seer, a prophet of old With knowledge of football games foretold I'd live in a mansion in Vegas Surrounded by women and toys And be the smartest of the 'wise guy' boys But I am not Cassandra, aware of how games will unfold, My predictions are more likely dross than they are gold. 2023 247 Sports Team Talent Roster Composite (recruiting and transfers) Roster Ranking - How the top 4 did last season and the ranking of all P5 teams Oregon will play in 2023 and how the future opponents fared in 2022. 1. Alabama - No Playoff (PO) in 2022. No SEC title. W over K St in the Sugar Bowl. 2. Georgia - A back-to-back title and pasting of Puddles. 3. Texas - Yet again, all hat, no cattle. Alamo Bowl loss vs. Washington. 4. Ohio State - heartbreaking PO loss to UGA in the Peach Bowl - does UGA ever play a big game outside of the ATL? DUCKS and DUCKS 2023 OPPONENTS - 9. OREGON - Holiday Bowl win over UNC 8. USC - Cotton Bowl loss vs Tulane (Oh, the shame!) 20. Utah - Conference champ. Rose Bowl loss vs Penn State 28. Texas Tech - Texas Bowl win, 42-25 over Ole Miss. Ws over Oklahoma and Texas. 29. Colorado - No bowl. Arguably, 2022's worst P5 team. 44. ASU - No Bowl. Herm has left the building leaving Dilly with a lot of work to do. 46. Stanford - No bowl. Stanford is looking for a 2024 home. 49. Oregon State - Aggrieved Beavers won the Las Vegas Bowl over Florida and defeated Oregon (SIGH) 38-34. 65. Washington State - Big comeback win in Pullman in 2022. Cougars lost the LA Bowl to Fresno State. 79. Cal - No bowl. Oregon grad Justin Wilcox's last hurrah? 2023 Oregon high water mark. 12-1 - One of the 4 in the final Final 4. Floor - 9-3. Holiday or Las Vegas Bowl. Most likely based on the depth of the conference and a tough OOC game vs Texas Tech in Lubbock - 11-2 Conference Champion - Win over Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl. Let's Get ready to Rumble!

My roll of the dice. Stanford will go independent. The ACC will implode. Stanford and Notre Dame will be invited to join the B1G. 20 teams break nicely into 4, 5 team pods. Will the B1G want to split the revenue with more than 20 teams? If so, then Cal, UNC, Duke, UVA, Georgia Tech, and Miami, all AAU member schools, could be in the mix. I do not see the B1G adding non-AAU members Clemson and FSU. Had Nebraska not been an AAU member school at the time it joined the B1G it would not have been offered B1G membership. Out of the to-be, 18 schools come 2024, Nebraska will be the only non-AAU member. The Pac-12 could not afford this academic snobbery. The B1G can.

This interrogative reminds me of the following story. Coach - 'Son, I don't understand it. You have all the talent in the world. This is your 5th season here at State and you have yet to break into the starting line-up. Is this because you lack intelligence; or, because you are too apathetic?' Player - 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.' As to my answer to the question posed by the topic, refer to Player.

Great take and therein lies the rub for Cal and Stanford. Clemson, FSU, UNC, NC St with the existing 14 ACC members, and half-pregnant Notre Dame need 4 votes today to crater the ACC and end the crummy media deal that runs through 2036 (!) without paying any exit fee. Why would these 4 want to add more votes needed to break up the conference? And by adding Cal/Stanford, how many more subscribers would the ACC network pick up and how many more advertising dollars would ESPN pick up? Conversely, Notre Dame, the school reported to be leading the charge for the Cal/Stanford addition was looking out for its own interest. Notre Dame has a great ACC scheduling deal that provides a home for all other ND sports other than ice hockey where ND is a B1G member which allows the Irish to stay independent in football. IMO, there is no way that the B1G and the SEC will bend over to accommodate ND, financially and/or schedule-wise. I think and hope, that come 2026 the B1G and the SEC will have the power to tell ND to join a conference or get Playoff lost. I know it is shocking but once again self-interest and not good for the game interest rules.

Mr. Gold, you might try reading your own site's content. Oregon is the 51% FPI favorite in Lubbock. ESPN’s FPI predicts every game on Oregon’s 2023 schedule SATURDAYOUTWEST.COM ESPN's Football Power Index predicts every game for Oregon in 2023.

Not so fast my friend. Oregon will perhaps lose 2 games but 1 will not come in Seattle. I also think that Oregon wins in Salt Lake City. Author Gold shows Texas Tech as a 51% FPI favorite. Ducks Wire the other day had Oregon being the 51% favorite. UW can return all of that production but the Oregon D, especially the pass rush will be better, and the DBs (there will not be 4 new starting DBs as Gold references) will have experience playing together as a group before playing in Seattle. Kirby Smart early on at Georgia made a number of bad in-game coaching decisions. I do not see DL making the mistake he made last season this season vs UW. Saturday Out West Crystal Ball: Predicting every Oregon football game for 2023 SATURDAYOUTWEST.COM Oregon is staring at a 5-0 start and then a bye week. But then things get scary in a hurry. Survive a brutal month, though, and Oregon could be CFP-bound.

And I love Pate's pate. Goose liver pate for the Ducks. Chicken liver pate for the team up north.

And Barrett Sallee is also loving the Pac-12 in its final go-round. 2023 College Football Conference Power Rankings: SEC at the top, but Pac-12 takes No. 2 spot - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The SEC is loaded with teams ready to make a run at the College Football Playoff National Championship

NJ, you beat an old man to the punch! With a better and more specific post. Thank you!

Barrett Sallee (Auburn graduate) of CBS Sports agrees. Sallee has Oregon ranked 6 in his initial AP Poll vote. A guy from 'back East' IMO has a better handle on the Pac-12 this season than does Jon Wilner who has Oregon ranked 17. He doesn't 'get' Oregon's ranking with Bo Nix back. Sallee believes Oregon will put up 40+ points a game, and he also believes that via the transfer portal and experience, Oregon will be improved on defense. He also believes, as do I, that Florida State is way overrated and that Alabama, and Texas (shocking!) are also overrated. Let's tee it up and prove it on the field!

How about NO! College Football is working. Attendance was up in 2022. Viewership was up in 2022. With one hire Colorado has gone from averaging 17,00 fans in 2022 to all games being sold out in 2023. I do not like it but a Power 2 was the natural result of the NCAA losing its scheduling monopoly and the need (?) for 1 True Champion. Both decisions opened the floodgates for media enterprises to take over college football. You capitalize any enterprise, follow the money. The Pac-12 deserved to go away. Just like every poorly managed enterprise in the 'real world' goes away. The people in charge of the Pac-12 were happy to take the money but not to manage the Pac-12 like the business it is. Or, at least was. You do not pass on an opportunity to destroy a competitor on its last legs and be applauded for doing so, move into another time zone, and perhaps save a functionally insolvent network over academic concerns. Like Oregon State and Washington State, Kansas, K State, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Baylor, TCU, Houston and Iowa State have all graduated men and women who have excelled in every activity the world has to offer. Why is anyone surprised that 'The Elite Club' has lost the majority of its members? If the only criteria for a Premier League are wins and losses over a given period of time without taking into account schedule strength, with teams relegated on performance in the Premier League, how happy will Premier Media broadcast entities be when Kansas State located in The Little Apple replaces a school located in a top 30 media market. A school that has more folks watching in person and via media. What would the media deals look like for the lower leagues? Any difference in what we see today between the Power 2 and the G5?What happens to the athletic departments of schools dropped from the Premier League? This is not pro soccer owned by billionaires. Football carries the weight but I know of no college or university in the nation that sponsors only a football team. A Premier Conference goosed by college athletes being employees is coming. But when it comes it will not see relegation. The New York Jets are not dropped in favor of XFL teams. The Premier Conference will have 32 or so schools with the biggest brands and/or playing in the biggest media markets. Media rights will be negotiated collectively for football. Players will be union members. There will be a salary cap, but no cap on NIL, restrictions on transfers, player trades, and most likely a high school draft. I doubt that players in the Premier League will even be students. All other sports with the likely exception of men's basketball, will be played in existing conferences. Conferences that are likely to be further consolidated. Thanks for the post but this article is another reason why we need to kick the darn ball off and play ball.

I am liking this Magnificent 8 - QUACK! One of these 8 college football teams will win the national title in 2023 SATURDAYBLITZ.COM College football fans everywhere are craving its return. We're at the point in the summer in which it's felt like years since we last saw live co...

And, on the field. ESPN’s FPI predicts every game on Ohio State’s 2023 schedule SATURDAYTRADITION.COM ESPN's FPI is predicting a final record for Ohio State this fall.

ESPN+ (paywall) updated Top 40 2024 recruiting rankings as of 8/17/23 1. Georgia 2. Ohio State 3. Florida 4. OREGON! - Top O commit - QB Michael Van Buren (No. 23) Top D commit - Dakota (Out Here In The) Fields (No. 75) 7. Michigan 8. Penn State - leads the 2023 Freaks list with 6 players - legit dark horse to win the B1G in 2023 with getting nemesis Michigan in Happy Valley 18. USC - Traveler, don't hurt your neck looking up. 23. Wisconsin 25. Nebraska 30. Rutgers 31. Purdue 34. Iowa 35. Minnesota 37. Maryland Chipper? Husky? Brutus will be extremely hard to catch on the recruiting trail.

Stanford will go independent before associating with what the Cardinal believe to be weak academic institutions. The Cardinal as a football independent would like BYU before this season, be a G5+ /P5- opponent. If this happens, drop Baylor and OK State like a hot potato and schedule Stanford as a permanent OOC opponent. Unlike the folks from That Team Up North, Stanford would welcome this. And it would be nice to throw PK's other alma mammy a bone. There is NOTHING to be gained playing B12 schools OOC. Without Texas and Oklahoma, the B12 is a glorified G5 conference. Oregon has no tradition with any B12 school, it has tradition and a history of great games with Stanford.