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Lack of Timely Hits and Pitching Dooms Ducks, 11-3
RISP - 0-6 - 🤔😧🤬
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QB or Not QB?
Past performance is not indicative of future results. The SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission. However, in college football, we look back when we predict the future. Will Indiana go 16-0 again? Not likely, but it also isn't likely that the Hoosiers will return to the No Smoking days before Cig showed up. Below are the 2025 ESPN Adjusted Quarterbacks Rankings (QBR) for Oregon's 2026 opponents, B1G QB rankings for conference teams not on the schedule, and other 2026 QB rankings of note for returning QBs. Baseline - No. 18 Dante Moore - Oregon - 77.4. Potential 1st round draft pick Moore's QBR was dinged by bad weather games at Iowa and vs. Wisconsin, and a Peach Bowl performance that wasn't peachy. No. 57 Dylan Raiola - Oregon - 63.1 - Wait 'Till Next Year! Big Ten QBR for Oregon opponents, B1G and otherwise. 1 Jayden Maiava - USC - 91.2 - Finishes ahead of QBR No. 1 Mendoza in 2025 Adjusted QBR - Adjusted for quality of opponents, game site, etc. (Google It 😁) 2 Julian Sayin - Ohio State - 89.6 - Heisman finalist - Postseason 0-2 24 Demond Williams - UW - 76.3 - Not a road warrior in 2025 25 Drew Mestermaker - Oklahoma State - 74.4 - Most passing yards in FBS 28 Bryce Underwood - Michigan - 73.0 - Function better in a functional environment? 31 Anthony Colandrea - Nebraska - 71.7 - G6 to Power 2? 40 Aiden Chiles - Northwestern - 68.3 - Ready to Win the Day? 54 Katin Houser - Illinois - 64.0 - Champagne in Champaign, Illinois? 67 Nico Iamaleava - UCLA - 60.6 - Better surrounded by better coaches and players? 69 Maddux Madsen - Boise State - 59.5 - Make no misState, the opener is Boise's 2026 Super Bowl 75 Malik Washington - Maryland - 58.3 - Finish Son, finish. NR Alessio Milivoijevic - Michigan State - Back of the jersey guy: Good luck! OTHER B1G Conference QBs - 27 Josh Hoover - Indiana - 73.2 - Can you hear Fernando's drums? 38 Colton Joseph - Wisconsin 69.3 - Badgers going to a Jo-Jo! 55 Rocco Becht - Penn State - 63.6 - Good at ISU, PSU? 60 Drake Lindsey - Minnesota - 62.3 - Improve, and its drinks all around! 89 Ryan Brown - Purdue - 56.5 NR - Iowa Jeremy Hecklinski and Rutgers AJ Surace Not B1G, but big-name returning QBs, and one not returning? 5 Trinidad Chambliss - Ole Miss/ 6 Gunner Stockton - Georgia/ 8 CJ Carr Notre Dame/ 10 Brendan Sorsby - Texas Tech/ 14 Darian Mensah - Miami 34 Arch Manning - Texas/ 47 John Mateer - Oklahoma/ 49 Sam Leavitt - LSU 65 LaNorris Sellers - South Carolina/ 88 JKS - Cal _______________________________________________________________________________________ And an ESPN 2026 TOP QB Room WAG https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/48818009/2026-college-football-138-fbs-quarterback-tiers-season-arch-manning-cj-carr One Archie = Dante + Dylan? Darian Mensah 9-5 in 2025 and playing behind a new O Line in Miami? CJ Carr - Look at the schedule, CJ will be a star. His best win in 2025? USC at home in a rain storm? But in the bowl game... Looking at actual on-field results in 2025, Oregon plays four opponents quarterbacked by QBR 2025 top 25 QBs Maiava, Sayin, Williams, and Mestermaker. Mountain West MVP Colandrea and Mountain West champion QB Madsen. 5* recruits Bryce Underwood and Nico Iamaleava. That's a pretty good staff of opposing pitchers. Speaking of which -HOSE THE HORNS! BEAT BOISE!
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USC Stuns, Startling Stats, and a Bold Oregon Prediction
USC shut out by UNC in game 2. Hopefully, Troy will win the alphabet soup battle and capture Chapel Hill tomorrow. Always appreciate a visit from Baghdad Bob.😁
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CONGRESS TO THE RESCUE?
Greg is not alone in dissing the idea of a CFB Super League. This from his 'friend,' Tony P - https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/tony-petitti-calls-idea-big-025318447.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJYduMp3-pUPjALWhigIn8I_2Fa-xZmknWDA-sBqnISYXaFkrv5 The Bill's title should be: The G8 vs. the Power 2, with a side order of Notre Dame.
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CONGRESS TO THE RESCUE?
Greg is not alone in dissing the idea of a CFB Super League. This from his 'friend,' Tony P - https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/tony-petitti-calls-idea-big-025318447.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJYduMp3-pUPjALWhigIn8I_2Fa-xZmknWDA-sBqnISYXaFkrv5 The Bill's title should be: The G8 vs. the Power 2, with a side order of Notre Dame.
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CONGRESS TO THE RESCUE?
My conference is super, but we don't want a Super League. AP NewsSEC's Sankey says superleague idea 'not consistent with t...Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey said there’s no talk of a merger with the Big Ten and called the notion that the SEC wants to form a super league as “not consistent with the truth.”
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Oram on New Oregon State AD
Yep. East to West and vice versa, OSU does not = OSU.
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SEC Still the Nation's Best Conference . . . Just Ask the Newly Clothed Emperor Sankey
Thanks, Steven, for the post and the photo of Special K, who was forced into retirement by his Mother Russia. OK, SEC, in football, you buried that conference up north, B1G time. But that was yesterday and ... But as a fan of a B1G team, the last thing I need to hear when Big Ten teams defeat an SEC team in any sport is: Big Ten! Big Ten, Big Ten! USC football opened and closed its 2024 season with wins over LSU and Texas A+M. Hats off to the Trojans, the only Big Ten team on the field in both games. The Trojans SEC double dip did nothing to improve Purdue's football program. I live in Dixie. Except for sports in the SEC, people are civil, gracious, and nice as can be, even to displaced Yankees. I just posted a comment on Charles's terrific, in-depth take on tonight's game vs. Texas. The Texas coach compliments Oregon, kind of, after noting that Texas plays in a better conference. He isn't wrong, but why the need to frame everything with 'my conference is better than your conference'? Thank you, Tony Petitti, for speaking softly and carrying a B1G stick.
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USC Stuns, Startling Stats, and a Bold Oregon Prediction
Texas coach with some faint praise for an Oregon team coming out of a lesser conference. The SEC in baseball is the best, but why can't anyone in the SEC let the scoreboard speak for itself? I believe OBD plays Texas tonight and not the SEC. Charles, may your bold turn into solid gold! Oregon Ducks On SITexas Baseball Coach Jim Schlossnagle Pays Oregon Ducks I...Texas Longhorns baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle paid an unusual compliment to the Oregon Ducks baseball team ahead of the Austin Super Regional. The Ducks are f
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2026 BIG Info, Predictions, Etc. (4)
Invite? I simply crash for the free food and the free booze and hope I can remember the last name of the bride or groom. 🤪
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CONGRESS TO THE RESCUE?
Punish the B1G and the SEC so the little guys can survive, and give Notre Dame the swing vote in deciding to collectively bargain media rights deals, is nonsensical. The Senators behind the Bill, Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell, are not dummies. Cantwell graduated from a quality Liberal Arts college, Miami of Ohio. Cruz is a Princeton graduate and earned a law degree from Harvard, where he was the editor of the Harvard Law Review. The Bill pits the "Group of 8" against the Power 2. It may be well intentioned, but ... https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/06/02/ted-cruz-nil-bill-college-football-cantwell-ncaa/90351736007/ USA Today calls the Bill: A 111-page mess.
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OFF TOPICS: For Your Interest (9)
Way Off Topic. If a tree falls in Corvallis ... 😊 https://athlonsports.com/college-football/pac-12-football-2026-predictions
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2026 BIG Info, Predictions, Etc. (4)
CBS Sports - 15 Meaningful Games that will help define the season. Eight games involve at least one B1G team. OBD features in two of the games, No. 10 at USC on 9/26, and at No. 5 Ohio State on 11/7. Speaking to the strength of the Buckeyes schedule, Ohio State makes the list four times with a chance at five if it plays in the conference champ game. No. 14 Ohio State at USC 10/31, No. 9 Michigan at Ohio State 11/28, No. 7 Ohio State at Texas 9/12, No. 2 Ohio State at Indiana 10/17. I think the game at Texas could have a greater impact than seven if one or both teams finish 9-3. Six SEC games, two B12 games, and one ACC game when Miami visits Notre Dame. BYU at Utah is No. 13; Notre Dame at BYU on 10/17 has a chance to be the more impactful game. Notre Dame's only road game vs. a Power 4 opponent that had a winning season in 2025. No. 1 SEC champ game with the B1G champ game, No. 3? Does CBS understand that it is a B1G, not an SEC, broadcast partner? September 12th and November 7th, no weddings, please. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/most-meaningful-games-miami-vs-notre-dame-georgia-vs-alabama/
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CONGRESS TO THE RESCUE?
Tony and Greg. Cruzen for a bruisin'? https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/sen-ted-cruz-details-confrontation-165857671.html
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CONGRESS TO THE RESCUE?
Nice Meeting with you, Senator, but your Bill is still bogus and Cant (end) Well - https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/big-ten-sec-release-statement-230632591.html
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CONGRESS TO THE RESCUE?
Hats off to Bret Bielema for calling out Notre Dame - Illinois' Bret Bielema Tells Notre Dame to 'Just Join a C...Illinois head coach Bret Bielema had some pretty strong words for Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua on Thursday after the latter suggested a super league would be the best way to monetize col
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Stunning Upsets Rock College Baseball for Super-Regionals...
It never rains in PK Park, but in UFCU Disch-Falk Field? (Did you bring enough names? 😁) Oregon Ducks On SITexas vs. Oregon In Austin Super Regional Faces Weather T...The Austin Super Regional already had plenty of drama with the Oregon Ducks flying south to face the Texas Longhorns for the first time ever in the best-of-thre
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Oram on New Oregon State AD
Thanks, Bill. Perfect description of me trying to find a date for the prom.😁
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2026 BIG Info, Predictions, Etc. (4)
Know Thy Enemy - https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/washington-football-preview-2026
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Ho Hum, Another Day in Congress on the "Sports Scoreboard"
When did Cody Campbell and Ted Cruz join the one-size-fits-all party? When did Saint Nick decide that everything should be 'equal'? Enforceable rules? YES! Needed, no doubt. But in a capitalistic enterprise, like B1G/SEC football and men's basketball, you punish the most successful competitors? You lower the river instead of raising the bridge? For goodness sake, go to a 24-team CFB PO, and there would be enough money to save the ACC and B12 and to help subsidize a G6 PO. But the money lost with no conference champ games? That's Beau Gus. Flex schedule and not only have 2 play at 1 at the end of the season, but also 6 at 3 and 5 at 4; this wouldn't bring in more money? This wouldn't help balance the difference in P4 regular-season strength of schedules? You decide how home vs. away games are decided. Using the 2025-26 final AP Poll, augmented by the Massey preseason poll after a conference runs out of AP Poll-ranked teams, and divided into quads, this is what a B1G vs SEC challenge could be over the first four weeks of the regular season. Week 1 - Indiana vs Ole Miss/ UW vs. MO./ Illinois vs Tennessee/ Northwestern vs Florida. Week 2 -Iowa vs Alabama/ USC vs Texas/ Minnesota vs South Carolina/ UCLA vs Mississippi State. Week 3 - Oregon vs Georgia/ Penn State vs Vanderbilt/ Wisconsin vs LSU/ Rutgers vs Kentucky. Week 4 - Ohio State vs Texas A&M/ Michigan vs Oklahoma/ Nebraska vs Auburn/ Michigan State vs Arkansas. $$$$$$$. And why not an ACC, including Notre Dame, vs B12 challenge? 24-team PO deniers are caught up in saving a 'tradition' that only happened because the NCAA wasn't around to host "D1" football playoffs. And the 'tradition' ended when the NCAA lost its broadcast monopoly in the 1980s. And from what I've read, none of the 24-game CFB PO deniers have any idea how to raise the much-needed money needed to save non-revenue sports, including women's sports, without selling big game football inventory. Have a really nice day. 😁
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Stunning Upsets Rock College Baseball for Super-Regionals...
Get your peanuts and Cracker Jack ready! Cheer for Oregon to get back to Eugene on the way to Omaha. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/baseball/2026/06/04/ncaa-baseball-tournament-super-regionals-schedule-preview-cws/90387735007/?utm_source=usatoday-sports-strada&utm_medium=email
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No. 1 seed Auburn vs. No. 7 seed UCLA for the Men's Golf Championship
GOLF: Big Ten, close but no cigars. USC women runner-up to Stanford. UCLA men runner-up to Auburn.
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Stunning Upsets Rock College Baseball for Super-Regionals...
Give It Up for Alec Dietz, who likes OBD over Texas. (Disclaimer - Mr. Dietz covers sports for the Register Guard. 👌👍🦆😁) https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/baseball/2026/06/04/ncaa-baseball-tournament-super-regionals-predictions-college-world-series-bracket/90372299007/?utm_source=usatoday-sports-strada&utm_medium=email&
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Will Sorsby Continue the Cam $cam?
Rules? When you have judges and AGs in your corner, who needs stinkin' rules? At least in Dixie. And the SEC wants to govern itself because 'other people' cheat, right? https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/article/if-brendan-sorsby-is-able-to-play-for-texas-tech-college-sports-may-as-well-burn-its-rulebook-164939889.html
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Here We Go Again. NCAA Sure to Face a Slew of Lawsuits Over Trying to Limit Foreign Players
If Sorsby scores, NCAA no more? https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/article/if-brendan-sorsby-is-able-to-play-for-texas-tech-college-sports-may-as-well-burn-its-rulebook-164939889.html