Andy

He was doing some pretty absurd horsefeathers last week against ND. I think one play lasted a whole 12 seconds because of all his dancing and Jordan Addison was able to find an open spot for Williams to hit him.

If anyone wants a QB that is just good enough that you can win games in spite of him, Drew Pyne, QB of my team, has entered the transfer portal. If anyone wants a QB who is so bad his team had a losing season despite having the best player in the conference in his backfield, my alma mater's starting QB, John Paddock, also entered the portal.

Tying to find a silver lining, maybe if no one worth a damn ever wants to play WR there that wakes someone up to getting rid of Ferentz the Younger? I don't know why this year wouldn't be enough on its own, but...

Officially official. Cliffs notes: - Bowl quarterfinals presumably (though not officially) on or near NYD for the '24 and '25 seasons, with Rose and Sugar hosting quarterfinals both years while the other 4 major bowls split semifinal and quarterfinal host duties. (It's widely believed the quarterfinals will move on campus in 2026 when a new contract takes effect.) IIRC, which bowls host which quarterfinals will be determined by the teams that earn the byes and specifically what conference they are in, i.e. a B1G champ with a bye would play in the Rose, SEC champ with a bye in the Sugar, etc. - First-round games on the higher seed's campus 'near the end' of the 3rd week of December those years. - National title games still on Mondays. Jan. 20 and Jan. 19 those 2 seasons.

Winner of Big 10 SEC ACC PAC 10 Big 12 Wildcard Team not from any of the above conferences (The ND rule) That should be the playoff. 12 is way too many teams. It's a money grab. Alternatively, make a league out of the teams that make up those conferences (plus ND) and have a six-team playoff at the end of the season. None of the SEC, B1G or Notre Dame would've supported a CFP bigger than 4 without at least 4 at-large spots. And none of the others would've supported a CFP bigger than 4 without auto-bids. So anything less than 12 was a nonstarter. If people wanted exclusively conference champs or unbeaten teams playing for the title they should've stuck with 2. (And also not allowed Alabama to go over Oklahoma State in 2011.)

12 is probably better than 4 given the unintended consequences of 4 but I'm really going to miss having one sport where a result could fly out of nowhere and completely flip the season on its head. But really that kinda went away with 4, so it is what it is. I'm glad there are still inflection points to provide some semblance of meaning to regular season games. I just hope people aren't complaining again in 3 years like they were with this system.

Apparently Ohio State is lobbying the Rose Bowl to select Penn State (which unlike any other NY6 game they have the right to do despite the rankings) over them presuming they don't make the playoff. What a world when B1G teams are asking not to go to the Rose Bowl. Between them poaching their partner conference and their teams literally asking not to go, it's stupefying that the CFB powers that be are still hanging on their decision regarding early expansion.

Abreu posted a career-low SLG last year and is turning 36, I'm extremely fine not signing him

Carolina 1.5 games out of first place going into the bye with tiebreakers on everybody else. Playoff chase back on

Friday Akron at Buffalo (1 pm, ESPN+) Conference USA Championship Game (8 pm Friday, CBSSN) North Texas at UTSA Pac-12 Championship Game in Las Vegas (8 pm Friday, FOX) (11) Utah vs (4) USC Big 12 Championship Game in Arlington, TX (12 pm, ABC) (10) Kansas State vs (3) TCU MAC Championship Game in Detroit (12 pm, ESPN) Toledo vs Ohio Sun Belt Championship Game (3:30 pm, ESPN) Troy at Coastal Carolina Mountain West Championship Game (4 pm, FOX) Fresno State at Boise State SEC Championship Game in Atlanta (4 pm, CBS) (14) LSU vs (1) Georgia American Championship Game (4 pm, ABC) (22) UCF at (18) Tulane Big Ten Championship Game in Indianapolis (8 pm, FOX) Purdue vs (2) Michigan ACC Championship Game in Charlotte (8 pm, ABC) (23) North Carolina vs (9) Clemson Dec. 10 Navy vs Army - in Philadelphia (3 pm, CBS)

There is a recruiting ceiling at Cincy, and Wisconsin is poised to dominate a perennially weak B1G West with a halfway competent coaching staff. I can see the appeal No West after next year.

Kind of an odd move for Fickell IMO, but a great one for Wisconsin. He's rock solid and definitely fits with their manball identity in Madison.

There's only one conference title game next week that has any bearing on the CFP field at all and that game isn't even on Saturday. It obviously will not happen but I really wish we could just get rid of them with the expanded CFP, replacing them with round 1 that same weekend, rather than shifting the entire calendar of the sport (which is supposedly what they're gonna do) to accommodate money grabs. (Yes, I know that with the expanded playoff more of those games would matter)

That's clearly the 4 unless TCU or USC lose. TCU is probably in even with a loss. Michigan and Georgia are absolutely in even with losses barring wildly unrealistic embarrassing blowouts. USC likely gets bounced with a P12 CG loss, and the most likely beneficiary, I imagine, is Ohio State. Honestly there really isn't another obvious option.

Yes, I knew that an 8-3 team with no QB was not the team equipped to beat Ohio State. It's almost like one can have an opinion about a sport independent of how the team they support is doing and a smart ass retort about it is unnecessary. You made a snarky comment and I asked a legitimate question. Now you come back and pretend like you don't understand football enough that you legitimately believed all anyone had to do was chuck the ball up for grabs to beat ohio state. Give me a break - if you want to be snarky, don't then act like you had a legitimate point. I posted the original thing before Michigan started running it down OSU's throat, but whatever

It's not news that they have no QB or WRs largely because their former coach basically stopped trying to recruit them the last 5 years. They were (and still are) not equipped to throw it deep. ah, so you knew the answer? I guess running for 250 yards might also be a factor. Yes, I knew that an 8-3 team with no QB that lost to Marshall was not the team equipped to beat Ohio State. It's almost like one can have an opinion about a sport independent of how the team they support is doing and a smart ass retort about it is unnecessary.

What does it say about Notre Dame? It's not news that they have no QB or WRs largely because their former coach basically stopped trying to recruit them the last 5 years. They were (and still are) not equipped to throw it deep.

If all you ever had to do to beat Ohio State was toss up long bombs to wide open receivers, it seems like a statement about the B1G that it took 12 games to do it

Rhule officially announced at Nebraska.

Take VERY much for what it's worth because it's from da Bum, but he grew up right by Purdue and always said Ohio State fans were by far the worst visiting fans he encountered.

Virginia vs Virginia Tech canceled.

Top 25 games ------------------------------ Georgia Tech at (1) Georgia (12 pm, ESPN) (3) Michigan at (2) Ohio State (12 pm, FOX) Iowa State at (4) TCU (4 pm, FOX) (5) LSU at Texas A&M (7 pm, ESPN) (15) Notre Dame at (6) USC (7:30 pm, ABC) Auburn at (7) Alabama (3:30 pm, CBS) South Carolina at (8) Clemson (12 pm, ABC) (9) Oregon at (21) Oregon State (3:30 pm, ABC) (10) Tennessee at Vanderbilt (7:30 pm, SEC Network) Michigan State at (11) Penn State (4 pm, FS1) Kansas at (12) Kansas State (8 pm, FOX) (13) Washington at Washington State (10:30 pm, ESPN) (14) Utah at Colorado (4 pm, Pac-12 Network) Florida at (16) Florida State (7:30 pm Friday, ABC) NC State at (17) North Carolina (3:30 pm Friday, ABC) (18) UCLA at California (4 pm Friday, FOX) (19) Tulane at (24) Cincinnati (12 pm Friday, ABC) Mississippi State at (20) Ole Miss (7 pm Thursday, ESPN) (22) UCF at South Florida (7 pm, ESPN2) Baylor at (23) Texas (12 pm Friday, ESPN) (25) Louisville at Kentucky (3 pm, SEC Network) Other nationally available games --------------------------------------------------- Tuesday Bowling Green at Ohio (7 pm, ESPNU) Ball State at Miami (OH) (7 pm, ESPN+) Friday Utah State at Boise State (12 pm, CBS) Toledo at Western Michigan (12 pm, ESPNU) Central Michigan at Eastern Michigan (12 pm, CBSSN) Arizona State at Arizona (3 pm, FS1) Arkansas at Missouri (3:30 pm, CBS) New Mexico at Colorado State (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Nebraska at Iowa (4 pm, BTN) Wyoming at Fresno State (10 pm, FS1) Saturday TV West Virginia at Oklahoma State (12 pm, ESPN2) Rutgers at Maryland (12 pm, BTN) Coastal Carolina at James Madison (12 pm, ESPNU) Western Kentucky at Florida Atlantic (12 pm, CBSSN) Minnesota at Wisconsin (3:30 pm, ESPN) Memphis at SMU (3:30 pm, ESPN2) Purdue at Indiana (3:30 pm, BTN - Regional) Illinois at Northwestern (3:30 pm, BTN - Regional) Troy at Arkansas State (3:30 pm, ESPNU) Wake Forest at Duke (3:30 pm, ACC Network) UAB at Louisiana Tech (3:30 pm, CBSSN) Oklahoma at Texas Tech (7:30 pm, FS1) Tulsa at Houston (7:30 pm, ESPNU) Syracuse at Boston College (7:30 pm, RSN/ESPN3) Pittsburgh at Miami (8 pm, ACC Network) Air Force at San Diego State (9 pm, CBSSN) BYU at Stanford (11 pm, FS1) Saturday Streaming New Mexico State at Liberty (12 pm, ESPN+) Georgia State at Marshall (12 pm, ESPN+) Army at UMass (12 pm, ESPN+) Old Dominion at South Alabama (12 pm, ESPN+) Kent State at Buffalo (1 pm, ESPN+) East Carolina at Temple (1 pm, ESPN+) Akron at Northern Illinois (1:30 pm, ESPN3) Rice at North Texas (2 pm, ESPN+) UTEP at UTSA (3:30 pm, Stadium) Southern Miss at UL Monroe (5 pm, ESPN+) UL Lafayette at Texas State (5 pm, ESPN+) Middle Tennessee at Florida International (6 pm, ESPN3) Appalachian State at Georgia Southern (6 pm, ESPN+)

USC and Tennessee might combine to make Ohio State vs Michigan a purely seeding game a week ahead of time. That's what I get for having the thought that it might be cool to have one last truly important and memorable regular season matchup of unbeatens before CFP expansion.

Lot of illini fans saying Michigan should have gotten flagged for a pick on that 4th down and looking at the replays they may be right. I’ll take the W. Looked ugly, illini are the second team in the last 2 seasons to physically dominate both Michigan lines, the other being Georgia. Illinois is legit, don’t care what their record says. Right, wrong or indifferent, conference employed officials are not making game changing calls against CFP hopefuls ever. Ohio State apparently saw UM struggle and decided to raise the stakes

Stuff like that is what makes it easy to dismiss LaVine as a stat compiler incapable of winning.