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If they had attempted to do this as a third-party NIL deal in this new system, I believe the new clearinghouse would reject the deal. Because it would be far excessive in value.

The other bummer thing about 2021-23 seasons is that we had an easy West division, probably as easy as it was ever going to get. And all three years we fumbled a chance to win the division, via the games shown above. Which includes 2022 Purdue homecoming for me.

It's all about how you define it (Captain Obvious). My list has probably a slightly wider definition than some above, but the only main one missing is 2019 Wisc. Sorry, can't let that one go. It's not a "bad loss" but it has to be included if you widen the scope to "games you have to win...

Also, didn't the guy who recruited him here leave for Oregon? I might be making that up ...

I have no dog in this hunt and if they end up in Vegas that's great. But always seemed like Portland would be a natural place. SEA-POR rivalry strong in other sports (notably MLB, and guessing NBA again once SuperSonics are reborn), so baseball would seem another opportunity.

For those of you who followed spring ball this year: how did Dylan Wittke and Jackson Kollock look behind Lindsey? Kollock seems like an intriguing prospect: 6-4, played a large public high school in southern California, leading them to their first CIF title in 60 years as a Soph, started...

Yep, probably not going to find a more wide open site than Shingle Creek and Bass Lake. Guessing they would practically give it away, if a team was going to build a new arena or stadium there. Only thing would be if Crystal Airport would be an issue, but guessing not. MoA probably makes more...

Not going to speak for SG, but it seems his argument is that he's already excluding @OSU and @Oregon from his prediction, and really just trying to predict the remaining 10 games. Which I think is fair.

Felt like 5A was loaded last year, lot of teams going into can't remember what week but felt like lot of 6-0 and/or 7-0 teams in top 10

The Designated thing was supposed to be a way to keep walk-ons on the teams, at the same schools, without getting cut by the new roster limits. That was the whole thing. That's why the House settlement got delayed. So now they're giving them a special transfer window ... to leave those...

Cal is an interesting one. Justin Wilcox will be his 9th season as HC! Had them on a nice upward trajectory to 8-5 with a bowl win in 2019, then covid collapsed. Been a slow crawl back since covid. But last two seasons 6-7 making it to low end bowl games. Probably a make or break year for him...

Our two Minnesota football teams both will have the youngest or near youngest QB's in the league starting. Life's a craps shoot. Do we roll a 7??

Came here to do a variation on this. With PJ Fleck, you're almost always going to have a game that should have been a win, taken away. On the other hand, you reasonably often get a game won that you didn't think should have won. Last year over USC, is the example that comes to mind. Granted...

The cap is going to increase around 4% per year, so there is that. In my mind, it would make more sense to do with caps/scholarships/Alston payments by sport rather than trying to lump it all together per school athletic dept.

Sorry if I worded it poorly, but I meant that Notre Dame, Mich, Mich State, and Ohio State were all in the old CCHA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Collegiate_Hockey_Association#Membership_timeline

It can be perfectly reasonable for a church to want to settle with someone to keep the church's name out of news articles associated with terrible allegations. I wasn't saying anything about religious (or non-religious) folks or anything of the sort, FWIW

I believe ND was in the old CCHA with Michigan, Mich State, and Ohio State in men's hockey (not sure on women's), along with the MAC schools and DII Michigan schools that had men's hockey. If it had stayed WCHA and CCHA, I'm guessing Penn State's new program would've also joined that league...

Zeppelin is right, I overstepped by calling it a cancellation. There wasn't some signed agreement or already part-way played deal that OU backed out of. I meant it in more in the sense of, I'm guessing that OK State would've kept playing that game, so I am making a wild guess that OU did not...

With the exception that SEC teams only play eight conference games, rather than nine like Indiana. Four SEC teams play P4 in-state rivalry games against teams from the ACC. Oklahoma cancelled theirs with OK State, and Texas had no inclination to start something up with say Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor.

I was much more referring to the stats & trophies of the other teams! Sadly, you're correct about ours. That comes down to the QBs we've had, as a big factor.