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The long-game by the college administrators is having a 16 week regular season. Having large conferences makes scheduling 16 games much easier. With players getting paid now, all the excuses about 'need time to study' and 'too hard on their bodies' is out the window.

The big problem is that we know PJ's game plan going into the game - play ultra-conservative and try not to get blown out. I highly doubt we will be playing for an actual win - we just want to lose this with dignity. The danger in getting blown out is that this season could start to spiral...

Fielding a punt inside your 10 yard line is a mental error - the muff was a kid trying too hard to do something to spark the team. The coaches are putting too much on this guy. I think we can guess the way the rest of this season will play out - BUT - I think if Koi and Lindsey can stick...

I know there are guys that have been fans way longer than me - I didn't follow the Gophers until I went here for undergrad. But this is what I have learned in my 30 years of fandom: I think the key to happiness is accepting the fact that PJ is not God's gift to coaching BUT things could be way...

Not good news. Now we will have the SEC fans putting both A&M and Vandy in the top 5.

3 defenders and not a single one playing the ball...

Bad timing to pull that play call. Finally having some success running - and then that.

Wisconsin now reminds me of Minnesota when they hired Brewster. They basically built around the run which enabled them to recruit RB and Oline. Now, they have zero identity. Same as Brewster's offense changing the one thing Mason did really, really well - run the ball. I think WI is in Never...

The team just looks sloppy and low energy today. Buffalo is barely a top 100 team and they get the ball back midway through the 2nd half looking to take the lead. Receivers are not helping out the QB at all - way too many drops. The good news is if they just clean up some of the sloppiness...

If anyone actually thought that would be the case for the better - Fleck would be at OSU right now.

Showing profits for "Athletic Departments" vs. by sport makes this article just about worthless for me. What I would like to know is: what are the football programs generating for profits to see if the current NIL system and expanding budgets for football sustainable. What I suspect is that...

Given where college football is now, it is almost laughable that the conference is going to make a decision on an AAU purity test. It is all about the money. The only question that will matter is: "Can you increase the media rights money by including them?"

I wrote this before - but I think there was probably greater interest in the pre-playoff consolidation bowls as this forms opinion for what will happen in the playoffs by assessing the relative strength of schedule. After the playoffs start, this reason goes away. For in person bowl games, I...

I am from Wisconsin - so, I never had any hate for Iowa. In fact, I used to like watching them on TV. You will also notice that Wisconsin is not on my cheering list. I am sure this has been posted before by others, but I grew up in Green Bay in the 80/90's. I can say pre-Alvarez, nobody in...

I am quite different. Other than MN, my cheering order (or better put, my 'I would prefer that they won' list) would be: OSU (because they can beat MI) USC (I liked them before they joined the B1G) Illinois (I went for Grad school) PennState (nice fans/game day experience) On the reverse end...

In the prior era, I would have agreed with you. However, now with NIL, this is a job like any other job. And as such, give the job to the person based on merit alone. You can no longer hold too many spots based on potential alone now given you may never actually benefit from that potential as...

I generally cheer for all B1G teams playing OOC opponents other than Michigan. This is mainly due to the Michigan grads that I have worked with/known over the years. They are at a place where they have ZERO interest in how the conference is perceived overall. They know that if they lose 1 or...

I do not see why eligibility should be limited to any number of years. As long as you are affiliated with the university, you should be able to play. If you wanted to limit the number of years in which you can get a scholarship, I guess I am okay with that. But, as long as you are a student...

For a non-playoff game, no one cares so I didn't even consider that as a possible downside. I think where people have issues is when players sit in a top 10 team so games like the Rose Bowl lose significance. People sitting out of the Duke's Mayo bowl doesn't bother anyone.

I think the 'sitting out bowl games' thing will go away with the new playoff format.