OREGON to the B1G

[michaeljordan_fan]

Was I bragging about Nebraska being too good for the conference ? Didn’t think so But good deflection

No, we know that Nebraska is a doormat in the B1G.

 

[gobigred]

No, we know that Nebraska is a doormat in the B1G.

Keep deflecting and making about Nebraska. You must not know what a doormat is since 3 teams had a worse record than Nebraska last year.

 

[michaeljordan_fan]

Keep deflecting and making about Nebraska. You must not know what a doormat is since 3 teams had a worse record than Nebraska last year.

Yes, you were 4th from the bottom...well done!

 

[duckboy33]

No, we know that Nebraska is a doormat in the B1G.

 

[Wild Turkey]

@Red_Alert I warned you about letting Oregon fans in and now you have to live with that decision.

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

I simply can not express enough the excitement I have for this new conference! Every time I start to think about it I have to pinch myself to make sure this is real. We are in a legit big time conference now. Where more than 50% of the conference is as invested and passionate about football and sports as Oregon is. I've been posting for years that Oregon needed out of the PAC because the programs and schools within the conference just didn't care as much as Oregon and at times the competition got so weak it for one was a detriment to Oregon's resume and brand, but also admittedly some Saturday's just became meh knowing we were about to go whack Cal, Arizona, Arizona State, or Colorado.

These last couple of years when Oregon really made a commitment to football with focusing on recruiting and landing top recruits, it became clear we were really growing out of the PAC conference. Programs couldn't keep up and we were about to do to the conference what Clemson did to the ACC for years.

This is so refreshing. I can't wait to go back to the Big House and beat Michigan again. I can't wait for a second trip to the Horse Shoe and beat the Buckeyes and maybe this time we plant our flag at the 50 yard line. I can't wait to go to Camp Randall and tell the Badgers their rent is due and they can no longer run from us since we absolutely own that program. O yes sports just got a lot more exciting.

Quite frankly, I know it has had major implications on CFB but as a fan I'm really looking forward to having a pretty decent rotation of teams in the B10 to play every year. Should provide some really interesting games. Makes me actually want to plan a road trip out west to see Michigan play in some of these stadiums. UCLA has been struggling to get people to go to games, but I bet the first time Michigan or Ohio State, hell even Nebraska, play an away game there -- the stadium will be full.

Also sounds like the B10 is thinking of going to 10 conference games, which I absolutely love. Shrink the number of nonsense we get in the earlier part of the season.

 

[Across The Field]

Quite frankly, I know it has had major implications on CFB but as a fan I'm really looking forward to having a pretty decent rotation of teams in the B10 to play every year. Should provide some really interesting games. Makes me actually want to plan a road trip out west to see Michigan play in some of these stadiums. UCLA has been struggling to get people to go to games, but I bet the first time Michigan or Ohio State, hell even Nebraska, play an away game there -- the stadium will be full.

Also sounds like the B10 is thinking of going to 10 conference games, which I absolutely love. Shrink the number of nonsense we get in the earlier part of the season.

Makes for more interesting games but some of these smaller G5 schools rely on those paychecks to keep things afloat. Schools like Ball State, New Mexico, Northern Illinois, etc would likely fold.

 

[Deep Creek]

Shrink the number of nonsense we get in the earlier part of the season.

Makes for more interesting games but some of these smaller G5 schools rely on those paychecks to keep things afloat. Schools like Ball State, New Mexico, Northern Illinois, etc would likely fold.

Mine's one of them but let us fold. If schools like mine can't make it on our own, then it is our fault, not any of yours.

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Makes for more interesting games but some of these smaller G5 schools rely on those paychecks to keep things afloat. Schools like Ball State, New Mexico, Northern Illinois, etc would likely fold.

I've been a huge proponent of removing the G5 all together from CFB, at least the main division. It's stupid that Eastern Michigan is competing for the same national title as Alabama and Georgia. Keeping them afloat financially at the cost of good football games being played isn't a good argument IMO. plenty of other smaller schools have perfectly fine football budgets. Some don't, and they should go away if all that's keeping them alive is the payout for getting their asses kicked in september by P4 teams.

It's really now the power 4 and then the G5. Give the P4 and the G5 a national title.

Hell, would have been nice to have a 4 team playoff still. Conference championship games are the first leg of an 8 team playoff in the 4 major conferences.

 

[Deep Creek]

I've been a huge proponent of removing the G5 all together from CFB, at least the main division. It's stupid that Eastern Michigan is competing for the same national title as Alabama and Georgia. Keeping them afloat financially at the cost of good football games being played isn't a good argument IMO. plenty of other smaller schools have perfectly fine football budgets. Some don't, and they should go away if all that's keeping them alive is the payout for getting their asses kicked in september by P4 teams.

It's really now the power 2, middling 2 and then the G5. Give the P2/Middling 2 and the G5 a national title.

Hell, would have been nice to have a 4 team playoff still. Conference championship games are the first leg of an 8 team playoff in the 4 major conferences.

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Sure. But I think the B12 added enough teams to keep themselves in the conversation for a while. I wouldn't be shocked if it turned into the P3 when the ACC explodes. The B12/B10 might pick up some of the pieces there.

 

[Across The Field]

I've been a huge proponent of removing the G5 all together from CFB, at least the main division. It's stupid that Eastern Michigan is competing for the same national title as Alabama and Georgia. Keeping them afloat financially at the cost of good football games being played isn't a good argument IMO. plenty of other smaller schools have perfectly fine football budgets. Some don't, and they should go away if all that's keeping them alive is the payout for getting their asses kicked in september by P4 teams.

It's really now the power 4 and then the G5. Give the P4 and the G5 a national title.

Hell, would have been nice to have a 4 team playoff still. Conference championship games are the first leg of an 8 team playoff in the 4 major conferences.

With that mindset, we would've missed out on a ton of amazing games in history though. I go back to, for example, App State. Not talking shit, but that was a game for the record books. Also look at what happened with Boise St., TCU, Utah, etc. who were once G5 level schools who built up nationally respected programs because they proved they were capable of beating the big time programs. There are plenty of other big upsets that have happened from the G5 and even FCS/P5 early matchups that we wouldn't see if we went the way you wanna go.

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

With that mindset, we would've missed out on a ton of amazing games in history though. I go back to, for example, App State. Not talking shit, but that was a game for the record books. Also look at what happened with Boise St., TCU, Utah, etc. who were once G5 level schools who built up nationally respected programs because they proved they were capable of beating the big time programs. There are plenty of other big upsets that have happened from the G5 and even FCS/P5 early matchups that we wouldn't see if we went the way you wanna go.

Sure...but a LOT of shitty games as well. If teams were forced to only play P5 conferences, the rate of "awesome games" as a result of that would far surpass the number of good games that come out of playing the G5 schools.

 

[Across The Field]

Sure...but a LOT of shitty games as well. If teams were forced to only play P5 conferences, the rate of "awesome games" as a result of that would far surpass the number of good games that come out of playing the G5 schools.

I'd rather see Ohio State help out an in-state G5 like Toledo or Miami(OH) with a nice payday than bother blowing out someone like Northwestern, Vanderbilt, UVA, Cal, BC, Stanford, Iowa State, Indiana, etc.

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

I'd rather see Ohio State help out an in-state G5 like Toledo or Miami(OH) with a nice payday than bother blowing out someone like Northwestern, Vanderbilt, UVA, Cal, BC, Stanford, Iowa State, Indiana, etc.

I'd rather have more conference games, especially now with the conference at 18. And within the last 10 years Indiana, Northwestern, Virginia, Cal, Stanford, Indiana and Iowa State have all produced some decent, if not flat out good, football teams multiple times. I'd rather play the 9-4 Virginia team than ECU or Eastern Michigan. With the lower P5 teams it's more of a crap shoot but it's still better than playing 3-4 duds per year.

The last time Ohio State played Miami (OH) (2019) they won SEVENTY SIX to FIVE. Come on. That game shouldn't be played. The closest game between the two was 27-16, in 2000 when Ohio State went 6-6.

And really, there's only a few really bad P5 teams per conference and everyone can't play them if it's mandated to play P5 teams in OOC. Most of the time you'd be rotating through some pretty good teams.

 

[TaikoTiger]

Sure...but a LOT of shitty games as well. If teams were forced to only play P5 conferences, the rate of "awesome games" as a result of that would far surpass the number of good games that come out of playing the G5 schools.

Moving the G5 to it's own division isn't going stop schools from scheduling them. If you want more P5-P5 games, then schedule more P5-P5 games or have the conference force this requirement

 

[Deep Creek]

Sure. But I think the B12 added enough teams to keep themselves in the conversation for a while. I wouldn't be shocked if it turned into the P3 when the ACC explodes. The B12/B10 might pick up some of the pieces there.

Could be but I'm not so sure. To use a shopping mall analogy, they don't have an "anchor store". The SEC and B1G have more than one anchor store.

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Could be but I'm not so sure. To use a shopping mall analogy, they don't have an "anchor store". The SEC and B1G have more than one anchor store.

They're more like a strip mall with a Chick-Fil-a in the parking lot. Their TV deal gives them a solid footing for the rest of this decade.

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Moving the G5 to it's own division isn't going stop schools from scheduling them. If you want more P5-P5 games, then schedule more P5-P5 games or have the conference force this requirement

Doesn't stop anything. You can schedule teams below G5, ALabama does once a year. Only one of them can count in terms of W/L. Michigan did it once, and then lost to App State.

Also, the current system favors scheduling the worst teams possible.

 

[Huskers4me]

BTW, how good is your women's volleyball team?

He’s about to find out.