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Now I have the sweet image of Ludwig, Harding, etc. pouring over hours and hours of game film on Sundays in preparation, and at the end of each meeting, “You know what fellas, I’m pretty sure we can just run up the middle on them.”

I agree with you. But, it says a lot about where we’ve come as a program that 8-4 is an “underwhelming season.”

With the new conference, and the expanded playoffs, we should reasonably be in the hunt for a conference championship and the playoffs nearly every season.

There is no Big XII network. They have an agreement with ESPN and Fox series of stations to televise games.

There was Big XII network, but I think it ceased like 10 years ago. Get ready to subscribe to ESPN+!

I’m not saying Utah can’t throw over the top on him. I’m saying I’ve seen a lack of empirical evidence that Utah will throw over the top on anyone.

Bold of you to assume that Utah will ever throw over the top.

I agree that it would be nice to get Rose time and experience. And I hope gets lots of reps in practice and some substantial time in the game. But I view it as a culture thing, too. Bowls are rewards for a season, and Whit wants to reward Barnes. Let him go out as a bowl game starter. He’s sure as hell earned it.

Part of the draw to Utah for many…[Read more]

But can’t you say they had to try the onside kick, for the exact same reason, because the results didn’t pan out? Oregon wasn’t able to stop Washington. Washington ran the clock out. If they had kicked away… Washington still would have ran the clock out. There’s zero reason to believe that UO could stop UW and get the ball back the way the game…[Read more]

I think the wettest I’ve ever been in my life was at Husky Stadium in 2015. Took my wife to Seattle for the weekend for her birthday, and went to the Utes/Huskies game. Sat in the lower uncovered section. Utes won, but we were so wet and miserable at the game that it took me a few years to convince her to ever go to a game with me again.

I’ll be there. I live in SW Washington, going to drive up to SeaTac and take light rail the rest of the way.
I second what others said, take public transportation. The light rail lets off right at the stadium. The shuttle busses that go there from park and ride stations are great too. But, the last time I did one of those it took over an hour to g…[Read more]

It’s far more contrasting than that. He might have spent 15% of one year’s income to completely buy and pay off that house. I’m spending 15% of my gross income on my home too. But I’m doing that every year for 30 years to pay mine off. Clearly we all have much to learn from Coach Riley. (Except how to manage a defense, I might know more about t…[Read more]

It’s nice to be the big time game on Fox. Them switching to Utah/Oregon away from a 5 point Oklahoma game is showing some serious respect.
Too many memories of games starting on ESPNews in the past years..

Fox is saying they will switch to the Utah/Oregon game for kickoff.

I don’t love them. But I remember that I really didn’t like the helmets or uniforms when they honored the Battleship either. (Liked the idea, didn’t like the look or the fact that we weren’t going traditional colors for such a high profile game.)
But that was the last time Oregon came to town. Also as the favorite. And that beat down went pretty…[Read more]

I think the likelihood of there being a bad snap or some other type of mistake is small enough that the increased percentage of making the field goal from the center of the field is more than worth it.

With the tighter hashes in the NFL no, probably not worth it. But in college with the wider hashes? Yes.

That feels about right. If you’ve watched both teams play this year, no reason to think Oregon shouldn’t be favored. Their talent level is as good as anyone we play, their offense just as good as USC’s, their defense and coaching are light years better, their four and five-star guys are actually tough unlike the prima donna Trojans, and we won’t…[Read more]

Hard to fault UO and UW for leaving when they did. They at least stuck around until they saw the details of the Apple offer.

Fuck the LA schools, though.

SLC is probably the best choice next week, but they did just do Oregon at Washington last week, so they may not want to do another Oregon game so soon.

Wow. Anyone still on Colorado’s bandwagon has to be looking for the exit now. That sideline might be a little more bereft of the celebs going forward.

And, hey, if Stanford can score 43 (33 in regulation), even Utah’s offense has to be able to put up 21 points against them, right? Right?

Stanford tied it with a field goal in the last play of regulation. Going into overtime.

At halftime, ESPN’s Gamecast prediction software gave Colorado a 99.7% chance of winning. Yikes.

Maybe Coach Prime can trade back some of his transfers at skill positions for linemen. Shouldn’t be too hard, after all, we know he keeps receipts.

No, not a penalty. If the ball goes into the endzone before it goes out of bounds it is a touchback, ball gets placed a the 25-yard line.