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TKthunder2

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  1. Huge Colt fan, but they shouldn’t have him headlining major games yet. He needs a lot of polish.
  2. It’s hard to prove a negative, but this is the only thing I can find about Herby calling a game remotely, from when he got COVID. https://sports.yahoo.com/kirk-herbstreit-to-work-from-home-in-week-4-after-coming-in-contact-with-someone-who-had-covid-19-202202951.html and here’s a thread on some of his standard travel https://athlonsports.com/college-football/big-ten/kirk-herbsteit-travel-college-gameday-schedule-fans-react-south-bend
  3. I don’t think you’re right on this one. They’ve shown the crazy lengths they have gone to in order to get Herby from College Gameday on the West Coast to an East Coast game multiple times (police escorts, private plane, helicopters). I’m not saying it never has happened (like during Covid perhaps) but I don’t think it’s anything they do “all the time”. I believe ESPN might do this for lesser conferences on ESPN+ but not SEC or premier B12/ACC games.
  4. FS1 not sending announcer to the stadiums, they are working remotely from a central location. Treating Big 12 games like they treat MWC games. Fox is pretty much telling the Big 12 how they think about them. https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/college/asu/2024/09/21/arizona-state-football-fans-slam-fs1-remote-broadcast-texas-tech/75329197007/
  5. It was scheduled before they were conferencemates. Same for Baylor/Utah. They couldn’t reschedule with another P4 level opponent on such a short turnaround so they decided to leave the game scheduled but not count them as conference games.
  6. Yep they had Utah v Oklahoma State. A ranked v ranked matchup that could decide the entire Big 12 conference where they also could talk about the new conference alignments. It seemed like such an easy decision that they totally flubbed because they wanted to suck some bucknuts.
  7. The noon on ESPN is good for them. They get the 230 on FOX by default as FOX can’t broadcast any Big Ten at that time because they gave CBS an exclusive window. And the late window is something they will have each week with 5 team in the Mountain Time Zone. The SEC has 3 games back to back to back on ABC, one on ESPN at 230, and 2 on the SECN. This is basically the new norm for both the SEC and Big 12. The big loser here is the ACC. They have only a Friday night game on ESPN, then Clemson is the sacrificial lamb on ESPN opposite UGA/Bama, then they only have one game on ESPN2, one on the CW, 3 on the ACCN, and one streaming…on top of that Louisville’s ranked v ranked game against Notre Dame is only on Peacock.
  8. NEXT WEEK Okie St/K State 11am on ESPN Colorado/UCF 230 on FOX AZ/Utah late on ESPN everything else on FS1/ESPN2 other than Kansas/TCU is streaming only.
  9. That’s fine, we’ll get it back on 10/20.
  10. Still number 2 in coaches poll. https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/football/ncaaf/coaches-poll
  11. Where is the sort on stadium mode?
  12. No way Clemson beat Ohio State today.
  13. They got a new QB. Hook’em Murphy.
  14. Love stadium mode (currently at DKR) but needs a sort function, hard to quickly see the active scores with all the final ones intermixed.
  15. I wonder how much longer Mack is going to coach? Seems like he should know by now that he can’t turn UNC into a playoff team…
  16. When not complete dog shit, Ohio State and Michigan are a major ratings pull on the OTA networks, even when they play scrubs (like Marshall) they pull 2.5 million viewers, and if it’s a team with anything remotely close to a brand or rank they get 5 million. If that Clemson game is close it can beat it, but I’m skeptical that matchup can break the 3 million mark (Clemson isn’t that type of program, and unranked NCSU already has a loss).
  17. I work with a group based out of Lincoln, I know at least a dozen people who are there tonight. As much as I love seeing corn lose, I hate listening to them bitch the week after. If they drop another one before Ohio State they’ll begin to shut the fuck up.
  18. #12 Utah and #14 Oklahoma State are playing tomorrow at 3pm on FOX. It’s predicted to be a close competitive game (OkSt-1) of the two top undefeated teams in the conference. and where is the FOX Big Noon pregame show??? They are at the undefeated #3 Ohio State vs unranked 1-1 Marshall who lost to Virginia Tech 14 to 31 (who lost to Vanderbilt) in a game that is expected to be a 40 point blowout (tOSU -40).
  19. When did Kentucky or Ole Miss win a national championship? They were never ranked #1 by the AP or UPI/coaches. This is like those bullshit ones aggy and SMU are trying to claim.
  20. I have zero love for the Big Ten but I disagree with your assessment. If we’re just going off who can win a national title, then yeah it’s a down year for the Big Ten, but even then they have more than Ohio St. Penn St, USC, Oregon, and maybe even Nebraska (look at their schedule) could all be playoff teams. But when we’re talking about realignment, year to year isn’t that important as you can discount Michigan’s value just because they are down a little a year after winning it all. To your tier list, sure, the Big Ten has 5 blueblood or near blueblood schools in Ohio St, Michigan, Penn St, USC, and Nebraska that the Big 12 has no chance to match but they also have another 5 schools that would still clearly at the very top of the upper echelon of the Big 12. You might be able to argue that Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, Michigan St, and Iowa wouldn’t be number one in the Big 12, but even if true, they would absolutely be in the top quartile at a minimum.
  21. I agree with your premise, but disagree that the gap is as big as 25% low quality in SEC vs 66% low quality in the Big Ten. Don’t get me wrong, the Big Ten is weaker pound for pound but it’s likely 25% vs 40%. There are 24 FBS home stadiums with 70k+ capacity where the college team is the main tenant. (#25 drops to 66k -Virginia Tech) Of those, the SEC has 11, and the Big Ten has 10. (Others are FSU, Clemson, ND) The top 30 public athletic departments revenue for 2023: SEC has 14 and the Big Ten has 12 (Others are UVA, FSU, Clemson, Louisville) Since the start of the BCS 22 teams have played in a CFP or BCSNCG. The SEC has 8 while the Big Ten had 7. (Others FSU, VT, Miami, Clemson, ND, Cincy, TCU) These numbers fairly are similar but when you remember that the Big Ten has 18 teams while the SEC only has 16 their differences are more apparent.
  22. You can say the same the about Houston too.
  23. I mean, yes fuck cougar high, but I’m sure their admin want to play tech, rape, and the roaches every year. can it be done, sure, but it’s just not clean, they could very easily turn the table on ISU and make the map graphic look logical… AZ/UT Texas teams Big8-ISU ISU+Eastern teams
  24. Is there a site that publishes the weekly injury report?
  25. Pods would have been nice but having only 3 in the East and 5 in the West sorta fucked everything up. If you could go back in time and take a school like Memphis, USF, UConn over BYU it would have lined up nicely. 4Corners Texas schools Big8 schools in the CTZ Eastern schools
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