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On 3/25/2018 at 3:08 PM, Aqua Buddha said:

I'm hearing the Pac-16.

If there's now 2 different threads, does that make a 32 team conference..?

(I like the idea obviously of a PAC-XII merger)...

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Where the hell are the late games we were promised as a silver lining of the Big Ten and Big 12 moving west? BYU at Colorado was the only P4 late game last night. 
 

Fox continues to roll with baseball on Saturday night. FS1 played a damn replay of USC at Illinois at 9pm last night. Shameful.

I can’t recall USC, Oregon , or Washington playing a home game after 7pm CST since the Big Ten move. 

The Big 12/ESPN are kind of doing their part, but it’s almost always a Colorado home game.

NBC/Peacock somehow won TV. Once a week pregame studio, and then a marquee game of the week in primetime. They had the Ohio State at Oregon classic last year, and another great game last night in Oregon at Penn State. 

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I was collecting viewer data for another snarky put down of the B12, and I noticed something interesting. Fox’ Big Noon usually has a floor of 4M viewers, when it has decent B1G teams or good B12 teams. Exception: week 3, Oregon at NW, Big Noon had 2N viewers. 
 
That’s awful. 
 
During realignment, I contended that Oregon was free riding, propped up by Nike’s influence. That program has no intro sic fan base and has to buy recruits from other regions. When they might have the best team in the country, they can’t attract viewers. 
 
I really wish they had been consigned to the ACC. 

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On 9/28/2025 at 8:02 AM, billfromlaketravis said:

Where the hell are the late games we were promised as a silver lining of the Big Ten and Big 12 moving west? 

ESPN has been using the ACC - specifically Cal - for their late night slot. This past week was the exception (but there was nothing wrong with watching #5 Montana take on #8 Idaho in the battle for the little brown stein on ESPN2).

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6 hours ago, statsman said:

I was collecting viewer data for another snarky put down of the B12, and I noticed something interesting. Fox’ Big Noon usually has a floor of 4M viewers, when it has decent B1G teams or good B12 teams. Exception: week 3, Oregon at NW, Big Noon had 2N viewers. 
 
That’s awful. 
 
During realignment, I contended that Oregon was free riding, propped up by Nike’s influence. That program has no intro sic fan base and has to buy recruits from other regions. When they might have the best team in the country, they can’t attract viewers. 
 
I really wish they had been consigned to the ACC. 

The idea that a team like Oregon should maybe not be part of high end college football because they don't get enough ratings is the dumbest fucking shit of all time.  It's everything that's wrong with this sport.

Your obsession with TV ratings is fucking weird, but I guess there must be more people like you than I realize.

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22 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

The idea that a team like Oregon should maybe not be part of high end college football because they don't get enough ratings is the dumbest fucking shit of all time.  It's everything that's wrong with this sport.

Your obsession with TV ratings is fucking weird, but I guess there must be more people like you than I realize.

Oregon does not have a great history. 
Oregon has always relied on recruits from elsewhere. 
Oregon does not have a great mass appeal. 
 
Frankly, Washington is better than Oregon on all of those items, much better on a couple. 
 
Without Phil Knight’s money and influence, Oregon would be ACC, B12 or PAC. They are freeriding. 
 
I am interested in ratings because, in the post-House Settlement era, ADs need revenue. Rating are showing that the SEC and B1G ratings are much larger than the B12 and much of the ACC. I suspect the next media contracts will reflect that. 

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36 minutes ago, statsman said:

Oregon does not have a great history. 
Oregon has always relied on recruits from elsewhere. 
Oregon does not have a great mass appeal. 
 
Frankly, Washington is better than Oregon on all of those items, much better on a couple. 
 
Without Phil Knight’s money and influence, Oregon would be ACC, B12 or PAC. They are freeriding. 
 
I am interested in ratings because, in the post-House Settlement era, ADs need revenue. Rating are showing that the SEC and B1G ratings are much larger than the B12 and much of the ACC. I suspect the next media contracts will reflect that. 

None of this should matter, and you are a fucking weirdo with how hung up you are on this shit.

Oregon is better at winning football games than most schools.  They've had a ton of entertaining players over the years.  The gate keeping of college football to only the biggest brands and a handful of historic free riders is the dumbest shit ever.

2/3rds of the Big 10 are free riding.  40% of the SEC is.  Caring about this is dumb as fuck.

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