M&BR has the latest on what we’re hearing on the OC search.

Yes, that Herbstreit. Can confirm he is a scholarship player. Very small recruiting footprint was not recruited much at all.

Story to come.

Surprising that Ono's name has been conspicuously absent tells me he is happy with Warde's involvement with how he's doing his job. Dusty May's hiring, growing NIL programs, Sherone's building of recruiting buildup and recruiting class, filling the basketball arena, etc. I'm sure Ono has done work behind the scenes but chooses no to be in the limelight. If Ono is happy, I'm happy.

If someone had offered me a choice how our football program ended up this year this season would be choice #1. Others have posted what our season could have ended like, but with the team we had at the time, I see no way possible to get into the playoffs let alone win it all. Think Sherrone firing Campbell was tough for him to do but 100% the right thing to do. We are on an upward path and who know what our ceiling is in 25 & 26.

Rather be in Indy.

Just saying, as I see the schedules that put them in the CFP.

Been thinking about this and how the playoffs could be better as far as seeding and picking who gets in:

Get rid of conf championship game, the regular season conf outright winner gets an autobid from the P4 conferences. (Why If I win the conf in regular season do I need to be rewarded with an extra game)

Replace conf champ weekend with a wild card weekend between the 2nd & 3rd team in the P4 conferences. The winner of that game now gets into the playoff.

Best G5 team auto gets in & then that leaves you with 3 at large bids.

Lastly do seeding like March madness wait until the 12 teams have been picked and seed them that way.

Not perfect but I think better than current model.

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19 days till our reigning NFC North Champs kick off the regular season. Can’t wait!

That Warde Manuel intentionally screwed Ohio State by giving them the hardest path to a title.

I will say, though, if they run the table they would’ve earned their natty. That’s a tough pull, I’m not convinced they beat Tennessee.

The Los Angeles Trolley Dodgers have won the World Series.

Fire up the hot stove...here we go!!!

Free agent hitters:

Free agent starting pitchers:

Free agent relievers:

Feels like the Reliaquest bowl has most of the momentum right now. As for opponent, we’ll see. Brett McMurphy is projecting Ole Miss.

Also, haven’t ruled out Music City either.

Should find out for sure here soon enough.

No names have emerged YET from the initial we’ve heard however there are folks who are adamant that Michigan wants to go younger with the OC pick and who has a history of QB development.

Who checks those boxes? Not sure currently.

I don’t get the sense Jason Candle will go further than the initial discussion.

Will do more digging.

The CFP committee got it right!

Not a massive surprise. Michigan is active in the portal already on the interior OL.

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Better not bump SMU out for Alabama. SMU lost a hard fought game on the last play.

A few weeks ago Warde said teams won't be penalized for playing in a conference title game. Keep that energy tomorrow and have Clemson & SMU both in. Someone who lost to very bad Vanderbilt & Oklahoma teams(Alabama) has no business being in the playoffs. Just my .02

My instinct tells me that SMU is out and they’ll put Alabama in just because they’re Alabama. They had two really bad losses but a tough schedule versus SMU who has two losses, but one in the championship game and they played in the ACC, which is clearly a demerit in the CFP world.

With there being no divisions in the Big 10 conference now, the easiest conference schedules will help teams get to the conference championship game. I’ve been curious about how things shook out this year, so I did some analysis. Here are some initial things that jumped out to me:
- Indiana played 7 of the bottom 8 teams.
- Iowa also played 7 of the bottom 8 teams.
- Iowa only played 1 team in the top 6.
- Michigan played 4 of the top 5 teams (only team in the top 14 of the standings to do so), with 3 of the 4 being on the road.
- Michigan played 7 of the top 11 teams.
- Osu is the only team in the top 10 to play the top 3 teams.
- UCLA is the only team to not play an opponent lower than 12.
- Purdue is the only team to play the top 5 teams (their other 4 games were against teams 12-16).
- MSU played 7 of the top 9 teams, and also played the worst 2.
- USC played 1 team in the top 6.

Key & Brown are both in the portal. Get one of them. Also Wysong of New Mexico had 69 catches. Holla at that dude!

I think that’s a solid hire for them. We might see Marion in the big ten after all.

He has 4 road games all year plus the SEC championship is in his backyard but he says this. What a crybaby piece of "work" he is
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the UGA OC more money than he's making now with the chance to coach the #1 QB in the country. It's very unlikely, but just a thought.

We can talk about the other games going on today here.

Iowa State just got screwed out of a PI call!

has never played this well this year. PSU should have beaten OSU dad gummit!