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The Power Four => Big Ten => Topic started by: MaximumSam on August 29, 2026, 06:55:27 AM
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I don't care if it is a bunch of crap, we have college football. The weather is great. I have nothing to do all day except post up on the couch and report for duty.
- Noon: North Carolina v. TCU, ESPN
- 3 pm: San Joe St. at USC, NBC
- 3:30: NC State at Virginia, ESPN
- 7 pm, Hawaii at Stanford, ACCN
- 7 pm, New Mexico State at FSU, CW
- 10 pm, Memphis at UNLV, FOX
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Hawai'i's shortest-ever flight to play an ACC school.
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Hawai'i's shortest-ever flight to play an ACC school.
Once Trump combines the Atlantic and Pacific oceans into one American ocean, the ACC long game will finally make sense.
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Once Trump combines the Atlantic and Pacific oceans into one American ocean, the ACC long game will finally make sense.
That would have changed the Conference draft game. I'd have taken Florida and then USC.
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I'm going to an FCS game tonight, as #1 Montana State will be in town, along with half the state of Montana in attendance.
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Once Trump combines the Atlantic and Pacific oceans into one American ocean, the ACC long game will finally make sense.
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It was funny.
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for some
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ROSEMONT, Ill. — The Big Ten Conference on Friday announced updates to the Football Availability Reporting Process for the upcoming 2026 season.
Beginning this year, schools will submit four availability reports per week, beginning three days before a contest and concluding with a gameday report. Institutions will submit reports by 8pm ET/7pm CT/5pm PT three days (e.g., on Wednesday for a Saturday game), two days, and one day before scheduled kickoff. A final gameday submission will be due two hours before kickoff.
Midweek status designations will identify student-athletes as Probable, Questionable, Doubtful, Out or Out (1st Half). Gameday availability reports will include three categories: Game Time Decision, Out, and Out (1st Half) on gameday. Student-athletes not listed on a report are considered Available.
Due to travel party limitations, visiting teams will indicate the availability status of players who either a) were part of the travel squad, or b)were not part of the travel squad but are (or have been) included in the two-deep on offense, defense, or special teams or otherwise regularly participate in games.
This policy will apply to all competition against conference opponents only, with the first reports of the Big Ten season due in advance of the USC at Rutgers and Purdue at UCLA games on Sept. 19. All availability reports will be published on BigTen.org.
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Gym, store, called my folks, now posted up on the couch. Movement is for losers.
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canceled my 8am tee time - golf sucks
getting ready to mow the lawn for the 2nd time this month
we shall see what the afternoon brings
some college football fer sure, whether that's on the couch or at the pub after a drive in the red car?
that's the question
Iowa pork chops thawing
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Iowa pork chops thawing
Is that like a recipe or just a nod to the pigs living in Iowa?
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I will be at this evening’s UNLV Vs Memphis matchup at the Raiders stadium. Just landed in Las Vegas, and headed over to the Flamingo for pregaming.
Picture on landing that I took of UNLV’s old stadium, former host of the Las Vegas Bowl. Attended one game there a decade ago, and it already felt more like County Fair bleachers for the state rodeo, which I think it is now:
(https://i.imgur.com/8hLjzrR.jpeg)
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Is that like a recipe or just a nod to the pigs living in Iowa?
here it simply designates a thicker chop - an inch or more
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Is that like a recipe or just a nod to the pigs living in Iowa?
I thought it was during the first warm days of spring when the ladies of Iowa start wearing shorts and tank tops again...they're so pale, and THAT'S why pork is the "other white meat."
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I thought it was during the first warm days of spring when the ladies of Iowa start wearing shorts and tank tops again...they're so pale, and THAT'S why pork is the "other white meat."
Well glad to know that in Iowa an inch or more is jumbo sized. I should move there.
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oh, jumbo size is 2" or larger
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Hoping UNC still goes 3-9 and this is extra funny
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I will be at this evening’s UNLV Vs Memphis matchup at the Raiders stadium. Just landed in Las Vegas, and headed over to the Flamingo for pregaming.
Picture on landing that I took of UNLV’s old stadium, former host of the Las Vegas Bowl. Attended one game there a decade ago, and it already felt more like County Fair bleachers for the state rodeo, which I think it is now:
(https://i.imgur.com/8hLjzrR.jpeg)
I was in town for business once and caught UNLV vs TCU. My thought upon leaving that game was that no Power 5 conference (it was six back then) should ever lose to a team with these kind of resources. But they do. Wisconsin included.
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Michigan has lost to Appalachian State and Toledo.
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I thought it was during the first warm days of spring when the ladies of Iowa start wearing shorts and tank tops again...they're so pale, and THAT'S why pork is the "other white meat."
😂😂😂
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We've got multiple crappy games on, a glass of wine, the dogs happily chewing on their bones, the kids fed and even cleaned up the kitchen. In the sun room, and cicadas are giving good background noise for Thom Brenneman calling the FSU game.
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It's good to see FSU struggling with a whatever team.
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It's good to see FSU struggling with a whatever team.
Not even whatever, a not-good, low-talent team.
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It didn't end up mattering, but in the Hawaii game, they tried for 2 to go up 6. Immediately gave up a TD and showed why that is not all that wise.
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USC and UCLA are embarrassments to the B1G. I have no idea what the idiots in Rosemont were thinking.
(https://i.imgur.com/i3nR09A.png)
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$$$
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Doesn't look like a lot of $$$ in those seats.
Unless a bunch of people showed up dressed as red seats, of course.
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TV money
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USC and UCLA are embarrassments to the B1G. I have no idea what the idiots in Rosemont were thinking.
Ya about the only agruement they have is escalating prices,specially in the land of milk and honey.The greed from networks is also getting appalling. Won't be long before I'll be listening to the December/January games huddled around the Philco by the fire with some refreshments
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I will be at this evening’s UNLV Vs Memphis matchup at the Raiders stadium.
Entertaining game; lots of offense racked up, and many Elvis sighting between both fan bases. UNLV couldn't finish drives & Memphis shored up their defense in the second half and held on for a 27-21 win.
Playing in the new Raiders stadium has ended up a good shift for UNLV. They are getting larger home crowds, upwards of 30K in attendance, filling up the lower bowl. Definitely has a smaller-time college football feel.
There's no tailgating scene to speak of because all the pregame is absorbed into the casinos, especially the Mandalay Bay, which is right across I-15 from the stadium. Before, during, and after the game the bridge over I-15 is shut off from traffic to make for a pedestrian walkway between Mandalay Bay and the Stadium.
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Doesn't look like a lot of $$$ in those seats.
Unless a bunch of people showed up dressed as red seats, of course.
Conference commissioners don't give a rat's ass about in-stadium attendance. USC turns on televisions even when they suck. UCLA was just the ugly friend you had to allow to come along to get the hot girl to come out with you.
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Conference commissioners don't give a rat's ass about in-stadium attendance. USC turns on televisions even when they suck. UCLA was just the ugly friend you had to allow to come along to get the hot girl to come out with you.
Mostly for people to root against them.
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Mostly for people to root against them.
Sure, why not? Conference commissioners don't care.
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Boomer Sooners are watching , hoping muleshoe will fail
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Boomer Sooners are watching , hoping muleshoe will fail
Ol' Muleshoe did a heck of a lot better against Texas than their current dude has. Be careful what you wish for...
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I just watched a vid about CFB stadium renovations going on. Florida spending $1.5 Billion on upgrades. Northwestern dozing their stadium and replacing it's 45K capacity with 37K? Talking about butts in seats above...but I guess those butts will pay more for their luxurious space. Others spending big bucks were pretty much everybody around me--Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska. Penn State, Memphis, South Florida (new on-campus as well.)
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I just watched a vid about CFB stadium renovations going on. Florida spending $1.5 Billion on upgrades. Northwestern dozing their stadium and replacing it's 45K capacity with 37K? Talking about butts in seats above...but I guess those butts will pay more for their luxurious space. Others spending big bucks were pretty much everybody around me--Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska. Penn State, Memphis, South Florida (new on-campus as well.)
Our most recent renovations decreased overall capacity but significantly increased club level and luxury suite capacity. That's a pretty common trend lately.
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I just watched a vid about CFB stadium renovations going on. Florida spending $1.5 Billion on upgrades. Northwestern dozing their stadium and replacing it's 45K capacity with 37K? Talking about butts in seats above...but I guess those butts will pay more for their luxurious space. Others spending big bucks were pretty much everybody around me--Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska. Penn State, Memphis, South Florida (new on-campus as well.)
NU's stadium is going to be gorgeous, and tickets will not be cheap.
(https://i.imgur.com/KHWMUaY.jpeg)
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NU's stadium is going to be gorgeous, and tickets will not be cheap.
(https://i.imgur.com/KHWMUaY.jpeg)
(https://i.imgur.com/ey3m9vz.png)
That looks like something that would hold way more than 37k
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Mostly for people to root against them.
Sure, why not? Conference commissioners don't care.
I was going to answer with almost exactly what @utee94 (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=15) said. It is the same with Notre Dame. The Irish have a LOT of anti-fans (myself included) and from a network/ratings perspective those anti-fans are just as good as the actual fans because either way it is a set of eyeballs on that screen and seeing those commercials.
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Our most recent renovations decreased overall capacity but significantly increased club level and luxury suite capacity. That's a pretty common trend lately.
A number of years ago Ohio State had a proposal to do this and there was so much wailing and gnashing of teeth that they backed out. So what they eventually did instead was to do exactly what they wanted to do but then also add enough extra space to make up for the loss. Then a few years later Michigan did almost the exact same song and dance. They had a proposal that would have dropped them out of the #1 spot and there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth so they found a way to squeeze in a few more cheap seats to make up for what they lost by adding luxury seats to make it palatable to the masses. Same thing Ohio State did.
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Huskers will be downsizing a few seats during the coming renovation
it's OK with me, the seat numbers were too close together for this generation's buttocks size
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USC and UCLA are embarrassments to the B1G. I have no idea what the idiots in Rosemont were thinking.
(https://i.imgur.com/i3nR09A.png)
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This story continues to get a lot of coverage. In USC's defense, an unseasonably hot noon kickoff Vs a crappy San Jose St for an August week zero matchup was never going to be a big sell. The story is now how much coverage this continues to get, which was bolstered by USC bothering to release a statement about their own poor attendance:
“We understand the factors that impacted Saturday’s attendance. We have high expectations and a premier home schedule this season, and we know the competitive advantage an electric Coliseum atmosphere can provide our program. We thank our fans who showed up Saturday and look forward to seeing increased attendance the rest of the season.”
https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/2094443876392083653
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USC and UCLA are embarrassments to the B1G. I have no idea what the idiots in Rosemont were thinking.
(https://i.imgur.com/i3nR09A.png)
To be fair, I used to sit in very comparable "crowds" on cool fall afternoons in Bloomington not so long ago.
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Well yeah, but this is a helmet school (supposedly).
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Huskers will be downsizing a few seats during the coming renovation
it's OK with me, the seat numbers were too close together for this generation's buttocks size
The biggest need in Lincoln is to improve egress into/out of North and South Stadium.
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This story continues to get a lot of coverage. In USC's defense, an unseasonably hot noon kickoff Vs a crappy San Jose St for an August week zero matchup was never going to be a big sell. The story is now how much coverage this continues to get, which was bolstered by USC bothering to release a statement about their own poor attendance:
“We understand the factors that impacted Saturday’s attendance. We have high expectations and a premier home schedule this season, and we know the competitive advantage an electric Coliseum atmosphere can provide our program. We thank our fans who showed up Saturday and look forward to seeing increased attendance the rest of the season.”
https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/2094443876392083653
Better get used to it. The Rams are the pre-season Super Bowl favorites, and the SC schedule is garbage. The only time there'll be a big crowd at the Coliseum is when Ohio State comes to town on Halloween.
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The only time there'll be a big crowd at the Coliseum is when Ohio State comes to town on Halloween.
USC's home schedule:
- SJSU already played in front of what looked to be about two dozen fans.
- Fresno State on Friday, 9/4.
- Louisiana on 9/12.
- #2 Oregon on 9/26.
- #17 Washington on 10/3.
- #1 Ohio State on 10/31.
- Maryland on 11/21.
I'm no expert on SoCal and USC attendance but I would think that even if USC's own fans don't show up in large numbers the Ducks and Huskies would fill the place, no?
I'll be very curious what the crowd balance looks like for that Halloween game.
Ohio State's last game in SoCal was the 2025 Rose Bowl / 2024 CFP Quarter-Final against #1 Oregon. Official attendance for that was 90,732, Ohio State won 41-21.
Prior to that it was the 2022 Rose Bowl against #11 Utah. This was a consolation after tOSU lost to Harbaugh's cheating machine. Official attendance for that was 87,842, Ohio State won a thriller 48-45 and broke about all the passing/receiving records in the process.
Prior to that it was the 2019 Rose Bowl against #9 Washington. Official attendance for that was 91,853, Ohio State won 28-23.
Prior to that it was the 2010 Rose Bowl against #7 Oregon. Official attendance for that was 93,963, Ohio State won 26-17.
Prior to that it was a regular season game at USC on September 13, 2008. Official attendance for that was 93,607, Ohio State got drilled 35-3.
Ohio State didn't play any games in SoCal in 2006 or 2007 so the above is it in the last 20 years (2006-2025).
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Lots of Ducks fans down here. I don't recall what site it was from years ago that showed top 3 CFB fandom based on zip code, but it was pretty consistently USC/UCLA (in one or the other order) as 1/2 and then the Ducks consistent #3.
I don't know if Washington has quite the same pull. The problem with Oregon in general is that Portland (2.5M metro population) may not be big enough to keep everyone home, and they likely are moving to LA or Seattle for jobs. Whereas University of Washington is in Seattle (4.1M metro population), which with Boeing / Microsoft / Amazon / Kirkland and then all the satellite companies that have sprung up around all of them, can probably absorb every UW grad.
Plus, Oregon picked up a TON of bandwagon fans over the last two decades that isn't the case with UW.
So I'm not sure Washington fans will fill the Coliseum.
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As for me, I'm currently NOT planning on going to the Purdue @ UCLA game next month. Even though tickets can be had as low as $51 per.
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I forgot about Oregon's frontrunning fan base. I don't think there are THAT many of them in SoCal that are willing to drag themselves down to Expo Park.
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fOregon.