What is the best way to determine the 12-team College Football Playoff field? Will the CFB Playoff Committee (Committee) simply use the won/loss records of teams when deciding on the Delightful Dozen? Or, like the College Basketball Committee, will there be a more nuanced approach? In an era of super-sized conferences with unbalanced schedules, it will hopefully be the latter …
2024 CFB: Power-4 Dark Horse Title Contenders
Oh, Stewball was a racehorse, And I wish he were mine, He never drank water, He always drank wine. I bet on the gray mare, I bet on the bay, If I’d bet on ol’ Stewball, I’d be a free man today. 1966 – Peter, Paul and Mary According to one gaming site, the favorites for the 2024 Power 4 …
Dan Lanning’s Pursuit of Elite: Areas of Improvement
Recently I posted the beginning of a planned multiple article look into Dan Lanning’s goal to elevate Oregon Football from Good to Elite in the OBD forum. Today I want to begin focusing on areas of improvement, starting with the external.When I spoke to Mr. FishDuck about this topic, he took time aside from his fun at IPL betting cricket …
Oregon Ducks Football: Where Does Bo Nix Land in the NFL Draft?
Bo Nix is regarded today as one of the best signal callers to ever join the Oregon Ducks football program. Some even consider him the best player in team history. Now, in just over a month, Nix will be embarking on his pro career and join one of 32 teams ready to reshape their franchise with a new-look offense. So …
Chip Back to What He Likes Best
I admit that I was wrong. I have been saying for a couple of years that after Chip Kelly leaves UCLA (after being fired or “asked” to resign) he would either become a head coach in a lower division like his former school New Hampshire, or, if he was able to put his ego aside, become an OC in the …
Seven Ducks Taking Part in 2024 NFL Combine
As many as seven members of the University of Oregon’s football team are in attendance at the 2024 NFL Combine at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Among the players hoping to make an impact are quarterback Bo Nix and running back Bucky Irving. A total of 321 players have been invited to this year’s event, and the seven-player assembly …
Will The SEC and The Big Ten Ruin College Football?
Initially sending out signals they were considering leaving the NCAA outright, the Power Two Conferences have been playing hardball in this year’s negotiations for the second stage of expanding the College Football Playoffs. Fans, the media and coaches alike howled at the audacity the leaders of the Power Two conferences displayed last week. Mr. FishDuck has been thinking to buy …
2024 CFB Preseason Polling: Man vs Machine vs Vegas
With the longest off-season in college and professional sports, preseason college football (CFB) top-25 predictions are ubiquitous. And now with a 12-team playoff on the horizon, so are predictions of the 2024 CFB Playoff field. Mr. FishDuck and I had quite the discussion about these predictions, that is once I could pull him away from studying the Cardinals NFL Odds, …
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The B1G’s Biggest 2024 Out-Of-Conference Games
As Mr. FishDuck would say, “Good-gosh!” He was not just referring to his study of predictions and odds at Tips.gg, but the Dandy-Games of this next season in the B1G, on the non-conference side of the schedules. In 2024, the 18 B1G teams will play 15 out-of-conference (OOC) games versus Power 4 (P4) opponents. Two B1G teams play no P4 team …
EA Sports CFB Video Game Pays Players for NIL Rights
EA Sports recently revealed details on athlete compensation and opt-out policies for its upcoming college football video game, EA Sports College Football 25, set to launch this summer. The game developer has begun reaching out to college athletes to pay them for the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL) in the video game. Athletes Who Opt In Will …
A Split is on the Horizon. Where is College Football Going?
You may have read from a prior article of mine that there is an NCAA champion of basketball, of baseball, of every college competitive sport except football. The NCAA does not recognize a football champion. But it should. Even Mr. FishDuck agreed with me when I pulled him from his favorite crypto sports betting site in SafeHamsters-that a football champion …