Red Five

The byes aren't given by committee in CFP either. One each will go to the winner of the B1G, SEC, Big 12, and ACC. Yes, I know it will go to the 4 highest ranked conference champs, but the scenario of the winner of the Mountain West, AAC, MAC, or Sun Belt being higher ranked than a P4 champ is pretty low (especially now in the division-less world we live in).

I have a hard time believing Nelson will contribute much this year. He's coming from 8 man football where he could just out-athlete everyone else. Plus he wasn't here in the spring to get his feet wet. He's going to have quite an adjustment period this fall.

People b!^@h and moan about the regular season not being meaningful anymore because of the playoff. Giving conference champs a bye seems pretty damn meaningful to me.

Not understanding you. The people who rank the teams 1-12 are the same people who will rank the teams 1-16. Just because we are ranking 4 more teams makes it ok?

Rose Bowl only wants to hold quarterfinals so that it can keep its Jan 1 slot. And it will always kickoff at 4pm CST (meaning the last quarterfinal game will kick at 8pm CST) because it needs to have the sunset hitting the mountains at the end of the 3rd Q.

At NU, men's football and baseball will be getting 40ish more scholarships (or at least I hope we fund baseball to the cap). Assuming we fund volleyball, soccer, and softball to the full cap, we will be getting into that 40 range for for those 3 sports. I am not sure what this mean's for tennis, golf, etc. I have a hard time believing we will be giving much more scholarships in those sports than we do now.

Agree in the volleyball being a "staged" event. Nebraska could put that on every year and sell out Memorial. The correct answer is men's basketball beating #1 Purdue (first win over a #1 team in 40 years) or women's basketball beating Iowa (coming back to beat cultural phenomenon Caitlin Clark on national TV).

Basically for all sports there are now roster caps and schools can choose to fund scholarships up to the roster limit. And all scholarships are subject to Title IX equivalency. On one hand it seems that more athletes will be getting full rides in all sports. On the other hand you have to wonder if schools will cut non-revenue producing sports because the schools don't want to put forth money for scholarships needed in order to be competitive.

All the hand wringing might be moot for now…

Throwbacks are so much better than some random black jersey/helmet or red with weird block numbers. Still don’t know why we’ve never seen 1971 throwbacks with the shoulder stripes.

Best alternates in years! Y'all are smoking crack…

I can't believe Phil Knight didn't spend the $500 to have the Pac 12 logo covered at Oregon's spring game

I don't recall that. Wasn't Hartzog primarily a safety last year? I know Hill had issues in 2022 (switching to offense halfway through the year), but I think he was pretty solid all year last season. According to PFF (which has its flaws), Hill was our highest rated overall DB (85.9, next highest was Brown at 82.9, Hartzog was 67.3). Hill was also our highest rated DB in coverage (87.1, next highest was Brown at 84.5, Hartzog was 64.3).

SP+ gives NU a: 0.6% chance of winning the B1G 0.4% chance of winning 11+ regular season games 85.2% chance of winning 6+ regular season games

I didn't realize Hill was this good last year.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/insider/story/_/id/40549125/big-ten-2024-college-football-preview-ohio-state-michigan-usc-oregon-penn-state-nebraska

No football besides the 100 years of Memorial Stadium, What was the best moment of Husker Football? Probably Dylan Raiola committing?

On3 NIL valuations <> what the players are actually getting in NIL. It's just some formula they plug in based on recruiting rank and social media following.

@teachercd

Listened to this on my 9 hour drive yesterday. I think it is a subscriber only, so if you want the full thing you have to pay (but SpiltZoneDuo is worth it IMO), but was a good listen. Basically Sheduer is a low-risk QB and takes the easy throws/checkdowns which inflates is comp % and brings down his INTs. Also his pocket presence needs a lot of work because he scrambles backwards and takes a ton on sacks (although his O-Line wasn't terrible, just below average). The guest on the podcast is Nate Tice, who wrote this article

The NDSU head coach and other staff members were in Lincoln over the weekend working at the camps. I wonder what the NDSU staff and our staff talked about in their downtime...

$65 for a Fidone hoodie? Who outside of his family is going to buy one of those?