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Can we ban our first poster yet? 

1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

I'm hearing the Pac-16.

I want my neg for this thread on record 

6 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

I'm hearing the Pac-16.

I’ve heard the same, but who really knows at this point. 

I think you should start from the very beginning.  

6 hours ago, Frank Gallagher said:

Big XII is the best conference in college football basketball.

Fifu

4 hours ago, Machinator said:

So we're really going to have two realignment threads, huh?

Maybe one is a [serious] thread. Or maybe we should delete both of them.

Two threads on this shit? Maybe realignment needs its own fucking forum...back on the Shag. Woadblue can be bought back from  his ban to moderate it. 

Edited by Mikegundy'sMullet

I just want USC to play Texas 6-8 times every 10 years - home and home.  I'm tired of the realignment talk.

OU really does suck.

I was hoping this topic wouldn't make the migration. Furk

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)...

  • 5 years later...
  • 1 year later...

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. 

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. 

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).

We gonna have a the same crazy stat of 65 strait days with football or something like that...we had it last year?

36 minutes ago, Drew said:

We gonna have a the same crazy stat of 65 strait days with football or something like that...we had it last year?

Somebody is a fan of The King.

3 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Why is there only 33 posts here

It's the wrong realignment thread.

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.

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. 

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.

43 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

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.

How awful for you that you have to read my posts! It certainly is quite a burden for you to bear. 
😢

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