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California Conquered, All Hail the Big Fylkirate
Seth • June 30, 2022 • 9:36pm

Stunning news:

Stunning news, but in basketball:

Broken today by Jon Wilner, at least two, and potentially more major Pac12 schools will join the Big Ten in two years. Clearly timed to coincide with the Big Ten renegotiating its TV rights deals, and meant to compete with the SEC's addition of Texas and Oklahoma, the move turns the Big Ten into a coast-to-coast conference of 16 with a third power program football. It also renders the Pac (back to) Ten something akin to what the Big XII will be when their two marquee programs leave in 2025, and almost certainly will precipitate more realignment.

The Big Ten had a bylaw that any schools they add be in neighboring states, but that was swiftly gotten around. Both schools were part of the Pac and its previous iteration, the Pacific Coast Conference, going back a century.

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Conference Wars 1.1
Alex Cook •

What this is: I’ll be running down the nationwide results from the week that was, in particular the P5 vs. P5 games, with an emphasis on the race for the playoffs.

This isn't SEC land where "who's got the best conference?" is asked before and after every meal. The point is to run down the five Power 5 conferences, since with four playoff spots it’s become very important to track the rare data points in that otherwise mundane argument.

Everybody’s pretty much fine

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College football’s opening weekend was conspicuously devoid of significant upsets: not much of CFB’s upper echelon was challenged significantly in their opening wins and the highest ranked team to lose its opener was #15 Arizona State in a de facto road game against a tough Texas A&M team. Consider the preseason top 10:

1. Ohio State was down at halftime in Blacksburg but between Braxton Miller’s highlight-reel plays and an injury to Hokie QB Michael Brewer, the Buckeyes beat VT by a comfortable 42-24 margin. OSU decided to roll with Cardale Jones as the apparent leader of the offense – JT Barrett is a tremendous insurance policy – and the Bucks shouldn’t be tested for a while. Needless to say, there’s plenty of weapons on both sides of the ball – the Ohio State team that won at Virginia Tech was still short Joey Bosa and Jalin Marshall, among others.
 
2. TCU beat Minnesota 23-17. More below.

3. Alabama beat Wisconsin 35-17. More below.

 
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