What a bizarre season of college football. Can you imagine telling someone in mid or late August that a week and a half before Thanksgiving, the following teams would be ranked: Indiana, Colorado, BYU (vomit—at least their luck finally ran out and they lost yesterday), Army, Arizona St., and UNLV and that the following wouldn’t be close to being ranked: Florida St., USC, Washington, Michigan, Utah (sigh), Oklahoma St., and Arizona. Crazy.
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I wonder about the methodology of rankings considering SOS. I am including Texas in with Penn State (I’m fine with Indiana since they are currently undefeated).
Boise State and Miami getting a 1st round bye would be somewhat hilarious.
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While it would be hilarious to watch BYU get clobbered by four or five touchdowns by Ohio State, the Zoobs aren’t going to get that far. They are going to lose this Saturday to ASU. Then ASU and Colorado will battle it out in the conference title game.
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Let’s go Jayhawks this weekend.
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Excerpt.
In one of the landmark trades in sports media history, officially announced Monday, Pitaro has brought in Barkley and friends in exchange for 13 Big 12 football games and 15 Big 12 basketball games. No money is being exchanged between the sides, according to sources briefed on the deal. The agreement is for six seasons.
TNT Sports needs the inventory, though the games will not be the top ones from the conference. TNT Sports has not folded since losing the NBA. Besides keeping a relationship with the league that will result in hundreds of millions in profits, it also has first-round College Football Playoff games, with an opportunity to license more from ESPN. It has also added tennis’ French Open, Big East hoops and NASCAR.
Starting next year, Barkley and studio host Ernie Johnson Jr. will lead ESPN’s big-game NBA coverage for opening night, Christmas Day, the ABC regular-season games (primarily on Saturday after college football) and throughout the playoffs, and the NBA Finals. When ABC doesn’t have the space for the postgame, it will shift over to ESPN. ESPN’s “NBA Countdown” moves down to No. 2 in the order.
“Inside the NBA” will emanate from TNT’s Atlanta studios with TNT producers. There is no reason to think it will sound different.
Though fellow analyst Shaquille O’Neal still needs a new contract, he has indicated to top decision-makers he wants to stay with the band. Analyst Kenny Smith, with no other options, is not going anywhere. Barkley and Johnson are under contract.
It is a win for everybody, except maybe Amazon Prime Video and NBC, the new kids on the TV block next season. They wanted Barkley and company, but Pitaro beat them by going to Silberwasser.
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Given the big meltdown of live sports on Netflix, thank god they aren’t in this mix. The question is will TNT bring their own broadcast teams for the football games they televise, or will be see the same clustermess we saw on ESPN + games this season?
Given the way the season has gone, I wonder if maybe we can cut a deal with UCF to destroy the evidence there was ever a 2024 season in the first place? If FSU can do it…
Enjoy
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Has anyone else noticed the job Bronco has done at New Mexico? The dude is weird, and he was annoying at BU, but hats off to him for a job well done. UNM started 0-4 and is now 5-6 with an upset of ranked Washington St. Oddly, UNM’s defense (supposedly Bronco’s specialty) is awful, but their offense has put up big numbers. And maybe I’m nuts, but just a thought here—just a thought—UNM’s quarterback would be an intriguing player to go after should he enter the portal. He has more than 2,500 yards passing and more than 1,000 yards rushing with one game to play.
Nope. Didn’t notice.
Fair enough.
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I hadn’t noticed either, but other than watching part of the Auburn-UNM game. The talent differential really showed up in that game.
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Thank you
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Kansas is putting it to Colorado. I love seeing that, even if it does help BYU. Of course, BYU is going to lose today anyway.
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And here we thought the PAC-12 had some odd ball crap happen. Is there really a frontrunner in the B12? Should’ve been us, but well, we managed to crap the bed early and often.
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This was such a winnable league.
Sigh…
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Watching BYU-ASU, had Utah had an experienced, healthy QB against BYU, Utah wins by three TDs. Of course, Utah would also be like 9-1 too. But I know, know, if ifs and buts were candy and nuts …
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Arizona State with the premature efanulation. Hilarious.
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ASU displayed the worst coaching I have ever seen. Yet they beat overrated BYU. So funny.
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That was a odd finish. Sporky has some bright fans. Yeah, the premature efanulation was bad. Sounded like those fans did that earlier in the year too.
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