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  1. Wyoming, and in 2025 Delaware, are the only states with FBS programs who have less than 1.4 million people. Hawaii, #40 has 1.4 million. WV, #39 has 1.8 million. Montana is #43 with 1.1 million. And Montana and the Dakotas have their states split between major schools, unlike HI, WV, DE and WY. Montana, Idaho, NDSU, SDSU, UND and USD are all very small for FBS with around 12k students or less. Montana St. has 17k, but that still is smaller than typical for FBS. I don't think it makes sense to maybe be a Wyoming in FBS instead of one of the tops in FCS.
  2. I've never seen 3 OPIs against one team in a game. But the refs called 3 against UGA. One was phantom. Other two were grey.
  3. And some seem to be getting paid by gamblers.
  4. Saw someone say McMurphy said on 365 that Texas St. was on the back burner for the Pac. They were focusing on other schools. https://www.courant.com/2024/10/01/source-uconn-wont-join-pac-12-doesnt-consider-conference-the-right-fit/?share=tcjnnrr2onohtnon1di0 Hartford paper says UConn has closed the door on the PAC.
  5. https://themw.com/ UTEP to MWC is official.
  6. https://pac-12.com/ Gonzaga is official. On the website.
  7. Yes. And not only that, they both did it on Tuesday.
  8. https://www.hubcityspokes.com/college-sports-local-content-collegeuniversities-local-sports-sports-state-sports-usm-golden-48 Saw this elsewhere. 90% Texas St. is going to leave Sun Belt and likely to MWC. Also Thamel says UTEP/MWC talks are serious and have mutual interest. The thing for the MWC to do is just invite Texas St., UTEP, New Mexico St. and force the Pac to settle for Sam Houston St.
  9. Yeah. He's dating one of those blonde basketball twins from Miami. Maybe the chick and the Lambo have gone to his head. https://blacksportsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Cavinder-Twins1.jpeg
  10. It was a good play. It was poor play by the receiver. He seemed to have lost the ball. It should have been a reception or incomplete, but he didn't really challenge the defender.
  11. Well the Big 10 has 18, Big 12 has 16, Pac 12 has 7 and who knows how many the Atlantic 10 has this week. Math is failing at our higher education institutions!
  12. There's been some discussion of Illinois St. SIU has problems, like a lot of the MAC schools but worse. Their enrollment has dropped about 50% over the past 20 years or so.
  13. They made a big mistake not killing off the Sun Belt 10 years ago by piecemealing it. Then a couple of years ago they could have killed off CUSA. Instead, the G5 just keeps adding more FCS schools competing for recruits and exposure.
  14. Things keep getting weirder.
  15. I don't know. I've heard people say definitively you need 8 full football members, but never say how they know that. I do know you need 8 football members to qualify for the College football playoff conference champions slot. I do know you could have 7 full football members and a Gonzaga and be an NCAA Division I conference with autobids in all NCAA championships (assuming you meet the sports sponsorship requirements, but you could bring in affiliates for sports like baseball). What I don't know is if 7 full football members, Gonzaga and UConn for football only would be enough for the CFP and to be classified an FBS conference or if your 8 FBS schools need to play all sponsored sports in conference.
  16. They were talking about UTSA. 1/4 of their schedule is against Owls-Kennesaw, Rice and Temple.
  17. In line with the comments above about the top tier, I ran across this list of FBS schools by winning % the other day. When you exclude the newbies (Boise, Kennesaw, Coastal Carolina, App. St., James Madison, Ga. Southern), it just runs straight down the list of who's who. Ohio State, Alabama, Michigan, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Texas, USC, Penn St., Nebraska Tennessee, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Miami (FL), Florida, Auburn, Clemson, Washington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_FBS_football_win–loss_records Oregon is down at #40 and Colorado at #47. I've posted before a list of the top 19/20 schools for #1, top 3 and top 5 finishes since 1960 and its those first 17 above with Washington, Oregon and Colorado #s 18-20. NCAA Division I FBS football records[1][2][3] Team Won Lost Tied Pct. Years Total Games Conference Ohio State 966 333 53 .734 135 1352 Big Ten Alabama 968 337 43 .734 130 1348 SECTooltip Southeastern Conference Michigan 1006 354 36 .734 145 1396 Big Ten Notre Dame 950 338 42 .730 135 1330 Independent Oklahoma 947 341 53 .726 130 1341 SEC Boise State 491 188 2 .722 57 681 Mountain WestTooltip Mountain West Conference Texas 951 392 33 .703 132 1376 SEC USC 877 368 54 .696 131 1299 Big Ten Penn State 932 409 41 .689 138 1382 Big Ten Kennesaw State 71 33 0 .683 10 103 CUSATooltip Conference USA Nebraska 920 424 40 .679 135 1383 Big Ten Tennessee 868 414 53 .670 128 1346 SEC Florida State 581 284 17 .668 78 882 ACCTooltip Atlantic Coast Conference Georgia 884 429 54 .666 131 1367 SEC Coastal Carolina 169 89 0 .655 22 258 SBCTooltip Sun Belt Conference Appalachian State 666 356 29 .648 95 1051 SBC LSU 808 435 47 .645 131 1327 SEC Miami (FL) 666 388 19 .630 99 1073 ACC James Madison 371 221 4 .626 52 596 SBC Florida 759 447 40 .625 118 1245 SEC Auburn 801 472 47 .625 132 1320 SEC Clemson 799 473 45 .624 129 1317 ACC Georgia Southern 420 254 10 .621 61 684 SBC Washington 777 467 50 .619 135 1294 Big Ten
  18. And I understand former UGA QB Jake Fromm (with the hot mom) has been cut. So he could do announcing and his mom the sideline interviews for the State Farm PAC.
  19. What's funny is the 8 are lined up on different sides. Utah and BYU are off to the Big 12. San Diego St. and Colorado St. are with the Pac XX UNLV, Wyoming, Air Force and New Mexico are with the MWC.
  20. Well its a recent contract. It was done in order to give the 2Pac games this season. It goes away in another year. I don't think it is like the exit fees that are to approximate damages. This is intended to be painful, just as breakup fees in a corporate merger are painful. Its much more of an agreed purchase price. Strikes me as a frivolous lawsuit.
  21. I read they were only offering $2.5 million for exit fees for the AAC schools. Those fees would probably be around $15-$18 million.
  22. "...But that plan is going to be limited by another reality: Memphis, one consultant told USA TODAY Sports, is not valued by TV rights holders significantly more than, say, Utah State. And Oregon State and Washington State, the two original Pac-12 leftovers who decided to bring the conference back, aren’t valued much more than Memphis. In other words, the new Pac-12 was not going to be a power conference no matter which of the potential members jumped in. And the notion of a $12 million per member payday, which had been the carrot for a school like Memphis (currently making around $8-9 million in the AAC) was merely theoretical and based on calculations from the Pac-12’s paid consultants that few people across the college sports industry actually believed...." https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/dan-wolken/2024/09/23/pac-12-conference-realignment-aac/75354941007/ This is the part that made me skeptical of all these plans. It just didn't make sense based on the values. WSU/OSU are not much more valuable than a typical G5, maybe less than Boise. And after that, you've probably got Memphis, USF and Temple. Then its all pretty fungible, some slightly worse than others. Besides the money they are spending, SDSU seems to be mentioned mainly because they are the only G5 school in southern California. Below are the TV ratings from Sic-em for non power schools. The schools with 36 games over the 9 years were ranked. Oregon St. was #66, near the bottom of the P5 and a little below Boise and Memphis and just ahead of USF. Below that, I've ranked the schools with less than 36 games in order. UNLV was dead last in MWC and SDSU didn't do that well either, ranked right between Buffalo and Kent. School All 2013-2021 Top 36 (4 Per Year) Top 36 Rank Navy 45 Games, 2.33mm 2.819mm 35 Washington St. 56 Games, 1.407mm 1.905mm 50 P12 Boise St. 72 Games, 0.827mm 1.258mm 63 MWC Memphis 52 Games, 0.918mm 1.257mm 64 Oregon St. 40 Games, 1.124mm 1.214mm 66 P12 USF 48 Games, 0.861mm 1.103mm 68 Temple 42 Games, 0.773mm 0.891mm 70 Tulsa 51 Games, 0.603mm 0.82mm 72 Northern Illinois 36 Games, 0.648mm 0.648mm 74 East Carolina 37 Games, 0.547mm 0.56mm 75 Army 24 Games, 3.331mm N/A N/A Rice 13 Games, 0.836mm N/A N/A Fresno St. 33 Games, 0.697mm N/A N/A MWC Coastal Carolina 10 Games, 0.647mm N/A N/A Ball St. 15 Games, 0.635mm N/A N/A Colorado St. 22 Games, 0.605mm N/A N/A MWC Western Michigan 26 Games, 0.603mm N/A N/A Appalachian St. 27 Games, 0.587mm N/A N/A Air Force 30 Games, 0.584mm N/A N/A MWC Florida Atlantic 13 Games, 0.583mm N/A N/A Connecticut 31 Games, 0.571mm N/A N/A Utah St. 33 Games, 0.563mm N/A N/A MWC ULL 25 Games, 0.562mm N/A N/A Western Kentucky 18 Games, 0.553mm N/A N/A UAB 8 Games, 0.552mm N/A N/A Hawaii 15 Games, 0.55mm N/A N/A MWC Southern Miss 11 Games, 0.541mm N/A N/A Buffalo 25 Games, 0.529mm N/A N/A San Diego St. 28 Games, 0.522mm N/A N/A MWC Kent St. 25 Games, 0.503mm N/A N/A Marshall 18 Games, 0.498mm N/A N/A Nevada 24 Games, 0.493mm N/A N/A MWC Bowling Green 25 Games, 0.478mm N/A N/A Arkansas St. 24 Games, 0.472mm N/A N/A Massachusetts 6 Games, 0.468mm N/A N/A Wyoming 29 Games, 0.45mm N/A N/A MWC UTEP 12 Games, 0.444mm N/A N/A Ohio 29 Games, 0.44mm N/A N/A Toledo 31 Games, 0.439mm N/A N/A Georgia St. 9 Games, 0.434mm N/A N/A South Alabama 15 Games, 0.42mm N/A N/A Tulane 35 Games, 0.419mm N/A N/A Miami (OH) 15 Games, 0.405mm N/A N/A San Jose St. 20 Games, 0.398mm N/A N/A MWC New Mexico 25 Games, 0.371mm N/A N/A MWC Middle Tennessee St. 12 Games, 0.359mm N/A N/A Eastern Michigan 9 Games, 0.35mm N/A N/A Central Michigan 17 Games, 0.347mm N/A N/A Texas St. 15 Games, 0.337mm N/A N/A Louisiana Tech 14 Games, 0.334mm N/A N/A UTSA 16 Games, 0.314mm N/A N/A UNLV 20 Games, 0.307mm N/A N/A MWC
  23. ULL has always been FBS. They didn't move down in 1982. LT didn't move up until 1989 and ULM until 1994.
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