YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!! The Pac-16 is dead! The Pac-16 is dead! The Pac-16 is dead! USC, still in Boulder every other year! WOOHOO!!! Victory!!! Larry Scott has decided to pull the plug on negotiations with Texas & co., apparently deeming that it wasn’t worth all the hassles and problems expansion was going to entail. Undoubtedly we’ll learn more about exactly what transpired… Read more »
“Fell deeds awake! Now for wrath, now for ruin, and an Orange dawn!” In a stunning development that virtually guarantees #CHAOS and #PANIC on the conference realignment front, Syracuse and Pittsburgh have abandoned the Big East in favor of the ACC. So the ACC is the first conference to reach 14 teams — the SEC presently being stuck in limbo… Read more »
The Austin American-Statesman‘s latest update on conference realignment reveals that Oklahoma is apparently dead-set on going west to the Pac-12, but Texas is still weighing three options: Pac-12, ACC, or independence. None of that is hugely shocking if you’ve been following this story, but this nugget is very important: The ACC is willing to talk about a unique conference format… Read more »
With Texas A&M all but gone from the Big XII and Oklahoma threatening movement, the possibility of a Pac-16 is alive again, a lot sooner than most expected. Although the Pac-12 has publicly stated that they’d prefer to stay at 12, it would almost assuredly move to expand if the Big XII fell apart as a result of SEC accepting… Read more »
There isn’t much point in blogging the latest conference realignment developments, since they’ll all change in 5 minutes, then change back again. Instead, a sampling of amusing (to me, at least) tweets — extended slightly for the blog format in a few cases — applying Lord of the Rings quotes to Conferencepocalypse. (Credit to Brandon Minich and DocErock on some… Read more »
Thunderbolts and lightning (very very frightening)! Photo via @bubbaprog. College football season started off with a bang — or, more precisely, a loud crack of thunder — with a wild weekend that saw two games (Michigan-Western Michigan and West Virginia-Marshall) called early due to bad weather, and another (Notre Dame-South Florida) last for approximately 83 hours, plenty of time for… Read more »
Well, it certainly wasn’t a pretty opening week for the Pac-12, with struggles against FCS opponents and a lackluster performance by Oregon in the weekend’s marquee matchup of top 5 programs. Still, it wasn’t all bad, with some impressive individual performances, and solid wins by the Bay Area teams. As I’ll be ranking teams based on performance so far, the… Read more »
Also, Go Irish! Beat the Bulls! And Go Boise State, BYU and Oregon! Beat the SEC!
With the first Pac-12 team, new member Utah, set to kick off in under two hours [FRIDAY MORNING UPDATE: The Utes notched the first ever win by a Pac-12 team, 27-10 over Montana State], it’s time for some last-minute Pac-12 power rankings. I’ll be breaking teams down by division this season, like most other bloggers and pundits are doing. I’ll… Read more »
It’s that time of year again… time for the 3nd annual Living Room Times College Football Pick ‘em Contest! It’s free! It’s fun! Join in! To join the group, click here, then enter Group ID number 20146 and password PANIC. Basic rules: • We’ll be picking all games involving AP Top 25 teams + all games involving Pac-12 teams +… Read more »