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USC Morning Buzz: Who Wants To Compete Less The Big Ten Or Lincoln Riley?

The Big Ten seems to want to compete about as much as Lincoln Riley.

It’s widely known that the conference is pushing for four automatic bids in an expanded 16-team College Football Playoff.

But less publicized is that if the Big Ten proposal gets adopted, the conference will probably institute two play-in games between teams that finished third through sixth in the conference standings. The games would be played on Championship Weekend.

So that means the top SIX teams would have a chance at making the College Football Playoff.

Wasn’t four automatic bids supposed to mean the top four advanced? What does taking six teams have to do with picking the best four teams?

This has to be music to Riley’s ears. Just finish in the top six and you’ll be fine. You know who finished sixth last season? Iowa. With an 8-5 record.

Did 8-5 Iowa really deserve a shot at the College Football Playoff? Did you watch Iowa play last year?

Does the Big Ten give out participation trophies too?

The funny part is the biggest obstacle to this daft plan appears to be the SEC.

  • And all of this nonsense helps explain Riley’s attitude toward Notre Dame. He wants to go 8-5 and lose to Notre Dame and none of it matters because he can finish sixth and still play for a playoff bid. What happened to “always compete.”

The guy really evokes memories of John McKay, John Robinson and Pete Carroll.

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  2. KAM: According to AI Assist

    As of now, 6 months later, only a small number of homes have been rebuilt in One Party Democrat Los Angeles after the January wildfires, with only 23 permits approved for 16 addresses in the Pacific Palisades area. The rebuilding process is ongoing, and many homeowners are still navigating the Democrat created Byzantine 13 committee permit approval process.

    DON: Democrat Mayor Karen Bass only priority is illegal aliens aka Undocumented Democrat Voters.

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    1. Let’s Face it Department: These mega-fires [all initiated by arsonists, not climate change] are nothing but Step One in the Land Grab Business. Just start fires [and let them go] during high wind periods, have the fire department put out statements about “damnit all —the fire hoses aren’t delivering water [again]”, make sure there aren’t any prosecutions for the fire starters [unless the community catches them themselves], don’t allow reconstruction. drive out the middle class and make way for all new high rise….

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      1. I think you mean $4.00. I always laugh when people fall for that 9/10th gimmick, especially those in the news.

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  4. DON: Just what we need, a further watering down of the college championship, now they want 16 teams and maybe 18 or more. Choosing the Top-6 or 8 teams for the tournament was the way to go before Big-Money TV stepped in

    KAM: More important to me is the constant screaming and shouting between the Republicans and the Democrats and we’re not even in an election year

    DON: It’s called passion. And my followers have got it! They do as I tell them

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    1. After Trump won, we knew we were in for 4 years of crying by the Dims. No matter what he does, they’ll complain about it. Idiots tried to insult him, by claiming he would “chicken out”. Then when he followed through, they still complained and said he would start WWIII. (Even though it was under Joe that we saw the conflicts erupt that have gotten us here.)

      We see great examples of that “crying no matter what he does” right here, each & every day by you know who.

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      1. Thank you for that illustration of ‘screaming-and-shouting,’ very well played

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      2. KAM: You mean this kind of screaming and shouting?

        Gabby

        June 26, 2025 at 11:24 pm

        Let me correct the lie I just posted above. 92% of the people who parished on Biden watch were anti-vaxxers.

        BAAAAAMMMM….. I JUST GAVE MYSELF A CROTCH KICK FOR LYING

        WAIT FOR IT, MY ALTER-EGO WILL DENY IT

        DON: Screaming, Shouting, Lies and Illiteracy all in one.

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      3. Yeah, that’s definitely not Sparrow. He’d never be dumb enough to have called THAT “screaming and shouting”. LOL!

        Not even close. So, she’s hijacked yet another name.

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      4. So Cal,

        I am laughing too hard. I bought gas yesterday on the south side of Washington St. 1 block east of Lake St. on the south side. The cross street is Mentor. It is the grurngy looking station just west of Arco that is on Washington and Catalina. I live off of Atchison and Lake and St. Elizabeth is my grammer school. the place I bought gas is across the street where Bill’s Chicken used to be, not it is a bakery. just a block east from the Raph’s gas station. There are four gas stations on the soutth side of Washington between Lake St. and Sierra Bonita. they have the cheapest prices in Pasadena.

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  5. KAM: I usually hold it in but yesterday I went off on a few hecklers, and boy, they became very defensive fast

    DON: They hadn’t seen that side of you before. I bet they didn’t like it and recoiled

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      2. Vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric  and Smacky HATES being prayed for.

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      4. I don’t mind if her head spins around. But I certainly don’t want her vomiting on me. She vomits on this board enough as it is.

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  6. DON: Yeah, well, you know American men don’t like being told what to do and most are just ‘into themselves.’ However, men like to give the orders

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  7. KAM: Like Hillary Clinton before her, Kamala Harris never really grows on anyone in a good way. She doesn’t know that, however.

    DON: The elites in the Democratic Party have not been honest with themselves about why Harris lost last year, and it’s unlikely that they ever will be.

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  8. KAM: I saw somewhere in L.A. on a Wolf Blog that the posters were up in arms over some eccentric that goes by ‘Gabby.’ I have seen what he writes and pictures he’s posted, and all I can say is the man is Preposterous and why posters engage him is beyond me

    DON: Another thing about most men is they like to verbally ridicule, especially when they’re not in your presence

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      1. Thanks for the idea, MG. I will imitate the eccentric ‘Gabby’ (the other Gabby is simply irrational) once in a while as follows: “I feel like rounding up all the ‘screamers-and-shouters’ from both sides, and stringing them up from a high tree like venizon prepared for eating”

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      2. Yeah –that sounds just like something the peaceful Lawyer John would say….

        #TryToPlayLawyerJohnInLawyerJohn’sOwnKey

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      3. Vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric  and Smacky gives herself away again and again!

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  9. Scooter,

    Great news, folt the dolt, aka commie, aka witch, has left the building. The wicked witch is gone. Now, time to get rid of Riley, Jen Taco Lita Cohen, and the turd from his mother, fake gabby.

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    1. “Ding dong, the witch is dead —which old witch? The wicked witch –she ‘s gone where the witches go —below…below.”

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      1. –And like most men I have at times been wicked, especially in dealing with political bullies, present company excluded (usually)

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      3. KAM: Hillary Clinton, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Fauxcahontas, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Jasmine Crocket are angels sent from heaven according to vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric  and Smacky 

        DON: That’s how you know Cowardly Gabby is impersonating Sparrow Calypso. Sparrow never write something that inane and sappy.

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  11. JKAM: ake Tapper Is Paid Millions A Year To Not Know The News. When the conversation with NY Mayor Adams shifted to the race against Mamdani, Tapper — whose network a jury found is actually fake news — probed Adams about his criticisms of his Democrat opponent.

    More specifically, the TV personality claimed the incumbent mayor “said recently that the Jewish community in New York should be concerned about him,” and asked, “What specifically has Mamdani said that you think is antisemitic?” “Pro-Hamas,” Adams replied. “Hamas is a dangerous terrorist organization that should be destroyed. When you embrace the philosophies of Hamas, not only what they do to their own people, but what they did in Gaza, to lift them up and praise them, I think that’s a clear indicator that something is wrong with that.”

    Clearly desperate to fulfill his role as a Democrat Party shill, Tapper leapt to Mamdani’s defense by declaring he had no idea what Adams was talking about.

    “When did he praise Hamas?” Tapper asked. “I don’t recall him ever praising Hamas.” It’s remarkable to watch a man who’s paid millions of dollars a year to know what’s happening in the political world to act dumbfounded about Mamdani’s checkered history.

    DON: Maybe Tapper could try watching Fox.

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    1. Tapper [trying to re-use his ‘Biden Defense’ on behalf of Mamdani]: “He simply has a stutter —how dare you say otherwise? Are you a doctor?!”

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      1. Never stops being hilarious, that moronic excuse…”he has a stutter”.

        We have a LOT of really stupid people living among us.

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  13. KAM: I think some of the congressmen misread the calendar and thought it was August 1 and how their one-month break might be interrupted if they didn’t get the ‘Beautiful Bill’ passed

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    1. KAM: If that were true the Democrats would not have voted in mindless lockstep against it.

      DON: The Democrats pretend to be moderate but they vote as a bloc as extremist Open Borders High Tax nuts.

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  14. KAM: Drones have changed the nature of war. USAF General Gregory Guillot, who is in charge of NORAD, admits that the US unable to detect a swarm of hostile drones in its airspace. It’s a serious national security threat.

    DON: Think about that when USC features drones for the halftime show at night games this Fall like they did at the Rutgers game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBjdeKO77YE Creepy!

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      1. …somewhere between 99.9999% and 100%…..

        #Michelangelo: “If the Pope insists that I believe in Hell as an Article of Faith, I reserve the right to believe no one is sent there.”

        #SimoneWeil: “No Souls are lost. The act of creation was not an act of diminishment.”

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      2. Sparrow,

        As Christians, we believe that if you have faith in Jesus Christ, that you will be in heaven. Some dead people don’t believe in him. If that is case, then they end up in hell where they are tormented in fire forever.

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    1. KAM:I am willing to wager a bet that that you are Cowardly Gabby.

      DON: She has wasted 2 decades of her life impersonating other posters here. She is surely mad.

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  17. KAM: Don’t you just love how your antagonists will twist words to suit their own agendas?- I keep hearing about my bringing up that Biden had a stuttering problem only because people would make fun of him because of the stuttering, nothing else

    DON: You think you’re the only one who has their words twisted and enlarged to make us look foolish?

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    1. KAM: ‘Where’s Jackie?”: Why the Public Needs Answers on Biden’s Alleged Incapacity. When then-President Joe Biden asked in September 2022 if House Rep. Jackie Walorski, an Indiana Republican who had died weeks earlier in a car accident, was in a meeting, observers were shocked. Biden had not only issued a statement of condolence; he had attended the congresswoman’s memorial service to lower the flags at the White House in her honor. As Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple noted last week, that moment should have been a wake-up call. In Washington parlance, it left no room for “plausible deniability” about whether Biden was still fit to hold the office of president. Yet Democrats, Fake News Stooges and their followers here pretended Biden wasn’t senile, he merely had a “stutter’!

      DON: If it’s based on fact or knowledge, and it’s BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT THAT BIDEN IS SENILE, then it’s NOT one’s opinion……RIGHT?

      LAUGHING MY A S S —–OFF

      BAAAAAAAMMMMM——-CROTCH—-KICK

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  18. Thanks again, MG– Imitating the eccentric Gabby, not the other one– “I am an acquired taste. If you don’t like me, acquire some taste”

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      1. Carol is a hardcore Democrat, whereas I grew up in a hardcore Republican house and only became a Moderate later in life, although hybrid is a more accurate term. For example, I abhor the idea of abortion and yet support less government except for how it can help the very poor

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  19. KAM: Corrupt USAID has OFFICIALLY ceased operations.

    All those “nonprofits” screaming right now?

    They weren’t helping poor kids.

    They were funding Democrat campaigns and laundering taxpayer money.

    DON: Cry harder.

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    1. If you really want to help the “poor” —help the poor by giving directly. Everyone knows someone in need these days.

      Don’t depend on the fricking dems —the money will NEVER get past their own pockets…

      #That’sHowTheyPlayTheGame

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