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Saturday Buzz: The Big Ten Is Home To Worst Ideas

The Big Ten is becoming home to college football’s worst ideas.

It has begun populating an expanded College Football Playoff idea, which could include 24 or 28 teams, according to Pete Thamel of ESPN.

Apparently the Big Ten wants 7 automatic bids in this format. The conference is obsessed with doing anything it can to avoid competing and acting entitled. In fact, the USC coach embodies this philosophy better than anyone.

Now here is a question: If the Big Ten got a 24-team playoff, would Lincoln Riley agree to play Notre Dame? I bet he would find a reason (privately) to be against the rivalry.

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    2. One thing I always loved about college ball versus NFL, EVERY game meant a lot. With 24 teams, we will occasionally see 3 loss teams in it. They are going to make the regular season almost as meaningless as it is in basketball. Millions of people don’t care one bit about NCAA hoops until March comes around.

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  2. Riley replies to Scott:

    “If we can get a 68 team playoff [the way it’s done in basketball] we might play Notre Dame …..since they may end up one of our opponents…. I’m not in charge of who we play in the tournament….”

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    1. If the field gets big enough, in either the first or second round, USC will face a buzzsaw and it will be over in the first quarter, a bit like 2016 Trojans-Bama.

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      1. …but then we switched to Sam at QB by the Utah game….. and beat everybody & won the Rose Bowl….

        #IfWeHadPlayed’BamaAgainItWouldHaveBeenDifferent….

        #[WeProbablyWouldaLost….But’BamaWouldBeInAFight]

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  3. KAM: Democrats have set a new record for the disparity between how the majority in their party view Israel versus how Republicans do. And it’s not a record they should be proud of, because how people view Israel and how they view the Jewish people are likely closely connected. According to a new Gallup survey published late last month, 83 percent of Republicans view Israel favorably, while just 33 percent of Democrats do. Similarly, only 48 percent of independents have a positive view of the Jewish State.

    DON: The Democrats are the Antisemite Party . Cowardly Sparrow Gabby is debunked once again.

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  4. How about a 32 team playoff with six conference games and four non conference games. Just play whoever you want to play. You are getting in as long as you are ranked a top 32 team.

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    1. The Big 10 – the big 18 – would have some challenges…

      Call me old school, but I miss the days of playing solid out-of-conference opponents and then playing nearly everyone in your conference. And when the bowls meant something every year.

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      1. Same here 67. I want the BIG to expand by adding many of the old Pac 12 team and then split the conference into a west, central and east division. We would then play all the teams in the western division, and two or three from other divisions and then have a conference championship game. And the other sports could just play in their division so you don’t have the concerns with travel. I miss the Stanford and Cal games.

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      2. I hear you brother. Those were all rivalry games. I will still watch every Trojan game, but USC-Rutgers just doesn’t have a good ring to it.

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      6. Ages ago, when Eddie Jordan (Rutgers) played on the Lakers, Kareem said to him one day after practice “Rutgers,…hmm…don’t you guys play Lehigh?”

        #NotThatThereIsAnythingWrongWithLehigh

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      7. KAM: I was at that Rutgers game last October and it definitely lacked the tradition of USC- Cal or Stanford.

        DON: We won but it was a real snoozer.

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      1. Cheap shot! Every time Michelle gets a Netflix check for 4 million or a book deal for 5 million or speaker’s fee for a million she goes straight into some big city’s mission district and begins handing out hundred dollars bills until she runs out of money. [Most people don’t know she eats at home & makes all her own clothes cuz she doesn’t want people calling her a Saint]

        [And there are signs in the paper every day this degree of charity & selflessness will continue right into the next generation of Obamas]……

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      2. KAM: Moochelle is worth $70 million and shares 4 mansions with Barack. But she has suffered!

        DON: No wonder that victicrat hates America so much.

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  6. The worst thing about a 24 team playoff proposal would be the yearly game schedule.

    Imagine what cupcake games would be played in September and October. And how long the postseason would become.

    #CFPTitleGameInMarch?

    #USCv.SouthernCaribbeanAsASeptemberNon-ConferenceGame?

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  7. KAM: HORROR: Governor Mimbo Dreamer Illegal Alien Truck Driver Kills Three People After Making Illegal U-Turn on Florida Highway – Arrested, Will be Deported. An illegal alien killed three Americans after he made an illegal U-turn on a Florida highway this week.

    The Punjabi driver who obtained his truck driving license (CDL) in the Democrat-run sanctuary state of California made an insane U-turn on Florida’s Turnpike near Fort Pierce on Tuesday and caused a deadly crash.

    The driver, identified as Harjinder Singh, was arrested and charged with 3 counts of vehicular homicide.

    “At the conclusion of his state charges, he will be deported,” Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, Executive Director, Dave Kerner said.

    The horrifying video shows Singh completely unbothered and unfazed after a minivan collided with his truck as he made an illegal U-turn.

    Singh showed zero emotion after he exited the 18-wheeler and examined what was left of the vehicle – a pile of mangled metal and three dead bodies.

    DON: The American Trucking Industry has been gutted by unregulated immigration over the past five years. These “California ” drivers are part of an eco system that puts profit over safety. That puts greed before your family. A system that not only doesn’t put Americans first but allows for the daily slaughter of innocent Americans on our highways. Its time to put Americans First!! Investigate California CDL issuance Ban and revoke all Non-Domicile CDLs Ban all Foreign CDLs

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  8. KAM: It seems that Ukraine wants peace and Russia desires pieces of Ukraine

    DON: Putin senses he has batle advantages now, and he wouldn’t even listen to a ceasefire

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    1. KAM: It seems Ukraine liked bribing the Biden Crime Family.

      DON: There wouldn’t have been a war if you Democrats hadn’t stolen the 2020 election for Senile Joe Biden, the incapacitated corrupt child sniffing pervert.

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      3. KAM: It’s amazing how cloistered Democrats are in their Fake News Media cocoon, blissfully watching PBS tell them all is well. They didn’t know Biden was senile until June 27, 2024 and they still don’t know that Senile Joe likes to sniff kids…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh0PBr6ZUN0lol

        DON: Wait until they hear the shocking news that the Hunter laptop wasn’t Russian Disinformation!

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  9. KAM: At least you and Putin seem to be friendly, nothing like having your enemy like you, especially since Russia and America are the only countries that can atomically destroy the world as we know it

    DON: I get it that that the enriched Ukraine region is the bread basket for Russia and so there has always been some kind of “Ukraine Situation” going on for 1000-years.

    And it turns out that the 2014 Russia taking of Ukraine territory on the Crimea Peninsula was only the beginning of Russia ignoring national laws of “territory integrity”

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    1. KAM: That’s right, and who was Secretary of State in 2014? Hillary! Remember this comedy?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee4PfhogtdQlol

      DON: Hillary Clinton’s “reset” policy aimed at improving U.S.-Russia relations ultimately failed, particularly highlighted by Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, which led to significant deterioration in relations. The reset showed weakness and did not prevent Russia’s aggressive actions in Ukraine and in the rest of the globe.

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  10. DON: (cont’d) Anyway, Putin is too tough a nut to crack. He’s embedded with this history of Russia feeling like it owns Ukraine, and acts as if he is doing Ukraine a favor by letting them keep some of their land

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  11. KAM: Of course there is still the Israel-Gaza War for you to consider

    DON: My input seems to have had marginal effect

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    1. KAM: Trump only cracked these nuts so far…Rwanda and Congo, Cambodia and Thailand, Pakistan and India, Iran and Israel, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Serbia and Kosovo and Egypt and Ethiopia.

      DON: Averaging on peace deal a month isn’t enough for the Democrats and their Fake News toadies who are best at starting wars to enrich their military industrial complex donors.

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  12. DON: Hey, it’s Sunday, time to relax a bit, but did you catch the news of how they might want to expand the college Playoffs from 12 teams to 24 or more?– That way the colleges can play into February and compete with the NFL Super Bowl

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  13. KAM: College football is sounding more and more like the professionals

    DON: What do we calll the colleges now, NFL-lite

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  14. DON: I certainly hope Ukraine agrees to give up some of its territory. It is a partial victory for both sides. Putin saves face by showing he got something that was worthy of sacrificing a million Russian men killed and hurt.–And Ukraine retains most of its territorial soverignty

    KAM: But you got to have an ironclad Peace Agreement. With about a million killed and maimed on each side, you will have aother 1000-years of bad feelngs between Russia and Ukraine

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  15. KAM: Less than 2-weeks to the Trojans first game. I am a little nervous about how things might turn out

    DON: I bet Wiley is shaking like a California earthquake with everybody over-analyzing his every football move

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  16. KAM: Won’t that be great, having the top-24 teams in the Playoffs versus only 12 That way you will have 23 teams who lose their last game instead of 11

    DON: And it is always the losses that stick with you the longest

    KAM: Maybe the old system of many various teams winning their last game, a Bowl game, was the best way to go

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    1. The agitators are generally paid. Funded by a Soros group or an NGO. The guy who was passing out shields and gas masks at the anti Ice protests was from a communist group funded by USAID through an NGO. Your taxpayer dollars at work.

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  18. KAM: I loved last year’s Trojan High-Drama team, every game was a cliffhanger, 3-hours of pleasure until the end

    DON: Sorry, but I am part of the ‘Win or Bust’ crowd

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      2. John — the game is played for one reason: to see who wins. Winning is not an illusion –it takes skill and determination.

        As far as Ukraine — you are way too smart to keep buying what MSNBC sells you. My grandparents lived in Italy during the early years of Mussolini —the main newspaper was Fascista Urbana. They explained to me the only way to read that paper was to read between the lines. If government pensions were being reduced it meant Benito’s expansionistic wars were breaking the budget. Same goes for here –if congress votes against monitoring the billions going to Ukraine it means the money is being laundered.

        NATO literally means North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Ukraine is not on the Atlantic. Neither are most of the other eastern European countries which have joined since World War Two. This expansion represents a threat to Russia. Putin explained this to Biden but Biden was in on the money laundering operation behind the “aid” we were sending.

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  19. DON: As we have learned from the conservative and liberal commentators here, contrary facts only harden their deep-rooted political views, so I am discarding that #30 ranking by the AP and instead going with an ex-Alabama quarterback’s Poll where he has SC at #11

    KAM: I saw that. He pointed out how last year’s team compiled 437 yards and 30 points per game. He said the Trojans have 2 dangerous receivers and that the offense is a “balanced, dangerous group, They’re not far away. If the defense just makes a handful of extra plays, then it’s a completely different story” last year

    DON: This is whetting my appetite for the season to commence

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    1. If our offense is playing at maximum efficiency it will score on anybody. We don’t have first magnitude players on defense …but… a well coached defense can keep our talented offense on the field….and we might win a bunch of close game rather than lose them this year…

      #But [Again]…

      #TheO-LineHasToDoTheirJob

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  20. KAM: I am beginning to better understand that ‘Sports Win-Lose Illusion’ concept when I viewed a tape of the 1965 SC-ucla game where the Trojans and Mike Garret’s 200-yards pounded ucla for 56-minutes, but then ucla got 2 closing touchdowns on sandlot pass plays to pull it out.

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    1. Beban beat a lot of teams with those passes —including very good Tennessee and Michigan State teams. It wasn’t an illusion.

      #USC’sJobWasToStopThosePasses&WeDidn’t

      #[Later,O.J.EvenedTheScoreForUs,21-20]

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