Semi-anonymous profile of a UCLA & USC grad still preoccupied by college football. Now writing a book about the sport that very likely will never be published.
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Remember when the regular season was like a playoff and people said an expanded postseason meant more regular season games would matter???
This was a master stroke of Riley to weaken UCLAβs strength of schedule to the point we literally have to run the table to get into the CFP.
All the Trojans have to do is beat the Bruins and weβre headed to El Paso again, lol.
SEC and ESPN ultimately called the Big Tenβs bluff by offering to split the baby and Fox apparently was willing to sacrifice bidding on the CFP to get more B1G schools inβ¦
SEC couldβve influenced CFP decision to not test open market, re-sign with ESPN awfulannouncing.com/college-β¦
β¦and as the PAC 12 can attestβ¦never actually happen.
Fox's Joel Klatt told @dfwticket today that an SEC-B1G scheduling agreement will be announced "almost immediately" once the CFP expands to 24.
footballscoop.com/2026/10/21β¦
You have to figure there is a question of players receiving NIL as being bound by some NDA issue hereβ¦or perhaps asking if guys plan to enter the portalβ¦
For @testudotimes, @JudeWilkenfeld and I were outside Jones-Hill House trying to get players to comment. An athletics staffer took pictures of us, and a police dispatch was called for suspicious activity; a cop and 2 cop cars pulled up, and officers IDβd us and asked us to leave.
The number of writers picking a one-loss Indiana over an undefeated UCLA is interesting to say the least, lol.
This quote is essentially why Chesney is a great fit for UCLAβ¦itβs not or the offense, facilities or NILβ¦
When I was working on an @ocregister feature about Bob Chesney, when I got word that UCLA was going to hire him as its head coach, I spoke with former Holy Cross Athletic Director Marcus Blossom about why he hired Chesney.
Blossom, now Creighton's AD, said this to me.
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Committee isnβt giving home games to schools unable to pull 40,000 fans for a home gameβ¦and thatβs even if the Rose Bowl was relocated to Westwood, lol.
Kudos to Jim for revealing this:
Itβs not a 24 team playoff itβs a tournament with three rounds of play-in games.
Itβs the bare minimum to ensure that we donβt get a repeat of 2003 when Tulane argued to Congress the BCS was a cartel.
Itβs the final domino for the PCSA.
Damn, Matt roasts the SEC here so much he makes Lincoln Rileyβs tri tip look like steak tartare, lol
The SEC willingly flushed its conference championship game that last year had better ratings than all eight first round CFP games of the brief, 12-team era.
And three of the eight CFP quarterfinals.
That's not leadership. That's fiscally reckless behavior.
usatoday.com/story/sports/ncβ¦
This is one area where I think Chesney is going to annoy colleagues in the Big Ten if he starts trying to be cute with injury reports.
Betting sites might like it, but not the old boys club.
βHe wanted to keep going.β
UCLA coach Bob Chesney said today that QB Nico Iamaleava hoped to get back on the field Saturday after suffering an injury that could be season-ending, according to multiple reports Monday @teamfbseven
To be honest, Coach Chesney often talks out of his ass in situations like this but it flies under the radar, lol.
He was in college when UCLA was #1 in the BCS. Then again, maybe he didnβt get to see regional match-ups living in PA?
This has turned out to be basically the extra point version of the Western Michigan-UM controversyβ¦.
Does the Big Ten want to protect undefeated teams?
Less than half an hour into the local NFL game and my 10 year old is lost why he canβt just flip to another game like with college football, lol.
It dawned on me this morning Big Noon Saturday is probably the single biggest driver of attendance falling in CFB.
Limiting how many teams can play during the best time window to go in person probably not sustainable.
Credit: CFB.guide:
