2026 college football 🏈 thread , cuz @jimh406 said so …………

[jimh406]

Pete Rose actually did less than Sorsby, and I'd say he paid a higher price. It will be interesting to see if any pro team is willing to take Sorsby on.

There is only a handful of QBs that get chosen per year in the draft, so we'll have to see if they overlook it. I think he's going to need an outstanding year to have a chance.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

71 days till I get Moore Ducks

 

[coueser]

They're going to be good this year. I see why you're excited.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

They're going to be good this year. I see why you're excited.

Thanks been following them since the early 90’s it’s been a long road to get to the table with the traditional blue bloods…. I’m an old man now just enjoying the ride ……

The Oregon media team is on a roll this year……. I was listening to a podcast yesterday that the University of Oregon is heavily advertising the university of Oregon in Japan with shirts and merchandise that say Tokyo with the University of Oregon 0 and their advertising Dante Moore, and then this just popped up on my media feed.

The reason they’re doing it is the more merchandise they can sell worldwide for the university of Oregon the more money they can have for NIL …….pretty ingenious.

Oregon has officially invaded Japan

 

[noharleyyet]

CNBC's Official College Sports Valuations 2025: Top 75 athletic programs

The programs are worth a combined $51.22 billion, 13% more than the top 75 in last year's rankings.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Lmartin5]

My oldest Daughter will be a freshman at OU this year...hard for this Texan to do, but I guess I need to jump on the bandwagon.

 

[jimh406]

My oldest Daughter will be a freshman at OU this year...hard for this Texan to do, but I guess I need to jump on the bandwagon.

Which OU?

 

[Lmartin5]

Oklahoma University

 

[jimh406]

Oklahoma University

I was hoping for you it was Oregon. I guess it depends if you are Texas fan or not.

 

[LopeHunter]

I like watching college football better than any other college sport but only if two Top 25 teams. The season goes too late as well. Needs to hold the National championship within a week of New Year’s Day.

The crappy “pre-season” games should be just that and not count.

Seems a lot of Oregon fans in this thread. Are you proud to face Boise State and Portland State? You are favored by 24 and 37 points. You have to play conference games and will be a stinker or three each season but no one wanted to watch Mike Tyson box Sugar Ray Leonard. They were of different weight classes so not a fair fight and thus never held. Fans deserve better.

Oregon is not the villain as most Top 25 programs want “preseason” automatic wins but are shams that only a sadist fan could enjoy past the first couple of drives.

Here are games I have circled. Oregon is absent.

9/12 Ohio State at Texas. Huge early non-conference game. Will lace up the cleats for their second games of 2026.

9/19 LSU at Ole Miss. Conference games. Coach Kiffin slinks back into town after bailing during a Championship run. Seems Portland State was already booked this weekend so these teams forced to play each other. Fans win.

10/10 Georgia at Bama. ‘Nuff said.

10/17 The Ohio State goes to Indiana. Matches up the most recent two National Champs. I will Google IU’s coach’s wiki immediately post-game since he wins. A lot. That’s what he does.

11/7 U of Miami at Notre Dame. I don’t care for either team though will be watching if both are in Top 10 that week.

11/27 Texas at Texas A&M. Big Boy NIL game.

11/28 Michigan at The Ohio State. Can’t miss rivalry that rarely is settled before 4th Quarter begins. These teams won two of the prior three National Championships.

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[jimh406]

I like watching college football better than any other college sport but only if two Top 25 teams.

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The top 25 of today is likely not the top 25 by week 4/5. I find most of the predictions of how teams are going to be early season as guesses. The same goes for the predicted best players. Of course, there was a lot of coaching movement both for head coaches and assistants.

Not a Kiffin fan, but Kiffin won't slink into Ole Miss. Ole Miss bailed on Kiffin. I don't know if it would have changed the outcome, but it did give Kiffin full time to work on recruiting. I think that was a bad thing for everyone except LSU.

Big10 did win 2 of the last three. It's obvious Michigan has an asterisk by sign stealing. You can disagree, but Harbaugh left for a reason.

NIL has changed everything, but I guess we'll know by end of season who's spend worked and which players are living up to their deals.