The game time for the Civil War game on the 20th has been announced - 12:00pm PT - TV on the Big Ten Network
With NIL & the transfer portal are we just not going to be seeing many upsets anymore? It was different when smaller conference teams could recruit players who liked the campus, had a same full ride offer with a bunch of schools, and would commit to 4 years. Now with the transfer portal any good freshman/soph that OSU type school get transfer elsewhere. With NIL the Beavs have a $10 million budget or whatever trying to compete against $80 million teams. Kind of similar why Alabama and other SEC teams reign of national championships might be over. Those schools - mostly through 3rd party boosters - used to just pay for all the best players. They don't have that advantage any longer.
there may be fewer instances of a G6 beating a rated P4 team. It will still happen, maybe not as often. Off the top of my head, so far this season, Hawaii has beat Stanford (but Stanford sucks), and South Florida beat Florida. There may have been others. I'm not sure if an FCS team has beat a P4 team yet. That usually happens at least once a year but the gaps will grow wider. The projections for the Big-10 in the last couple of years of their media deal are that schools will be paid 80-100M/year, and the back loading of the contract likely pushes the payout close to 100M. that's just for football. For the 2025 NCAA BB Tournament, the SEC will distribute 70M to their schools. Now that's distributed on a rolling 6 year average. The Big-10 made 42M; Big-12 40M. That's based on 'units' which is basically each game played. About 2-2.4M/unit. That's an advantage for conferences with more members, providing they have several good teams obviously. But that can generate an additional 2-4M per school. This is one area where the Pac-12 can make some hay. With Gonzaga and San Diego St. the Pac-12 might generate some additional revenue. Colorado State and Utah State usually have good teams too. Boise St has been good lately too
For all the bitching about our qb PFF tells you you're wrong. I think it has more to do with our play calling.
