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Not sure it's so much "trying to get out of it" as "trying to renegotiate the scheduling of it", moving off home-and-home in mid-October, which is the middle of USC's conference scheduling. Apparently all the travel east is weighing on the Trojans so they asked to either schedule the Notre Dame game earlier in the year or, on a four year rotation, play 2 in LA, one game in South Bend and one game at a neutral site closer to LA (Vegas maybe?). Something like that. A bit of a dick move since they can afford to give up the game more than Notre Dame can, but you can sorta see their point. Hard to feel sorry for USC since they joined a conference with teams in Maryland and New Jersey, so knew the travel would be brutal. Best guess - still play it but early in the season?

Anybody know status of Mac Morgan? Is she hurt or is she being saved for the game tonite?

Article in The Athletic "Ranking the 25 best college football games of the 2000s: Where do Texas-USC, Kick Six rank?" by David Ubben. Probably behind a paywall (link here) but sometimes you get a couple free ones each month. Looking at our two main SEC rivals Oklahoma played in two of those games (both in the Top Five). Shed a tear for our friends on the other side of the Red River because they lost both games, but still they made the list. Texas A&M played in one of those games - as usual, just outside the Top Twenty. Inexplicably they won it. Your Texas Longhorns played in four of the top 16 games, winning 3 of them. I'll admit that one of them was a bit of a surprise to me - recency bias? I won't spoil the ending as to which game was ranked # 1 but it's safe to mention that Vince Young was pretty damn good.

Fever -v- Liberty game on right now. Man, the Liberty are loaded. Both teams running and gunning. On pace to exceed 200 combined points if they keep it up. Natasha Cloud impressive.

Can’t go wrong with VY in any setting.

ND must join a Power 4 for football (already a member of the ACC for other sports)and play by the same rules as ALL other schools in football.!

A nice visual of my flag football (gold medal winning) Longhorn Team.

Assuming Texas gets 3 or 4 really good HS DL prospects in the '26 class, they won't have to take 5 DL in the December '26/spring '27 portal. Should only have to take 1-3 instead to prepare for the '27 season. After the spring '27 portal haul, Texas should be at the point that (like the OL room) they don't have to hit the portal at all to grab interior DL unless it's a can't miss guy and/or the recent additions don't pan out. Maybe Kenny Baker leaves for a DC job by then, but knowing Sark, he'll have a suitable replacement ready to go with hopefully the best interior DL room in the country to come to.

Rumors are floating the USC is trying to get out of its game with ND. Will it soon be forced to join a conference and will its weak strength of schedule be held against it? They play two ranked teams in week 1 and 2 in Miami (#21) and a&m (23). It’s a joke.

Turns out this team is the diamond version of Brian Ferentz Iowa teams.

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I agree with you on this. He seems pretty even handed about Texas even though I think he was the Colorado QB in the 70-0 beat down, right? The other guy I like is Josh Pate even though I think there are a lot of guys who don't like him. The list of guys I wouldn't listen to is lengthy but these two, to use your term, offer 'value added'.

I think Klubnik is a very good player. I just don’t think he’s a 1-1. But I still don’t see that in Cam Ward either.

I don't think they even had a spring game this year. They did have some kind of fan event but don't know if that picture was part or all of it.

Joel Klatt. Na-na-na-na-na. Joel Klatt.

I need Ramonce Taylor on my flag football team. I think Quan Cosby at his athletic peak would kill it as a two-way player.

I agree with Blake. The power will be there, and so will the strikeouts, which means the walks need to be there for Ivan to keep ascending to the show.

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I like your list on defense but I would have VY at qb,

Of the sports pundits covering college football, i trust Klatt more than most of the others. His analysis is reason based as opposed to narrative based. Most of his takes are either correct or reasonably correct based on available information.

Hard not to look ahead at 2026, thinking about a defensive line with Colin Simmons, Lance Jackson, Justus Terry, Maraad Watson, Alex January, Josiah Sharma, Myron Charles. Those are some freaky large humans with awesome athleticism. Looking like Bama and Georgia when they were on their natty runs a few years back. Hope Justus Terry and Lance Jackson are able to make big contributions this season to complement Simmons on the other side.

I am a big Ivan fan and hope he can tweak some things enough to keep progressing. Making the transition and moving up to the big leagues is extremely difficult, even for very good college players. His hitting, especially power, has carried him, but he had too many Ks in college and does not seem to have improved that too much in the pros. To get to the bigs he probably needs to improve on at least one of those. As Blake mentioned, it probably won't be his D that helps him. I worry about our current players for the same reasons. If you can't hit a curve and always chase them you are doomed. A little bit of power and a bad batting average won't get you far unless you are excellent in the field- and that partially depends on the position. Even if you can hit for a reasonable or good average, without some power or an excellent glove and arm for the right position or really good speed it still can be hard to make it.

No David Thomas mentions at TE?

I think there is a real chance worthy is on the team in 2028. Time line works out and his speed is a match up nightmare

Is he the one that looked a bit like that in 8th grade? I remember seeing a post awhile back with an 8th grade pic of one of the new guys and he looked like a senior in high school.