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Does the 4-22 record include the time we beat them in a very low scoring game in the tourney when Swoop was on stilts and reached down and beheaded the Duck mascot?

We have one single win in Eugene in the PAC12 era (and just 2 in Salt Lake)

Easily our hardest conference opponent since we joined.

Winning today and one or more games in Vegas massively important to go dancing.

Zags winning at St. Mary’s last night hurt. Doesn’t really diminish our win over the Gaels which remains a solid quad 1 road win, but boosts Gonzaga’s resume and they too are on the bubble.

I don’t give a shit what Zoobs on that board say.

Helped our ratings last season to have very few late games.

I had BYU on my list before removing them as some Utah fans hate the idea of us being linked to them, but very likely we are stuck with each other for quite a while.

Indeed ideally bring more ‘western’ teams (consisting of some/all of Utah, Zona, ASU, Cal, Stanford, Colorado, BYU) into the Big10 and make a western division (with the 4 who…[Read more]

Imagine down the road (5-10 years) a reformed PAC looking like this

Oregon State
Wazzou
Cal
Stanford
Utah
UNLV
Arizona
ASU
SDSU
Fresno State
Colorado
Air Force

Somewhat logical travel pairs for hoops
Would move conference football and basketball title events back to Sin City
All the teams are in a couple of time zones and we can drive to pretty…[Read more]

Having a 12 team CFP with 10 or more teams from Big10/SEC would be about as interesting as March Madness with no teams from the “mid majors” and all 64 teams from about 6 power conferences.

Remember back in the 80s when BYU was named by SI calling them the most hated team in college football?

Pretty much every PAC12 conference basketball game has been televised on a channel I can get on Dish (ESPN/ESPNU/ESPN2, ABC, Fox/Foxsports1/2, PAC12). I’ve watched a number of Big12 hoops games (including battle of the Cougars when Houston visited Provo) and had to go over to the ESPN+ to view it.

ESPN+ adds a bit to my entertainment budget, my…[Read more]

I really Iiked the after dark football recap show every Sunday morning and will miss that. Big12 has nothing like that

ESPN+ carries for BIG12 essentially what DISH (and some cable) subscribers have been seeing on PAC12 network.

USC is in a tailspin (one win in last nine games), but Utes have had just one good game in the last few weeks (the heartbreaker against Zona). Very much need to win this one if there is any chance to try to get back into the tourney discussion.

As I feared and expected, after Saturday’s loss, Utah fell all the way to ‘last team in’ in bracketology. Need to find some wins on the road somewhere but I’m somewhat doubtful of our chances at this point.

For a game with 2 teams I really don’t care for (very much wanted to see Detroit win a few weeks ago), turned out to be an entertaining game and had no stress since I didn’t care who won.

Got a bit old seeing a certain singer every 5 minutes but guess the network knows her fans very much wanted to see her that often.

At halftime when teams came back out for shooting practice, Devon spent all the time practicing throws. I watched him and while not making all of them, he made more than he missed during that time. After going 0-4 in the first half, he made 2 of 3 after the break (and his miss spun around and came out).

One can’t control what officials call…[Read more]

Arizona State on Saturday night is a massively important game and hopefully this heroic effort which fell just short didn’t completely drain the team’s energy. Very much need to have a large, loud, and supportive crowd be there (on time) to help lift them to a victory.

Like Utah, the Wildcats aren’t as good on the road as on their home court. Hopefully with the early start we can have a good packed house like we did for the Colorado game. Need to be louder than our visitors.

Utah State could be interesting. The Aggies will be excited to have a chance to play Utah. They won the last meeting in Logan (and Utah then bought out another game that would have been there a few years later). Utah should win that game, but can’t overlook a motivated opponent.