Today in Flock Talk, thoughts on the analytics creep into college football plus the NCAA is falling apart at the seams. My paragraph on that topic is near the end.

"It is time for a radical change. Not a slow change, but a radical redirection for college athletics. The NCAA is a rudderless ship drifting in the ocean with a disemboweling hole in its hull."

tOSU just scored but were down much of the 1st.7/7.
TCU up by 3, 13/10 at the half. They wont survive this plus the next 2 games.
1 loss UNC down to UVa at the half, 10/13.
I guess we can flip back and forth to watch UG v Tenn.

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USC is 9, UCLA 12 and Oregon 14.

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1 - What’s your final score prediction?

2 - Who will be the offensive player of the game on Saturday?

3 - Who will be the defensive player of the game on Saturday?

🦆Go Ducks!!!

No confirmation from any other news outlets

Edit: apparently did not travel

Jacob Hamre breaks down the matchup ...

Scott, A.J., Brandon and myself break down what the Ducks should hope to get out of this game as 31-point favorites, what their realistic CFP chances are, the impact of Seven McGee's departure and our predictions for today:

Gabriel was at Dana Altman's media availability yesterday as he rattled off the players who are still out with injury:


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Everyone's favorite Stanford grad is calling the game

UNC's Drake Maye moves way up. Nix getting tagged with 2 turnovers for Cal game. Probably not fair given one was a 1st half ending hail Mary.

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Gabriel will have a story coming today.

This might be one of the lamest, outdated, tone deaf social media posts I have seen. This rivals the exercise bike tweet for its lack of anything resembling "straight fire" or good social media presence.

In old person vernacular this is what Charles Barkley calls "tuurrible"

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On the news that Seven McGee is leaving, in part because he's not getting the PT he wants, I decided to look up Mycah Pittman's numbers at Florida State this season to see how his transfer is working out. You may recall that he left the team last year and entered the transfer portal, also in large part, because he wasn't getting the PT he needed to get the attention of NFL scouts.

In eight games so far this season, he has 25 receptions for 288 yards and three touchdowns. That works out to 36 yards per game. By contrast, in the ten games he played last year with Oregon he had 197 receiving yards, or 19.7 yards per game. Goducks.com doesn't list any TDs for receivers last year.

That's a modest improvement at FSU.

What do you guys think? Do the numbers suggest that it was a good move...or not? Other considerations here?