NCAA Football 2024-2025

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This is probably too "insider" for most here, but I found this discussion between Joel Klatt (the head Fox Sports NCAA Football analyst) and the VP of sports programming at Fox interesting, because of the way the new Big Ten TV contracts worth (instead of signing on with a network, like the other conferences, they divvied up the schedule and had the networks bid for what amounted to draft positions).  Fox bought the first three picks, and picked The Game (duh) and Texas at Michigan (again, duh), but traded away OSU at PSU.  Some interesting scheming, especially as these commitments were being made while teams were still reshaping themselves via the portal.

They seemed to have finagled Nov 10th anyway, and will get to choose between OSU-PSU and Oregon at Michigan.  I'm guessing that the way the season goes for those four teams will determine which game they pick.

Lucky Michigan gets to play not just OSU and PSU as usual (both likely top5 to top 10 teams), but also Oregon, USC, and Washington from the Pac add-ons, and Texas in the non-conference.  That's half the schedule against likely top-10 teams.  Thank god the defense is going to be lights-out.