1. First downs don’t stop the clock except the last two minutes of the 2nd and 4th Q.
2. Can’t call consecutive timeouts.
3. 1st and 3rd Q can end on penalties, they are applied at the start of the next quarter.

I think the first one is really only going to make a big difference, but they want to reduce the number of plays in a game.

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They’re making a Netflix animated series coming this November featuring the entire original cast and based more on the graphic novels than the film was. I can’t think of too many reboots with the original cast, but I hope it’s awesome. I liked the film quite a bit, so if for some reason it’s not I can always fall back on that.

I used to be an /r/CFB Poll member, but I deleted my Reddit account toward the end of the 2017 season. They’ve started ramping up again this week, and I was waffling about whether or not I was going to do the work to keep track of my own poll throughout this season, but if you’re going to do one here maybe it’ll give me an excuse. Give me a few hours and I’ll put a vote in there.

Big Ten preview games this season:

• Week 3: Washington @ Michigan State
• Week 7: Oregon @ Washington
• Week 10: Washington @ USC
• Week 11: USC @ Oregon
• Week 12: UCLA @ USC

It’s bittersweet for me as an Oregon fan. I’ve watched the Pac-10/12 for 30 years, and I’ve loved watching my team play everyone in this conference. I know there’s a lot of anger out there right now and it’s justified. I want to keep playing the Beavers every year, but if they want to tell us where to shove it, I get it.

I don’t expect this to be resolved before the Big XII 2024 lineup is finally set, but this might push the remaining four corner schools to move more urgently. If the Big Ten is talking about it now, then there was probably a lot of weight to that “blood on hands for delivering the killing stroke to the Pac” argument. Still doesn’t mean it will happen, but it would leave the Pac-12 North in a tight spot if it didn’t. I’m sure the B1G’s preference is to integrate two schools at a time, but if they have any interest in getting any more schools for a discount, they most likely will.

UO and UW definitely want to have that linear exposure, and it sounds like there won’t be much of that with this deal. I don’t know how either of them would sign this deal, even if they didn’t care about the money, and even if they had to wait some years to join the B1G if that’s an option.

Oregon’s beat writer, James Crepea, just tweeted that “Multiple Pac-12 ADs told me this winter/spring streaming only was not acceptable.”

I think Stewart Mandel said it best, “Larry Scott sold the schools on the Pac-12 Network based on how much revenue they could hit based on low/medium/high subscriber projections. It turned out to be below low. Hard to imagine the schools making another risky bet on a newish platform.”

I think the SEC can get away with pioneering something like this, maybe the Big Ten. I don’t see it working for the Pac.

Wonder if it’s something like CU’s leaving pushed others into the mindset of “show us and we might leave, or don’t and we WILL leave”.

Probably the Big XII telling schools they’ve got to plan out their 2024 season, and with only 11 months left they’re already pushing it. Then again, the Pac’s in the same crunch.

As a PAC team fan, I watched the Big Ten and Big XII media deal rumors and how quickly and precisely and positively they came, and spent the last year seeing just the opposite for us; no solid details, no real positive news or leaks at all. It never felt like there was ever any substance being floated out there for us, and for me personally it’s felt like Kliavkoff has done nothing but string everybody along.

And maybe it’s his job to do anything to keep the member schools together, and maybe vaguery and delay were his only weapons, and maybe he’s been holding out and hoping for something agreeable to eventually materialize, but it sure has been a long year+ on this nothing-burger he’s been trying to sell us on. I suspect Colorado leaving will deliver a big blow to that plan, if that’s all he’s been up to.