Cal @ Colorado...Bears favored by 14.5 pts and for good reason as Buffs are terrible and now playing for an interim head coach...
The game will be televised by PAC-12 Networks at 11:00 AM Saturday...
Paul Chryst, Matt Rhule, Justin Wilcox, Brent Brennan, Jamey Chadwell, Alex Grinch, Jeff Grimes are just some of the coaches mentioned for the Buffs job...
Arizona @ Washington...Huskies favored by 14.5 pts and are undefeated at home...
Game on PAC-12 Networks at 2:30 Sat afternoon...
Cats QB Jayden de Laura returns to Huskie stadium where he rammed Wazzu's flag into stadium turf following Cougars big Apple Cup win last year...
Stanford @ Notre Dame...Irish are favored by 17 pts and Stanford NFL football model is floundering...
Game on NBC that is Channel 4 down here at 4:30...
The Cardinal isn't even close to what it used to be when David Shaw took over the program from Harbaugh years ago...
Wazzu @ Oregon St...Beavers are favored by 3.5 pts despite losing 8 straight times to Wazzu leading up to this game...
Game on PAC-12 Networks at 6:00...
If betting, I think that I might pick the Cougars in this game but, on the other hand, the Beavers play really well with Jonathan Smith's "our kind of guys," especially at home...
USC @ Utah...Utes favored by 3.5 pts and are facing a last stand in PAC race to the top, for if they lose, they won't repeat as PAC champs, with both LA schools undefeated, at this point, and with the Utes still having to travel to Oregon later in the season...
Game on Fox that is Channel 11 down here at 5:00...
It's awfully difficult to beat the Utes in Salt Lake City but if any team can do it this year it would be the Lincoln Riley coached Trojans...
Idle...ASU, Oregon and UCLA
The Trojans have proven what a potential weapon the transfer portal can be if you have enough gravitational pull like the Trojans now have under Lincoln Riley...
Meanwhile, teams like our Sun Devils, who do not have the gravitational mass to compete in the transfer portal like the Trojans, will be using the portal to find the "right kind of guys" to play and win with, the way teams like Oregon St do it under Jonathan Smith...
We may not be as poorly resourced as the Oakland A's were when they turned to "sabermetrics" to improve their position in MLB but football analytics will be used, especially by handicapped teams like the Sun Devils, who have to compete in a rigged or unfair college football arena, where money talks and leads to blue-blood franchises, that have a monopoly of power and wealth that control the game...
And, as of now, both the SEC and Big 10 have the most power and control over college football these days, as we all know...they dine on steak and lobster while teams like the Sun Devils are forced to dine on PAC casserole leftovers...
Life isn't fair, as we all know, and it becomes even more daunting when you have a president and AD like the Sun Devils do running the show these days, IMHO...
Can analytics save our Sun Devils moving forward..??
Your guess is as good as mine...
More importantly, at this point, will the Devils come off a BYE week like they did last year when they laid a huge egg against Wazzu during homecoming, while being heavily favored in the game..??
It will be interesting watching Act II of the CSA head coaching audition in the coming weeks...
Go Devils!!!
The game will be televised by PAC-12 Networks at 11:00 AM Saturday...
Paul Chryst, Matt Rhule, Justin Wilcox, Brent Brennan, Jamey Chadwell, Alex Grinch, Jeff Grimes are just some of the coaches mentioned for the Buffs job...
Arizona @ Washington...Huskies favored by 14.5 pts and are undefeated at home...
Game on PAC-12 Networks at 2:30 Sat afternoon...
Cats QB Jayden de Laura returns to Huskie stadium where he rammed Wazzu's flag into stadium turf following Cougars big Apple Cup win last year...
Stanford @ Notre Dame...Irish are favored by 17 pts and Stanford NFL football model is floundering...
Game on NBC that is Channel 4 down here at 4:30...
The Cardinal isn't even close to what it used to be when David Shaw took over the program from Harbaugh years ago...
Wazzu @ Oregon St...Beavers are favored by 3.5 pts despite losing 8 straight times to Wazzu leading up to this game...
Game on PAC-12 Networks at 6:00...
If betting, I think that I might pick the Cougars in this game but, on the other hand, the Beavers play really well with Jonathan Smith's "our kind of guys," especially at home...
USC @ Utah...Utes favored by 3.5 pts and are facing a last stand in PAC race to the top, for if they lose, they won't repeat as PAC champs, with both LA schools undefeated, at this point, and with the Utes still having to travel to Oregon later in the season...
Game on Fox that is Channel 11 down here at 5:00...
It's awfully difficult to beat the Utes in Salt Lake City but if any team can do it this year it would be the Lincoln Riley coached Trojans...
Idle...ASU, Oregon and UCLA
The Trojans have proven what a potential weapon the transfer portal can be if you have enough gravitational pull like the Trojans now have under Lincoln Riley...
Meanwhile, teams like our Sun Devils, who do not have the gravitational mass to compete in the transfer portal like the Trojans, will be using the portal to find the "right kind of guys" to play and win with, the way teams like Oregon St do it under Jonathan Smith...
We may not be as poorly resourced as the Oakland A's were when they turned to "sabermetrics" to improve their position in MLB but football analytics will be used, especially by handicapped teams like the Sun Devils, who have to compete in a rigged or unfair college football arena, where money talks and leads to blue-blood franchises, that have a monopoly of power and wealth that control the game...
And, as of now, both the SEC and Big 10 have the most power and control over college football these days, as we all know...they dine on steak and lobster while teams like the Sun Devils are forced to dine on PAC casserole leftovers...
Life isn't fair, as we all know, and it becomes even more daunting when you have a president and AD like the Sun Devils do running the show these days, IMHO...
Can analytics save our Sun Devils moving forward..??
Your guess is as good as mine...
More importantly, at this point, will the Devils come off a BYE week like they did last year when they laid a huge egg against Wazzu during homecoming, while being heavily favored in the game..??
It will be interesting watching Act II of the CSA head coaching audition in the coming weeks...
Go Devils!!!
