Much as I love my Huskies, pretty positive they would have struggled to beat WSU and Oregon and found themselves nowhere near the PAC-12 Championship game.

As is, COVID comes in at the last second and propels the Dawgs to the Championship Game against a deserving USC team.

I would say that SC is going to stomp all over the Dawgs, but SC has done a remarkable job of being nice and playing down to their opponents.

It will be a close (and ugly) game with the Dawgs falling short due to a non-existent running game with their 5 backs and a QB that really can’t pass the ball all that well.

Don’t count out COVID! Odds are still good it makes an appearance this week and sidelines a team!

Prediction: COVID wins and meets their next opponent in the Rose Boel!

"I would say that SC is going to stomp all over the Dawgs,"

Based on SC's final possession, you're probably right.

There's nobody in the Pac 12 that's worth a sh!t. That means there's no reason to think UW can't win this game unless they can't field a team.

If UW can't field a team due to Covid, the Pac12 will send Oregon down to play USC...which means USC kinda needs to be ready to play both teams.

2020 is a weird time.

Fish on...

Todd

And UW is officially out, and Oregon will play USC for the Pac 12 championship...

Fish on...

Todd

What a fvckin dick dance this season has been, hope these kids get an extra year of eligibility.
Fight on University of Spoiled Children.

Well, that didn't take long.

I hate both Orygoon and F-USC.

...but will have to root for SC.

Can't ever root for the pondcrappers.

Ever.

Like to see the Apple Cup salvaged. Not sure the Husky footballers would want to play the Cougars in Pullman in late December. If there was a half inch of snow, the UW would be doomed...it's a westside thing.

Huh...I seem to recall the Dawgs clownstomping the Coogs and Uncle Rico, in the Palouse, in a snowstorm, the last time the Apple Cup was there in 2018.

Surely a Coog wouldn't so easily have forgotten that beat down?

Fish on...

Todd

Looks like I remembered it correctly...



If you get bored with that one...here are highlights from the last seven Apple Cups, all in one video!



Fish on...

Todd

They all get an extra year if they want it - it's up to the kids. NCAA decided that before the football season started.

How come there were not that many Coog Highlights in that awesome video?

College football including the Pac 12 needs to be changed to make it more competitive. It's pretty much the haves vs the have not schools. USC is looking like a pro team and they have been good at paying some of their star players. Nike University also. Then you have your Alabama's, LSU, Notre Dames, Ohio State's. I liked the game better when teams could sign a limited number of players who just missed academically qualifying.

In the NFL any team with the exception of the NY Jets have a fair chance of beating any other team. It's called parody.

I still like to follow NCAA football. It's nice to see Northwestern and Coastal Carolina playing well.

Partial qualifiers....or kinda like a "gray shirt" but not exactly.

The only way to fix the true "haves to have nots" is to expand the playoff to (8) or (16) teams. Right now, all the 5* players go to the Bama's & Clemson's of the world because they have high odds of making a (4) team playoff.

The other way is develop a HUGE walk-on program and offer "preferred walk-on status". I.e. the player pays for school to start and as soon as a ship opens, it's used on that player down the road. A great WO program allows schools to really save ships for top players while getting lesser players on the field (to develop depth). I know of one P5 school that has a WO room of about 80 players NOT on scholarship (which is 85). 165 players. That's a LOT of extra bodies and it takes a LONG time to develop AND it still doesn't make up for 5* talent.

"It's not the x's and the o's, it's the Jimmy's and Joe's"

As I recall, back when Nebraska was tough the squad had well over 100 players, as did Bear's 'Bama. I would rather see the number of scholarships limited more and given only to folks who academically qualify for the school.

Further, the NFL and NBA should be able to sign folks out of HS and keep them on a minor leaguer squad, like baseball. If somebody prefers a pro career ro classes, then go straight to the pros.

The scholarship limit was reduced from 105 in the 70’s to the current 85 in the early 90’s.
With red-shirts, injuries etc I wouldn’t expect it to go down again anytime in the future.
There are also preferred walk-ons that have the ability to earn a scholarship after their first year.

As far as the PAC 12 championship game goes, I’ll watch but really don’t care who wins.
The PAC 12 will continue to be [Bleeeeep!] until they fire Larry Scott.
SF

It's interesting that in DII, at least, the NCAA will allow 45 or 48 (I forget) in playoff games. Are those guys tougher than FBS players?

My school is cooler than your school.

What a bunch of spider pokers.

In by not playing, out by not playing

Easy come....easy go.

Ducks suck....

Keith

Early NLI day. Looks like the Bama's, Ohio State's, and USC's got their 5 star players.

Lots of players opting out of their commitments.

Oh well Pac 12 championship Friday, a few games this weekend. Maybe a few Pac 12 teams playing in bowls. This is a weird season.

You left out, accidentally I am sure, that Washington got the #1 ranked QB in the country...and his last name just happens to be Huard.

Fish on...

Todd

Huard to hit OHHHHHHHHHHHH SNAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But lost out to Ohio State on Egbuka.

Sam Huard is the son of Damon Huard. Kennedy Catholic puts out a lot of players. I met Brock Huard at a Hawks game for a phot op.

Go ducks !!!

What's that got to do with Ducks?

Oh wait.

I see the duck now.

Stroke....Stroke.....Stroke.

Perky

That was a pretty ugly game. Our conference looks like sh!t compared to the others in the Power 5.

Larry Scott needs to get fuckin' fired.

The second best team in Oregon is the conference champ.
So very 2020

GO BUCKEYES

On a positive note Walmart has a great deal on Jerkins hand lotion right now.

It is comforting to see that, even in a year of Covid, that the Cougs can still Coug it. Some things never change.

In other college football news.... [Bleeeeep!] Norte Dame.
SF

Lookin' like Satan and Swinney again in the NC

Fourth quarter and Iowa St. putting pondcrappers on spin cycle.

And Sark is off to Texas.

The new Burnt Orange Savior ?
Do they still have drive-through liquor stores in Texas ?

He'll never last. Texas boosters are the worst and their pressure is immense. Enough to drive a guy to drink.

I hope Sark does well.
He knows how to recruit and develop QB’s.
Texas hasn’t had [Bleeeeep!] for great QB play in awhile besides the current kid.
A lot of success also is based on the staff the HC builds.
He needs to make keeping top in state talent for leaving for other schools and conferences.

I agree that Texas fans are obnoxious and impatient, but that is almost every fan base now.
Worse case if he fails he’ll be something like Tom Herman.
Unemployed and looking at getting a $15 million paycheck.
That would certainly suck, wouldn’t it?
SF

Listening to some of the talking heads about the hire they noted that Sark, or any new HC, has a really short window to develop "success". Like 3 or 4 years.

Seems to me that the guy needs a minimum of 4, and probably 5, so you can evaluate how ell he recruits and develops talent and year 5 may be the first year where a coach has not only the players that he recruited but 4 full years to recruit them.

This instant gratification B**lsh*t sucks. And I really can't bring myself to root for the 'Horns as they are in the same class as the Ducks.

The timeframe for coaches used to be longer, as most freshmen used to redshirt then play four years.
Now a lot of freshmen play and if they are good enough, they are gone in three years. So what used to be a five year process in many cases has been shorten to three, maybe four years at the most.
Then add in the transfer portal, kids flunking out etc......
SF

The average tenure of a Husky HC post Don James is 3.5 years.

How many coaches have careers in one place like James or may others I could name from back then. Money screws up so many things.

Ya that and not winning.

The in-state blue chippers want to go play for Elsewhere U.
Changing that will be a tough row to hoe for Sark.

The Sark hire looks like it might be Tom Herman 2.0

Texas will be a top 5 team next year, book it.

They will be Top 5 or rated Top 5? Kinda like the Sucking Irish.

They will end up being in the bcs in two years.

Arvidbarkers College Football Predictions 2021

Or the ruptured Ducks, no way were they ever a top 25 team, yet there they were rated in the top 10 preseason.
Then after losing to unranked teams they continued to be in the top 25.
So when do those blue chippers start playing?

You'd think Sark could make a go of it at UT. Top shelf facilities, talent, and gobs of money.

Of course he flamed out at SC, and a decent coach oughta be able to make it at SC, too.

Sark had some personal issues that torpedoed him at SC. Maybe he has fixed them.

Too soft to be a HC.
No edge.
All you have to do is listen to him talk.
Coordinator DNA right there.

Nothing about the championship game, but Larry Scott finally got fired.
About time. He has killed the PAC 12.
SF

Agreed 100%.

Fish on...

Todd

That's some good news!

Nobody that I respect regarding the Pac-12 supports Scott. I don't follow it that closely but if they think he should go, he should.