About to close week #2 up today. My biggest take...what a complete and diabolical mess Everton are right now. Their current ownership ran that club into the ground.

I think this is the year their bubble burst and they open their brand new stadium up for the 25-26 season in the Championship.

Leicester may be relegated before they know it....they have an Everton/Forest type point deduction on the horizon for their spending in the few years leading up to their relegation year. Ipswich I don't think will have the vigor and fight that Luton did last year and capture the common American fan. I think Palace may get dragged down into the muck to, but not relegated, I don't think they've spent too much and have lost a few and could lose Geuhi. Overall I think the bottom is gonna be similiar to last season with more than just 3 in relegation contention and that the point totals are gonna be low. Meaning 35 points could be the new 40 point standard.

I don't really care about the top, but I'm hoping for Aston Villa to do well because they're not a big 4.

I'm just glad Saturday and Sunday mornings are back

Not impressed at all
SMU goes down and Duke looks terrible vs a lousy Northwestern team

Why is the 19th ranked team an 18 pt dog to the 9th ranked team? Vegas is basically saying psu is really good, or illinois is absolute ass and the voters know nothing. Unless I am missing some big injury or something.

It looked like Georgia didn't even come off the bus at the start and were down big. They came all the way back to take the lead at about 3 minutes left and Bama just scored a touchdown 13 seconds later. Georgia driving and the 2 minute timeout just occured. Unbelievable.

This has turned into a great game. This quarter is bonkers.

To join the WPIAL as a 3A participant.

Marched right down the field 7-0

Pitt was invited to its first bowl game in like forever. The Fiesta Bowl under Majors 1.
The amazing thing was, the players were absolutely THRILLED that they got to go to Arizona and came back with a bag of trinkets, on the house!
Some of them would go on to play pro football, or be coaches or dentists and doctors, or successful business men, etc. but you'd have thought they were given the Crown Jewels of England!

Contrast that with today. How far we've come, or how far we've fallen!

i didn't know our boy got an actual job. he'd been doing little coach's corner type of things on social media. good for him.

Look very average without him

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ot...&cvid=a099acb136cf40a1a5035c698f4d9702&ei=254

He just transferred in from Georgia this year and now after 3 games is leaving for more $$

...Charlotte @ Rice game?

After a controversial call last night, we saw an extremely questionable call in the Michigan/Minnesota game today. However, neither can hold a candle to how bad WWF officiating was in 1988.

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Not that I'm disappointed but how do you reverse that call on the field on the last play ??? Wow!!

Apologies if this is buried in some other thread. Busy day here in monkey town so just able to watch bits and pieces of games.

Current games I’m rooting against BC and for OK ST to drop KSU out of the top 25. Who else should I be watching?

Couple of nice punts and a fake punt run for a first down for BYU today against Baylor.

Louisville defense bowed up some in the second quarter but looked like hot garbage the entire first quarter

Offense didn't impress me either, 2 turnovers, plus a turnover on downs, only scored off short fields thanks to 2 ND turnovers

If their defense isn't improved by the time we play them, I feel pretty good about us scoring a bunch on em. And I don't think their offense would be able to keep up. Knock on wood

Dominic Campbell does such a nice job on keeping all of our Pitt sports teams front and center.....really like this fellow.

OK....the out of conference portion of the volleyball schedule is over. The NCAA volleyball stat page is up to date through yesterday. I need to add a caveat. There are 346 universities that play division 1 volleyball. The NCAA does not separate out the stats by conference and they only provide a top 50 statistic for each team or individual athlete. How did Pitt do? Here are the highlights.

Here are some team stats..

• 10 wins....no losses....30 sets in a row won....ranked #1 by the AVCA.
• Putting up a remarkable average of 19.43 pts/set
• My favorite stat....Pitt has won by an average score of 25 -16 for each of the 30 sets they have played. That 9 point difference is obscene.
• Aces/set...#5 in the country
• Assists/set....#7 in the country
• Hitting %....#1 in the country
• Opposition Hitting %....#6 in the country (which means they are holding the opposition to the 6th lowest % in the country)

Here are some individual stats..

• Aces/set....Babcock #20 and Gomez tied for #43 in the country
• Assists/set....Fairbanks #6 in the country
• Hitting %....Stafford #34 in the country. She is the only OH in the country in the top 50....all others are middle blockers as expected.
• Kills/set....Stafford #7 and Babcock #22 in the country
• Pts/set....Babcock #5 and Stafford #11 in the country. They have combined for almost 11 pts/set or nearly 60% of Pitt's point production each and every set.

The season is officially 1/3 finished....now we'll see if they can continue this domination through the conference schedule. That's all.

Huge news for wrestling fans in Western Pennsylvania, as FloWrestling announced on Thursday that Who's No. 1 will be held at Pitt-Johnstown on Sept. 29.
Here's my story for The (Johnstown) Tribune-Democrat.
For those who don't know, the goal of Who's No. 1 is to bring the top two ranked wrestlers in each weight class together to determine which one gets Flo's No. 1 ranking. Of course, it gets a little more confusing than that due to weight changes, schedule conflicts, injuries, etc. I attended it a couple of times when it was held at Lehigh and it's an amazing event.
Flo hasn't announced a start time yet, but my guess would be late afternoon. They also haven't said when tickets will go on sale, but if you're interested, I'd get them early. Bo Bassett is scheduled to face Daniel Zepeda, the last high school wrestler to beat him, and Jax Forrest has also committed to wrestle, so I expect tickets to go quickly.
I don't remember Pitt-Johnstown's seating capacity -- I think it's between 2,000 and 3,000 -- but there is a second level where fans always stand for sporting events.
It should be a fun night!

Losers to KY. Can't kick a FG to tie.

Can anyone think of a reason for the super conferences that isn’t TV revenue?

With NIL destined to become contracted PFP why not fix everything once and for all.

Create 12 10 team conferences for all D1 sports based solely on geography. (Revenue$ Saving)

Cap and floor all player salaries.

Share all TV revenue evenly.

In football’s case schedule one (away only) preseason game with an FCS team and two OOC games.

Keep all 42 bowls that exist and each bowl game is a tournament game.

The bowls bid for the round they receive. (Revenue$)

This leaves you with the top-44 making the tournament. 2 from each conference with 20 at-large teams.

I have no doubt that this would actually increase revenue for the major teams because that tournament would be worth exponentially more than the current system.

* edit *

Thinking about this because of a team like Washington.

In the B1G they are never making the playoff as currently constituted.

Mississippi State? No
Texas A&M probably not.
Nebraska, nope.
Michigan State, nuh-uh.

Look at the $EC. Some of these teams will never wver get through a season with less than 3 losses.

The sport could actually grow to NFL like popularity if these “adults” could just see.

Looking forward to another year. Excited to watch this team. Let’s keep the positivity up and bring some GREAT energy to the home matches!

#staypositive #positivep