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Report: Wisconsin football schedules future home-and-home with new ACC school

Report: Wisconsin football schedules home-and-home with new ACC school

Wisconsin football is scheduling a future home-and-home series with California in 2029 and 2030, according to a release from the program.

The games are the first on Wisconsin’s schedules in those two years, along with whatever Big Ten Conference play looks like in six years. The games remain more than a half-decade away, and a lot with the sport is sure to change before those dates.

Related: If Wisconsin decides to move on from Greg Gard, who could it target as its next head coach?

The two days, as reported, are September 1, 2029 in Berkeley, California and August 31, 2030 in Madison, Wisconsin.

California will be an ACC school in 2024 with the Pac-12 having disbanded. The Bears hold a 5-1 advantage over the Badgers in the all-time series, with Wisconsin’s only win coming in 1946. The two schools have not met since 1990.

Looking ahead to the 2024 season, we’ve already ranked all 18 programs in the Big Ten, ranked the 18 starting quarterbacks, ranked all 18 head coaches, predicted each Big Ten team’s 2024 record, looked at the early College Football Playoff tiers, made bold predictions for the season and checked in on the Las Vegas win totals for each team in the conference.

It’s hard to know exactly what the sport’s landscape will look like when these games are scheduled to played.

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How would a two minute warning affect the Oklahoma Sooners?

Another rules change could be coming to college football but how would that impact the Sooners and the rest of the teams?

This is an offseason of change. Gone are the Big Ten, Pac 12, [autotag]SEC[/autotag] and [autotag]Big 12[/autotag] as we’ve grown to know it. Instead, the Pac 12 is essentially gone, the Big 12, SEC and Big 10 are all adding new teams to their leagues.

But that might not be the only thing that is changing this offseason. The NCAA Football Rules Committee is set to meet at the end of February to discuss some possible rule changes. The biggest one would be the potential addition of a two-minute warning during the 2024 season.

For those that don’t know, the NFL has a two-minute warning where the clock stops at the two-minute mark unless a play is ongoing in the second and fourth quarters. It is basically an extra timeout late in games.

If you remember, the rules committee made a few clock-related changes last year. The clock doesn’t stop on first downs until the final two minutes of each half. So, wouldn’t this slow it down? Well not necessarily, this would essentially fill the place of an existing TV timeout. It would give a guaranteed break at the two-minute mark and could reduce the chances of back-to-back stoppages elsewhere, which we’ve seen after kickoffs.

The Athletic spoke to the NCAA National Coordinator of Officials, Steve Shaw, who explained how this would help with the back-to-back stoppages.
“We’d really like to avoid the back-to-backs. Nobody likes that. If we did it, the media partner would have to hold their last timeout to that, so they couldn’t get their timeouts in and then get a freebie. It would be the last media timeout and give them assurance they’ll get them all in. I think TV would be supportive of it.”

This would affect game management strategy going forward like when to use your timeouts and when not to. It also would affect how you run your offense. Maybe you’re okay with running the ball just before the two-minute mark, knowing you will get a stoppage.

Clock management will become an even bigger emphasis for coaches going forward. In the game vs. the Texas Longhorns last year, [autotag]Jacob Lacey[/autotag] sacked Quinn Ewers just before the two-minute mark. The Sooners ended up using two timeouts after their following two plays, but if you had the two-minute warning, the Sooners could have saved one of their timeouts for that final drive.

Obviously, it didn’t matter. But that is an area where it could impact teams going forward. For now, we’ll have to wait and see how much backing it gets and if it is something the committee can move forward with.

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Allegiant Stadium said goodbye to the Pac-12 by blasting Green Day’s Good Riddance after everyone left

The Pac-12 championship DJ understood the assignment

Ask any millennial what Green Day’s “Good Riddance” is about, and they’ll be the first to tell you it’s one of the best break up songs ever written.

Dripping in contempt and passive aggressiveness, the lyrics reflect a relationship’s bitter end. Sure, the song has morphed into an anthem for high school and college graduates, as well as the final night of summer camp each year, but at it’s core it’s still punk rock.

Whoever was in charge of playing music at Allegiant Stadium on Saturday night seemed to understand that, too. Because once the teams left the field after Washington’s victory over Oregon, and all the fans exited the building, “Good Riddance” started blaring throughout the place.

What better way to roll credits on Pac-12 football?

There’s no one out there who is excited about the destruction of this conference except for a few TV executives — who don’t really count anyways.

All year long the Pac-12 has given us incredible action and drama. From numerous Heisman Trophy contenders, two legitimate College Football Playoff contenders, Colorado’s incredible September and Arizona’s resurgence, there was no shortage of reasons to tune into the Conference of Champions this season.

It’s an absolute shame it’s coming to an end.

Hopefully the powers in charge of it all had the time of their lives while the Pac-12 was around.

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College football rankings: Joel Klatt’s top 10 as we enter Week 9

Who are your top 4 entering Week 9?

Temperatures might be cooling across the nation as fall is well upon us and winter isn’t far away.

For college football that means that we’re nearing the end of October and the race for the College Football Playoff is very much on.

This is a unique year as we sit entering the final weekend of October with six different Power Five programs still undefeated.

What happens is five of those remain unbeaten – who will get left out of the playoff (Michigan and Ohio State will automatically lose at least a combined one game)?

Joel Klatt of Fox Sports released his updated top 10.  Here’s how he sees things currently as we enter Week 9 of the college football season.

Social Media roasts Lincoln Riley and USC losing yet again to Utah

Another L for USC…

With Notre Dame having an off week it meant a lot of Fighting Irish fans were looking elsewhere to scratch their college football itch this weekend.  A common place for many to get it was by watching the team Notre Dame played just a week ago return home to take on a conference rival.

We’re of course talking about USC who played host to Utah on Saturday night in a game that has provided some thrilling affairs in recent years.

Saturday night was no different as USC came back from being down two-scores to take the lead late but allowed Utah to march and kick a game-winning field goal as time expired.

Final Score: Utah 34, USC 32.

Of course college football fans took to social media [anyclip-media thumbnail=”undefined” playlistId=”undefined” content=”dW5kZWZpbmVk”][/anyclip-media]to let their thoughts be known right after the contest.  Check out some of the best below.

Alabama football projected to have shocking bowl opponent in 2023

You’ll never guess who Alabama is projected to play in the 2023 bowl season

When you think of college football bowl season, it’s almost been a guarantee for the past 15 years that the Crimson Tide will be in contention for the national championship. With one loss on their resume through just five weeks, Alabama is certainly on the outside looking in. However, if the Tide can win out and win the SEC Championship their spot will be nearly guaranteed.

This year, it is a wide-open race with no team truly separating themselves from the pack. The PAC-12 has been the best conference so far this season with USC, Oregon, and Washington all ranked inside the top ten. As we get deeper into conference play, we will really begin to separate the pretenders from the contenders and even I am not 100% certain which side the Tide are on in 2023.

Erick Smith of USA TODAY does not believe that the Tide will make the playoffs as he released his 2023 bowl projections from this season. Smith projects that the four teams competing in the College Football Playoffs will be Michigan, Florida State, Georgia and Texas.

Smith has lower expectations for the Tide as he projects them to meet up with Fresno State in the Peach Bowl. A win over the Aggies this weekend on the road this weekend would be a monumental step towards the playoffs.

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Where every Power Five team stands after the ACC’s latest conference realignment move

College sports will never be the same after all this conference realignment.

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Conference realignment has completely shifted the landscape of college sports everywhere. It’s hard to know exactly who plays where now. That’s especially the case today following the report about the ACC extending invitations out to Cal, Stanford and SMU.

So, in the spirit of trying to keep up, I’ve listed all the teams in the Power Five (Four?) conferences and where they’ll be playing.

Newcomers will have the year they’re officially joining the conference in parenthesis.

College football realignment: Dissecting that Notre Dame-Stanford conference proposal

Nothing brings out the takes quite like Notre Dame conference talk.

If you want to hear unfortunate opinions and brutal ideas then simply search “Notre Dame” on the app formerly known as Twitter whenever college football realignment conversations come up. Because Notre Dame is in a unique position with its football independence, fans and media members alike can’t keep Notre Dame out of their mouths.

Yesterday we looked at former Florida head coach Dan Mullen’s brutal thought that Notre Dame should have saved the Pac-12. Today we go to the land of Andy Staples for another Notre Dame thought.

Staples claimed on Thursday that Notre Dame wouldn’t ever do it, but it should create a football only conference with Air Force, Army, Cal, Navy and Stanford.

That’s not a joke, he actually did.  Below I break down a bit of what Staples had to say before reading some of the social media reaction to his post.

College football realignment: Why Notre Dame is pushing for Cal and Stanford to join ACC

College football is just weeks from kicking off the 2023 season but all the buzz is on conference realignment.

Reports that Notre Dame was pushing hard for Cal and Stanford to join the ACC came out Wednesday and left many wondering why. I was among those, but at the end of the day the answer was pretty simple – and one that will certainly ruffle the feathers of some.

It’s called “doing the right thing.”

Notre Dame athletic director [autotag]Jack Swarbrick[/autotag] told ESPN’s Heather Dinich on Thursday exactly why he was interested in those two joining the ACC.  In a college sports world that is run even more by money than ever before, Swarbrick sees a real problem.

“The notion that two of the very best academic institutions in the world who also play DI sports could be abandoned in this latest chapter of realignment is an indictment of college athletics,” Swarbrick told Dinich

I get that Stanford and Cal aren’t Oregon or USC in terms of football, but they aren’t Arizona or Colorado historically, either. We’re only a decade removed from Stanford being a Rose Bowl regular and national championship contender, while Cal under Jeff Tedford went to seven straight bowl games from 2003-2009.

The surprising part of Stanford being left in the dust is it may not be a football or men’s basketball powerhouse right now but when you go across all sports you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more successful athletic program nationally. The university competes for national titles in just about everything besides those two sports. How is that not appealing?

As absurd as the idea of having two of the top institutions in the nation, both of which who call the West Coast home, playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference is, I for one hope it ends up happening.

College athletics and the ACC will be better if it does.

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Conferences with the most teams in the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll

What conferences have the most ranked teams heading into 2023 and how would the rankings look with conference realignment in 2024?

What conferences have most teams ranked in the USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll? How many teams would each conference have ranked if based on how the conferences will look in 2024?

The college football landscape will change a ton in 2024 with the Big Ten, SEC, and Big 12 all adding multiple teams. The Pac-12 is on life support and may not even exist next season. For now, the ACC is expected to stay at 14 teams.

Georgia (61), Alabama (four) and Ohio State (one) all received first-place votes in the 2023 preseason USA TODAY Sports AFCA football coaches poll, but the Bulldogs check in as the No. 1 team in the nation.

What conferences have the most ranked teams heading into 2023 and how would the rankings look for 2024?