Congratulations to the teams and good luck to all, especially Indiana, Ohio State, and Oregon!

An excellent lineup of bowls. IU being in the Rose Bowl almost means more to me than being the #1 seed. Really excited to potentially see Ohio State against Texas A&M, that seems like a great matchup if it happens.

Michigan-Texas, Iowa-Vandy, and Illinois-Tennessee are also going to be must-watch games for me.

First Bowl is THIS Saturday!

Washington demolished Boise State to kick off Bowl Season.

Washington finishes 9-4 - losses to Ohio State, Michigan, Oregon and Wisconsin

(12-15-2025 12:40 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  Washington demolished Boise State to kick off Bowl Season.

Washington finishes 9-4 - losses to Ohio State, Michigan, Oregon and Wisconsin

If it wasn't for Wisconsin's late season wins against both Illinois and Washington I think their respective seasons look a lot more appealing. Both would've been 9-3 going into bowl season, and Washington's only losses would've been to three of the top five teams in the B1G (with a win over Illinois) and Illinois' only losses would've been to IU, Ohio State, and Washington (with a win over USC).

Also, that Iowa-Vandy game is looking a whole lot more interesting on the national level with how people have reacted to Pavia at and after the Heisman ceremony.

Congratulations to Oregon and their fans!

Congrats to Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Penn State; 5–0 heading into a massive week. It also has to be encouraging for the Big Ten’s three CFP contenders to see the middle of the league handle its business. Depth matters, and this is a good early signal.

Big week ahead for the Big Ten. I’ve got:

Illinois over Tennessee
USC over TCU
Iowa over Vanderbilt
Texas over Michigan
Utah over Nebraska
Ohio State over Miami
Oregon over Texas Tech
Indiana over Alabama

That puts the conference at 11–2 on the week. Of course I'm biased

(12-28-2025 08:32 AM)stechs02 Wrote:  Congrats to Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Penn State; 5–0 heading into a massive week. It also has to be encouraging for the Big Ten’s three CFP contenders to see the middle of the league handle its business. Depth matters, and this is a good early signal.

Big week ahead for the Big Ten. I’ve got:

Illinois over Tennessee
USC over TCU
Iowa over Vanderbilt
Texas over Michigan
Utah over Nebraska
Ohio State over Miami
Oregon over Texas Tech
Indiana over Alabama

That puts the conference at 11–2 on the week. Of course I'm biased

Enjoyed putting Penn State v Clemson on over the holidays. Had some family that usually doesn't care about football at all actually watch because I had it on and they were stuck in our home! Glad the Nittany Lions could pull it off.

It was a nice win to end the season and get Smith a winning record as HC.

Illinois wins! Second straight bowl win. This year we beat a real SEC team.

Damn, there goes our undefeated streak!

Congrats to the Illini - it was quite a game! I have a lot of family who are U of I fans. Even if their season didn't end up as glorious as the preseason projections thought, I'm glad Illinois ultimately ended up with a good season and a fun bowl win over Tennessee.

Well done Iowa! A close fought bowl victory against a 10-win SEC team is huge. What a great season.

Wow! Indiana Hoosiers and Oregon Ducks fans are witnessing greatness with their schools! My goodness, total domination today by both programs. Congratulations!

Courtesy of the Big Ten's Twitter:

(01-01-2026 07:44 PM)cubucks Wrote:  Wow! Indiana Hoosiers and Oregon Ducks fans are witnessing greatness with their schools! My goodness, total domination today by both programs. Congratulations!

Wild that we get a rematch of IU-Oregon in the CFP, with both utterly obliterating two teams that were very good during the regular season.

I thought Texas Tech was the real deal, and their defense was still pretty good. But their QB, my goodness, he was melting under that pressure.

The Hoosiers steamrolling Bama should put an end to those dumb twitter commenters that were all "_____ SEC Team would be undefeated with that kind of Big Ten schedule too."

HOO HOO HOO HOOSIERS!

(01-02-2026 05:40 PM)MaroonState Wrote:  

(01-01-2026 07:44 PM)cubucks Wrote:  Wow! Indiana Hoosiers and Oregon Ducks fans are witnessing greatness with their schools! My goodness, total domination today by both programs. Congratulations!

Wild that we get a rematch of IU-Oregon in the CFP, with both utterly obliterating two teams that were very good during the regular season.

I thought Texas Tech was the real deal, and their defense was still pretty good. But their QB, my goodness, he was melting under that pressure.

The Hoosiers steamrolling Bama should put an end to those dumb twitter commenters that were all "_____ SEC Team would be undefeated with that kind of Big Ten schedule too."

HOO HOO HOO HOOSIERS!

3 rematches in the CFP this year. Shame we can't avoid it.

(01-02-2026 05:40 PM)MaroonState Wrote:  

(01-01-2026 07:44 PM)cubucks Wrote:  Wow! Indiana Hoosiers and Oregon Ducks fans are witnessing greatness with their schools! My goodness, total domination today by both programs. Congratulations!

Wild that we get a rematch of IU-Oregon in the CFP, with both utterly obliterating two teams that were very good during the regular season.

I thought Texas Tech was the real deal, and their defense was still pretty good. But their QB, my goodness, he was melting under that pressure.

The Hoosiers steamrolling Bama should put an end to those dumb twitter commenters that were all "_____ SEC Team would be undefeated with that kind of Big Ten schedule too."

HOO HOO HOO HOOSIERS!

Texas A&M's SEC Schedule:

Auburn: 5-7
Miss State: 5-7, lost bowl
Florida: 5-7
Arkansas: 2-10
LSU: 7-5, lost bowl
Missouri: 8-4, lost bowl
South Carolina: 4-8
Texas: 9-3, won bowl, the only top 25 SEC team A&M played and they lost.

If this is an SEC schedule, half of the Big Ten would be 7-1.

(01-03-2026 01:54 PM)schmolik Wrote:  

(01-02-2026 05:40 PM)MaroonState Wrote:  

(01-01-2026 07:44 PM)cubucks Wrote:  Wow! Indiana Hoosiers and Oregon Ducks fans are witnessing greatness with their schools! My goodness, total domination today by both programs. Congratulations!

Wild that we get a rematch of IU-Oregon in the CFP, with both utterly obliterating two teams that were very good during the regular season.

I thought Texas Tech was the real deal, and their defense was still pretty good. But their QB, my goodness, he was melting under that pressure.

The Hoosiers steamrolling Bama should put an end to those dumb twitter commenters that were all "_____ SEC Team would be undefeated with that kind of Big Ten schedule too."

HOO HOO HOO HOOSIERS!

Texas A&M's SEC Schedule:

Auburn: 5-7
Miss State: 5-7, lost bowl
Florida: 5-7
Arkansas: 2-10
LSU: 7-5, lost bowl
Missouri: 8-4, lost bowl
South Carolina: 4-8
Texas: 9-3, won bowl, the only top 25 SEC team A&M played and they lost.

If this is an SEC schedule, half of the Big Ten would be 7-1.

Texas A&M was a statistically excellent team that was propped up by an underwhelming SEC schedule that somehow avoided Georgia, Alabama, Ole Miss, Oklahoma, and Vanderbilt (though credit to them for playing and beating ND in the nonconference schedule). If you look at the top half of the SEC, they only had to play Texas and Mizzou. This is really where conference expansion tangibly damages the integrity of conference standings: it's not just the loss of regionality and the disintegration of familiarity with most teams in your conference, it's that you play so few games against your own conference that you have no idea which teams should even really be in the conference championship game apart from some weird tiebreakers.

All that being said, I was talking about Texas Tech because that's who Oregon played. They were the team I thought was legitimately a good team then wilted against a clearly superior Ducks team. Their non-conference was laughable, but then wins against solid Utah and Houston teams and two blowouts of BYU who would've been undefeated absent their regular season matchup and conference championship game against Texas Tech.

(12-28-2025 08:32 AM)stechs02 Wrote:  Congrats to Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Penn State; 5–0 heading into a massive week. It also has to be encouraging for the Big Ten’s three CFP contenders to see the middle of the league handle its business. Depth matters, and this is a good early signal.

Big week ahead for the Big Ten. I’ve got:

Illinois over Tennessee
USC over TCU
Iowa over Vanderbilt
Texas over Michigan
Utah over Nebraska
Ohio State over Miami
Oregon over Texas Tech
Indiana over Alabama

That puts the conference at 11–2 on the week. Of course I'm biased

I got Miami over Ohio State.