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Big 12 looking west, Pac-12 looking for TV deal: What we’re hearing about the realignment

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This past July, weeks after the stunning Big Ten announcement of USC and UCLA, Pac-12 Commissioner George Klyafkov made a bold realignment prediction: “No Pac-12 school is going to the Big 12.” After eight months, we may finally learn whether his confidence was warranted or a feigned bravado. Kliavkoff is under pressure to offer its members a new media rights deal by the end of the month. If the dollar numbers or the details disappoint, March could be the moment when the Big 12 finally hits. Sources familiar with the…

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Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Could Tide Be Weak vs. Volumes? In addition to the urgent madness, the greatness of Los Angeles

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And now, 23 final thoughts from Saturday that started at 11 a.m. Dallas time in front of 90,000 at Cotton Bowl and ended at 11:30 p.m. Palo Alto time in front of a few thousand unsuspecting fans at Stanford Stadium who inadvertently (and unfortunately For them) they witnessed the most beautiful end to the whole darn day. 1. It appears that CBS has hired a psychic medium to run the programming department. For two years in a row, they used their only prime-time pick of the season to broadcast the…

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Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Notre Dame, Texas A&M and Florida go the way of the Big Ten West

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Three Sun Belt wins over Power 5 opponents, including two in the Top 10. The No. 1 team in the country very nearly loses to a 20-point underdog. Kansas is 2-0. Notre Dame is 0-2. Here are 23 Final Thoughts from a spectacularly upside-down Week 2. 1. Well, when I boarded the plane to Austin on Friday I was reasonably certain three things would happen on my trip: 1) I was going to eat barbecue at some point (check); 2) I was going to get to Torchy’s at some point…

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College football picks against spread: Bruce Feldman’s second week picks

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I had 1 week average, going 5-5-1 against the spread. The Good: Pick Penn State to win at Purdue. The Bad: Choosing LSU to do business with FSU. The Ugly: Choosing Oregon to keep it close to Georgia. Here are the guesses for this week. (All spreads come from BetMGM, click here For live odds, all kickoff times are Eastern.) 1 Alabama (-20.5) in Texas, Saturday, noon (Fox) Steve Sarkissian has an inexperienced QB and doesn’t have enough athletes in defense to keep up with his old boss, Nick Saban.…

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James Madison makes instant FBS statement, plus CFP expansion and more: G5 Drive

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One of the most dominant performances of Week 1 in college football came from a team playing its first game as a Football Bowl Subdivision school. James Madison knows how to win. The Dukes haven’t had a losing record since 2002 and they’d been a Football Championship Subdivision powerhouse for the past six years, with a 70-11 record. But they were also just 6-22 against FBS teams in their history as an FCS program. So last Saturday’s 44-7 win against Middle Tennessee was an eye-opener. The Dukes outgained the Blue…

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South Carolina cancels games with BYU after racial slur incident

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South Carolina women’s basketball has canceled its home and home series with BYU after a racist incident at a BYU-Duke volleyball game last week. “As head coach, my job is to do what is best for my players and staff,” coach Don Staley said in a statement. “The incident at BYU has led me to reassess our home and home, and I don’t feel like this is the right time for us to be involved in this series.” During a Duke-BYU volleyball match in Provo on August 26, Duke’s second…

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Brigham Young University student fermenting rocket fuel causes massive explosion

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A Brigham Young University student was fermenting homemade rocket fuel on a stove in a dorm when the mixture suddenly exploded into a huge “fireball,” according to campus police. The explosion caused by the faulty experiment set off fire alarms and sprinklers in the Heritage Halls at around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, flooding parts of the building, BYU . police said. Campus police and the Provo Fire Department responded to the scene. “The flame from the explosion engulfed the walls and ceiling around the stove and the intense heat disabled the…

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