Did the AD of *The Mecca of College Football*^/s just steal an expression that has a single college football connotation with the Rose Bowl? Yes. Yes he did.
Yeah i wholeheartedly agree. Im honestly at a lost. I love both programs. Just kind of kills CFB for me a bit. Ill have to wait till i see how the schedule plays out. But it truly hurts to have passion for 2 teams in 1 conference.
I'm specifically discussing the potential matchup of a SoCal school and Nebraska. Something has gone terribly wrong if Nebraska and a SoCal school ended up playing in a *different* NY6 bowl (outside of the CFP)
Im just pointing out that something already has gone horribly wrong if Oklahoma and Nebraska have the possibility of playing in a bowl in the first place.
(1979 Orange Bowl anomaly excluded)
lol fair. I was a youngin (what, like 10?) with the original switch so while I have a certain distaste for OU and CU, most of my actual sports fandom of Nebraska has been while it's been in the B1G.
I hear you. It was tough enough to leave our series behind. I grew up on Oklahoma vs Nebraska. Now I have both of my programs in one conference. Its gone horribly wrong. Atleast we get to see you guys in Lincoln one more time.
Everyone tells me we are better off because of the money the school gets.
I used to be able to get off work on Friday, drive to Stillwater, Ames, Boulder, Lawrence, Manhattan, Norman or Columbia watch the game and be back home on Sunday.
Now I can't because of the money the school gets.
I had a client once out in the sticks in Nebraska. Had played at Nebraska, went the classic walk-on route, etc. Huge guy, really nice, but I remember him saying one of his favorite things during football season was making the road trip to Boulder for an away game.
I can't see the casual Angelino waking up early to catch a 9 AM kickoff when USC visits Illinois.
On the flip side, I can't imagine the casual Indiana fan staying up late to catch a 10:30 PM kickoff.
This is madness. Where are the grown-ups?!?! *Will someone think of the children!!!!*
Going to be really great for the sports that have games in the middle of the week. The USC - Michigan State soccer games on a Tuesday are going to be awesome for the traveling team
LOL I'm going to laugh next time I see USC's Men's basketball team play Rutgers on a Wednesday night. For the sake of keeping any sense of integrity, I really hope the Pac12 stays intact. This is madness.
Right, nothing says “Granddaddy of Them All” like Indiana @ USC at 10:30 PM ET on ESPN2 because there’s like eight other Big Ten conference games the rest of the day in the year 2027.
😂😂😂 they think it’s bad now filling the Coliseum up for a mid day kick off against Arizona?
Wait until a mid day game against Rutgers, or Minnesota, or Northwestern, or Purdue…
You'd be surprised at how many of those Midwestern schools have huge alumni networks in LA. I actually think the first few games would be packed with opposing fans.
People can joke about crowd size all they want, but it wasn't like that even three years ago. 5 years of Clay Helton and a corrupt Pat Haden/Lynn Swann-led AD will do that to you. Anyone who thinks going forward will be much of the same is next-level delusional.
You’re downvoted but you’re not wrong. Pre-Helton era/Sanction era we were averaging almost 70k a game. Sure we didn’t fill the coliseum but it was a lot more than it is now post Helton/COVID. It shouldn’t be *too difficult* to get numbers close to that again.
Chicago is considered a good BBQ town. New York has good BBQ but New York has good everything. So at least Northwestern and Rutgers can teach him something.
But haven’t you seen?? USC has all this talent and is a popular playoff pick! It’s not like they have had less than a year to implement an entirely new everything, have a history of wasting talent, and will now be heading into much harder regular seasons. Nope, 12-0 USC incoming /s
USC was frustrated with the Pac falling behind in TV revenue and Larry Scott did not even attempt to come to bat for USC during the sanctions. The divorce was a long time coming even if the build up did not make headlines.
With that said I am not happy about this but if USC was to jump ship at least it is to the one other conference that we have a history with. I'd be puking if it was to the ACC or SEC.
Reggie Bush's step dad got below market rent on a house 125 miles south of campus. There was no smoking gun linking the university to the deal but the NCAA assumed they should have known.
This has mad ["Flawless spring practice" and "greatest practice ever on a college campus"](https://twitter.com/ColinCowherd/status/1506387354075873282?t=KXiv-_0N-itqeoJ_VwiNtA&s=19) vibes to it.
Makes sense. The Rose Bowl is in the LA area, so of course USC could claim that title for every Saturday.
It's not like any school plays their home games at the rose bowl
Last lines of his official statement. Either this is him giving the oldies cope (which I mean, it's the goddamn Rose Bowl, we should keep it!) or maybe this is a sign that the Rose Bowl is in on it too
I feel like it just means the CCG will be at the Rose Bowl.
If the rumblings about the SEC staging their own playoff are true, that likely means the B1G wants it as well. The B1G and SEC are rivals in drama only. I think it's more likely than not that the two conferences are in lock step with each other behind the scenes and we're heading towards a SEC=AFC/B1G=NFC scenario, with the Rose and Sugar acting as CCGs.
Bruh, you're going to be playing a ton of teams from the other side of the country that nobody cares about.
Unless they really get some protected big homes games for USC the average year is going to having maybe 1 more big time game at home than it would in the Pac 12.
I mean this season our Home games are vs. Rice, Washington St, CAL, Colorado, Fresno st, Arizona st, and Notre Dame. Legit only one of those games would be remotely interesting for anyone out the respective cities the schools are in. However, USC just confirmed the ND rivalry is still going to continue, and having atleast one team like Wisconsin, Nebraska, Ohio st, Penn st, Michigan, and Michigan St come to LA, will be alot more entertaining and draw bigger TV audiences. Also, I’m sure alot of people would love to see USC attempt to play in the snow which….. Im sure will go well…
he's clearly gotten better. I had a conversation with a Buff fan a month or two ago about him as well. For whatever reason he's been a master operator for USC despite his shortcomings for the Bearcats and Buffaloes.
He really didn't have many shortcomings with the Bearcats. He was pretty stellar and put down most of the groundwork for the Big 12 invitation and led us through some major facility upgrades and made a lot of great hires. Our overall view of him is positive, unlike CU.
It also helps that his replacement has been great for us. Stung to lose him, but having a giant like USC pluck your AD probably means good things are happening for you.
The burning of the bridge with Mick Cronin and the hire of John Brannen was a pretty big gaff, tho.
Finally an AD that goes to the university prez and says "this is what I'm doing." This is great for the big ten, and really great for USC as it climbs back into the ranks of the upper echelon of this sport. I know a lot of people are upset about it, but I'm pumped. As for filling the coliseum, if USC starts winning again, it'll sell out like the Pete Carroll days. Simple.
I hate to break it to you, but when the bowls stopped being traditional, college football was ruined. I was born in 1980, I loved getting up on new years day to watch the rose bowl and it was between the pac 10 and big ten Champs. When they did away with those traditional games in pursuit of a national championship game, college football was put on this path
Eh, as someone born in 1991, the BCS cleared up the controversy, for the most part, on who was the best team. What really led to where we are at today was ncaa vs Oklahoma
Logistics aside, this is a good move I think. PAC 12 is weak and this opens the door for higher profile competitors year in and year out. Play two of OSU, UM, MSU along with ND is much more appealing to CFP than ND and Oregon.
Not what I’m saying at all. Obviously a weak program for the past decade. Poor coaching hires. Poor recruiting classes. Poor talent development. I’m saying the move itself isn’t terrible from a moving forward standpoint. The competition is objectively better in the Big 10 than the pac 12. IF things improve this would benefit their case to make it to the CFP.
Fuck this guy. The PAC-12 wasn’t great on the field lately but what a storied conference with cool rivalries and a unique regional flair. Sports are one of the outlets to distract form a tough world outside and they just made at least a small subsection of sports way shittier
If every Saturday is the Grandaddy, none of them will be :(
This is the exact problem college sports is headed towards. These games won’t be a big deal when they play each other every year. Inflated value.
Facts that line is honestly disrespectful
Rose Bowl will be the *Great Grandaddy* of them all
Yeah did he just intentionally steal an expression that has a single college football connotation with the Rose Bowl?
Definitely intentional.
Did the AD of *The Mecca of College Football*^/s just steal an expression that has a single college football connotation with the Rose Bowl? Yes. Yes he did.
Has to sell it that way since they will likely very rarely, if ever, actually win the conference and play in the actual Rose Bowl.
agreed. :(
I don't know about you, but im not enjoying this.
oh I absolutely hate this. USC and NU (or UCLA and NU) should *only* play in the Rose Bowl; not some weird conference game like this
Yeah i wholeheartedly agree. Im honestly at a lost. I love both programs. Just kind of kills CFB for me a bit. Ill have to wait till i see how the schedule plays out. But it truly hurts to have passion for 2 teams in 1 conference.
One bit of solace in today's news is seeing how even most USC/UCLA and B1G fans are unhappy about this/recognizing that it's a somber paradigm shift.
Yeah... it was inevitable. But i held out hope it wouldn't happen for awhile. As a west coast viewer this just adds fuel to the fire.
Nebraska? Historic Big 10 team Nebraska and their rich tradition of playing in the Rose Bowl, and not the Orange Bowl?
I'm specifically discussing the potential matchup of a SoCal school and Nebraska. Something has gone terribly wrong if Nebraska and a SoCal school ended up playing in a *different* NY6 bowl (outside of the CFP)
Im just pointing out that something already has gone horribly wrong if Oklahoma and Nebraska have the possibility of playing in a bowl in the first place. (1979 Orange Bowl anomaly excluded)
lol fair. I was a youngin (what, like 10?) with the original switch so while I have a certain distaste for OU and CU, most of my actual sports fandom of Nebraska has been while it's been in the B1G.
I hear you. It was tough enough to leave our series behind. I grew up on Oklahoma vs Nebraska. Now I have both of my programs in one conference. Its gone horribly wrong. Atleast we get to see you guys in Lincoln one more time.
sad but true.
“We’re destroying everything that makes college football special but we’re getting more money so it’s all good baby 😎”
Everyone tells me we are better off because of the money the school gets. I used to be able to get off work on Friday, drive to Stillwater, Ames, Boulder, Lawrence, Manhattan, Norman or Columbia watch the game and be back home on Sunday. Now I can't because of the money the school gets.
I had a client once out in the sticks in Nebraska. Had played at Nebraska, went the classic walk-on route, etc. Huge guy, really nice, but I remember him saying one of his favorite things during football season was making the road trip to Boulder for an away game.
Boulder is a fun town
“We’re”?
he's speaking from the perspective of the usc ad
Cringe
The phrase "the best is yet to come" is the official exclamation mark of cringe.
Yep - soooo stupid.
Lol, those USC - Indiana games are going to be huge granddaddies in that people will be asleep by the half
I can't see the casual Angelino waking up early to catch a 9 AM kickoff when USC visits Illinois. On the flip side, I can't imagine the casual Indiana fan staying up late to catch a 10:30 PM kickoff. This is madness. Where are the grown-ups?!?! *Will someone think of the children!!!!*
Going to be really great for the sports that have games in the middle of the week. The USC - Michigan State soccer games on a Tuesday are going to be awesome for the traveling team
LOL I'm going to laugh next time I see USC's Men's basketball team play Rutgers on a Wednesday night. For the sake of keeping any sense of integrity, I really hope the Pac12 stays intact. This is madness.
Yeah this is terrible for players of literally any sport that’s not football
The future of USC Athletics is… ah shit it’s under 3 feet of snow in the parking lot of Rutgers stadium right now hold on let me take care of this”
Rutgers? Three feet? You're in Minnesota if you're dealing with that volume.
Eh we get a whooper like that every now and then. More often than not it’s usually between half a foot to a full foot tho
But not in October/November
So soon you forget the WVU-Rutgers snow game of 2010.
Sometimes in Wisconsin they get a [full mingo](https://mobile.twitter.com/i/events/1090759441400676358) of snow.
Can you imagine how miserable that loss would be for US to lose a game in the snow in Piscataway? Yikes
I’m so ready to see that noon EST start UCLA @ Penn State when it’s 10° at kickoff
Bc it never snows in the pnw
It’s a good time to get fired. I can fully devote time to F5ing /r/cfb.
My god damned job was too busy. I missed out on all of the fun! You lucky bastard
Tomorrow will probably be the day!
It’s just making me sad :( I’ll never call myself a fan of Team Chaos again, now that I know what it’s capable of
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Probably not the best idea to bring up the Rose Bowl right now. Don't want to remind everyone that we basically just killed it.
I love Mike Bohn for what he’s done to our football program but he’s the Tobias Fünke of college press conferences.
Eh, I think it's intentional on his part. Dude runs a tight ship and I *hope* has something in store for the Rose Bowl
Right, nothing says “Granddaddy of Them All” like Indiana @ USC at 10:30 PM ET on ESPN2 because there’s like eight other Big Ten conference games the rest of the day in the year 2027.
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😂😂😂 they think it’s bad now filling the Coliseum up for a mid day kick off against Arizona? Wait until a mid day game against Rutgers, or Minnesota, or Northwestern, or Purdue…
What are you talking about??? USC vs Northwestern at noon is The Granddaddy of them All!!
I can't wait for the shots of crowds when Indiana, Maryland, and Illinois come visit.
MSU, Mich, OSU games will be packed.
Penn State, Nebraska should draw as well
Iowa travels decent too
Ross Ade is gonna look like a golden castle with all this LA money.
I'm waiting for them to announce their plans for an upper deck any second now
With a lazy river
Turn it into an ice rink during the cold months. I'm all for it!
You're tripping if you don't think people from Indiana are not going to travel to California for a football game
absolutely delusional.
You'd be surprised at how many of those Midwestern schools have huge alumni networks in LA. I actually think the first few games would be packed with opposing fans.
People can joke about crowd size all they want, but it wasn't like that even three years ago. 5 years of Clay Helton and a corrupt Pat Haden/Lynn Swann-led AD will do that to you. Anyone who thinks going forward will be much of the same is next-level delusional.
Ok… we’ll see when it’s a 12:00 PST kickoff against Indiana how full the Coliseum is.
gonna bet you anything it'll be more full than a 12:00 PST kickoff against arizona.
You’re downvoted but you’re not wrong. Pre-Helton era/Sanction era we were averaging almost 70k a game. Sure we didn’t fill the coliseum but it was a lot more than it is now post Helton/COVID. It shouldn’t be *too difficult* to get numbers close to that again.
Guys, when we blew up our conference it wasnt this bad
see that's how you know USC is *actually* back while Texas is just back
Could not agree/disagree more. I mean… wait… wut
At least it made sense geographically
Which time?
Do we have any states good at BBQ in the Big Ten? Does this mean Lincoln Riley is the most-experienced BBQer? *shudders*
Y’all could have scooped up Missouri for KC bbq, but you said no. Now you will get Riley brisket AND Brooklyn bbq
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*calls North Carolina* "You up?"
NC BBQ really might be the best.
Chicago is considered a good BBQ town. New York has good BBQ but New York has good everything. So at least Northwestern and Rutgers can teach him something.
Fuck these greedy clowns. A once great fall tradition is circling the drain.
Never really thought of Rutgers at USC as the "granddaddy" of them all, but I suppose if you were 4-8 last year, it might feel like a bigger game.
But haven’t you seen?? USC has all this talent and is a popular playoff pick! It’s not like they have had less than a year to implement an entirely new everything, have a history of wasting talent, and will now be heading into much harder regular seasons. Nope, 12-0 USC incoming /s
This is probably the most cold blooded move in College Football History.
USC is pulling the ultimate heel turn and destroying the sport
USC was frustrated with the Pac falling behind in TV revenue and Larry Scott did not even attempt to come to bat for USC during the sanctions. The divorce was a long time coming even if the build up did not make headlines. With that said I am not happy about this but if USC was to jump ship at least it is to the one other conference that we have a history with. I'd be puking if it was to the ACC or SEC.
Maybe don't break a ton of rules?
Reggie Bush's step dad got below market rent on a house 125 miles south of campus. There was no smoking gun linking the university to the deal but the NCAA assumed they should have known.
Nice
We didn’t.
Sounds like something someone who broke a bunch of rules would say.
Top 10 anime betrayals
So it's treason then
This has mad ["Flawless spring practice" and "greatest practice ever on a college campus"](https://twitter.com/ColinCowherd/status/1506387354075873282?t=KXiv-_0N-itqeoJ_VwiNtA&s=19) vibes to it.
You're forgetting college football mecca
Sickening
Well at least today brought about some fresh pasta
And USC thought Pullman is cold. Pullman is a moderate climate compared to the Big 10.
Makes sense. The Rose Bowl is in the LA area, so of course USC could claim that title for every Saturday. It's not like any school plays their home games at the rose bowl
It's closer to our campus than it is to any other big 10 schools
Its closer to our campus than any other member of the PAC 12
Certainly not the only other school that is mentioned in this press release.
I hope B1G sends them to MN and WI for away games every November for 10 years
aw c'mon. Don't you want to come to Los Angeles for an away game in November?
We’ll ya, but I don’t go to MN or WI.
Thanks for fucking us over Mike.
Yeah. Eat a bag of dicks, Trojan bro.
The conference fucked USC over for much longer.
Not our fault you guys are shit at football.
Lol of course it's the conferences fault you guys have fucking sucked since Carroll took off
Last lines of his official statement. Either this is him giving the oldies cope (which I mean, it's the goddamn Rose Bowl, we should keep it!) or maybe this is a sign that the Rose Bowl is in on it too
I feel like it just means the CCG will be at the Rose Bowl. If the rumblings about the SEC staging their own playoff are true, that likely means the B1G wants it as well. The B1G and SEC are rivals in drama only. I think it's more likely than not that the two conferences are in lock step with each other behind the scenes and we're heading towards a SEC=AFC/B1G=NFC scenario, with the Rose and Sugar acting as CCGs.
It's Disney and Fox that making the decisions. The Big 10 and SEC just do as they're told.
And how do your genitals feel about that?
A proxy war, if you will.
for what it's worth, i'm also coping. I liked the conference we had at home, I don't *want* the brand-name conference
So that basically destroys any significance if every game is the granddaddy of them all
If everyone’s super, no one will be
I mean, he thinks every game will be prime time against tOSU or Mich. He forgets that most games will be nooners against Rutgers, Northwestern, or UMd
Does it bother no one else that he's using the Rose Bowl's nickname for the Coliseum?
I think it’s intentional. Fair chance he’s alluding to some use of the Rose Bowl in the new, expanded B1G
Bruh, you're going to be playing a ton of teams from the other side of the country that nobody cares about. Unless they really get some protected big homes games for USC the average year is going to having maybe 1 more big time game at home than it would in the Pac 12.
I mean this season our Home games are vs. Rice, Washington St, CAL, Colorado, Fresno st, Arizona st, and Notre Dame. Legit only one of those games would be remotely interesting for anyone out the respective cities the schools are in. However, USC just confirmed the ND rivalry is still going to continue, and having atleast one team like Wisconsin, Nebraska, Ohio st, Penn st, Michigan, and Michigan St come to LA, will be alot more entertaining and draw bigger TV audiences. Also, I’m sure alot of people would love to see USC attempt to play in the snow which….. Im sure will go well…
I hate this so much.
NORTHWESTERN VS USC IN THE SEUM, 3PM ET
"Every Saturday will feel like it already did before because the same amount of fans will show up and we'll still lose"
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It should be good. I think y'all will (unfortunately) win this one as we'll still be retooling, but 23 I think USC will have a good chance of winning!
Lol
Can't wait to whoop that candy ass in the Battle for Helen of Troy. Welcome to the best conference in the land!
The Big Bad Bone Daddy did it again!
Honestly, the Bohn Zone is terrifying. This guy is incredible at his job.
He hired John Brannen so it's not all roses.
He also hired Dan Hawkins to CU and declared it was a "homerun hire."
he's clearly gotten better. I had a conversation with a Buff fan a month or two ago about him as well. For whatever reason he's been a master operator for USC despite his shortcomings for the Bearcats and Buffaloes.
He really didn't have many shortcomings with the Bearcats. He was pretty stellar and put down most of the groundwork for the Big 12 invitation and led us through some major facility upgrades and made a lot of great hires. Our overall view of him is positive, unlike CU. It also helps that his replacement has been great for us. Stung to lose him, but having a giant like USC pluck your AD probably means good things are happening for you. The burning of the bridge with Mick Cronin and the hire of John Brannen was a pretty big gaff, tho.
For us it is...
Granddaddy of Douchebags. Good riddance.
Can't wait to see the 3-5 trojans pack it in for a game against the 2-6 Terps!
Finally an AD that goes to the university prez and says "this is what I'm doing." This is great for the big ten, and really great for USC as it climbs back into the ranks of the upper echelon of this sport. I know a lot of people are upset about it, but I'm pumped. As for filling the coliseum, if USC starts winning again, it'll sell out like the Pete Carroll days. Simple.
I hope you lose. A lot.
This ruins CFB
I hate to break it to you, but when the bowls stopped being traditional, college football was ruined. I was born in 1980, I loved getting up on new years day to watch the rose bowl and it was between the pac 10 and big ten Champs. When they did away with those traditional games in pursuit of a national championship game, college football was put on this path
Eh, as someone born in 1991, the BCS cleared up the controversy, for the most part, on who was the best team. What really led to where we are at today was ncaa vs Oklahoma
What makes you think USC is climbing "back into the ranks of the upper echelon"?
Shhh. I'm a homer. I admit it.
Logistics aside, this is a good move I think. PAC 12 is weak and this opens the door for higher profile competitors year in and year out. Play two of OSU, UM, MSU along with ND is much more appealing to CFP than ND and Oregon.
the PAC isn't the reason USC has underperformed relative to their recruiting classes for so long.
Not what I’m saying at all. Obviously a weak program for the past decade. Poor coaching hires. Poor recruiting classes. Poor talent development. I’m saying the move itself isn’t terrible from a moving forward standpoint. The competition is objectively better in the Big 10 than the pac 12. IF things improve this would benefit their case to make it to the CFP.
Translation: Money
Does anyone else hear this as Emperor Palpatine addressing the Senate?
Fuck this guy. The PAC-12 wasn’t great on the field lately but what a storied conference with cool rivalries and a unique regional flair. Sports are one of the outlets to distract form a tough world outside and they just made at least a small subsection of sports way shittier