McCall

Texas and Alabama won their championships in stronger conferences. Alabama went undefeated in conference play, their only loss coming to non-conference Texas. Florida State beat LSU at the beginning of the season. But since then has played a weaker schedule and have a back-up or 3rd string QB. Barely beat Louisville and looked bad doing it. Same thing against Florida.

Really, can you argue that FSU going undefeated in a weaker conference is better than Texas and/or Alabama winning their championships in their stronger conferences with only 1 loss? We're not talking an undefeated vs a 2-loss. It's only 1. And that's small enough to weigh the strength of the overall and individual opponents. The Power 5 Champions: ACC: Florida State 13-0 Big 10: Michigan 13-0 Big 12: Texas 12-1 PAC-12: Washington 13-0 SEC: Alabama 12-1 I don't think a one game discrepancy is enough to overrule quality of the teams and their schedules.

I was on board with "If FSU wins out, they should be in"... But that game last night was just boring as hell. I can't, myself, see them deserve to get in. And it's the ACC, the weakest of the Power 5. My personal belief would be: 1. Michigan 2. Washington 3. Texas 4. Alabama But it'll probably be: 1. Michigan 2. Washington 3. Texas 4. Florida State (Don't care if they're undefeated, the other teams are clearly better.)

Yankees, Mets, Tigers, Blue Jays, A's (probably on hold now), Guardians and Rays all have yet to unveil City Connect uniforms as well.

I actually prefer UFL. I've come to the belief that a 3-letter initialism ending with FL sounds the most legitimate, and since AFL wouldn't be available, unless they came up with something else for A to stand for, this is the next best option, IMO. I did like how the X in XFL didn't stand for anything and met the previously stated criteria, but as mentioned, if it's a merged league, one name over the other my not feel even. SFL (Spring Football League) wouldn't be a bad option, but not sure who, if anybody, still owns that one, but I like that UFL doesn't restrict it to a particular time of year, even if they stay there.

I feel the city's history of success in spring football merits more than one season to be judged on. You can just go back to 2019 and see the Apollos were #2 in the AAF in attendance at just over 19.5k per game. Now they played at UCF, which is a newer stadium. But I think it can still work. Hopefully if/when they come back, they can go back to UCF or even Exploria Stadium.

I really think they need a team in Orlando. One of the strongest spring football markets with 3 stadium options (including one they were already using). Ideally, I think a start with 10 (the current 8 plus Orlando and Canton since they already have stadium deals) would be a better start. I personally don't mind the 8, just would've preferred 10. Speaking of Canton, I'm not an Ohioan(?), but what is the better Ohio market for spring football; Canton or Columbus? I feel like while Canton has the HOF and probably a better stadium, Columbus is the bigger market with 2 soccer stadium options that could be used, availability notwithstanding. Maybe someone with more insight could enlighten me on the matter.

Why not League of AMERICAN Football?

They don't have a stadium deal. All the teams without their own stadium are not included/"paused" (plus Seattle, Orlando and technically Canton). Houston's iffy at the moment because the Roughnecks had one at TDECU, but it's being renovated, so there seemed to be a deal with Rice Stadium that either Houston team could play at. But, yeah. The Breakers have no stadium at this time.

Every team that's reportedly staying has a stadium deal except Houston because TDECU Stadium is going to be undergoing renovations. But it was also said back before the merger talk that the XFL had an agreement for the Roughnecks to play at Rice Stadium, so either Houston team that stayed would play there. Of all the reports today, there was absolutely no mention of hub cities for games. Not sure about the continuation of the practice hub from the XFL.

Doesn't appear they're using hub cities.

I always figured Seattle wouldn't make it due to geography. But they supposedly have a stadium deal with Canton, so I don't know what's going on there. I think most figured the Maulers would just become "Canton". I'm not big on them dropping Orlando. They have a great history of spring football. One season shouldn't be enough reason to cut them. If New Jersey could get into Red Bull Arena, that would be great. And there's been that speculation about New Orleans playing at The Shrine. (or Yulman).

This IS just reported at this point and not confirmed, so who knows.

Trayce Thompson (MLB) is the brother of Klay Thompson (NBA). It's not super common, but not unheard of.

It's been a busy day on TwiX. I'm a little perplexed if the reports of only an 8-team league are true. Unless it's only for 2024 and others returning in 2025. I prefer a start date immediately following the Super Bowl, at least until the league can really establish itself, but I guess March 30th is better than mid-April.

Danke!

If they don't recreate this at his introductory press conference, then they've already failed.

It's Independent League ball. They need something interesting to draw in an audience. I'm sure they can live with your disapproval.

Oregon's only real hope is that they beat Washington and then Alabama, Texas and Florida State all lose. If they lose to Washington again, then I'd say they'd have the best chance to become the first 2-loss team to make it, but the odds are still stacked against them as a 1-loss Ohio State is probably considered more appealing. Plus so much else would have to happen for that to even come into play.

Never heard of Purina?

I'm new to MLS, but St. Louis had like a 2-&-a-half week break between their final two regular season games. Then you have these breaks in the playoffs. Is there any rhyme or reason to this scheduling? Why not just be consistent with each weekend (& occasional Wednesday). MLS Cup would've happened by now.

Technically, Los Angeles. Rams returned in 2016 with the Chargers arriving in 2017.

That's impossible because Oregon is gonna be in the Big Ten and need to put all of their focus on those schools. (/sarcasm.)

WTF are you talking about? Are you seriously that insecure or just so full of yourself that you can't handle anyone bringing up a counterpoint to your opinion? Teams play non-conference games. Washington-Wazzu are in the EXACT same situation as Oregon-Oregon State and yet they ARE continuing their game, so it's nowhere near out of the realm of possibility that they could continue as well, at least until the schools involved say otherwise. If you were the college football expert you seem to believe you are, you would get that and wouldn't make some smug, nonsensical comment that has nothing to do with the topic at hand, because you would have something of value and relevance to say. You have just lost any credibility you may have had because you have set yourself up as someone you is incapable of having a rational conversation that involves differing opinions than yours.

But my point was Washington and Washington State ARE continuing to play, so there's no guarantee, until they announce for certain, that Oregon and Oregon State won't continue to play. At this point, at least. And playing other Big 10 teams would have no effect on Oregon playing Oregon State. They'll still play non-conference games, so if both are interested in continuing the series, they can do so. Just like Washington and Washington State.