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    '26 PSU BOT Alumni-Elected Trustee Ballots

    https://www.psu.edu/news/administration/story/penn-state-board-trustees-election-results-announced-1
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    Homecoming game - Wisconsin

    Update: the game time is not set. Apparently, the site was just using the 3:30 PM time for last year's homecoming game and did not update it. So kickoff time still TBD. Wisconsin game is indeed Homecoming though...
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    Homecoming game - Wisconsin

    I will say I'm a little surprised as I thought the Purdue game on October 31 was the shoo in for Homecoming, but perhaps they didn't want to conflict with Halloween. Wisconsin is arguably the second best game on the home schedule so I thought they'd use Homecoming to drum up interest for one of...
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    Homecoming game - Wisconsin

    According to the official PSU Homecoming website, the homecoming game will be played September 26 vs Wisconsin. Furthermore, if you look calender of events for the weekend, it has the game time listed as 3:30 PM. Not sure if that time is "official" or just a placeholder - I have not seen any...
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    PSU/Northwestern 8 PM on FOX

    Previously announced to be a Friday night game, the PSU at Northwestern game will kickoff at 8:00 PM ET and be carried by FOX https://www.foxsports.com/stories/presspass/fox-college-football-friday-returns-primetime-biggest-season-yet
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    “Sources: NCAA basketball tournaments set to move to 76 teams”

    Honestly, a single elimination tournament that includes every team actually seems like a far better idea that this monstrosity. It would be like cup competitions in soccer (stuff like the FA Cup in England or US Open Cup here in the USA)
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    FC/OT: Oregon struggling with enrollment?

    I actually think Villanova is a perfect example of this. Wonderful school but their rankings/reputation seem to significantly outweigh what they should be based on their fundamentals - it's hard not to assume that their basketball powess hasn't make them far more competative and interesting to...
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    FC/OT: Oregon struggling with enrollment?

    I’m on a lot of (national) college application sites as I have high school students. Outside of perhaps Ivies, who have a whole different set of discussions, Penn State is probably the most talked about school I see. It remains incredibly popular for people to apply to and attend. Granted a lot...
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    2025 PSU WVB Thread

    Is there a specific reason for 17 conference games (other than the obvious playing each team once)? Seems like 18 games would make more sense and it’s not a big deal to have there be one team you play home and away in a season (ie wouldn’t make the schedule unbalanced much). I feel like the...
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    FC/OT: Oregon struggling with enrollment?

    Ultimately a lot of problems with college - and with our society at large - stem from the fact that a high school diploma is meaningless in America today. It used to reflect a certain level of knowledge and skill but has been watered down so much that many “graduates” can barely read at all or...
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    FC/OT: Oregon struggling with enrollment?

    incidental to this thread, but I was looking at a list of AAU schools (of which Oregon is one) and was surprised to see that they don’t even offer Engineering. At all. I knew that Oregon State was better known for engineering but it shocks me that a school of this size doesn’t at least have a...
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    FC/OT: Oregon struggling with enrollment?

    Last year’s high school graduating class was the largest in US history and the number of HS graduates will be decreasing significantly in upcoming years (a college “enrollment cliff”) which, coupled with a trend of more students opting not to go to college, is going to lead to more colleges...
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    Growing momentum for the 24-team playoff

    To be honest, a straight single elimination tournament like that would actually be a decent idea. Better than the monstrosities being suggested. You could have a 5-6 game "season" that is used just to set up seeding. This would enable teams to play local opponents/rivals or whatever they want...
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    Growing momentum for the 24-team playoff

    Exactly. Far too many teams in the basketball tournament too. But that ship sailed a long time ago. College football can still be saved from becoming so much worse, though the decline seems inevitable.
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    Growing momentum for the 24-team playoff

    No, it's makes the regular season far more boring. The more teams that have a chance means that losing a few games is ultimately meaningless. It's makes each game far less important because the downside to losing is so much less impactful. Ask youself how many people pay attention to the...
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