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BIG media days begin on Tuesday , 7/22 thru Thursday 7/24 in Vegas .
Media has to love the venue....not sure if KF is a Vegas guy.
Iowa is featured with kf and players on stage on Thursday.
6 teams each day.
BIG commish petiti holds court on Tuesday to kick it off with his annual state of the BIG presser. Should be interesting to float the BIG concepts on playoff and NIL Clearinghouse ect.

Ready or not: here comes football!
 
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Big Ten's Petitti: No support for SEC's at-large bid preference for College Football Playoff​

By EDDIE PELLS,AP National WriterJuly 22, 2025

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Big Ten commissioner doubled down on the league's preference for multiple automatic qualifiers in the next version of the College Football Playoff on Tuesday, increasing the likelihood of a showdown with the Southeastern Conference when the format for 2026 is decided.

At the league's football media days, Tony Petitti said any change that adds at-large bids and increases the discretion and role of a selection committee — a format the SEC and others have shown a preference for — “will have a difficult time getting support of the Big Ten.”
Petitti also bolstered the idea of a weekend's worth of play-in games for what — under one of the best-known proposals — would be four automatic bids for the Big Ten and SEC in a 16-team playoff, even though the games could put the Big Ten's top-seeded teams in jeopardy of being shut out of the CFP. The playoff expanded to 12 teams last season.

“There are 18 members in the Big Ten, you have 17 possible opponents and you play nine,” Petitti said. “There's a lot of discrepancy. Let alone making comparisons across leagues, there's a lot of issues about how you compare teams inside the Big Ten. ... Where we came down is we were willing to take that risk.”

Though there is a Dec. 1 deadline for expanding the playoff for 2026, Petitti said he wouldn't put any deadline on it, echoing a sentiment SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey voiced earlier this month when he said the 12-team format could stay in place until the two leagues agree on something new.

Petitti said recent meetings between Big Ten and SEC athletic directors have produced good results and he expects another such summit would do the same.

“The goal would be to bring people back together, have a conversation about what we think works, then kind of go from there,” he said.

The Big Ten and SEC will ultimately decide the new format, with input from the Atlantic Coast and Big 12 conferences, along with Notre Dame and the six smaller conferences who are part of the system.

Also on Tuesday, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips said his preference was one with five automatic bids and the rest at-large.

“Fairness and access should also be part of the equation,” Phillips said, while backing the work of the selection committee that would have a bigger role with 11 at-large selections to sort through.
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AP Sports Writer Aaron Beard contributed.

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July 22, 2025
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LAS VEGAS - The Big Ten Conference announced its 2025 football preseason honors on Tuesday ahead of the start of Big Ten Football Media Days presented by Discover® in Las Vegas. A media panel selected the 16-member preseason list.

Seven different schools placed students on this year’s preseason honors list, led by three honorees from Ohio State and Penn State.

Eight of this year’s Big Ten preseason honorees — Illinois’ Luke Altmyer, Iowa’s Logan Jones, Minnesota’s Koi Perich, Oregon’s Matayo Uiagalelei, Ohio State’s Caleb Downs, Jeremiah Smith and Sonny Styles, Penn State’s Drew Allar — are scheduled to attend Big Ten Media Days this week.

The full list of Big Ten football preseason honorees is as follows:



2025 Big Ten Preseason Honors*

QB Luke Altmyer, ILL

OLB Gabe Jacas, ILL

DL Mikail Kamara, IND

DB D’Angelo Ponds, IND

OT Gennings Dunker, IOWA

C Logan Jones, IOWA

DB Koi Perich, MINN

OLB Matayo Uiagalelei, ORE

DB Dillon Thieneman, ORE

SAF Caleb Downs, OSU

WR JEREMIAH SMITH, OSU

LB Sonny Styles, OSU

QB Drew Allar, PSU

DE Dani Dennis-Sutton, PSU

RB Nicholas Singleton, PSU

Unanimous selections in ALL CAPS

*Additional honorees due to ties


Where are all the Huskers ???????????????????????????????????????????????????? No Faux Mahomes?
 
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WeBeHerkin said:

Big Ten's Petitti: No support for SEC's at-large bid preference for College Football Playoff​

By EDDIE PELLS,AP National WriterJuly 22, 2025

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Big Ten commissioner doubled down on the league's preference for multiple automatic qualifiers in the next version of the College Football Playoff on Tuesday, increasing the likelihood of a showdown with the Southeastern Conference when the format for 2026 is decided.

At the league's football media days, Tony Petitti said any change that adds at-large bids and increases the discretion and role of a selection committee — a format the SEC and others have shown a preference for — “will have a difficult time getting support of the Big Ten.”
Petitti also bolstered the idea of a weekend's worth of play-in games for what — under one of the best-known proposals — would be four automatic bids for the Big Ten and SEC in a 16-team playoff, even though the games could put the Big Ten's top-seeded teams in jeopardy of being shut out of the CFP. The playoff expanded to 12 teams last season.

“There are 18 members in the Big Ten, you have 17 possible opponents and you play nine,” Petitti said. “There's a lot of discrepancy. Let alone making comparisons across leagues, there's a lot of issues about how you compare teams inside the Big Ten. ... Where we came down is we were willing to take that risk.”

Though there is a Dec. 1 deadline for expanding the playoff for 2026, Petitti said he wouldn't put any deadline on it, echoing a sentiment SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey voiced earlier this month when he said the 12-team format could stay in place until the two leagues agree on something new.

Petitti said recent meetings between Big Ten and SEC athletic directors have produced good results and he expects another such summit would do the same.

“The goal would be to bring people back together, have a conversation about what we think works, then kind of go from there,” he said.

The Big Ten and SEC will ultimately decide the new format, with input from the Atlantic Coast and Big 12 conferences, along with Notre Dame and the six smaller conferences who are part of the system.

Also on Tuesday, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips said his preference was one with five automatic bids and the rest at-large.

“Fairness and access should also be part of the equation,” Phillips said, while backing the work of the selection committee that would have a bigger role with 11 at-large selections to sort through.
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AP Sports Writer Aaron Beard contributed.

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July 22, 2025
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The Big Ten is on the right track. The more you can limit the role of a biased comittee, the better off the sport is. Look at the history of committees choosing teams for the football and basketball playoffs. It ain't pretty. Take as much as possible out of any committee's hands. And if the SEC doesn't like it, you know it must be a good idea.
 
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WeBeHerkin said:
LAS VEGAS - The Big Ten Conference announced its 2025 football preseason honors on Tuesday ahead of the start of Big Ten Football Media Days presented by Discover® in Las Vegas. A media panel selected the 16-member preseason list.

Seven different schools placed students on this year’s preseason honors list, led by three honorees from Ohio State and Penn State.

Eight of this year’s Big Ten preseason honorees — Illinois’ Luke Altmyer, Iowa’s Logan Jones, Minnesota’s Koi Perich, Oregon’s Matayo Uiagalelei, Ohio State’s Caleb Downs, Jeremiah Smith and Sonny Styles, Penn State’s Drew Allar — are scheduled to attend Big Ten Media Days this week.

The full list of Big Ten football preseason honorees is as follows:



2025 Big Ten Preseason Honors*

QB Luke Altmyer, ILL

OLB Gabe Jacas, ILL

DL Mikail Kamara, IND

DB D’Angelo Ponds, IND

OT Gennings Dunker, IOWA

C Logan Jones, IOWA

DB Koi Perich, MINN

OLB Matayo Uiagalelei, ORE

DB Dillon Thieneman, ORE

SAF Caleb Downs, OSU

WR JEREMIAH SMITH, OSU

LB Sonny Styles, OSU

QB Drew Allar, PSU

DE Dani Dennis-Sutton, PSU

RB Nicholas Singleton, PSU

Unanimous selections in ALL CAPS

*Additional honorees due to ties


Where are all the Huskers ???????????????????????????????????????????????????? No Faux Mahomes?
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"Seven different schools
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LAS VEGAS - The Big Ten Conference announced its 2025 football preseason honors on Tuesday ahead of the start of Big Ten Football Media Days presented by Discover® in Las Vegas. A media panel selected the 16-member preseason list.

Seven different schools placed students on this year’s preseason honors list, led by three honorees from Ohio State and Penn State.

Eight of this year’s Big Ten preseason honorees — Illinois’ Luke Altmyer, Iowa’s Logan Jones, Minnesota’s Koi Perich, Oregon’s Matayo Uiagalelei, Ohio State’s Caleb Downs, Jeremiah Smith and Sonny Styles, Penn State’s Drew Allar — are scheduled to attend Big Ten Media Days this week.

The full list of Big Ten football preseason honorees is as follows:



2025 Big Ten Preseason Honors*

QB Luke Altmyer, ILL

OLB Gabe Jacas, ILL

DL Mikail Kamara, IND

DB D’Angelo Ponds, IND

OT Gennings Dunker, IOWA

C Logan Jones, IOWA

DB Koi Perich, MINN

OLB Matayo Uiagalelei, ORE

DB Dillon Thieneman, ORE

SAF Caleb Downs, OSU

WR JEREMIAH SMITH, OSU

LB Sonny Styles, OSU

QB Drew Allar, PSU

DE Dani Dennis-Sutton, PSU

RB Nicholas Singleton, PSU

Unanimous selections in ALL CAPS

*Additional honorees due to ties


Where are all the Huskers ???????????????????????????????????????????????????? No Faux Mahomes?
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"Seven different schools placed students on this year’s preseason honors list . . . " A couple of things: (1) Seven different schools? How different are they? Maybe just "Seven schools." And (2) "Students?" Why not "athletes" or, at least, "student-athletes"? Referring to award-winng football players as "students" seems a tad odd. After all, they weren't named Phi Beta Kappa or even scholastic all Big Ten.
 
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Comments that caught my ear:

Mike locksey, MD coach openly admitting he lost his locker room last season resulting in a disappointing 4 win season. He added that he made a mistake paying a frosh more than some deserving vets. Said he is parking his desk in the locker room this year.

I predict they struggle again and despite his solid recruiting, he will be fired

Matt Rhule, Nebraska coach was asked about close losses he tossed out the only school he mentioned in his podium time.
" No doubt the Iowa loss was very painful but that motivated us thru out the off-season"

Not saying hawks are living rent-free in his head but I think he does consider it a true rivalry now
 
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Anon1751543574 said:
Comments that caught my ear:

Mike locksey, MD coach openly admitting he lost his locker room last season resulting in a disappointing 4 win season. He added that he made a mistake paying a frosh more than some deserving vets. Said he is parking his desk in the locker room this year.

I predict they struggle again and despite his solid recruiting, he will be fired

Matt Rhule, Nebraska coach was asked about close losses he tossed out the only school he mentioned in his podium time.
" No doubt the Iowa loss was very painful but that motivated us thru out the off-season"

Not saying hawks are living rent-free in his head but I think he does consider it a true rivalry now
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LOLZ. Look at the game stats. A walk on QB who did nothing but the one short throw to KJ who blasted the distance for a TD, otherwise nothing and they got beat.
 
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Never got the whole thing with Loxley. He's always been a below average coach who was supposedly a pretty shady recruiter as an assistant. I guess M must have thought his "culture" would help them land a lot of that DMV talent. He's done pretty well recruiting, but as a HC hes' not up to the level of most of his peers in the B1G. I hope they do keep him though, because like Illinois, Maryland is a school that could make some noise if they ever hire THAT guy.
 
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“There are 18 members in the Big Ten, you have 17 possible opponents and you play nine,” Petitti said. “There's a lot of discrepancy. Let alone making comparisons across leagues, there's a lot of issues about how you compare teams inside the Big Ten."

Exactly. That's why I cringe at the very notion of dropping back to eight conference games. You miss too many Big Ten opponents as it is.
 
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rchawk said:
“There are 18 members in the Big Ten, you have 17 possible opponents and you play nine,” Petitti said. “There's a lot of discrepancy. Let alone making comparisons across leagues, there's a lot of issues about how you compare teams inside the Big Ten."

Exactly. That's why I cringe at the very notion of dropping back to eight conference games. You miss too many Big Ten opponents as it is.
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I also hope we rarely see re-matches in the B1G Championship game. Last season, luckily, Penn State & Oregon had not played in the regular season (Oregon would then beat PSU in Indy, 45-37)
 
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Anon1751543574 said:
Comments that caught my ear:

Mike locksey, MD coach openly admitting he lost his locker room last season resulting in a disappointing 4 win season. He added that he made a mistake paying a frosh more than some deserving vets. Said he is parking his desk in the locker room this year.

I predict they struggle again and despite his solid recruiting, he will be fired

Matt Rhule, Nebraska coach was asked about close losses he tossed out the only school he mentioned in his podium time.
" No doubt the Iowa loss was very painful but that motivated us thru out the off-season"

Not saying hawks are living rent-free in his head but I think he does consider it a true rivalry now
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Probably the fact they lost the game while holding Iowa to 5 total 1st downs. That pain would last a long time.
 
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HawkeyeFansGoFullTard said:
As iowa fans know well or at least they claim to know well, sometimes, as in the case in 2024 between nebraska and iowa, the better team does not always win.
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Welp, I would say Iowa had the advantage in Defense, Special Teams and Coaching. Nebraska advantage on offense but didn't do spectacular there and Iowa's was doggie doo offense.
 
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Welp, I would say Iowa had the advantage in Defense, Special Teams and Coaching. Nebraska advantage on offense but didn't do spectacular there and Iowa's was doggie doo offense.
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Defense slight edge iowa
Offense edge Nebraska
ST push
Coaching push
In 2024 Nebraska vs iowa, the better team lost.

Did the better team lose in the 2024 ISU vs iowa game???
 
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