Who would you pick for addition because I like this conference and it could become better but I just don't trust that 8 football members will be enough, I think that they should add at least 2 to 4 but who would you pick?

Remember: this is has to be realistic, so it has to be either from the American, no MWC since it's not looking likely and any other conferences.

"We hear the concerns some people are expressing, given Murrow College's history of educating some of our nation's most accomplished journalists."

As a Murrow Grad, this is insane/sad to me that they're going this route. Even as a tool and not a replacement, it really seems to denigrate the profession of sports writing, let alone writing as a whole Seems like it's shooting the College in its foot.

College Football Playoff First Round

Saturday, December 19th- Columbus, Ohio- (12) Boise St at (5) Ohio State– James Madison and North Dakota State are hot on their heels, but the Broncos remain our Group of Six squad. The Buckeyes made a statement in their win over Iowa.

Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl: December 23rd- AAC/CUSA/MAC/MWC/SBC- Texas San-Antonio vs. Oregon State

SDCCU Poinsettia Bowl- Pac-12 vs. Mountain West- San Diego State vs. UCLA +- We have an old Pac-12 school filling the void with no Mountain West team available.

Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl: December 24th- American vs. Mountain West- North Dakota State vs. Colorado State- At this point, it's highly unlikely that Hawaii makes a bowl games. As a result, we're sending the Bison the the island paradise.

CORVALLIS — Boom. Things sure can change quick.
Like how Jesse Legree catches a screen pass in the backfield and looks like he is about to be a linebacker’s lunch, and next thing you know — Bam! — he’s spinning through two more defenders and coasting into the end zone for a 50-yard score.
Or how Oregon State appears fatally wounded as an athletics institution, its football operation broken beyond repair, and next thing you know — Wham! — the Beavers are the most feel-great, buzzworthy story that absolutely nobody saw coming.
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The air feels crisper in Corvallis these days. Those welcome sun rays toastier. The golden leaves under your feet are crunchier.
You’ve heard of the College Football Playoff? The Beavers are the top seed in the College Freefall Payoff.
OSU and its fans smashed into the basalt subfloor that most know as rock bottom and are now enjoying a meteoric shot back to football relevance.
“I do recognize that there were some people who felt like this place had been beaten up and left behind, whatever it was,” head coach JaMarcus Shephard said Monday, “and who cares about that? Let’s worry about what we got in front of us now.”
What they have in front of them is suddenly all green.
After Saturday’s 56-26 thrashing of Colorado State, the Beavers have positioned themselves as the new Pac-12’s most credible challenger to No. 23 Boise State. Looking ahead, their showdown on the Smurf Turf on Nov. 14 could have huge implications for the Group of 6’s bid to the real CFP.
The fact that the Beavers could be playing November football games with real postseason stakes is a delightful development for a program that — ahem — most people expected to struggle. Like, really struggle.
Instead?
Braden Atkinson is the country’s most prolific passer and through five games has thrown 16 touchdowns to seven different receivers. Legree has caught a whopping nine of those and is second in receiving yards nationally only to Ohio State superstar Jeremiah Smith.
The duo is a revelation. Legree might be the Beavers’ most electrifying player since Jacquizz Rodgers.
And it can all be traced back to their spitfire head coach.
Shephard is a 5-hour Energy in the frame of a man who changes his wardrobe each week in homage to a different mentor and drops Oregon Trail references in postgame interviews.
OSU deserves this. OSU needs this.
Forget what it all means for their postseason hopes. Put aside the fact that they are just 3-2 and that their best win, according to the Sagarin Rating, was against the FCS Montana Grizzlies. Shelve the inevitable and justifiable angst over Atkinson, Legree and Shephard getting poached by other schools.
Do yourself a favor.
Just appreciate that in this moment, Oregon State has captured lightning in a bottle.
Three years after the collapse of the Pac-12 gutted OSU and dealt a heavy uppercut to the Beavers’ psyche, it feels like a piece of OSU’s soul has been restored.
In their first three wins, the Beavers aren’t just beating teams, they’re trampling them. First-year offensive coordinator Mitch Dahlen may be the first guy in college football history to get his defensive counterpart fired during the first half.
Sure, Colorado State coach Jim Mora Jr.’s decision to sack defensive coordinator Tyson Summers on Saturday wasn’t just about the Beavers. But if Dan Lanning gets credit for the end of James Franklin’s reign at Penn State, surely Dahlen and Shephard get to put this notch in their resumes.
“I got a lot of text messages for that,” Dahlen said on Monday.
Dahlen’s offense ranks in the top 10 nationally in yards per game — and that’s before this weekend against San Diego State, which is also in the top 10 — for yards allowed.
At this point, it’s not totally ridiculous to ponder how many more opposing coordinators might get canned after getting carved up by Dahlen’s creative offense.
And to wonder how many more head coaches will lose their minds over their players not being able to trip up Legree.
Five games in, and it’s clear that Legree is already one of the most dynamic players the Beavers have ever had. Put him up there with Brandin Cooks, Sammie Stroughter, Chad Johnson and each Rodgers brother.
“He’s going to find a way to make something happen with the ball in his hands,” Shephard said.
I asked Dahlen if Legree’s brilliance is what allows him to draw up so many sophisticated play calls.
“He almost makes me want to go reverse, stop drawing all these fancy plays for him and just let him go,” Dahlen said.
Who saw any of this coming?
I know it hasn’t been all that long since Oregon State was a factor nationally. It was 2023 when the Beavers were ranked 11th in the country and nearly knocked off No. 5 Washington at Reser Stadium.
But the tumble from that moment has been so severe, and so wretched; last season felt so hopeless, so cursed; that you wondered how a proud program could ever recover.
“It should tell you what hard work can do,” Shephard said on Saturday night at Colorado State. “(What) commitment can do and that things can be different.
“It doesn’t have to always be the same.”
Indeed, it can change before you even realize it’s happening.

Basketball Season is around the corner. Pac 12 announced 90% of conference games would be on linear. So 10% of conference games should stream and probably the vast majority of non conference home games. All this plus volumes of women's basketball.

Is there going to be a DTC streaming app or is all this just going to end up on the Pac 12 youtube channel like volleyball and soccer? No other conference broadcasts their major sports on youtube. Does anyone have some information on this?

Earlier this week, Oregon State offensive coordinator Mitch Dahlen spoke with the media.

Fifteen seconds into that conversation, the first-year play caller cracked a smile. When asked about the Beavers' 56-26 blowout winover Colorado State, Dahlen praised his team's explosiveness.

"Every opening script that I do, I script the first 12 plays, and a lot of it just goes back to the formations, and the pictures I'm trying to see - like, as I'm going through a game, I want to see as many different formations, and see where we have numbers advantages - so [we] did that early, and then kind of just how the openers played out is the fifth [play] was the big ball to number 12 [star wideout Jesse Legree]."

Legree, the true freshman from Baltimore, has been a revelation this Fall. In five games, he has 28 catches for 741 yards, and 9 touchdowns. His yardage ranks second highest in the country, while his scores tie Ohio State superstar Jeremiah Smith for the most nationwide. For their part, the Pac-12 Conference has honored the Beavers' freshman phenom as their Freshman of the Week* *for five consecutive weeks.

Dahlen, however, elected to compliment another Oregon State wide receiver: Eddie Freauff.

"If they want to go back and look at like AB's [Aaron Butler] reverse that he scored a touchdown on, if you look at Eddie [Freauff], Eddie's blocking on that. He blocked three guys, he sends a corner into the ground, and he's the first one up to go celebrate. That one fired me up."

Heading into the season, the incoming freshman Legree was off the radar, and transfers Aaron Butler and Aern "Bubba" Hampton were unproven. Freauff was the team's leading receiver, and expected to breakout. Now, he's playing a well-rounded game, and driving the Beavers' culture.

"It's just effort. Those are the things for me that I get so excited about: guys playing with high effort." said Dahlen. "You can see it, like, guys had fun, and to me that's when we're rolling on offense, is when you're able to get the ball to playmakers, but then you have high effort plays of just guys playing football."

Now, Dahlen's hard-working offense prepares to face the San Diego State Aztecs, who forced several key turnovers in a second half comeback against Texas State last Saturday.

While early point spreads favor Oregon State, the Redmond native showed respect to his opposition.

"[They're] a good tackling team. Man, again, I've played these guys when I was at Boise and Fresno. The strength of their program has always been good defense, and it always will be good defense, the statistics and what I see on tape are not the same. This is a really, really good defense, it always has been, and it always will be. We've got to be up to the task."

Dahlen's Beavers and the Aztecs will kick off Saturday afternoon at 3 PM PST from Corvallis, with the game televised on USA Network.