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Daly Dose 01-04-23 Our New Year’s resolutions for sports

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This week on the Daly Dose, we are wishing everyone a very Happy New Year 2023!

We saw a horrible tragedy in the NFL, and are wishing the best to all involved.

The College Football Playoff games were the best in history and the College Football Championship game is now set! Will the TCU Horned Frogs pull off the upset? Or can the Georgia Bulldogs win back to back titles?

Then we hand out some New Year’s resolutions for every team in the NFL, a few teams in the NBA, and even some resolutions to improve Major League Baseball and the sport of soccer!

Finally, we have noticed some disturbing behavior among sports fans these days, so we are counting down the Top 5 New Year’s resolutions for sports fans in 2023! 

Daly Dose 12-07-22 The CFB Playoff and CFB bowl games are set!

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This week on the Daly Dose, after a wild weekend, the CFB Playoff is set. We take a look at how we ended up with these final four teams, and we discuss the massive coming changes to the college football postseason!

The University of Colorado pulled off a HUGE surprise by actually landing Deion Sanders to be their new head football coach! However, we do voice a few concerns that we have about this move. 

It was a weird week in the NFL, and Team USA was knocked out of the World Cup!

Then, we preview the best College Football bowl games of the year, and let you know which games to be sure to tune in to watch.

Finally with another year of controversy surrounding the College Football Playoff selection process, we count down the Top 5 least deserving teams that made the CFB Playoff! 

Daly Dose YouTube 11-02-22 Our college football midseason report

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This week on the Daly Dose YouTube video, the college football regular season is now halfway complete, and we sit down with longtime friend of the show Big Robb to discuss what we have learned so far and what we can expect going forward!

Who have been the biggest surprises and disappointments so far? Who are the top contenders for the Heisman trophy?

We preview some of the biggest games that are still on the schedule, make our picks for the conference title games and give you our predictions for the College Football Playoff!

The Pac 12 continues to struggle at the Alamo Bowl

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By Jimmie Searfoss

It was another Alamo (Bowl) to forget for the Pac-12 as their representative Oregon Ducks took a hard loss from the Oklahoma Sooners Wednesday night 32-47. While the Ducks did manage to muster up 32 points, the score does not accurately reflect the game. Oklahoma moved the ball seemingly at will against the Ducks. The Sooners racked up over 300 yards on the ground, while averaging nine yards per pass. With the loss, the Pac 12 is now 0-2 for the 2021-2022 bowl game season. They share the spot for worst win percentage this year with the SEC, who is also winless.

The Valero Alamo Bowl has been a harsh reality check for the Pac-12 for the last 12 years. In 2010, the Big 12 and the Pac 12 signed a contract guaranteeing the participation of the best available teams in each conference based on ranking. Historically these games have not gone in the Pac 12’s favor. Their record since 2010 is 3-9.

The trip to the Alamodome has not always been a death sentence for the Pac 12. For the first half of the 2010’s it was a relatively competitive bowl filled with high scoring affairs. In 2011 Heisman Winner Robert Griffin III led his Baylor Bears over the Washington Huskies 67-56 in a game that broke the record for the highest scoring game in NCAA bowl history. This was followed three years later with another high scoring game that saw 14 ranked UCLA hold off 11 ranked Kansas State for a 40-35 win for the Pac-12. In fact, from 2010-2014, the Pac 12 held a record of 2-3.

Then 2015 happened.

The Pac 12’s worst loss took place in 2015. Oregon, ranked 15 at the time, took on TCU, ranked 11. The game was one for the record books as TCU, who was down 31-0 at half, tied the NCAA record for largest comeback ever in a bowl game to win in triple overtime 47-41. It was a devastating loss for Oregon, and began a three-year losing streak for the Pac-12.

The loss was followed in 2016 with a 30-point beatdown by number 12 ranked Oklahoma State on number 10 ranked Colorado. Colorado is the highest ranked Pac 12 team to compete in the Valero Alamo Bowl since the College Football Playoff era began. They would again make the trip to San Antonio in 2020, only to have a similar outcome as they suffered a loss to Texas 55-23.

The Valero Alamo Bowl is proof to what everyone already knows, Pac 12 football simply cannot compete with other conferences. The conference has only two premier teams in the last 12 years, USC and Oregon. USC has never played in the bowl, and Oregon is responsible for two of the conference’s three wins. The only other team to win was Washington State who held on for a victory in 2018 against Iowa State. 

The rankings going into the games make the situation worse. The Pac 12 has been the higher ranked team in seven of the twelve games since the beginning of the contract. Their record is a mere 2-5 in those games.

With Oregon’s loss Wednesday night, who in the Pac 12 can compete with anyone in the Big 12? The Ducks were the most qualified team the conference had to beat Oklahoma, the Big 12’s third best team, and they were handled soundly. The only other team the Pac 12 has to offer to a team of that caliber is Utah, who lost to SDSU and BYU. Utah will be tested in the Rose Bowl against No. 6 Ohio State, a team Oregon beat earlier in the year.

On top of everything else, the Valero Alamo Bowl is nearly always a home game for the Big 12. Ten of the twelve games have featured a Texas or Oklahoma school. The closest Pac 12 school to San Antonio is Arizona, which is a short 12-hour drive. 

The Valero Alamo Bowl is a game where the Pac 12 is set up to fail from the very start, it only makes sense they extend their relationship to it until 2025. It is a move only the Pac 12 would make.

Davy Crockett once said, “You may all go to hell, I’ll go to Texas.” 

In the case of the Pac-12, hell might not be such a bad option.

The 2017 Daly Dose College Football Preview: The Big 12

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The Big 12 is in a bit of a funk. They aren’t pulling the recruits that they are used to getting. They have only made it to the College Football Playoff one single time, when Oklahoma got blown out 37-17 in 2015. Many accuse the conference of being out of date, and not appealing to the younger generation, but we aren’t buying it. Then again, their most esteemed coach is sporting a mullet. So, we could be mistaken.

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1. Oklahoma Sooners

Predicted finish: 11-1

Bob Stoops might be gone, but the expectations for the Sooners remain the same. QB Baker Mayfield should contend for the Heisman with this high- powered offense. OU should roll to their third straight Big 12 championship, and then this group will get blown out in a playoff game. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

2. Oklahoma State Cowboys

Predicted finish: 9-3

The Cowboys could boast the nation’s best offense behind QB Mason Rudolph. The offensive line that used to be a weakness has grown into a The problem is that the defense will once again be very ugly. Not unlike a certain someone’s hair.

3. Kansas State

Predicted finish: 8-4

The Wildcats were playing very good football coming down the stretch in 2016, and they are hoping it will continue in 2017. Is there a chance that K-State could sneak up on everyone, and actually win the Big 12? Well, it hasn’t ever happened before, but who are we to crush their dreams?

4. Texas Longhorns

Predicted finish: 8-4

The Longhorns will face a challenging schedule that will see them play Kansas State, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State in consecutive weeks. New head coach Tom Herman inherits a talented group that outgoing coach Charlie Strong said should win 10 games in 2017. Oh sure, now he says that.

5. TCU Horned Frogs

Predicted finish: 7-5

The Horned Frogs could be a surprise in the conference, if they could get some decent play from senior QB Kenny Hill. Or if the defense could step up, and get some stops….okay, who are we kidding? I just wanted to see if I could say something about a Big 12 defense without laughing. I couldn’t.

6. West Virginia Mountaineers

Predicted finish: 7-5

The Mountaineers have a chance to surprise this year, because they are possibly the only team in the entire conference that actually plays anything resembling defense. Last year, they allowed just 24 points per game. So it is almost like defense. Like Dana Holgorsen almost has hair on top of his head.

7. Baylor Bears

Predicted finish: 6-6

Baylor hired former Temple coach Matt Rhule, who has no ties to Art Briles, or Baylor, or even Texas. Rhule and his staff were given mops, and lysol, and hazmat suits upon arrival in Waco, “Get that mess all cleaned up, Matt, and let’s never bring it up again.”

8. Texas Tech Red Raiders

Predicted finish: 4-8

Head coach Kliff Kingsbury is entering his 5th season in Lubbock, and his tenure has been a mixed bag. The Red Raiders have posted some amazing passing numbers, but inconsistencies in the running game, and poor defenses have been the cause of a below .500 record. Kingsbury’s job could be on the line this season, and considering the holes on this roster, he may want to update that resume very soon.

9. Iowa State Cyclones

Predicted finish: 4-8

The Cyclones went 3-9 last season, and that included a home loss to FCS school Northern Iowa. The good news is that this team should be able to get four or five wins. The bad news is that those pesky Northern Iowa Panthers are on the schedule again.

10. Kansas Jayhawks

Predicted finish: 1-11

Head coach David Beaty has actually done a pretty amazing job assembling some semblance of talent in Lawrence. You might not be able to tell, because he has gone 2-22 in his two seasons there. There is some actual progress here, and this year when the Jayhawks win three games, it will all come to fruition.

Did you miss the Daly Dose Big 10 preview?

Next up: The Daly Dose most notable teams from outside the Big 5 conferences!

Daly Dose #106 The College Football Playoff Mess

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This week on the Daly Dose Sports Podcast we take a look at the College Football Playoff Final Four. The selection committee chose Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, and Washington. But did they have an agenda for selecting those teams? And who got left out?

We offer a few solutions for how to fix the current college football playoff system, and do a quick interview with new LSU head coach Ed Orgeron.

This week in the NFL there were a few teams that took a big step backward. We look at which teams disappointed us in Week 13.

It is very early in the NBA season, but a couple of players are off to a very good start, and one team is surprisingly awful.

Finally we count down the Daly Dose Top 5 College Football snubs of all time!

Be sure to check out Episode 106: The College Football Playoff Mess

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