My complete series of Summer previews of Big Ten teams as they are published: * Statistical breakdowns from charting every game of the last four seasons * Podcast interviews with a publisher for each school * Film analysis and projections for the two-deep https://t.co/FA4JDrpj8e

Tristan's film review of Oregon vs USC at Addicted to Quack:

A "double Euro step" used to be known as traveling.

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For no particular reason, here are my previews of Emmanuel Pregnon and Bear Alexander as well:

Here's the film study preview of Benson from February these graphs were produced for:

Look what I found in my data visualization drive, the statistical regression on Malik Benson's per-target production vs baseline. These data were in comparison to Alabama 2023 & FSU 2024 targets, documenting he was badly misutilized and would be explosive in the right offense:

* strong offenses at home, weaker offenses away. Text of tweet 2 had the typo, numbers in the chart are correct

For UW's offense, when I drill down there's a modest home performance bump / road performance penalty, but the opponent skew has the opposite effect as with the defense - exacerbating the apparent differential wildly.

... When I apply data controls, I find UW's defense does play better at home / worse on the road, but they're up against on-balance weaker offenses at home and stronger offenses away, so it adds up to coming out all the same ...

UW has a strong home-road split in fundamental stats on offense, but practically identical stats on defense. Why? Opponent effects. F+ rankings of home opponents skewed to strong off/weak def; road vice versa. The performance difference is real, but weaker than it appears ...

The total combined points scored by Oregon against USC since 1994 is 666

Well, Nico Iamaleava certainly reminds me of Dorian Thompson-Robinson in one way.

New episode of It Never Rains on this Podcast - Thomas and Badwater with their instant reactions to Oregon's win over USC in Autzen Stadium, and looking forward to Husky Hate Week:

Attention fans pointing out that Oregon opened with Montana State - the Bobcats just won the Brawl of the Wild, are ranked #47 in Sagarin ahead of 89 FBS teams and 25 P4 teams, would beat half the opponents on your team's schedule, and probably your team.

Oregon's record vs USC since - 1994: 14-7, avg MOV 2.48 1999: 12-6, avg MOV 1.94 2004: 9-6, avg MOV 1.27 2009: 8-2, avg MOV 11.40 2014: 6-1, avg MOV 9.86 2019: 4-0, avg MOV 15.75

What a relief to see a real Pac-12 game after months of Big Ten stupor - athletic, explosive, vicious, and tons of flags.

Perhaps USC #8 was pointing and vocally requesting a transfer?

USC's 3rd & long conversion rate prior to this game was 42.11%

How curious the moments that Big Ten officials choose to spring into action.

Muffed punt -> 3-out -> muffed punt ... So that NC State can claim another upset in Carter-Finley ... To set up Florida State playing a coachless Gator squad in rivalry week for bowl eligibility ... It's the most ACC thing I can possibly imagine