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Peacock lost NBC more than a half-billion dollars in the third quarter of 2023 alone. You can bet your ass that the suits in the NBC boardroom are going to leverage the Big Ten properties they're paying through the nose for to drive their streaming subscriptions.

Michigan got away — at least in season — despite being caught red-handed in the worst cheating scandal college football has seen in some time. But the Playoff committee has meted out the ultimate punishment to U-M — a CFP semifinal date with Nick Saban and Alabama.

Cities had to have an average mortgage payment of $1,625 or less to qualify. Other factors considered were income tax, sales tax, median household income, unemployment rate, public heath, and climate hazard risk.

I don't think that's the North Pole that Santa's always talking about...

That makes Michigan State one of the most-represented universities in terms of major professional sports franchise proprietorship.

The NCAA this month changed its decades-old rule against double-digit jersey numbers beginning with a 6, 7, 8, or 9. Steven Izzo saw an opportunity to make history, but college sports' Debbie Downer of a governing body put the kibosh on it.

Voluntarily giving away a home game to help the conference out of a tough spot with an angry TV partner isn't something a big-time college football program would do. You'll notice Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State haven't made any such concession. If MSU isn't serious about being a real player, why should anyone be serious about supporting it?

The NFL has announced the 2025 draft will be held in Green Bay, Wisconsin. That's like putting the draft, which just drew 300,000 people in 2023, in Lansing or Dearborn.

Warren over-promised on behalf of the conference's schools, which has new Big Ten Commission Tony Pettiti scrambling to retain as much of the rights money as possible. The league has offered several concessions to placate its aggrieve TV partners, such as moving MSU vs. Penn State to Black Friday.

The entire country will be subjected during prime time on Nov. 11 to Ohio State chasing MSU out of the horseshoe by halftime, because the biggest game that week, Michigan at Penn State, will be played at noon before fans have even had time to fill the stadium. Why? Because the Big Ten essentially sold its scheduling department to Fox.