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Last week the latest seismic change in college athletics occurred when Oregon and Washington announced their departure from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten in 2024.

From the Editor: We're about to launch into the season preview week, so what better time  to yell "Here's some important reading material!" at you. Fact is, the preview is going to be as useless in a week's time as the notes an author took in 2020 while preparing to write a book about Harbaugh's program at Michigan. Friend of the blog Ben Mathis-Lilley, who's written for Slate, the NY Times, MGoBlog, and some publications that don't make you throw things,...

Within this calendar year, responses to the announcement of Jim Harbaugh’s reduced-salary contract extension on this site included words and phrases like “apathetic,” “off the rails,” “laughingstock,” “worst deal any coach of a major program has ever signed,” “none of this matters,” “mediocrity personified,” “failing marriage,” and “weird, quirky, catatonic failure.” Now he is a Big Ten champion; his seat is only hot in the sense of being warm and comfortable. I...