It ain't what you say, it's what you do

Kayvon Thibodeaux and Johnny Johnson III to represent the Ducks at Pac-12 Media Day in Los Angeles next week. Via @drksportsnews on @DucksDigest https://t.co/XHDz7sdVOa

— ✏️Max Torres🔌 (@mtorressports) July 22, 2021

 PAC-12 Media Day is tomorrow, and all of the coaches and many of the players will be asked about college football's tumultuous month, NIL, Texas and Oklahoma moving to the SEC, and expansion of the college football playoff to 12 teams.

The game is being shaken to its foundations. It's hard to be sure what it will look like in five years.

ESPN is the driving force behind the tectonic shifts, or at least some of them. Back in December the World  Wide leader signed a rights deal with the SEC that pays the conference $3 billion over 10 years, $300 million annually, to broadcast football and men's basketball.

The SEC poached two blue bloods from the Big 12, and now they're making overtures to Clemson, Florida State, Miami and even Ohio State. As it is, the Big 12 is gutted, and other teams and conferences are scrambling for a place at the table.

The trouble with all this is that college football has always been a regional sport, and if the SEC becomes the NFL of college football there won't be much interest to go around around the country.

Oregon has options. They're in good shape as a brand and during the Mario Cristobal tenure they've recruited well enough to compete with anyone going forward, though many fans feel it's a year too soon to expect a playoff run.

In terms of surviving in college football's new world order, it'd really be good to strike a blow on the field and upset Ohio State in September.

At conference Media Day Kayvon Thibodeaux will be asked about all this, and he'll be asked about his ambitious goals for the season, which include a national championship, 20 sacks and a Heisman.

If he got three against the Buckeyes, merging those goals with reality becomes a genuine possibility.

Update: according to the Dirt and Sprague radio show on 1080 The Fan, Johnny Johnson III has been switched out for center Alex Forsyth.