OSU THIS WEEKEND PREDICTIONS

NAU

OSU will beat Wisconsin. That is the only collegiate event worth following this weekend

Should be a good game. I’m hoping my kid, who is a student at OSU, can get tix for me and my wife. We usually go to a game with her once a year. She’s going to get tix for us for the wisky game or Rutgers. Rutgers would be easier to get but not as big of a rivalry.

She couldn’t go to the game vs Notre Dame and got almost $400 for her ticket. Crazy

Stanford Men

Should be a great race many very good teams entered. In the mens team race I noticed that NAU did not enter three of their top eight runners, Theo Quax,Brody Hasty and Colin Sahlman so they will not be at full strength. I am sure other teams will be missing runners. Teams still have nearly two months to Nationals so I would not make too much into the team scores today.

1. Stanford

2. NAU

3. Oklahoma state

Actually, NAU will not be top 2 because hasty is not running. It will be like this.
1. Stanford
2. Oklahoma state

It's threshold workout day in Stillwater, for some of the guys. Different entrants and course conditions in November. Nothing to see here.

It seems like you could make a lot out of strong individuals performances, but as you noted you can’t make much out of slower than expected individual times.

The College XC season has become so boring because of this. God forbid a team runs hard more than once a year at Nationals. They need to revamp the qualifying system. Teams doing workouts all year and barely racing until Nationals is lame

This ^

Loved my redshirt college season, we ran at seven club and small school meets, was like high school+, and nearly every weekend.

This is why high school XC is so much more interesting. People start racing before college people even get to the college campus

Don't expect fast times because of the heat. Women run 7:45 a m CT which will feel like 5:45 to the west coast schools.

Men follow right after.

Tulsa.

Other than Ky Robinson & Evan Burke -- and Zofia Dudek for women -- Stanford racing all their best:

Sad too see how Zofia Dudek's college career fold out. Its been 3 years and sadly she's not strong enough for college running, always gets injured when she goes back to training and racing. Downside of having low mileage in HS?

Connor Mantz had a lot of haters when he ran but he could never be accused of holding back. He was gutsy and always raced balls out (pun intended). I loved watching him race cross country.

My hot take is they should lower the championship distance to 8K and then mix in more 5k/6ks during the season and maybe teams will race more. Make Pre-nats a 6K and give the top 8 teams a bye into NCAAs, the other 22 comes from regionals (They need to rework the regions anyway, some of them are wack). Would incentivize people with a big race in the middle of the season that means something and we can see the top teams race their top guys together more than once a year.

Thise teams would then skip regionals. And nothing is wrong with the regions. You can't physically mess with geography. The best teams qualify based on season performances. The top 25 teams are always at nationals.