DOWNSIZING
Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes says he’s not interested in being Ohio State’s tackling dummy. The former Utah State boss admits the $1.7 million Sept. 1 payday wasn’t worth a 77-31 loss.
“We won’t do it this way. This game was scheduled several years ago … it was a one-off payday against a perennial top-five team,” Barnes told “The Bald Faced Radio Show.”
“That’s not our philosophy. Our philosophy is that we’ll play the middle of the Big Ten, the middle of the Big 12, we’ll play a Group of 5 team and an FCS team …”
And in a pinch, they can always schedule someone in the Pac-12 South.