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Coach talks about more than J MU. Oregon Ducks On SIWhat Dan Lanning Said About Oregon Ducks' Playoff Game Ag...The No. 5 Oregon Ducks are set to host their first College Football Playoff (CFP) game at Autzen Stadium. The Ducks learned during the 2025 bracket reveal that

JMU Coach talks up his team. I didn't know he will be leading UCLA next year. Oregon Ducks On SIJames Madison's Bob Chesney Reveals What Fans Should Expe...The Oregon Ducks learned during Sunday’s selection show who their first opponent is on their College Football Playoff (CFP) journey. Oregon is set to host the J

Tell me preseason rankings don’t factor into a skewed perception of year end rankings. This is a perfect example of why any rankings should be thrown out the window. Play the games. Top 3-4 from each major conference. Then all the rest of conference winners get in as well. Just win and you’re in. Prove it on the field not with someone else’s eyeballs.

Let 'em cage fight for it!

Not a good matchup for a guy who doesn’t like to recruit…

Well I would sure as hell hope that if Dante declares he won't go to the Raiders. With Tom Brady as a Raiders minority owner, you can be sure that he would want to select whomever he thinks is best qualified to run a pro set offense. But I also think he is smart enough to recommend signing a decent free agent under whom a high draft choice QB could learn under for a year or two. I don't know the back-up QBs, but I do know in the event of a Dante injury Lanning will go with whomever gives the Ducks the best chance to win. That as always Kirby's rationale and the Dawgs were lucky to have a talented (but game inexperienced) QB in Gunner Stockton to plug in and rally the team, which was behind Texas, to a win in the 24 SEC Championship game. That worked because the rest of the team loved Gunner and played their butts off for him in that game in a way they didn't for Carson Beck (that's a long story). I am sure CDL knows the guy the Ducks would be most likely to rally around and that's who would get the nod. True, Gunner didn't pull off a playoff win against Notre Dame last year, but he was hardly the reason Georgia lost that game. And hey, the quarterfinals of the CFP is a tough challenge for ANYONE who is making their first start in college football. So let's hope that Dante remains healthy. Go Ducks!

9 games will help to clear up the current mess in SEC rankings there's just to many teams in the conference to only play 8.

All down hill since Mike Leach

I wonder what he's been doing in terms of football practice while being away for 2 years?

Well, if either get hired by WSU it's a guaranteed low pressure job with a few million a year salary and not a lot of press spotlight. I bet that's what Chip would prefer right now.

There is only ONE team from out west in the Playoff...guess who?

Ooof... Chip it's a sign that you should just retire when you're looking at WSU. Or go do TV for a few years.

I know a Stanford had it rough. They need to find players who could theoretically get into Stanford on their own outside of football and recruit those kids. Then to make matters worse if a player graduates early and wants to get a master's degree they have to apply and be accept r to the master's program without football in consideration. In short... If a Stanford football grad wants to use some of their eligibility to get a master's degree degree they are going else where. It also means their portal use is highly restricted to those who meet their academics. Granted... I am just all around jealous of those who automatically, or effectively automatically, get auto enrolled in grad programs. I applied for four schools to get into a grad program... And then I had to pay for that degree out of pocket. But i will say this about Stanford... They do seem to walk thr walk when it comes to heir academics in their programs. Now Washington should take note.. because that's academic prowess.

As reported by John Canzano...both have feelers taking place with the WSU Athletic Department for coaching. At what point do coaches pass the "retread" label? Sometimes reality is.... Too Unbelievable.

Jeremiah Smith of Ohio State has enormous vertical reach, and is also 6’3”. Imagine adding 4.36 speed to it…

Usually the guy with the 42" vertical for OBD ends up being a 5'8" CB. What a luxury as a 6'3" WR!

Is admission requirements still something? I've always heard that the head coach at Notre Dame has a tough job, because he needs to find five star players with five star study habits. A rule that some......um... Miami....umm... probably don't follow. That place is a private institution, one that has people named Reginald, Archibald, Thelonias, and last names that have words like the third, attached to them. I imagine it's likely the same at USC. Also a private place of higher education, but I might be wrong. After all, I went to a public University with a terrible football team, and even worse academic admissions record for said football team. ( Said football team may have some history that I'm biased against. My comments may not be entirely true, as I grew up disliking said team. My comments are not to be taken too seriously, you can't sue me or anyone around me for my emotional takes. Plus your law program is second rate to the program I support. Remember I am an alumnus 🥸. That is all)

The Semi-Automatic Annual Notre beDamned Love Fest drives me nuts, especially at playoff/bowl season. I'm prejudiced, I know. Everyone has their vices.

That SEC game was non competitive. The B1G wasn't, it was hard hitting, and it went down to the wire. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but didn't Ohio State play their tenth B1G game last night? How about Indiana? Didn't Ohio State have to play "The Game" last week? Didn't they beat The Texas on opening week? Didn't both squads have injuries, yet didn't rest 13 of their players like Alabama did? I don't recall hearing Curt Cignetti complaining. Al I heard was celebrating. I didn't hear Ryan Day making excuses about playing Michigan, and Indiana back to back weeks. Ole Miss is going to go a full month plus before their last competitive game. After playing Citadel, getting a bye, and beating the mighty five win Mississippi State, a team Billy Napier could beat while already knowing he was going to be canned the next day. The SEC have been smelling it's own farts for too long, they've convinced themselves that whatever comes out of them isn't crap. It's unfiltered genius. It isn't.

I think SC will be more than happy to help ND with its schedule. 😁

Terrific post. Thanks. Oklahoma won at Alabama. A rematch in a different venue with both O's being beaten down over time. ACC and B12 have one team in the PO. Vandy, Texas, and Notre Dame are left out. Alabama's bad showing against Georgia doesn't count. So why does BYU's bad performance count? A crescendo of complaints that can be dampened by backing the Big Ten's AQ PO plan. No matter the metrics used or abused, there are not enough games between teams with equal rosters to make a CFB PO anything other than a guessing game. The Notre Dame/Miami controversy is only a controversy because of five nothing-burger committee rankings before the PO field, and the seeding of the field was finalized. During GameDay on Saturday, Herbie said these interim rankings need to end. Nick Saban, Pat McAfee, and Desmond Howard, via body language, agreed. Rece Davis, who made his bones as a host, did not react. Five SEC teams are in the field, and SEC coaches are whining about playing nine conference games. Oregon is the only team outside of the SEC hosting a 1st round game. Three of the four 1st round games played in SEC stadiums are not enough. "In a conference so great from top to bottom, why should we play more than eight?" Fine, play seven and have an SEC intramural playoff. The 18-team Big Ten and 16-team B12 played nine conference games this season, and each has six teams that are not bowl eligible. (5-7 Rutgers, along with Notre Dame, turned down bowl invites.) The 17-team ACC and the 16-team SEC played eight conference games this season, and each has six teams that are not bowl eligible. If the SEC gauntlet is so brutal, why are there so many one and two-loss teams? Why aren't there more teams in Dixie missing out on bowl games? Why did so many SEC coaches get canned? In 2025, Florida's schedule was brutal. A&M's schedule was not. Mega-conference SOS will vary significantly year to year. But I cannot foresee a season where a 4th-place B1G or SEC team would be an embarrassment to a 16-team PO field. If you use preseason polls, human or otherwise, that have over half of the conference ranked in the top 25, you are ipso facto going to have the most difficult SOS and SOR rankings. DUH! I want the ACC and the B12 to survive. I don't want to see a G8. I don't want to see millions of ACC/B12 fans 'disenfranchised.' So, wake up, commissioners, and back the Big Ten PO format, tweaked as needed and agreed upon over the next six weeks. Do not allow the foolish pride of, 'You have to earn the right to be in the PO!', to lead to millions of dollars in lost revenue. Put this ESPN subjective nonsense to bed. I posted what a 16-team playoff field would be after the committee's fifth rankings tease, there would still be complaints, but nothing as we see with this current format and selection process. Fans in South Beach and in South Bend would be happy. Let's do what Dan Ackroyd and Eddie Murphy did: Destroy the Dukes!

I guess it's time to Force ND into the ACC by shutting them out of the playoffs each year. I wonder how much they'll lighten their schedule now.

You and Notre Dame are like Me and...

This is stunning.... "Now, despite the open money faucet, spending on sports at some Big Ten schools has outpaced revenues. This year, Michigan said it would need a $15 million university contribution to balance its athletic budget. The Buckeyes reported a $38 million deficit across athletics last year. And as Indiana embarked on the best two-year run in its football program’s history last season, it needed $34 million in university support to run its athletic department."

Carson Beck against UGA’s defense is a matchup I want to see. Something tells me there will be a few late hits.