Jon Joseph

Anticipated viewership is the reason ESPN farmed out the G5 games to TNT. A real playoff game, in a PO managed by the NCAA and not Mickey Mouse, gave us a terrific PO game where the tickets to get in cost more than any ticket for an FBS 1st round game, a Brawl of the Wild rematch, Montana State 48 - Montana 23, in a game closer than the final score. All of Dan's beefs concerning this Bowl Extravaganza are spot on. Perhaps OBD will 'win' both the FBS and FCS POs? GO Montana State!

Thank you, Darren, for another article that most certainly peaks OBD fans' interest. Good take, Duckhart. Texas Tech is ranked 1st in QB hurries. OBD is ranked 116th. This is the biggest disparity in the 2025 rankings between the two teams. Other stats - In 2024 and 2025, OBD is 25-0 when rushing for 100 yards or more. 0-2 when rushing for fewer than 100. Rush D - Texas Tech No. 1 - OBD No. 24 Rush O - OBD No. 13 - 217.1 avg. per game - 5.9 yds per carry. (FYI, JMU's rush game is ranked No. 6.) Texas Tech No. 26 - 190.9 avg. per game - 4.8 yds per carry Pass D - OBD No. 6 - Texas Tech No. 21 Pass O - Texas Tech No. 11 - 289.4 Yds - OBD No. 44 - 251.8 yards Oregon's passing attack will be the best TT has faced this season. Total D - Texas Tech No. 2 - OBD No. 8 Scoring D - Texas Tech No. 3 - OBD No. 9 Defense Stop Rate - Texas Tech No. 1 - OBD No. 6 The Red Raiders appear to have a decided statistical advantage. But Waiiiiiittttt A Minute!😁😁😁 Even in the NFL with 32 teams all having Purple Chip Rosters, Strength of Schedule (SOS) remains a crucial factor. For the 1st time, ATB (After Tom Brady) under a new coach, Ohio State All-American, Mike Vrabel, the Patriots are playoff-bound. Great improvement in attitude and player performance under Vrabel, but the turnaround was helped by the Pats' opponents having a .374-win percentage. As fortuitous a scheduling break for the Pats as Texas A&M had in 2025, going 7-0 against SEC teams without winning records and 0-1 vs. 9-3 Texas. And O-1 against 11-2 Miami. FPI Strength of Schedule Rankings through 12/20/25 - OREGON - No. 14 - Texas Tech - No. 54. Will we see this SOS advantage show up in the Orange Bowl? Will OBD use its roster advantage and peak at the right time and wipe out the memory of last New Year's (Ryan 🤬) Day? This (knock wood) is the first of OBD's three remaining games. To win it all, three peaks have to be conquered. Get the first one done on 1/1, and hopefully the third on a return to Miami on 1/19. 😍 If OBD can conquer Texas Tech, we'll see an Orange in OBD's New Year's stocking, instead of a lump of fossilized oil. WRECK TECH!

Hey Cisco, and Dante, Poncho is back! How about adding Moore returning talent and joining OL QB Poncho and DL Bear for the 2026 season? Dante, do you want to join the NFL before you can buy a cocktail?😏 Great news. Poncho is the perfect guy to build a new OL around in back-to-back seasons. Next season, perhaps Poncho won't be cheated out of the Remington Award. Speaking of screwed over, make us happy, Sadiq, and come back for a deserved Mackey Award. If he declares for the draft, I think 🤪 Kenjon will be drafted before Vandy's Eli Stowers. Eli Who?

Sorry, but SC made the appropriate business decision. Getting upset over 'Tradition' in today's world of NFL-Lite transactional CFB is nonsense. It makes no more sense than OSU and Wazzu blaming OBD for going B1G. A 2-loss SC would have had a very good case for being in the PO field this season, and if included, millions of additional PO dollars would have hit the B1G's bottom line. To Hades with Notre Dame. Knute Rockne left the building long ago. The brand didn't help bring in viewers for the 2025 PO champ game. Not wanting to share seems to me to be counterintuitive to what the school purportedly represents.

I believe ND is contractually locked in to the ACC. However, in 2030, ACC exit fees drop significantly, part of the settlement with Clemson and FSU. And in the same year, a new B1G media deal begins, with B1G schools expected to earn $100 M in media revenue. Notre Dame ice hockey competes in the Big Ten. If ND were to join a conference, it would be one of the Power 2 conferences, and the B1G makes more sense than the SEC.

A&M and Texas disappeared before Texas joined the SEC, to A&M's chagrin, and are now permanent opponents. Perhaps SC/ND will return when ND joins the B1G? CFB PO folks, and ACC conference, stop enabling ND's independence!

A Take from Tech. And Hats Off to Dan for criticizing the time between the start of the PO and subsequent PO games, and opining that OBD should be playing Texas Tech in Lubbock on Saturday and not in Miami on 1/1/26. Wreck'Em RedOregon HC Dan Lanning shares huge injury news as Texas Te...All throughout the season, Oregon Ducks head coach Dan Lanning and his staff have had to adjust and account for injured stars. They’ve missed having a number of

September 12, 1970 - USC 42 - Alabama 21. The Sam Bam Cunningham game. Bama, using a wishbone offense that Bear Bryant kept secret before the game, defeated SC in LA the next season. Bear was long in favor of SEC teams being integrated and worked with SC and Oregon grad coach John McKay to have an integrated team play Bama in the South. One of the best OL players of all time, Bama's John Hannah, said after the loss in 1970 that he went to block SC defenders and found thin air. Spot on comment, ND. Bubba Smith and myriad players of color no longer had to play for an HBCU team or head north to play ball. Integration of the Southeast and Southwest conferences helped calm tensions in the South. Lee Corso was another person who helped integrate college football. An assistant coach at Maryland in 1962, and with the approval of HC Tom Nugent, Corso convinced African-American Darryl Hill to transfer from Navy to Maryland. Hill was the ACC's first player of color. Wreck Tech! And UGA, Diss Ole Miss!

I know that the Sun Belt champion, 12-1 JMU, has better starters than OBD's backups, and is a well-coached team that never quit. I think UCLA may have found a heck of a coach. I think JMU was the best G6 team and should not have been ranked behind Tulane. I know football is a game of emotion, and it's hard to stay focused and fired up when you lead 34-6 after the second quarter. I know JMU never had a shot at winning the game, and this game has no bearing on how the team performs in the Orange Bowl on 1/1/26, and hopefully back in the same locale on Monday, 1/19/26. I know I'm happier than A&M and Sooners fans. And I know the Luckeyes lucked out again, playing Miami and not the Aggies in Dallas on New Year's Eve. I know that OBD is also fortunate to have played JMU and not BYU, and to play Texas Tech in Miami instead of in Dallas. I know this is a bowl extravaganza and not a playoff, and where you play is the luck of the draw, not decided on the field in the regular season. I know the PO field should expand to 16 teams, start and finish earlier, with no byes, 1st and 2nd round games, at least, played on the home fields of higher-ranked teams. Wreck Tech!

Looks like the end for the intersectional matchup, and why not? ND makes money off the series. ND's recruiting benefits from the series. USC gets a jeweled stick if it wins. 🤪 A B1G SC does not need another trip east every other season. SC offered to compromise and continue the series if the game was played earlier in the year at a neutral site. Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas is what SC offered as a neutral venue. https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/sources-notre-dame-usc-rivalry-series-ending-next-year-as-irish-finalize-2-year-deal-with-byu-165245493.html

Notre Dame vs. USC is on pause. Probably 'forever.' From a B1G perspective, and a USC travel perspective, I think Troy made the right call. USC asked for the game to be played earlier in the season at a neutral site. The Irish said 'No.' SINotre Dame Football Fills Future Schedule Signaling End t...The Fighting Irish will play BYU the next two seasons with other marquee opponents already on the books until 2030.

The Joe Moore winners will play ball on Wednesday, 12/31/26 - No. 14 Vanderbilt - 10-2 vs. No. 23 Iowa - 8-4, 9 AM Pacific, ESPN. This should be one of the best non-PO bowl games. Two more Power 2 matchups see Illinois vs. Tennessee in Nashville, playing at 2:30 PM on Tuesday, the 30th, and No. 13 Texas vs. No. 18 Michigan, Noon ABC, on the 31st. Thursday, 1/1/26, 1 PM, ESPN, sees the fourth postseason matchup of B1G vs. SEC, when No.1 Indiana plays No. 9 Bama in the Rose Bowl, with Indiana -6.5, the favorite. Indiana, the favorite? DOCTOR!🤪 Three seasons back, everyone saw this Rose Bowl battle coming on, right? 🙃 Odds on that one of Georgia/Ole Miss will play Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl on Thursday, 1/8/26, with a chance that OBD plays Alabama in Atlanta on Friday, 1/9/26. Saturday Down SouthEarly thoughts on each quarterfinal matchup of the 2025 C...The quarterfinal matchups of the 2025 College Football Playoff are set. Here's what you should watch out for. WRECK TECH!

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Pawaaaaaaalllllll, if you need any help packing, or a ride to the airport ... Please text or call - 1-800-ITS-BIGG. 👍👌😍 He'd earlier promised to leave if an SEC team didn't win it all.

Good call, although Lubbock, Texas, is not a large market. Ditto Tuscaloosa and Eugene. Booster money is fungible. The NFL billionaires play nice with one another because parity means more money for all. With an agreement in place with a players' union, NFL owners have been able to restrict player movement, cap rookie salaries, and impose fines and loss of draft picks for teams that exceed a salary cap. I think that one day, CFB billionaires will learn to play with one another and negotiate salary caps, restrictions on transfers, poaching penalties, and other reasonable restrictions akin to the NFL. A CFB player draft could be on the way. Take away recruiting and portal picking responsibilities, and CFB coaching salaries will come down. Booster money is not restricted by geography. Mark Cuban lives in Dallas but writes B1G checks that are cashed in Bloomington, Indiana. For sure, media markets likely matter when NFL teams are recruiting free agents. Which teams can provide a player with the best NIL opportunities? A team in Jacksonville, New York, or LA? Wreck the Heck Out of Tech!