Jon Joseph

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 love that OBD is the PO 5th seed and is -21.5 vs. JMU. What a reversal, thank goodness, from last season's PO opener. Defeat JMU on the 20th, and it's a terrific break to play Texas Tech in the Orange and not the Cotton Bowl. Notre Dame, hoist on its independent petard. Too bad, so sad. In the ACC as a football member or in the B1G, and ND is likely in the PO. Bama? No way was the committee going to penalize a Bama team with the nation's top SOS for losing a conference championship game, especially with so many starters not able to play yesterday. If Bama is healthy, I think the Tide has a chance to roll over an over-ranked OK team that it significantly outgained in the regular season loss. Keep Those Machines Turned Off! Beat the Dukes! 😁

THIS: Canes WarningScott VanPelt states Miami win over ND is THE data pointOn his eponymous SVPod, Scott VanPelt stated Miami's win over Notre Dame is not just a data point, its THE data point.

I love this! Bring on Tony P's PO format ASAP. Notre Dame had 'better losses?' I watched 10-2 Miami defeat 10-2 Notre Dame. Miami's best win is the defeat of No. 10 ND. ND is 1-2 vs the top 25, was battered in South Bend by an A&M team that was propped up by a crummy in-conference schedule. ND's best win was a 10-point home win over No. 16 USC in a typhoon. When two teams are as close as these two, using anything other than head-to-head results is simply speculation. I watched both teams destroy Pitt. Both looked capable of defeating one another. The format sucks. Both teams have Blue Chip Rosters and playing to their potential, both could win a Natty. Tulane and JMU will not win a title this year or in any other year.

Spot on! And my bad for overlooking the 5 conference champs are in rule. Massey Ranking SOS - Duke 62/ JMU 100 Hmmmm?

Good Call! But I see the committee seeding Miami at 11 and giving No. 6 Ole Miss all it can handle in Oxford. We'll see(d). 🙃

The OBD O-Line Stinks! 6 sacks surrendered to the Hoosiers. Ohio State. 'Only' 5 sacks surrendered in the champ game. 11-1 with 2025's 'best loss.'

Spot On! OBD will be No. 5, and a Green Wave is headed toward Eugene. You don't need to DUCK. Looks like a ripple, not a tsunami.😁

When I watched this game, I felt like I could have been watching the, weren't you once the baddest guys on the block, SEC champ game. Hats Off to UGA for getting well earned revenge. But nothing in the history of CFB comes close to this Hoosiers turn around. Indianapolis just put on a 15-round championship fight, decided at the end by an Ohio State knee too soon down, and the same game FG whiffs we saw out of TOSU vs Michigan in 2024. Old School was the rule of this game. First outright Hoosiers B1G title since 1945, two years before my birth. First title since 1967 under coach John Pont. Pont took Indy to the Rose Bowl, where the Hoosiers lost 3-14 to Oregon grad John McKay's Trojans. Some guy named O.J. Simpson was the game's MVP. PO - Indiana, Ohio State, Georgia, Texas Tech top four seeds, OBD vs. the Tulane Green Wave. Wave Off Tulane!

Yes, Virginia, There is a Duke. 😁 A(ll) C(atastrophic) C(onference) 🤪

BRUTUS: Indiana wants you! You can't go back there at all! OBD's good loss just got gooder. 🤪

I'll be Dawg-Gone if UGA XI ain't a perty thing! A bite to DeBoer's booty makes me sing! 😁😎😍

According to sources in Logan, Utah - TEXAS WRECKED!

One ranking after the champ games are played, and all of the data is in. There was no discussion over 3-loss Texas being in the field. All agreed that 3-loss Bama should not worry. But all agreed that Notre Dame better worry. They also discussed a Duke win putting Tulane and JMU in the field with the ACC shut out.