Jon Joseph

No Surprise, B1G or otherwise. IMO, ESPN will extend the 12/1/25 date when the parties have to agree to a new PO format to 1/23/26. I think there is a good chance that we will see the PO expand to 16 teams and possibly more next season. If the NCAA managed the PO, there would already be a 16-team or more PO field. https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/espn-college-football-playoff-finalizing-agreement-to-extend-new-playoff-format-deadline-to-jan-23-202658379.html The PO committee is making it up as it goes along. Dropping Alabama with four wins over committee-ranked SEC teams from fourth to tenth shook up the Dixie powers that be. And what sense does it make for the ACC and B12 to reject a format that assures two teams in the PO field with a chance for additional at-large teams? When the B1G and the SEC were granted superior PO format voting power, the ACC and B12 acknowledged that CFB has a Power 2. Even Stewart Mandel of The Athletic, who has continually excorciated the proposed AQ B1G PO format, now believes a PO with AQs will not destroy the sport.

🤣🤣🤣- Now, now, Lincoln. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/usc-football-lincoln-riley-temper-oregon-loss-cfp/?eid=c7d8647c6247db8d08c59fe44bc30380a147aa90b9e33099045cd46ddc6a485b&ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0b&ET_CID=492450&ET_RID=52482716

Thanks, David, for another terrific Monday morning article. The only downside, I'm craving a kava! 🙃

Drake, I liked the comment. However, with all of the BS thrown OBD's way regarding the schedule, I like the finish. OBD was the 2025 Hive Mind scheduling whipping boy. I think the schedule worked out to OBD's advantage with a home win over an SC team that I believe will remain in the committee's top 25 on Tuesday and a finish at UW with the chance to put up more points than Ohio State in Seattle.

2026 - OBD is at USC and Ohio State. 2028 - USC in Autzen.

Indiana has signed Cig to a very lucrative long-term contract. He isn't leaving Bloomington.

The Greek God Chaos was the first of the Greek gods to appear at the dawn of creation. Chaos is the primordial void out of which the Earth god, Geta, and the other elements arose. With a playoff where 'best' and 'most deserving' somehow do not correlate, may Chaos visit CFB in Week 14? At least, selective Chaos. Does Head-to-Head Matter? MIAMI - 6.5, wins at Pitt to finish 10-2. Notre Dame -32.5 (!) defeats Stanford to finish 10-2. I'm sorry, PO (or is it BO 😖) Committee, but when multi-millions of dollars are at stake, 'We haven't directly compared Miami and Notre Dame because they are not in the same group of three teams', is not going to bounce. I think if the game were played today, Notre Dame would win. But who in Hades, another Greek god, cares what I think? The two teams played one another this season; Miami won the game. Any other comparison between the two teams with the same records is subjective chicanery. And one of Notre Dame's two top 25 wins was Ducked in Eugene in Week 13. 😎 Pitt? If Miami -7.5 defeats the Panthers on Saturday, Notre Dame will finish with one top 25 win at best. Unlike OBD, the less-than-golden Notre Dame schedule? Nothing to see here, move right along. If 10-2 Notre Dame is ranked higher than 10-2 Miami, every ACC AD and coach should threaten to boycott Notre Dame and fill the opening with a conference game if the Domers do not join the conference as a full-time football member. And SC should say, 'So long, South Bend, and good riddance.' The SEC Seriously Tests the New Metrics - LSU -10.5 wins in Norman and hands Oklahoma its third loss. While Auburn -5.5 defeats Bama on The Plains, the Tide finishes 9-3. Vandy and Don Diego +2.5, knuckle under in Knoxville to finish 9-3. Texas +2.5 defeats A&M in Austin to finish 9-3. The Eyes of Texas, Longhorn eyes at least, will be at the PO committee meeting in Grapevine, Texas, on 12/6, with thousands of burnt orange-clad fans in the Gaylord hotel parking lot shouting: We could have played Ohio and not Ohio State! And if LSU comes through: 'How much longer will it take you morons to figure out that we beat the Sooners! And we also beat Vandy!' On Black Friday, behind Cow Bell Cacophony, Mississippi State +7.5, puts down the Ole Miss Rebellion. Post-game, Lane Kiffin is escorted from the scene by a platoon of former Green Berets, while Lane's agent, Jimmy Sexton, from off-site, announces that Lane has decided to take the Arkansas, or some other SEC job. A B1G Mess? Michigan defeats That Team Down South to finish 10-2 (I just can't pull the trigger on Purdue putting out the Cigs. 😁) 3-loss Oklahoma fans, led by uber fan Norman, and separated from Horns fans at the Gaylord Hotel parking lot's 50-car line, scream in unison: We beat Michigan! The B1G 12? The committee metrics minder sobers up long enough to inform the committee that Oregon has a Top 25 win, a solid win over That Other Team Up North, and that Penn State is bowl eligible. By the way, our metrics (like the Massey metrics 😍) have the Ducks with the 15th most difficult schedule and Texas Tech the 54th most difficult schedule. Ticked off Texas Tech fans join ... No, too far from Lubbock and ski season has started. Having received an extension from Disney/ESPN, on the evening of December 7th, a Day of Infamy for the PO committee, Greg Sankey and Tony Petitti collectively announce, on both the Big Ten and SEC Networks, that beginning next season, the playoff will expand to 16 teams with a 4-4-2-2-1-3 format. No objection from the ACC, B12 peanut gallery. And Texas and Oklahoma fans group hug. ❤️❤️❤️ Tony graciously allows Greg, SEC coaches, ADs, Paul Finebaum, and the Governor of Louisiana to take credit for coming up with the new PO format. 🤪 WAX, WASTE, and PASTE That Other School Up North!

I think Pete's making room for Lane Kiffin? Or, maybe Jon Gruden? 😁😁

N(ot) F(or) L(ong). If Penn State hires TOSU OC Brian Hartline, will Chip go back to his Day job? With Geno Smith as your starting QB? Good luck to the next man up. Pete Carroll cannot be at fault, right? Joe Flacco is still playing and starting at QB. There are 32 NFL teams, and many do not have an A-list QB. In a rather weak QB class, Dante will be in demand.

Yes, USC QB Maiava, his two top WRs, and TE are all draft eligible. Harsin bombed at Auburn, and many Cal players took off rather than play for him. He was a strange hire. Cal GM Rivera named former Wazzu coach Nick Rolovich to be the interim HC. Cal is bowl eligible.

Jimmy Sexton is Lane's agent; every ounce of pressure will be applied to all of the players involved in this drama, and a number that are not involved.

If Dante goes, one time Duck, Cal QB Sag?

Probably would not have happened if Ron Rivera wasn't calling the shots in Berkeley. Cal looked awful against Stanford. Perhaps Luck at Stanford and Rivera at Cal should look in the mirror for the next HC at their respective school. UCLA, Stanford, Oregon State, and Cal with job openings. One third of OBD's former conference members. And how much more rope will SC give Riley? Next season, SC plays Ohio State, OBD, UW, Indiana, Penn State, and perhaps Notre Dame. QB Jayden Maiava, TE Lake McRee, WRs Lemon and Lane, and outstanding safety Kamari Ramsey are all eligible for the 2026 draft. No matter how good the 2026 recruiting class is, these guys will not be easy to replace. SC is far from a PO lock next season. This just in! Even when the PO field expands to 16 teams, 88%, 120 out of 136 FBS teams, will not be in the PO field. It only took Indiana 136 seasons to find Cignetti. 😁 And FWIW, I will go on record: Under James Franklin, Virginia Tech will not win a national championship and may never make a PO appearance.

Ivy League champ Yale automatically qualified for the 2025 FCS Playoff, and Harvard was added as an at-large team. The first Ivy League football teams to participate in the postseason. 11/29/25 - Harvard at Villanova; Yale at Youngstown State. Eli! Eli! Bulldog! Rah, Rah, Rah! Most fans know of Georgia's mascot, a bulldog named 'UGA.' Fewer know that Yale's mascot is a bulldog named 'Handsome Dan.' During his career with ESPN, Lee Corso called both UGA and Dan, 'Ugly!' The University of Georgia was the first chartered state university. The charter was written in 1785 by 'the father of Georgia,' Yale graduate Abraham Baldwin. Baldwin was Yale's first president, and he was followed by another Yale graduate, Josiah Miggs, who was a student of Baldwin's at Yale. Many of Georgia's first instructors were southerners who graduated from Yale. Many of Yale's traditions followed the first two presidents and other men of Yale influential in the University's early days to Athens, Georgia, including the Bulldog mascot, which was officially adopted in 1920. WOOF!

SC did win one on the field of play when they pantsed Oklahoma in the 2005 BCS champ game. Later vacated. By a group of 'judges' led by the Miami AD. 🤪