Jon Joseph

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Mike, thank you so much for a perfect take delivered on a perfect day. GO DUCKS!

As the 4-seed, I believe TT is the 'home team' for uniform, locker room, etc. purposes, and accordingly wears the darker colored uniforms. If the PO plays out as seeded, OBD (knock wood) will be the 'away team' for the Orange, Peach, and Champ games. WRECK TECH!

Through 12/20, JMU is No. 6 in rushing the ball. 19th in total offense. JMU looked to be the better team compared to Tulane. This was the second time this season that Ole Miss played and blew out the Green Wave. Did UCLA, with the hire of JMU's Bob Chesney, hire a better coach than Florida did with the hire of Tulane's Jon Sumrall? JMU showed up in Autzen with a purpose and never quit, even when down 34-6 at the half. OBD was never in danger of losing the game, but JMU looked like the best team in the G5. Travel-wise, Chesney had a greater burden to juggle than Sumrall, by far, and Chesney kept Nico, while for some reason, or no reason, Sumrall did nothing to keep QB Lagway in Gainesville. Sumrall starts with a Blue Chip roster advantage, but of these two, whose careers will be compared to one another, I wouldn't sell Chesny short. And Chesney begins with a much longer leash than Sumrall.

A blessed and Merry Christmas to all Forum Friends and your families. And to the Spirit of Abbie, and to all whom we have held dear in Christmas's past.

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