Jon Joseph

I agree with you on Riola, but not on Sam Leavitt. Leavitt is from West Linn, Oregon. When healthy in 2025, Leavitt threw for 319 yards and led a late TD drive in the win over Texas Tech. In last season's PO, if a targeting call that should have been made late in the game against Texas was called, Leavitt would have led ASU back from a big deficit in an upset of the Longhorns and played Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl. When healthy, Leavitt played very well for ASU. Dilly thought Leavitt was worthy of the ASU starting spot when he transferred in from Michigan State. Leavitt missed five games this season and also missed ASU's Sun Bowl loss to Duke. In two seasons, he threw for 4,513 yards, 34 TDs, and ran for 10 TDs. He consistently earned high grades from PFF. If Dan pursues Leavitt, it will only be with Dillingham's recommendation. Cincinnati QB Sorsby tailed off significantly late in the season. I think there could be more hype than substance with Sorsby.

The only game scheduled with Northwestern through 2028 is a Wildcats visit to Autzen in 2026.

Good thought. But you can bring in experience, as Oregon did with Bo Nix and Dillon Gabriel, Miami did with Cam Ward and Carson Beck, and Indiana did with Kurtis Rourke and Fernando Menzoza. One of the four Final 4 transfer QBs will win a title this season. Transfer Will Howard won a title last season. Tom Brady won a Super Bowl with Tampa Bay. Experienced faces in new places is true today for every position. You have to make sure you bring in high-character, coachable guys who love to play football to accompany solid recruiting. I think a playoff-quality O-line is as difficult to develop as any position, including QB. Dan and his assistants did a fantastic job this season of getting many new starters on both sides of the ball to play together. Dante goes pro, and I expect a transfer to start for OBD next season. BTW, the Kentucky starting QB is in the portal. Novo to Lexington?

UCLA to Oregon. Georgia to Miami. Cal to Indiana. Ferris State to Ole Miss. The only surprising 'QB development program' is Georgia, with a mutually agreed-upon change at QB. The free market is going to produce incubator programs and development schools. And how long is a productive OC going to be in the same place to groom a QB? The need to develop your own QB is yesterday's CFB news.

The turmoil is exhausting. However, a wide-open CFB marketplace can lead to Indiana and Oregon in the Final 4 instead of Ohio State and Michigan, Ole Miss instead of Georgia and Alabama, and Miami instead of Notre Dame. 😁 This Final 4 is what an expanded PO was supposed to do, keep the fans of teams outside the traditional blue bloods engaged. Fewer folks watch on TV, that's ESPN's problem. PUT OUT THAT CIG!

The Athletic's ($ wall) Austin Mock's PO Mock predicts the chances of the Final Four winning it all: Indiana - 39% Oregon - 28% Miami - 18% Ole Miss - 15%

I'm somewhat surprised by the love being shown to Miami's defense. In the Big Ten champ game, the Indiana defense shut down the Ohio State offense in the same manner as Miami in the Cotton Bowl. In the Rose Bowl game, Mendoza threw fewer incompletions than he did touchdowns against a Bama defense that carried the Tide all season long. Even with the game in Miami, if Indiana can defeat OBD for a second time this season, I think Indiana, with a defense as good or better than Miami's and with more weapons on offense than Ohio State, including a better O-line, will defeat Miami by two or more scores. It's close in team defense with Indiana, 2nd ranked, and Miami, 4th. Massey SOS has Indiana 11th and Miami 24th, and this is with Miami getting a boost from playing Notre Dame. In Massey's top 25, one ACC team, No. 7 Miami, is ranked. Nine B1G, nine SEC, Notre Dame at No. 6, and five B12 teams are ranked in the top 25. I think Indiana is the better-coached football team. I hope we do not have the opportunity to see if I'm correct. In Miami on 1/19, I want to see OBD playing Ole Miss. If OBD wins it all without a win over an SEC foe, Paul et al will call it an aberration.

Right back at you! 👍👌❤️

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25-2, 1-7, no need to Google him, he wins! The most amazing turnaround in CFB history continued yesterday with Indiana's Rose Bowl pasting of Alabama. Indiana is led by a guy who coached under Nick Saban and knows, as well as anyone, that Nick has left the building. Only one team has been able to overcome the Rip Van Winkle long winter's playoff nap: the Hoosiers. Kirby Smart is 0-2. Ryan Day 0-1. Massey Computer Rankings through 1/1/26 - https://masseyratings.com/cf/fbs/ratings Massey has nine B1G and nine SEC teams in the top 25. 2nd-ranked Oregon's strength of schedule (SOS) is ranked fifth, expected to be the 3rd most difficult SOS after the Peach Bowl game vs. Indiana. 8th-ranked Texas Tech finishes with the nation's 45th most difficult SOS. Massey's rankings are well respected and cannot possibly differ that much from the PO Committee's super-secret, you need a decoder ring to figure them out, computer rankings. Texas Tech's loss came at the end of 31st-ranked ASU's pitchfork. OBD lost to No. 1 Indiana. Why wasn't Oregon wearing the home unis in yesterday's game? The Eye Test. Objectively looking at the competition played, maybe, you know, using metrics at hand, 1-loss Oregon and not 1-loss Texas Tech, should have been the 4th seed. Thank goodness this didn't happen, and the defense that gave up 500 yards against the Sun Belt champion shut out the B12 champion. Mike West called it. Oregon's roster talent advantage showed up. The Red Raiders bought one half of the equation, but even with your defense playing well, you have to score a point or two. Call out Will Stein if you so choose, but Week 6 Dante does not find a way to win yesterday's game. Will the OBD O be ready Friday night, going against the best D in CFB? Going against, arguably, the best coach in CFB? Before the Orange Bowl game, Oregon under Dan Lanning was 25-2 when the Ducks rushed for 100-plus yards. Yesterday, OBD rushed for a net 64 yards and won the ball game. Won with many new starters, including true freshmen. The talent accumulation is beginning to show. Will it manifest for two more games? HOSE THE HOOSIERS!

For those of us who can remember 2002, when OBD was royally screwed, and before, the Canes are blue-blooded. Hats off to the Canes and Mario for being the lowest-seeded team to win a PO game. Can the Canes D shut down a better O than O-H-I-O's in the Fiesta Bowl? The pressure will be on Miami, a team battling to play a champ game on its home field. Ole Miss is playing loose and with LSU's money in the effort to kick the Kiff out of Lane. I feel bad for our Georgia friends, but the love poured out on UGA for beating Bama in a rematch was pure recency and brand bias for anyone who could recall the previous game vs Georgia Tech and/or noted Bama's season-long inability to run the football. Cig just keeps on burying brand-name teams. A team without a Blue Chip Roster is looking to break the Blue Chip ceiling and is odds-on to do so. HOSE THE HOOSIERS!

A Quarter Final Summary from ESPN's Bill Connelly. Nos. 1, 5, 6, and 10 are still standing. Ole Miss and Miami travel to 'Phoenix' to play their semifinal. Indiana only has to go as far as Atlanta. OBD is spending more time in Dixie than Colonel Sanders. 😁 ESPN.comCFP quarterfinal takeaways: Ole Miss' wild upset, Indiana...The semifinals are now set. We going inside every quarterfinal game to see how we got our final four.

Under 100 yards rushing and a win for the first time in two seasons. OBD rushed for a net of 64 yards rushing, with sacks against Dante bringing down the net number.

Indiana vs Oregon: Early odds for Peach Bowl revealed +3.5 after watching the Hoosiers hose Bama is closer than I expected.

23-0/ 38-3 and the 2 B1G teams have to meet in the semis? Don't be sad, 2 out of 3 B1G onto the semis ain't bad. SEC? 1 of 5.