Jon Joseph

Texas Tech lit up BYU twice, and its only loss was at ASU when the red Raiders starting QB couldn't play. Tech also wrecked a good Utah team in Salt Lake City. Cody Campbell's money was well spent, especially on the DL and LB. LB Rogriguez won the Butkus Award. He started his college ball playing QB at Virginia. Pretty well known by now that his wife is an Air Force Blackhawk pilot. Joey McGuire is an experienced, savvy football coach who, in his selection show interview, mentioned the loss in Lubbock to Oregon with Bo Nix leading a comeback win. Eugene is twice as far from Miami as Lubbock is. This is new territory for fired-up Tech fans who will show up for the game. I expect attendance to be 60/40 in favor of TT at least. PO travel for OBD fans is brutal, and always will be when traditional bowl sites host the second round forward games. However, I do hope Oregon fans will have the opportunity to travel to Miami, Atlanta, and then back to Miami. There is a chance OBD could play a semifinal game in Phoenix instead of Atlanta. Everyone's gaga about Georgia because the Dawgs controlled the game vs a wounded Bama team. A week earlier, Georgia's O was stymied by Georgia Tech. I'm not saying I prefer UGA (DUH), but TT is legit. Noon Eastern Orange Bowl KO - 9 AM Pacific. 11 AM Central. OBD opened -7.5, bet down to -4.5. FIRST - Destroy the Dukes!

Bama played a much more difficult schedule and the 3rd loss was in a 13th game that ND does not play.

The ACC for every sport but football and ice hockey where ND plays in the Big Ten. Parasites!

Amen. In this case, he turned the wrong Paige. (😵)

I don't necessarily disagree, but should 8-5 Duke be in and headed to Autzen? The G6 is in because of lawyers and politicians. The P4 should contribute some PO dollars downstream to incentivize the G6 to have its own PO. The FCS PO, as it rolls on, is very entertaining. Montana State defeated Yale last Saturday and will play Stephen F Austin on Saturday in Bozeman. The game will be played in front of Montana State students and fans who have another PO home game to attend. PO home games? What a concept!

Thanks for this nugget. Three teams on the ND schedule had winning records this season: Miami, SMU, and USC. The only road game the Irish play against a 2025-ranked opponent is the last game of the season trip to LA. 😧 SC, please do your part to stop this SCAM. Other programs ticked off about the PO committee deal that will have a top-12-ranked ND automatically qualifying next season are threatening to stop playing ND. Hypocritical? ND chastised Tony Petitti's PO plan for having automatic qualifiers. PO Poohbahs - Knute Rockne and the Gipper left the building about 100 years ago. 🤬

As predicted by Darren and others, the Last LA Bowl will be played for the last time on Saturday, ABC, 5 PM Pacific, between UWho and (never, ever, schedule) Boise State. 'Prominent Bowl?' WOOF! Prominent college football bowl game is being canceled

USC's Trojans Wire calls out ND. Setting the stage to cancel the series? https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/trojans/football/2025/12/10/notre-dame-whines-eliminated-cfp-usc-football-rivalry/87701817007/?utm_source=smg-trojanswire-strada&utm_medium=email

Thanks, Darren. Insightful and humorous as always. Plus, I love it that you and David Marsh do not simply request comments, but that you both stick around to participate in post-article discussions. If the NCAA managed the FBS postseason, we would have a PO with a 16-team or more field. There would be no ranking show teasers. Top teams would play home games up to the semifinals on January 1st. The CBB tournament has a much larger field, and the controversy of not being one of 68 teams in the field was more about ESPN (there they go again), giving Dickie V a platform to rant from. The CBB committee discloses its metrics and the use thereof to the public. As the season progresses, you know the teams that had the top, Quad 1 wins, which are given greater value, and the teams that may look good but have played tripe. One month before the Selection Show, the CBB committee releases its top 16. If the final selections and rankings do not appear to match the early ranking and the committee's metrics, the CBB committee chair explains why, and questions are not dodged. Unlike CBB, CFB teams do not play enough games against the better teams out of conference (OOC), and also in today's mega-conferences, where in-conference schedules vary widely. There is not enough data to subjectively determine who is the 'most deserving,' 'the best, ' or any of the other nonsense fed to us by ESPN. Selectively fed to us peasants, the CFB committee hides the metrics it uses like squirrels hiding their nuts. If the sausage grinder is broken, don't expect good sausage. The PO format is FUBAR! Tony Petitti laid out the formula that reflects the reality of today's game and the quality of the participants, and was booed off the stage by folks who would have made millions more dollars this season if Tony's automatic qualifier had been used to select the teams. This includes the SEC. UVA and BYU would be in a 16-team field. So would Notre Dame, Texas, Vanderbilt, and USC. This would destroy the regular season? Teams with brutal in-conference schedules, say a 3-loss Florida and Wisconsin this season, would have had the opportunity to play their way into the field on the final weekend of the regular season. Teams are mutually canceling P4 OOC matchups. Why not. OOC, the nation's No. 1 team chomped down on three cupcakes without having to leave home. Next season, Notre Dame opens with Wisconsin in Green Bay and then hosts Rice. One 2025 PO team is on the schedule, No. 10 Miami in South Bend. The only other game against a team ranked by the committee is the regular-season finale against No. 16 USC in LA. By comparison, next season, Ohio State plays two PO teams, plus two other top 25-ranked teams in conference, and also plays at Texas. The Irish schedule is serendipitously set up for success. Why is Texas hosting Ohio State? Why is Michigan hosting Oklahoma? CBF is big business; these marquee OOC games make no business sense. The format encourages fan disappointment, not looking forward to excitement. PO expansion talks are ongoing. I'm hopeful that come January 23rd, if not sooner, CFB will have an expanded PO field in 2026-27, with Tony P holding AQ format firm. And with ESPN's teaser rankings limited. Meanwhile - Dunk the Dukes!

Moore potential hires include Ohio State Man Marcus Freeman - Just when things are going so well in South Bend 🤬 https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/michigan-coaching-candidates-after-sherrone-moore-firing-kalen-deboer-marcus-freeman/

ESPN update on Moore's arrest. Wanna get away? ☹️ ESPN.comEx-UM coach Moore detained by police after firingSherrone Moore, who was fired as Michigan's head football coach Wednesday, was detained by police and then turned over for investigation into potential charges.

On3 confirms his arrest. Charges yet to be disclosed.

Here's a list of potential hires from SI. It's refreshing not to see Danno's name on the list. There's a party going on in Columbus. 🤪 SITen Candidates for Michigan Football Coaching Search Afte...The Wolverines’ job will be attractive even if it’s late in the cycle with Kalen DeBoer, Brian Kelly and NFL coaches in the mix.

I'm seeing signals that tell me Michigan will try to pry Connor Stalions away from his high school coaching job. 😁

You lose one game to Ohio State and ... 😁 It looks like the Big Brother coach has followed the path of the Little Brother coach. MSU's firing of Tucker for cause was upheld. (J. Smith is available.) This is a talented and young football team with a good recruiting class. How many recruits bail and how many vets, including QB Underwood, transfer? Will Michigan show up to play Texas? Interim coach Biff Hoggi's play-calling was better than Moore's. I expect Biff (sorry, McFly 😁) will be the interim coach with a chance at the permanent gig. Underwood was committed to LSU before his services were purchased by Larry Ellison. I'd be shocked if the Portal King hasn't reached out. Maybe Michigan will alter course and go for a private capital deal? Stunning. After the events of this season, I thought nothing could shock me? Michigan visits Autzen next season. OBD return game in Ann Arbor in 2027.