Jon Joseph

Another POV from Matt (purple-faced?) Hayes - https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/trump-roundtable-shows-college-sports-005239930.html

Saint Nick had one heck of a staff - Updates - Napier is now HC at JMU, and Tosh is the HC at Cal. Alabama's 2015 coaching staff: How Kirby Smart, Dan Lanni...Alabama's 2015 coaching staff features six staffers who became full-time coaches in college football.

FWIW - Roundtable takeaways - https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/donald-trump-college-sports-roundtable-235004792.html

Thanks, NJ. 2027? Only six home games. W. Kentucky, E. Washington, Purdue, Iowa, Penn State, and Ohio State. This is not good scheduling. Six road games. Baylor, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, UCLA, and UW. This will be one of the most difficult schedules in the nation, with Dylan Raiola projected as the new QB and wholesale changes on defense. A P4 game on the road is not necessary. The B1G schedule will meet any strength-of-schedule test. I'd buy out Baylor. Or, perhaps both sides might agree to cancel the series? Add a home game with a decent G6 team like UNLV, Fresno State, or San Diego State. With today's PO format, an out-of-conference game vs. a P4 opponent is not worth the candle. A road game in Waco is a no-win proposition for Oregon. A win is expected, and an early loss with the conference schedule could be PO-ruinous. Give Raiola or whoever is behind center three home games to get ready. These games against B12 teams are the result of Rob serving on the PO CT. with B12 ADs. Texas Tech and Oregon are scheduled to play a H+H series beginning in 2033. Unnecessary! No matter the opponent, both programs will sellout their home stadium. A home game is worth $5 to $7 million to Lane County and the County's small business owners, and saves $350,000 to $500,000 in travel costs. Waco? Why help out Chip and Joanna? These two have more than enough B1G reveals. 😁

Thanks, George. Dillon had a terrific combine. I've seen his name in the 1st round in a few mock drafts. Dolphins - What to doa with Tua?

Hugs for a 24-team playoff - More or Less 🙃 https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-news-24-team-cfp-format-nil-south-carolina-injuries/

First up on OBD's 2026 football schedule is (You Never Ever Never Schedule) Boise State - Yet again, Rob didn't get the memo. 😉 I do prefer 'rebuilt' to 'new world.' Early odds have OBD -18.5 (!!!) But calling this rebuilt jalopy the 'conference of champions,' where can I find some of the glue this guy is sniffing? 🙃 Saturday BlitzWho is the frontrunner in the rebuilt Pac-12? Boise State...After being raided in 2023 by its longtime Rose Bowl ally in the Big Ten and its geographical neighbor in the Big 12, the Pac-12’s conference rebuild is finally

Autzen Stadium is No. 4 on Josh Pate's 10 Toughest Places to Play - Penn State's Beaver Stadium is No. 3 A Dog of a stadium at TOSUN (That Other School Up North) came in at No. 6 - 🤬 The other seven stadia are in It (used to) Just Mean More territory. No ACC, B12, or new world pac-12 teams are on the list. On3Ranking the Top 10 toughest stadiums in college football.

The movie 'Air' with Ben Affleck as Phil Knight and Matt Damon as Sonny Vaccaro, in the pursuit of Michael Jordan wearing Nike, is a great watch. Back in my Vegas days, I knew Sonny. Like his buddy Tark the Shark, Sonny was a Vegas, larger-than-life character. You can go the way of The Hive Mind, or the way of alea iacta est, the die is cast. I'm blessed for the private and professional lives I've lived, but unlike Phil Knight, I never had the stones to put it all on Pass Line; not once, but over and over again. What a great post. Come on, Danno! Win one for Phillper!

JJ, you just made the list, buddy. 🦆👍😍 https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-insiders-superstar-2026/

Let's go out, get together, and do it again. (Runner-up would be OK 🙃) https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/curt-cignetti-focused-next-for-indiana/ Come on, Baby, make it Curt so good! 😁

For seeds 1-8, it would, in effect, be a 16-team PO field. The 1st round is a playoff play-in game for seeds No. 9 through 24. The bye for teams 1-8 would not be longer than 13 days before the 2nd round is played. If seeded No. 1 or No. 5 in a 24-team field, as was the case in 2024 and 2025, with a 2nd round home game, Oregon would have the same travel it did when reaching the semifinals last season. Looking at the Committee's final ranking of the top 16 over the last two seasons, the SEC would benefit, and the B1G would take it in the financial shorts. In today's CFB, it's all about the Benjis. The more conference teams that qualify for the PO, the more money in PO revenue, and 24 teams means more money from the media, including ESPN. Eight B1G teams in the above hypothetical seeding of a 2026-27 field would Just Mean More than twice the 2025-26 PO revenue for the conference. Petitti's 24-team field reflects, in part, his concern over SEC teams being overrated by the PO Committee. If there had been a 24-field last season, 4-loss Iowa would have been in the field, a team that had no bad losses and defeated 2-loss Vandy in a bowl game played in Florida with the Heisman runner-up Pavia playing QB for the Dores. Iowa played a much harder schedule last season than Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, which lost to the one SEC team with a winning record that it played, Missouri, with no wins over teams with a winning record, and a Tennessee team that lost to Illinois in Nashville. A 4-loss Iowa team in the field would not have destroyed the very foundation of CFB. In 2025, 4-loss Iowa gave Indiana a much better game than 3-loss Alabama. The depth of the field is the trade-off for not having a 16-team field with automatic qualifiers. Kirby Smart and Josh Heupel are now in favor of Petitti's latest format. With a 9th conference game in 2026, I think more SEC coaches will be more likely to support a 24-team field. I'd love to watch eight 1st round games played on campus; no 1st round rematches allowed. I probably would not watch the same teams with decimated, opt-out rosters playing in the Gee-Whiz Bowl, but count me in for watching the 1st round play-in games with all or the majority of starters on the field playing in a home-field CFB atmosphere. And, while I hate to consider the thought, there could come a day when 16th-ranked Oregon was knocked out by a far lower-ranked New World G6 Pac-Whatever team. 🤬 Mercy!

Amen. But in the proposed 24-team PO, there would be a 1st round one-week bye for teams seeded 1-8 and a 2nd round home game a week later. 13 days off max.

Relax! It ain't over till the last fat guy signs! 🤑 https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/recruiting/2026/03/05/oregon-football-industry-rankings-2027-class/88986300007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGbaseline&utm_ter

College Football News 2026 Pre-Spring Top 25 is B1G - OBD ranked 2nd, Ohio State No. 1, Indiana No. 3, along with six more B1G teams. Oregon plays at No. 1 Ohio State, at 12 USC, 16 Michigan, 17 UW, and No. 25 (!!!) UCLA. https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/college-football-spring-rankings-2026-top-25