Jon Joseph

Get ready to hit the Couch! 😊 https://sports.yahoo.com/mens-college-basketball/article/how-to-watch-all-of-todays-games-in-the-mens-ncaa-basketball-tournament-follow-your-brackets-start-times-tv-channels-and-more-105556911.html

Illinois, Michigan, and Purdue have favorable tournament seeding - https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/3-big-ten-teams-that-got-the-most-favorable-draw-in-the-ncaa-tournament/ar-AA1YUUJo?ocid=msedgdhphdr&cvid=69bb5b9ec4674b8ebae18bce980ba096&cvpid=69bb5c1e2fe548bf88f2a

Enjoyable read. There's a saying in golf: Beware of paralysis by analysis. At some point, you have to forget about swing mechanics and just hit the darn ball. I wonder what analytics show about factoring everything into a wager, including the length of the grass on the field, compared to winging it, just going with your gut? I didn't need advanced analytics to know the Patriots' offense would be stymied by the Seattle defense. I looked at the schedules the two teams had played; the Seahawks played tougher opponents, and also considered the and how well Seattle had played defense during the playoffs. And how badly the Pats O played against a one-armed Denver team. I figured the favored Seahawks would win the game, but I also figured that under Coach Mike Vrabel, the Pats wouldn't quit and could get a back-door cover. I took the Pats and the points, and I lucked out. The Wise Guy professional gamblers look to win 53% to 55% of their football bets. Winning 52.4% of the bets means you break even. The use of advanced analytics makes sense, but sometimes you have to go with your gut. FORE! 🤬

A take from OBD Brother Schwartz - Under Utah 8.5 -Over Maryland 4.5 I think there is better value out there than betting on these two teams. https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-football/2026-college-football-odds-early-win-totals-utah-maryland

OBD is CBS Sports #1 in resigning top-rated players. 🦆😍 https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-re-signings-2026-qbs-rbs-pass-rushers/

What's Up with Italians and Geography? Saint John's coach Rick Pitino doesn't know where San Diego is located. Arkansas coach, Calamari, er, Calipari, doesn't know if Portland, Oregon, is in the USA. Dear Rick and Cal, I'm hearing that people are leaving NYC, that no one is sure where Arkansas is, and that no one cares. 'Mistakes have been made.' 🤬 Thank goodness for Tony Petitti. 😁 https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2026/03/18/march-madness-far-travel-west-coast-rick-pitino-john-calipari-mick-cronin/89198647007/?utm_source=usatoday-sports-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_cam

On3 looks at the Baseball Top 25 - Three Pac-12 legacy schools make the list, or the Big Ten would be shut out - On3College Baseball Rankings: D1Baseball overhauls top 25 af....

Three B1G players are among the top ten candidates to win the POY Award. On3College Basketball National Player of the Year: Cam Booze...Rivals' Jamie Shaw lays out and discusses his final power ranking for college basketball national player of the year.

Behind a Tournament 8-Ball? One of these 8 should win it all. On3Breaking down eight teams best positioned for Final Four...Here are eight teams which have the best chance to make a Final Four run and compete for a national championship.

FanDuel has released its 2026 Power 4 Regular Season Win Total rankings, with odds set for a team going Over or Under the total. Preseason college football (CFB) rankings are ubiquitous. And why not when the source of a ranking has no skin in the game? FanDuel has skin in the game. In 2025, predicting that Penn State, Texas, and Clemson would win 10.5 games and finish in the top-5 cost the experts nothing but a mea culpa, we'll try better next season. If you bet the Under on these three on FanDuel, FanDuel did not have to say 'sorry,' FanDuel had to show you the money. Is there anything to be gleaned by taking a deeper look at the win totals? Maybe, but we won't know for certain until the final CFB Committee ranking on December 6, 2026. With that in mind ... [Rankings below are from The Sporting News 2026 composite Top 25, plus other teams ranked in the top 30.] No. 6 Notre Dame and No. 7 Texas Tech are at the top of the ranking with 11.5 wins. And why not? The Irish and the Red Raiders' 2026 schedules are not merely manageable; they're an outright, LOL, jest. Both teams will be favored in all 12 regular-season games. Yes, Texas Tech has a tough out-of-conference (OOC) game at the reinvented Pac-12's Oregon State, but the only ranked team Texas Tech has on the schedule is No. 23 Houston. The Raiders play the Cougars in Buddy Holly country. 24 Power 4 teams won five or fewer games in 2025. Notre Dame plays seven of these losers plus a side order of 5-7 Rice. The Domers play 2025 9-2 Navy in Foxborough, Massachusetts, close to a few Irish folk and fans in Boston. The Irish have a modest 82-13-1 lead in the long-running series vs. the Midshipmen. Notre Dame does play 10.5 wins, No. 9 Miami, and 8.5 wins, No. 17 SMU. Both games are in South Bend. Since 2021, Notre Dame is 12-0 against the ACC in games played in front of the TD Man, and 34-7 all-time vs. the ACC. On the road against No. 11 BYU, 8.5 wins, could be a tough game, but with a distinct roster advantage, Notre Dame will be favored. In addition to Miami, two teams come in at 10.5 wins: No. 4 Indiana and No. 5 Oregon. The Big Ten team with the most difficult schedule in 2026, No. 1 Ohio State, and the team with one of the easiest schedules, No. 20 Penn State, have an Over of 9.5 games. Indiana, Ohio State, and Oregon all have difficult schedules: https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/2026-big-ten-football-schedule-rankings-easiest-toughest/ Here are the win totals for other ranked Big Ten Teams: 13 USC - 8.5, 14 Michigan - 8.5, 21 Iowa - 7.5, 22 Washington - 7.5, 29 Illinois - 7.5. In 2026, OBD plays five of the nine ranked Big Ten teams, with the USC, Ohio State, and Illinois games being played on the road. ... Will playing nine conference games in 2026 make a difference in the SEC? FanDuel's win totals for the SEC say, 'Yes.' No. 2 Texas and No. 3 Georgia have the highest It Just Means More win totals at 9.5. Other SEC-ranked teams' win total: - 8 Texas A&M - 8.5, 10 Oklahoma 7.5, 12 LSU - 8.5, 16 Alabama - 8.5, 24 Missouri 6.5, 25 Tennessee - 7.5, 29 Florida 7.5. If these totals are close to how SEC teams finish in 2026, far more SEC coaches than Georgia's Kirby Smart and Tennessee's Josh Heupel will come out in favor of Tony Petitti's 24-team CFB Playoff format. It seems to me that FanDuel is taking an SEC team going Over risk. ... . Conference Champ Games based on Win Total: ACC - Miami vs. SMU B1G - Oregon vs Indiana B12 - Texas Tech vs BYU/Utah SEC - Texas vs Georgia G6 win totals are not available. Oregon opponent Oklahoma State has a win total of 5.5. Totals for all of the Big Ten teams - https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2026/03/17/oregon-football-big-ten-win-totals/89184898007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGb Beat Boise!

Final KenPom Men's CBB Pre-Tournament Rankings - The CBB Committee not only discloses the metrics they use, but refer to the metrics when interviewed. On the other hand, we have the opaque ESPN CFB Bowl Extravaganza Committee 🤬 At No. 99, OBD sneaks into the top 100 - 🤪 https://kenpom.com/?campaign=17274187&source=athletic_untilsaturday_newsletter&userId=15891289

11/14 - Wolverines are coming to Eugene Citee. 😁 Maize n Brew4 storylines to watch as Michigan Football begins spring...Spring practice begins today for Michigan Football! Here are 4 of the biggest storylines we’ll be watching this spring:

No Ducks 😧, but a B1G flock is in the Men's (and Women's, 12 teams) Tournament - Saturday TraditionNo. 1 seed Michigan headlines 9 Big Ten teams heading to...No. 1 seed Michigan might be the favorite among Big Ten teams to win it all, but the conference boasts plenty of other contenders.

10.5 will likely be the oddsmakers' 2026 Oregon win total - Projecting Oregon’s 2026 Over/Under Win TotalAthlon Sports’ Steven Lassan and Kyle Wood project the Ducks’ win total for the ’26 college football season. https://athlonsports.com/college-football/projecting-oregons-2026-over-under-win-total

An impressive young man. ESPN.comOregon's Dante Moore seeks support for mental health serv...Oregon quarterback Dante Moore has revealed he struggled with mental health issues associated with the pressures of major college football.