Jon Joseph

DM, you're simply Bearing Up. LOL 😍. The bed in LA was too small. The bed in Eugene is B1G, damn green and just right. Sorry, please BEAR with me. 😁

Nebraska plays Utah in the Las Vegas Bowl, Whit's final game with Allegiant Stadium packed with Utah fans making a short drive south to Vegas. Dylan Raiola is out with a broken leg, Nebraska's backup QB gets the start.

Another P4 head coach job opens. Old foe Kyle Whittingham will retire after the Las Vegas Bowl. Best of luck, Nebraska ☹️. https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/utah-hc-kyle-whittingham-stepping-down-after-21-seasons-will-coach-in-las-vegas-bowl-212750855.html

Whit is retiring from Utah. Good luck, Nebraska, in the LV Bowl. 🥵 https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/utah-hc-kyle-whittingham-stepping-down-after-21-seasons-will-coach-in-las-vegas-bowl-212750855.html

A flock of Ducks and ots of Red raiders make CBS Sports' 2025 top 25 transfers. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/fernando-mendoza-texas-techs-d-line-top-transfers-college-football-playoff/

Humbly disagree. After the 1st two games, ND's schedule was far from robust. Notre Dame's best win of the season was against No. 16 USC in a game played in a monsoon in South Bend. All of the ND and Miami metrics were close. Close enough that head-to-head results, pursuant to PO committee procedures, came into play. Everything and anything else is subjective sophistry. Miami won. Notre Dame lost. In real POs where teams qualify for the field based on their record, losses count no matter when the loss happened. You cannot overcome a loss by looking good while beating up teams with weaker rosters. The only reason Miami over ND is an issue is because of worthless interim rankings, so ESPN can make more money. BTW - Under the ACC's Eat What You Kill PO revenue policy, put into place to settle the lawsuit with Clemson and FSU (😁), Miami will share little PO revenue with the ACC and the member teams.

The AP on bowl no shows - AP News12-team College Football Playoff bracket has FBS teams se...At least 10 teams reportedly opted out of bowl games this year, including Notre Dame, Iowa State, and Kansas State.

D-Fence! How do PO teams stack up? https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/12/12/oregon-football-defense-compares-cfp-field/87719349007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campai PO O stats - https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/12/11/oregons-offense-is-one-of-the-best-within-the-cfp-field/87678257007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGbaseline& Caveat - The quality of the opposition played in CFB varies widely. Take all CFB stats not adjusted for the strength of the opposition with a B1G grain of salt.

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