Jon Joseph

There's stupidity, and then there is stupidity on steroids, ESPN's FPI. Texas remains No. 1? Notre Dame, without playing, drops 2 spots? Unless one is trying to make bookies rich, stay away from this Fraudulent Prediction Idiocy. Right, Kalen? With apologies to Georgia, this latest poll doubles down on the embarrassment of the preseason poll, which ranked SEC Texas No. 1, Georgia No. 2, and Alabama No. 3, and eight SEC teams in the top 12, with Florida at No. 13. There's bias, and then there's Bias from Bristol, where the FPI is not sharp as a pistol. Of course, the then No. 14 USC would have a lot of MOmentum as the result of blowing out MO. State and jump eight spots to No. 6. Right? As to Archie's debut in Columbus, where he had more appearances in advertisements than he did TD passes, nothing to see here, move right along. SC defeats Georgia State this Saturday, a team that Week 1's, woefully underrated 🤪 No. 10-ranked Ole Miss bombed 63-7, and South Central should be the home of the highest-ranked It Just Means Less team. Any caring person would take the poor FPI to the Programming Doctor for a wellness check. 😁 But ESPN and Greg Sankey will carry on using this 🤬to justify the SEC's six at-large teams in the 2025-26 12-team PO. Mercy!

This Texas TD should have been overturned by the folks in the SEC review room. Scarlet and GameSlow-motion clip shows SEC refs gifted Texas a free TD la...At the end of the Ohio State football vs. Texas game on Saturday, goodness, people were holding their breath thanks to Arch Manning and Co. storming back a bit.

OK, the SEC refs did screw up the Texas TD call. Overall, I thought the crew did a good job. Texas Longhorns On SIHow Texas Longhorns' Lack of Discipline Cost Them Against...Week one didn't go as planned for the Texas Longhorns, who lost 14-7 to the defending national champion Ohio State Buckeyes. While they were able to move the ba

Unless circumstances require otherwise, I don't believe we'll see the B1G O Reveal before OBD plays in a White Out.

Norvell hit the transfer portal lottery in 2023, was portal-pathetic in 2024, and looks to have hit the lottery again in 2025 with a QB who lacks the offseason love of DJU, but is far more athletic. Plus, Norvell made two great coaching hires. Bringing in Gus Malzahn (a name that lives in OBD infamy 🤬) from his head coaching job at UCF, where he was treading water, to coach up QB Castellanos and implement a 21st-century offense, and DC Tony White from Nebraska, looks to be (in a possible Week 1 overreaction) two terrific hires. Again, it was only Week 1, but the Nebraska D that carried the Huskers to a bowl game and a winning record last season did not look as cohesive versus Cincinnati as it did last season. FSU looked gritty, focused, and determined. The highly touted Bama O-line? Meh. FSU hosts Miami, Pitt, and VA Tech. Plays tough games at Clemson and Florida, but misses SMU and Louisville. The Seminoles have a very good chance of playing for an ACC title. And if Bama does figure it out, Saturday's win could have an impact on PO seeding.

Give Lee Corso's prediction of LSU defeating Penn State for the title looks pretty good after the No. 9 Bayou Bengals road win against No. 4 Clemson. The visiting QB, LSU's Garrett Gussmeier, whose Dad, Doug, is the New Orleans Saints OC, looked far more composed and in control than did Clemson's Cade Klubnik. LSU plays Florida, South Carolina, and A&M in Baton Rouge, and will have the better QB on the road against Ole Miss, Bama, Vandy, and Oklahoma. LSU misses Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee. And don't forget 'overlooked' Georgia. The SEC's standard bearer was buried under an avalanche of Arch hype (tripe?), and how terrific Bama would be with DeBoer reunited with OC Grubb. Georgia plays Bama, Ole Miss, and Texas in Athens and is the SEC's Top Dawg until proven otherwise.

Thank you, Steven. After the top three or four, these rankings are a WAG. UCLA No. 12? Utah on the road, played with its Bruin food. B1G 16-2, which is nice. 2-1 against the P4, where the results mean more (ask Kalen DeBoer.) The B1G competition is more difficult in Week 2. Iowa's Kirk Ferentz is now tied with Woody Hayes for the most overall wins by a Big Ten coach, but will be the underdog in Ames, Iowa, against 2-0 Iowa State. Illinois has a tough game on the road against Duke. GameDay will be in Norman for Michigan versus Oklahoma, one of Week 2's headline games. Boston College visits Michigan State, and 1-0 Oklahoma State is OBD's 1st P4 matchup of the season. UCLA is -10.5 at 2-0 UNLV in a game Dan Mullens and his Rebels will be fired up to play. With USF's beatdown of Boise, Tulane, Navy, James Madison, USF, and UNLV are among the frontrunners for the G5/6 PO spot. Tulane has its home win over a bad P4 opponent, and UNLV will be looking to pick up a P4 win. As to starting the season with block buster games? Meh. I would have liked to see Texas at TOSU, and LSU at Clemson, with a couple of easy wins under the belt. But FSU out of the gate looked to be in mid-season form. 😁 How bout Lee Corso! Wins his first and last Hat Dance with Ohio State victories over Penn State and Texas. Lee has LSU defeating Penn State in the PO champ game. LSU looked the part last night, and LSU QB Nussmeier looked far more composed and in control than did Clemson QB Cade Klubnik. Lasso the Cowboys!

Here's an Insight into the Obvious. Saturday TraditionRapid Reaction: Julian Sayin outplays Arch Manning in win...Ohio State forced Arch Manning into too many mistakes on Saturday afternoon in a narrow win over the No. 1 Texas Longhorns.

PAWALLLLLLLLLL! https://athlonsports.com/college-football/paul-finebaum-had-three-historically-bad-takes-before-week-1

I would like to forget the loss on 1/1/25, but according to a few folks in Columbus, It Happened. 🤬

Saturday Down South credits Castellanos for walking the walk after talking the talk. DeBoer! What is he good for? Saint Nick wasn't there to save Bama. 😁 Saturday Down SouthThomas Castellanos tried to tell us this upset of Alabama...Alabama’s inability to come up with answers to the questions Thomas Castellanos asked flew directly in the face of the preseason narrative.

"If you're good enough, you're old enough, right?" Diaper Dandies on Display. So great to see.

Mr. Ca$tellano$ ca$he$ his check$! Who played better? Archie, Ty is the guy Simpson, or 'Saban isn't there to save them anymore,' Castellanos?😍 This guy was benched by Bill O'Brien at BC? HUH? Great win for Mike Norvell and the ACC.

OBD is 1-1 in 2025. I enjoyed this game far more than the first game. 🤬 Former SC QB coach and now BTN football guy Yogi Roth was effusive with his praise for Moore after watching him practice during BTN's fall football camp tour. Roth noted the arm strength is as good as it gets and that he believes Moore will contend for the top B1G QB spot and possibly a trip to NYC for the Heisman show. That was Men against Boys, but no different from last year's opener when OBD bumbled, stumbled, and fizzled. I think the loss in the opening game of 2025 has OBD super focused from the coaching staff on down. I just hope Pregnon is OK, and I wonder if Hughes is out for the season? Whittingham looked to be faster, quicker, and over his 2023 injury. The RB room is deep. Davidson will be a monster. Go Ducks! Buck the Cowboys. PS - How sweet is Texas and Bama going down on the same Saturday? Dante played better than the touted SEC newbies.

And the Tide was Rolled by FSU! I have Finebaum's Monday program scheduled to record.😁

Maybe he meant 'Rolled?' I think both Ds are that good.

Hats off to THE Ohio State University and to QB Julian Sayin. First-time starting quarterbacks are now 1-19 in their opening game starts against the No. 1-ranked team. And Sayin outplayed Heisman favorite and Golden Child Arch Manning. Texas, as my betting buddies and I thought, was going to miss 2024's excellent corps of WRs. But Texas will win a lot of games this season. How about new TOSU DC Matt Patricia's first game? Jim Who? And Day and new OC Brian Hartline made certain to keep it simple for Sayin. Great for conference bagging rights, and Pawalll should start packing his bags to leave the USA. Do you come from a Land Down Under? 1st half Under and Final score Under bets were a nice way to start the season B1G! Go Michigan! Beat Oklahoma!

With Dana Holgerson's hire as OC, the Huskers are trying to do so. Dana is from the Mike Leach coaching tree. With a short season after a long off-season, the first game results are usually too touted and too dissed. On the other hand, there was FSU's opening loss to Georgia Tech in Atlanta last season. 😁 Nebraska's next 4 games are in Lincoln, including a Week 5 game vs. Michigan. USC and Iowa are also home games. On the road vs. Maryland, Minnesota, and UCLA are winnable. At Penn State, not so much. Nebraska should be favored in every home game with the possible exceptions of Michigan and USC. Worst case looks like 7-5 with a shot at 10-2 and the PO.

It's a B1G ask for Buckeyes QB Julian Sayin today. Rookie QBs opening against No. 1-ranked opponents are 0-18.😒 Week 2, 1984, some guy named Jim Harbaugh was in his first season starting at QB for Michigan and led the Wolverines to a 22-14 win over No. 1 Miami in Ann Arbor. Harbaugh's Week 2 victory is the benchmark for the earliest in the season CFB win by a rookie QB over a No. 1-ranked team. Ohio State fans will tell you that it wasn't skill; Harbaugh lucked out. 🤬

The transfer from Rice, who was paid $1.5 million to start at RT for TOSU, was beaten out by a guy who started 3 games for Minnesota in 2024. 🤑

Thank you, Jordan, for another great package to open on Christmas Morning! Did Santa leave us some great games or what!🤩 Beat the Bobcats! B1G - 6-0 is a great B1G start! 😋

It's obvious that you have never been Cow-Tipping in Omaha. 😁

2026 OBD opens against Boise in Autzen. (Rob needs to read the: You never ever never schedule Boise State! memo.) Next week, off to Stillwater. I still can't figure out why? One thing I noticed last night was the Florida heat and humidity wearing down the Broncos. It was hot in Boise during August, but without the strength-sapping humidity.

I see OBD as a Dark Duck contender. 😁 Yardbarker3 Reasons Why Oregon Ducks are Dark Horse National Title...The No. 7 Oregon Ducks team have a lot of expectations coming into the season, but the Ducks have also been excluded from preseason conversations surrounding the national title race.

Never discount the Shucking Power beaming from a Hope Diamond-sized engagement ring. Rumor has it that Swifty left early to beat the traffic, leading to a late miracle INT. 😁 Cincinnati will not be a B12 bottom feeder in 2025. Especially, with Don Corleone on the Bearcats defense. Cincy makes the list of CFB guru Phil Steele's 2025 (pleasant) Surprise Teams. CFB fans overreacting to an opening game? Never happens, right 🤪? However, until proven otherwise, all of the above questions and criticisms of Nebraska should be The Rhule. AP NewsTravis Kelce and Taylor Swift attend Nebraska-Cincinnati...Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift have made their first public appearance since announcing their engagement.