Jon Joseph

How B1G will the 2025-26 Playoff Be? Big Ten projections, predictions for rest of 2025 season:...The Big Ten will have a tough time matching last season's four-team contingent that reached the College Football Playoff.

She's Back! Mama Sabrina continues to star in the WNBA after being the key to the USA's Gold medal game win in Paris. On3ESPN College GameDay reveals iconic Oregon guest picker f....

Spot On. I should have added, 'Under Dan Lanning.' Good catch.

Rob Mullens. All sins negated by the hire of Danno after Mari-oh-oh went MIA. Cristobal couldn't have run Miami's 2024 and 2025 offense in Eugene? On3Dan Lanning isn't leaving Oregon; he's chasing a national...Dan Lanning doubles down on his loyalty to Oregon and his desire to win a national championship for the Ducks.

I'll take the Lone Star State, and it's BAS (Battered Aggie Syndrome), and another Golden Arch falling.

The first thing we do is export the experts. 😁

38-20 OBD 2 3 330 Everyone you met when going to Saint Ives is coming from Saint Ives, ergo, the number of wives = 0. I like the flashback. The riddle became popular in England circa 1730, although its author is unknown, and dates back to around 1650 BC. The riddle is found in the Rhind Math Papyrus. There is nothing new under the Sun. Thank you, A(ll Knowing) I(ntelligence). We now return you to your regularly scheduled program. 😁

Is there anyone born and raised in Florida who meets the above definition? 😁 And your team plays in a swamp and has a large reptile for a mascot. 🤢 OK. I know that your team was Spurriered on to a title, and then, the Gators did not wallow in the Meyer. Beat A&M!

Michael West, please rant on! 🤪You are one of the best commenters in the West! With a rant or three thrown in.

For a Gators fan: Be True to Your Shoe? And, Oh Spit! Love ya, Man. Aim at and take out A&M on Saturday: do the Texas two-step!

Thanks, GP. No doubt that HS recruiting is still a B1G part of the process. But, in today's CFB world, I think seasoned players from the portal matter equally, if not more. It's all about roster management today, not just coaching up quality star-rated recruits; recruits who don't play early are likely gone. ONE CFB program has not lost a starter to the portal, OBD. OBD's true Frosh and 2nd-year players are stepping up, which is great to witness. However, without an outstanding portal class, including an RB who couldn't step up, would OBD replacing 18 starters be ranked in the top 5? Since the inception of the BCS, no team without a Blue Chip Roster has won a title. This was true when a team had to win one game to be a champ, and far more so when you have to win three or four games in a row against top competition. No matter how they are rounded up, you do not win at a championship level without the Jameses and Josephs. Blue Blood recognition will come only post-Natty for OBD and not before Oregon secures two or more titles. Fair? No. However, even without a title, Oregon's name is dropped whenever the subject involves a discussion of CFB's top programs. No surprise, in the above post, Charles beat me to it! 😍

Friend ND, I hope Saturday finds your Dawgs victorious on The Plains and scoring the W in the South's longest rivalry. The SEC scored OOC this season and IMO, deserves to have nine teams in the top 25. Yet, I'm kind of hoping that 3-loss SEC teams are PO benched again, and CFB goes to an AQ PO with PO play-in games contested on the last week of the regular season: Top 2 in the PO, No. 6 at 3, and No. 5 at No. 4. The in-conference SOS in 16, 17, and 18 team conferences will never come close to equal.

B1G HQ is supposedly reviewing the schedules for every sport to determine whether east-west travel and vice versa can be lessened. But with four in the Pacific time zone and 14 in the Central and Eastern time zones, how much can be done to alleviate travel? The first conference loss? Before 2029, take a look at 2027. 🤬 Get through this gauntlet without a loss, and OBD best be the PO No. 1 seed. Road games vs. Baylor, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, UCLA, and UW. Home vs. E. WA., Iowa, Purdue, Penn State, and Ohio State, and a team to replace Utah State, which had best be played at home to give OBD 7 home games and not in Corvallis. With this schedule, an AQ PO with PO play-in games makes sense. Especially, if 3-loss teams with more difficult schedules are left out in 2026 for 2-loss teams with easier schedule strength. Ditto for seeding. Will SOS matter this season? We'd better not see a G5 team ranked and seeded 9th because of a terrific RB and a close road loss vs. a P4 team. Boise's SOS in 2025 was in the mid-80s. If 3-loss SEC teams are uniformly left out of the PO this season, and with nine conference games coming to the SEC next season, and to the ACC with less PO voting power than the SEC and B1G, we could see an AQ PO format as early as 2027. Even with 9 conference games, in today's mega-conferences, you will never have balanced schedules.

The B1G schedules run from 2024 through 2028. On paper, 2025 is OBD's most favorable schedule. On3 acknowledges the Ducks have a relatively easy flight path for the remainder of the 2025 season. But you never know when a team with a new Skipper will show up and play like a Neu team. 😁 Rutgers is in Seattle Friday night, playing UW. An extra day to prepare for OBD's visit a week from Saturday. Trap? For those who believe Miami is the real deal this season, Miami's path to the playoffs is far from daunting, and Miami, again on paper, has the chance to host its first playoff game and the championship game in its 'home' stadium. Georgia Tech also has a relatively easy path to the ACC champ game, where GT could Wreck Miami's title plans. Please! Nine SEC teams in the Top 25. How many finish 10-2 or better, and will any 3-loss teams be in the field in 2025-26? Go Ducks! Put Out That Cig! On3Path to the College Football Playoff: Toughest and easies...It's moving month in college football, as these next four weeks will help determine the real College Football Playoff contenders.

Hoosiers, Give Me Five! (And Over 7.5!) https://247sports.com/college/oregon/longformarticle/-behind-enemy-lines-indiana-insider-matt-weaver-answers-five-questions--255925376/?source=column&lctg=26140&eid=c7d8647c6247db8d08c59fe44bc30

A fish stinks from the head. Billy - Tommy = Nudge, Nada, Nyet, Nulla, and a Nothing and Neutered North Carolina. 🤮 This has been a PR disaster from Day One. UNC football was marginal in a bad conference, and now it is a nationwide punchline. I'm not surprised that guys who played under DeBoer and won many close games at UW are not happy. Would any knowledgeable person who looked at Belichick's record without Tommy hand him $10 million a year, along with a nepotism nesting place? I had doubts in the preseason about Clemson, Penn State, and Texas. In fairness, I also had doubts about how Dante Moore and a close to entirely new offense and defense would perform for Danno. I had no doubt, even without the giddy girlfriend side show, that Billy and his boys, and Bill's boy, GM Lombardi, would crash and burn in Chapel Hill. Compare this disaster to what an unknown Cignetti has brought to Indiana. You're right, there is no comparison to a grump who is still a grump compared to a little-known guy who arrived with a chip on his shoulder, winning experience in college football, leadership skills, and a caseload of charisma. Point the finger nowhere but at the UNC trustees, AD, and the leader of the 33rd NFL team. Trying to lay this stuff off on transfers from UW is male bovine excrement. Thanks, Steven A, I feel much better now. 🤪

CBS - Ducks vs. Hoosiers - Which Team has the Edge? https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/indiana-vs-oregon-tale-of-the-tape-college-football-playoff-contenders-square-off-on-cbs/ CBS has OBD winning by 7. 7??? - OBD covers the 7.5 by two scores or Moore. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-odds-picks-predictions-oregon-vs-indiana-michigan-vs-usc-lead-intriguing-week-7-slate/ Along with GameDay, the CBS crew, including proud Papa Rick Neuheisel, will be in town. If you've had it with Pat, like me🤬, the CBS one-hour lead-in show is very good, as is the Big Ten Network's half-hour lead-in show. BTN in Champaign will be focusing on TOSU at Illinois. CBS Sportsline - Ducks win and cover. 4 for the Ducks, 0 for Indy among the CBS crew.

A B1G Unforeseen Game? Indiana was not dumped on in the preseason by every 'expert,' just most. Like, Pat Forde at SI. OK, I'm biased, but I prefer Darren's article, and I doubt that Forde volunteers to write for SI. 😁 SIForde-Yard Dash: The Stunning Big Ten Showdown Nobody Pre...The Hoosiers and Ducks meet Saturday as top 10 contenders with Heisman hopefuls and College Football Playoff dreams on the line.

Oops! Nothing to see here, move right along! It was only a $40 million mistake. 👌👍🤬 AP NewsCollege Sports Commission reveals it mistakenly overstate...The College Sports Commission sent out a correction, saying it had overstated the amount of name, image, likeness deals it has cleared by more than $40 million in a data set it had previously made pub

And hopefully, also for Don Fernando? Will Tosh keep him under the Mendoza Line?

And then, there's this - 'Help me operator, even with Gundy gone, this line is always busy!' 😁 AP NewsCollege sports watchdog sets up tip line for confidential...The College Sports Commission has launched a tip line that allows for anonymous reporting of potential violations of new rules in the name, image and likeness era that outline how players are paid, pl

You have to be a canewaver to recall Joe Namath in 1969, guaranteeing a Jets win over the Baltimore Colts in what was then called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game (today referred to as Super Bowl III, if you please), and cashing in on his prediction, 16-7. Coming out of Bama where he played for Bear Bryant, Joe signed a 'huge' three-year deal with the Jets for $427,000.00, total. $142,333.33 a season. 🤑 The win by Broadway Joe and the Jets helped lead to the merger of the two leagues. Also of note in the above prospective first round draft is Saturday's matchup of No.1 Dante Moore battling No. 3 Fernando Mendoza. These battles were supposed to happen in the SEC this season, not in the Big Ten. Of course, Dante returning and winning back-to-back Nattys (👍👌😎 ?) means going to another crummy team. But if it's Miami, at least he won't have to pay state income tax on his home game appearances. 😁 Incinerate Indiana! Put Out Them Cigs!

Thanks, Darren. Always a treat! 247 Sports combined roster rankings: OBD No. 5, Hoosiers No. 72. Oregon has a significant roster and home-field advantage. You can bet, as we saw in the movie 'Hoosiers', Curt Cignetti will focus on the David vs. Goliath theme. The Hoosiers survived a letdown rock fight game at Iowa to climb to No. 7 in the AP. Under Cignetti, Indiana has come to life. Cig took over the 'losingest' team in CFB, and in 2024, Indiana's 11 wins set the Indiana record. Football season tickets are sold out for the first time in ... forever. The man's two losses at Indiana to date were road games against the final AP No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Notre Dame. Saturday will give Indiana the chance to break its 0-46 road record against top-five-ranked teams. Indiana did win its last game played against Oregon; Oregon's 24 to 30 loss to Indiana in 2024 was authored by Indiana coach Gerry DiNardo. Today, DiNardo, an AA guard and national champ winner at Notre Dame, is one of the Big Ten Network's lead football analysts. During the Brooks and Bellotti years, compared to the Hoosiers, OBD was Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers. The Arches aren't Golden in Austin, for sure, but for decades, the Indiana football Hoosiers put the S in HoSers and Suck. 🤬 FWIW, the last 2025 NFL draft I saw on Athlon has Dante at No. 1, Moore better than Fernando Mendoza at No. 3. The QB play in the SEC this season was predicted to be the best, but this game could feature the best QB duel of the regular season. James Franklin and his coaching staff belong in the State Pen and not at Penn State. The PSU coaches, especially on special teams and defense, were schooled by interim Bruins head coach Tim Skipper and first-time play caller Jerry Neuheisel, who allowed Nico to play with athletic abandon. PSU tanking does matter, possibly a lot. First, a 9-3, or 8-4 Penn State, hurts the seeding of every B1G playoff team. Second, Penn State not qualifying for the playoff means a loss of multi-millions for the conference. Third, depending on Saturday's results, especially Indiana at OBD, Ohio State at Illinois, Michigan at USC, and Nebraska at Maryland, the conference could be at risk of having only two teams finish 10-2 or better in the regular season. (Perhaps in error, I'm giving UW the Friday night home win against OBD's Week 8 opponent, Rutgers.) Darren, thanks again for another enjoyable read. Hose Down the Hoosiers!

Thank you, Doctor. Pritchard would be a great choice, but with the Celtics in preseason practice, is he available? With nonagenarian Coach Corso retired, how about octogenarian Uncle Phil? 😁

Dante No. 1 pick? Dante and the Jets? How about 1 Moore Year where the grass is damn green! Mendoza just under Dante's line at No. 3. QUACK! Four 1st round Ducks! Dante, World, Matayo, and Kenyon Sadiq! https://athlonsports.com/nfl/2026-nfl-mock-draft-updated-1st-round-ty-simpson-dante-moore-fernando-mendoza-lanorris-sellers