Jon Joseph

How's that Lincoln Riley Hire Working Out? Lincoln Riley is 0 for 2 — he hasn’t helped either USC or Oklahoma TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM USC and Oklahoma fans have battled for three years since Lincoln Riley left. It turns out the joke is on both sides. The Trojans and Sooners are both miserable. Meanwhile, in Norman, Venables is not the love of the fans who would like him to leave the Sooner the better. (Anyone who looked at OK's 2024 schedule with the least bit of objectivity knew this wouldn't be a Top-25 team.) How's letting Gabe go for the young stud riding the bench working out? 😁 Mater kids are no longer Deiing to play for SC. How can this be? Oregon outrecruiting the TROJANS! Isn't this illegal? 😒 At Trojans Wire, we have the solution. Hire 73-year-old Pete Carroll as the SC CEO. No doubt Pete will still be a dynamo, lean mean recruiting machine. And $10M for OC Riley? Is that too much to ask for? UNSpooled at USC. 😍 Gabe knows that it's Hawaii 5-0 in Eugene. "Book 'Em Danno!"👌👌👌

Sir Charles, are you enjoying tHIS? U R breaking my FUN😁METER. Keep it coming on!

3:30 Eastern. I won't have to take a nap! 😊

I LOVE LA! 50% of the LA population and the Bay Area population according to the Mercury News want OUT! Brace yourselves for the Cali Tide continuing to flock into Oregon and other points North, East, and Southeast. Good Call VM!

Hate tOSU? You'll Love This. CFB Week 7 knee-jerk reactions: Ohio State implosion, Alabama and Georgia showing cracks WWW.YARDBARKER.COM Here are some knee-jerk reactions to the Week 7 action.

Get ready to write Lincoln a B1G CHECK! 😍

OBD is The B1G Front Runner But many B1G teams in contention for a B1G Title. Big Ten title race update after Oregon beats Ohio State: Tiebreaker scenarios with nine teams in mix - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Nine teams have either zero or one conference loss heading into the season's halfway point BLOW UP THE BOILERS!

Trojans Wire on the Dan Band Wagon. WOW! USC football falls even farther behind Dan Lanning and No. 2 Oregon TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM It is bad enough USC can’t get its act together. It’s even worse that Dan Lanning and Oregon just beat USC for a top D-line recruit from Mater Dei. This is brutal. BRUTAL for SC. Where's my hanky and blankie?😊

Don't sell yourself short Duckpop, you're a Big Time Schmuck. 😁 Thank you, Caddy Shack (and Charles!) Every play is reviewed by some schmuck(s) in Chicago. But when humans are involved judgment will be involved and that means errors will be made. Blackledge grew up in Ohio and attended Penn State but is a Professional, right? Blacky and his buddy were not prepared for the game. The Oregon program has not been hiding out. I'd like to know when the broadcast crew arrived in Eugene to prepare for the game. This game did not deserve the short end of the B1G broadcast stick. Dan can't win the B1G One? Check out Day's woeful record vs top drawer opponents. Just Win, Baby! Only THIS will shut up and shut down the nay-sayers.

Faulty Prediction Instrument. Blame Al(gorithm.) Have you ever seen ESPN post an FPI Monday Morning: WE SCREWED THESE PICKS UP BUT NO REFUNDS! Where is Full of Klatt's revised Top 10? Joel, do you think Oregon held up at the LOS, or what? Blow Up The Boilers!

Play like he did on Saturday and Gabe will be visiting NYC. Many SEC QBs lost the Heisman glow once conference play started. Gabe and his receivers exposed 'the best pass D in the nation." Texas destroyed Oklahoma but Ewers did not have a good game. Beck and Ewers will have a chance to shine on Saturday. Come On You Athens Dawgs! I don't believe a G5 guy has the exposure and the quality of competition to win the award. Desmond Howard made this point on Saturday. Boise is idle this Saturday. Boise's next game, an important road game at UNLV, will be broadcast on the CBS Sports Network channel, not CBS. Blow Up The Boilers!

If this guy lent his watch to Ryan Day, it didn't help. 😁 Bucks fans are livid about the end-game clock management on the sideline and the field. How many seasons has Will Howard played ball? But that kind of noise when you are not concerned about it and prepared for it is righteously tough on visitors. Kelly didn't prepare Day for this?

Like the NFL? NFL fans on the losing end regularly complain about the referees. Every Big Ten football play is looked at in the Big Ten Replay Center in Rosemont (Chicago), Illinois. 54 display monitors and 18 monitoring stations. But this does not prevent refs from calling an interception a catch, etc. Or making an offside call on Minnesota's successful onside kick in Ann Arbor. After the Gophers rightfully beefed, this is now a reviewable call. It also does not prevent Michigan from running the ball 42 times vs SC with no holding calls. I agree with Coach Dan, other than the hash marks, CFB should adopt NFL rules including the replay rule and loss of a time-out if a challenge is not upheld. As long as humans are involved no system will be perfect. CFB was played for over 100 years without a review of the calls. AI is making calls in MLB and I expect one day soon tech will take over other human officiating duties. CFB games are long enough. IMO, there should be a 90-second period to find 'incontrovertible evidence' of a wrong call or the play stands. 7 minutes after the last play to take a win away from Va Tech and give the game to Miami is ridiculous.

Lots of Great Takes Up On OBD's B1G Win. I'm adding this because the author, Ross Dellenger is the Big Ten Network's go-to journalist. Instant classic in Autzen: Oregon takes down Ohio State in first Big Ten test — 'We were going to give them a show' SPORTS.YAHOO.COM In their first marquee Big Ten matchup, the Ducks are showed they belong among the elite in the conference and in all of college football.

I agree with Charles. I think Fisch is a great fit at UW and he hired two bright young minds in Pete Carroll and Bill Belichick's sons. This is a brand new UW team. Shaky on the road but a good win over Michigan in Seattle. The QB he recruited from the portal, Will Rogers is legit as is true frosh QB Demond Williams, Jr. I'm hoping the job at Fisch's alma mammy Florida opens so he will head for the SEC where he coached under Steve Spurrier. Foster may well be over his head but if Fisch sticks around UW will not be an easy out. SC had the lead in the 4th Q at Michigan and Minnesota and the Coli against Penn State. Riley is a great QB coach and an OC but without the roster advantage he had at Oklahoma, he will not succeed as a head coach in the B1G. A+M boosters, where It Just Means More, are wealthy and crazy enough to buy out Dumbo, er, Jimbo. I think Riley will be with Troy for at least one more year. Which is nice. 😁

College Football Coach of the Year? Dilly is certainly in the running. ASU was roundly picked to finish last in the B12 and has one loss year to date. 5-1 with the latest win coming against the Utes with Rising at the helm.

Bama ONE more lost game? Saturday - At No. 11 Tennessee 10/26 - Vs. No. 19 Mizzou 11/9 - At No. 8 LSU 11/23 - At Oklahoma - Dangerous in Norman 11/30 - Vs. Auburn - You Never Know? I'll concede 11/16 - Have Mercy on Mercer. Bama is No. 7 based on yesterday and not today.

Wasn't Mater Dei once owned by the U of Southern California? 😁

RETURN ON PORTAL INVESTMENT: OREGON - A OHIO STATE - A OLE MISS - Vs. Cupcakes - A / Vs. SEC Teams - F - Including at home vs Kentucky, a team that just lost to Vandy in Lexington.

Looks like Saturday Tradition is taking a cue from NBC - 3 takeaways from Ohio State’s loss in nail-biter vs. Oregon SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Ohio State and Oregon delivered on the Game of the Year potential in a showdown of Big Ten juggernauts. First the Wolverines and now the Ducks. Yuck, yuck.

Student Body Right has Left the Coli. SC would be awesome in a 7 on 7 league. 😁

Keep The Puddles Love Comin'! 'Sleep when you die': Oregon stakes claim as Big Ten's best as Ohio State's big-game struggles linger - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The Ducks are suddenly the new heavyweight of the Big Ten -- and we wouldn't say no to a rematch in Indianapolis

And By Comparison, Traveler is Jockyed by the $10M Man. 😁 Lincoln Riley, USC football plunge deeper into misery vs Penn State TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Coulda, shoulda, woulda. It’s getting very old very quickly for USC football fans in the Lincoln Riley era. This is not what Riley was paid to do at USC. I believe Lincoln attended Mari(o)'s clinic on When to Call a Time Out.

Doctor J, with good reason for the most part. Last Night? Never A Doubt! 😍👌

WE WANT VANDY! 😁