Jon Joseph

A deeper dive into 2024 B1G schedules. The best scheduling quirks of the new 18-team Big Ten football schedule WWW.MAIZENBREW.COM Today, we dive into some of the best, most comical quirks on the 2024 Big Ten football schedule.

Thanks, NJ. If you do not win your conference title, No. 3 is The Sweet Spot! Oregon would play the G5 representative instead of Penn State in Eugene and would play Utah in the Fiesta Bowl instead of tripping to Atlanta to play FSU in the Peach Bowl. No. 4 ranked and 6-seed Texas would host Penn State with the winner playing in the Peach Bowl. The Coaches Poll Preseason Playoff. Sugar Bowl - 1 Georgia vs. 9 Notre Dame at 8 Mississippi Fiesta Bowl - 4 Utah vs. 12 G5 at 5 Oregon ............................................................................................................................................................................................... Rose Bowl - 2 Ohio State vs 10 Michigan at 7 Alabama Peach Bowl - 3 FSU vs 11 Penn State at 6 Texas 4 SEC and 4 B1G teams; however, Texas, Alabama, and Ole Miss would host 1st-round games along with the Ducks. Texas and Ole Miss have easier preseason schedules than Michigan and Penn State. Let's Play Ball!

I understand USC vs LSU, Penn State at West Virginia, and UNC at Minnesota being included in the 10 best Week 0/Week 1 games, but UCLA at Hawaii? The Ten Biggest College Football Games in Week Zero and Week One DEATHVALLEYVOICE.COM Ladies and Gentlemen, we’re just weeks away from the College Football season meaning we all survived the long offseason. While most of the games on the opening

Please, give this man an AMEN! Not you Notre Dame. The Domers have one of the easiest "P4" schedules in 2024 and 12 games and not the 13 that P4 champs and runner-ups will play. College Football's best and worst schedules for success BAMAHAMMER.COM All college football fans know that schedules impact the success or failure of a season. Debates rage for months about the strength of schedules (SOS). Debates If the CFB PO Committee does not factor in the strength of a team's schedule; well, give me Playoff death over giving a bid to a 13-0, no P4 team on the schedule in back-to-back seasons, Liberty. 😒

The Ducks Wire Zach Neel is at it again. An 11-2 finish in the B1G with one regular season loss and a loss in the conference champ game better get you in the PO. If it does not do so, Oregon would be penalized for making the conference champ game and taking a champ game loss. 7 other teams will beat out an 11-2 B1G runner-up for an at-large bid? Come On Man! Zach. Oregon is no longer in the left-behind Pac-12. Oregon is now B1G. Any and every 11-2 B1G and SEC team is a PO lock and likely a top 8-seed host of a 1st-round game.

How should the SC D approach the LSU O? With a White Flag? USC defense must balance caution and aggression against LSU offense TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM USC-LSU is four weeks away. Let’s dive into the matchup between the USC defense and LSU offense.

In the spirit of the Olympics. Wyndham Clark never quit. -11 is a terrific finish after a faulty start. Olympics Men's Golf Final Leaderboard: Scottie Scheffler Wins Gold At Paris 2024 | Golf Monthly WWW.GOLFMONTHLY.COM World No.1 Scottie Scheffler has won the gold medal with Tommy Fleetwood earning silver and Hideki Matsuyama the bronze after Jon Rahm collapsed on the back nine in a thrilling finale

The race is over when your body and not a body part, crosses the finish line. Noah Lyles wins Olympics gold in 100M by a margin so slim the announcers got it wrong WWW.SBNATION.COM Watch American Noah Lyles win by five THOUSANDTHS of a second in a wild photo finish at Olympics’ men’s 100-meter dash. Should have been a tie? Wow.

Olympics 2024: USA’s Kristen Faulkner stuns competition, and herself, to win road race WWW.SBNATION.COM Kristen Faulkner won the first U.S. road race gold in 40 years. A victory in cycling-mad France is nice. 😁

Only in America? Kristen Faulkner. From Homer, Alaska to Harvard where she was a rower to picking up cycling a decade ago to winning the USA's 1st Gold in women's cycling since 1984. A Breaking Away win in an event she wasn't scheduled to compete in. Not a Duck but an amazing story. Who is U.S. cyclist Kristen Faulkner, the winner of the women's road race? WWW.NBCOLYMPICS.COM American cyclist Kristen Faulkner shocked the cycling world when she won the women’s road race — an event she wasn’t even supposed to be competing in — with a time of 3:49:23, 58... And, the USA wins the Gold and Bronze in the 100 meters. 😍

Will the defending champ be DQ'd? Did new HC Moore know more than has been revealed to date? Michigan site Maize + Brew is not dodging the issue. This would be Moore's 2nd offense. Report: Sherrone Moore could face show-cause penalty, suspension due to potential Level 2 violation stemming from sign-stealing saga WWW.MAIZENBREW.COM Possible NCAA violations and punishments were unveiled for Sherrone Moore and the Michigan football program in a leaked draft Notice of Allegations to ESPN. This all, of course, has to do... Will UW end up 'winning' the 2023-24 title? I hope not. Latest findings related to Michigan sign-stealing scandal may disprove lone wolf defense WWW.YARDBARKER.COM Nearly a year after the Michigan sign-stealing scandal rocked the college football world, newly released findings may prove that higher-ups were much more involved than the program let on.

This speaks for itself. Watch: Scottie Scheffler sheds tears after winning Olympic gold medal WWW.YARDBARKER.COM Scottie Scheffler let the tears flow on Sunday. USA! USA! USA!

Oregon's Wyndham Clark had a bad Thursday and Friday on the golf course in Paris but rallied over the weekend to finish in a tie for 14th and well under par. Hats off to America's Scottie Scheffler who came from five shots back on Sunday to win the Gold. Another feather in Scottie's cap in the course of a dream season with his wife and baby son on hand in Paris In a game that has been torn apart by money, it was great to see world-class golfers battling for their countries and not coin.

That Team Out West Comin'! How Oregon Ducks Football Can Earn "That Team Out West" Moniker WWW.SI.COM The Oregon Ducks are officially members of the Big Ten Conference, and with that comes expectations as well as ridicule. This past week, the Ducks announced a n

Danno has built a Recruiting Machine. 👍😍 Oregon assistant Chris Hampton joins Junior Adams in top 10 of national recruiter rankings 247SPORTS.COM Oregon defensive backs coach Chris Hampton and wide receivers coach Junior Adams are now each inside the top 10 of the national recruiter rankings. Hats Off to Chris!

Harbaugh bailed but the Wolverines are not waving the white flag. 3 reasons Michigan will make the College Football Playoff SATURDAYBLITZ.COM There is no doubt that Michigan will have their work cut out for them in 2024 as they attempt to defend their national title. After putting together one of the Puddles will see Ya on November 2nd.

We're Number One! Oregon is ranked No. 6 in the latest Top 25 2025 recruiting rankings as reported by Duck's Wire. However, OBD's recruiting ranking by recruit is 94.06, ahead of 1. Ohio State, 2. Alabama, 3. Georgia, 4. LSU and 5. Auburn. The B1G has 8 teams in the Top 25: Wisconsin, Rutgers, USC, UW, Penn State, Michigan, Oregon and Ohio State. The SEC has 10 teams on the list, 6 in the Top 10. Oregon Ducks’ 2025 national recruiting ranking with 5-star addition DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM A look at where the Oregon Ducks stand in the 2025 national recruiting rankings following the addition of 5-star safety Trey McNutt. SEC still leads the league but the B1G is picking up its game with Oregon, USC, and UW helping the cause. And DeSahuan Foster has moved UCLA up to 40.

Mike, Love you Brother but I believe the SEC did a terrible job with the conference schedule which, but for a venue change, will be repeated in 2025. Compare Florida's SEC schedule, the Gators also play three P4 opponents OOC, with Missouri. Compare Oklahoma's SEC schedule with Texas. Georgia has a much more difficult row to hoe than Ole Miss. This is far from a fair fight. The reason for the SEC's future conference schedule running only through 2025 is that the conference wants more money from ESPN before it adds a conference game. Georgia will play eight SEC games in 2024 and 2025 and will miss the same seven conference (association?) members in both seasons. The B1G schedules through 2028-29 assure that every B1G team will play every B1G opponent three times through 2028. Oregon plays both Michigan and Ohio State but misses both next season. The B1G schedule is far from perfect. This season, Rutgers misses Michigan, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, and Iowa and plays UCLA and UW in Jersey. (Rutgers plays 3 Pac-12 newbies; OBD plays 2.) Compare Rutgers's conference slate to Purdue's. It isn't a fair fight. The wide variance in conference schedules is endemic to Mega-Conferences playing only eight or nine conference games. A few teams will have a significant in-conference scheduling advantage every season. But to play the same conference schedule in back-to-back seasons in 2024 and 2025 is 'extra' unfair to the teams with the short end of the scheduling stick. I understand the stiff upper lip we don't care because 'we will overcome' POV but wait until your team reaps the short end of the scheduling shaft such as Oregon being the only P4 team this season playing eight conference games in a row without a break and traveling east for two games in November. Power 4 fans had better study conference tiebreaker rules because tie-breakers for conference champ game purposes and bowl spots outside the playoff will be needed. IMO, all Power 4 conferences should play ten conference games with all having the same number of conference home and road games. But this will not happen before we see a Super Conference and a CFB Czar. Let's Play Ball!

No matter the team, compared to the Steeler's Steel Curtain D, your D line is weaker than a 97 pound weakling! Bill Connolly had to come up with something or Georgia fans might start believing they have a half-decent 😁program?

No matter the team, compared to the Steeler's Steel Curtain D, your D line is weaker than a 97 pound weakling! Bill Connolly had to come up with something or Georgia fans might start believing they have a half-decent 😁program?

Back of shirt: "But not enough to make the Playoff." 😁 Is any team of the 134 eligible to qualify from the Playoff backing away from the Playoff on August 3rd of 2024? HACK-KNEED much?

The B12 would have the Huskers surrounded by better teams? 🤣🤣🤣 The B1G - 17 AAU members and Nebraska. Michigan took away the AAU honor? Right. The B12 would be a better fit but it would cost the Huskers millions of dollars that the administration will not walk away from. I attended a CU/Huskers game and for the most part, the fans were gracious to CU visitors. The stadium does provide a terrific in-game experience. Lincoln is a personification of a 'truck stop league.' Nebraska is a team that could not win the weak B1G West. The Huskers haven't been to a bowl game since 2016. Music City Bowl - Tennessee 38 - Nebraska 24. In the Huskers favor, unlike the living in the past fans of The U, Nebraska fans sell out the stadium for every home game. (In fairness to the Hurricanes that blow, the Huskers stadium is on campus and not 24 miles and a 45-minute drive, depending on traffic 😒from campus. Miami fans, when you go 7-6 with a bowl loss to Rutgers, do you want to be bowl eligible? Ruhle will improve the program. With one of the weaker schedules in the B1G in 2024, the Huskers should win at least six games and be bowl-eligible. But a return to the glory days? I don't think so. No game vs the Huskers until 2026 when Nebraska visits Autzen and learns something about Oregon's stadium. The Ducks visit Nebraska in 2027.

2031 - $100M+ per annum! 😍 And if CFB moves to unequal shares as I believe will happen, Oregon will be in line for a B1GGER piece of the pie.

It would be nice to play UW in the B1G opener and not in the last game of the regular season when Fisch should have the team significantly improved. Regardless, kick the Huskies in the tail. QUACK!

Puddles showed up in the Big Ten Network's newly renovated Chicago studios and gave one of the announcer's a B1G beak kiss. 😍