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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

CBS autopsy of Texas - Archie isn't the only one who's not golden. As the Texas head coach, Sark is 3-8 vs. top 10 teams. But it's the SEC, so nothing to see here, move right along. Hard to win when one of your starting guards against Florida scores a 'perfect' 0.00 from PFF.🙃 https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/httpswww-cbssports-comcollege-footballnewsarch-manning-struggles-texas-football-offensive-line-transfer-portal/

Instead, let's bury Cig in cement! https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/indiana-believes-it-belongs-with-the-nations-elite-curt-cignetti-hoosiers-can-prove-it-against-no-3-oregon/

Spartan, in your favor, MIA plays 8 home games this season. Here's what's left for Mario to conquer: Louisville, Stanford, at SMU, NC State, at VA Tech, and at Pitt. Perhaps there will be snow in Pittsburgh? ACC Champ Game - Against UVA? The Cavaliers are undefeated in the ACC. The loss at NC State was a non-conference loss. 🤬 Perhaps another shot to lose late to FSU? IMO, the opponent that should worry Mari-oh-oh the most is Georgia Tech and tough-as-nails QB, Haynes King.

The Browns receive the Bengals 8th-round draft pick and a used whirlpool bath. 🤪

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CBS with a look ahead and a look back at B1G games. The B1Ggest, Hoosiers at OBD. The best W last week. UCLA is the obvious call, but how about UW's comeback at Maryland? And bless Jedd Fisch for blaming nothing on and having no complaints about coast-to-coast travel. The article notes that PSU most certainly misses Tyler Warren. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/b1g-time-indiana-meets-oregon-for-early-leg-up-in-cfp-race-obvious-missing-link-limiting-penn-state/

CBS - It's B1G Time for OBD and Indiana - https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/b1g-time-indiana-meets-oregon-for-early-leg-up-in-cfp-race-obvious-missing-link-limiting-penn-state/

Pat, is that ewe?

Be Our Guest, I Guess? Coach Corso will be missed. ☹️ https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/10/06/oregon-ducks-indiana-college-gameday-guest-pickers/86548111007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGbaseline&

Of course, you could be right, but Miami was in the same place last season with Cam Ward at QB and lost 2 of its last 3 games to miss the ACC champ game and the playoff. Miami has another home game this Saturday vs. Louisville. This will be Miami's 5th home game out of six games. One of Miami's wins is against a G5 team, another against an FCS team. Nice win against two-loss Notre Dame and its freshman QB starting on the road for the first time. But if the program was not named Notre Dame, would the team with two losses be No. 16 in the nation with a win over an SEC opponent who fired its coach the day after the game? Miami's other two ranked wins are against No. 24 USF and No. 25 FSU. QB Castellanos, as was the case at BC last season, started strong before tapering off. Cristobal almost pulled off a Mari-oh-oh 4th quarter in Tallahassee. Florida did not have Dallas Wilson (SIGH) healthy against Miami; nevertheless, the Gators shut down Beck and the Miami offense. Hats off to Mario and Miami, but there is more than half a season to play. In theory, 2-loss Texas and 2-loss Penn State are still in the PO hunt. Both have upcoming games against highly ranked opponents with a chance to prove their PO worth. Clemson is 2-3, with two home losses, and its P4 win came against the 33rd NFL team that should be ranked the 133rd college team. All three of these teams were hyped to the moon by today's hive mind hype machines, competing to see which bees in the hive can spew forth the most hyperbole. Clemson lost 4 games last season with the same guys on defense who were now sure thing All-Americans and first round draft picks. Klubnik had a good PO game against Texas in Austin, but his stats were padded in games against crummy ACC opponents, like an SMU team that Penn State embarrassed. Penn State lost one of the best 'jack-knifes' to ever play the game in Tyler Warren. The team was still to be coached by James Franklin, and Jim Knowles didn't have Caleb Downs to play with. The PSU offense put up more than enough points to defeat UCLA on Saturday, but the defense was terrible. Texas? Arch had started against and defeated two G5 opponents and a 2024 Mississippi State team nowhere near as good as this season's team. All of the Longhorns' top receivers left after 2024. One starter returned on the O-line. And hats off to Sark as a person fighting addiction, but what in his head coaching career has Sark ever won? One B12 title. Largely at the urging of one member who pointed out all of the above, our small change gaming group bet the Under on all three team's 2025 win totals. Which is nice. 😎 The team that has not disappointed to date with massive turnover from 2024 is OBD, with four starters back from last year's team. That's coaching, and equally important in today's pay-for-play and unrestricted free agency, it's great roster management. And, I have to give the same tip of the hat to Ohio State. To date, four teams are in the top 15 nationally in yards per play gained and fewest yards per play allowed: Oregon, Ohio State, Indiana, and Texas Tech. (Texas Tech not only bought a very good roster, but it looks like the Red Raiders bought the easiest schedule in the B12.) Indiana is another well-coached team with very good roster management since Cig showed up. I think Saturday will be a close game before OBD's LOS superiority shows up. You can bet that with a better QB and WRs than Penn State, the young Oregon CBs will be tested. And Indiana has 2024 All-B1G talent at all three levels of its defense. PUT OUT THAT CIG!

A guy who paid his dues before getting a P4 HC gig at the P4 school with the most losses in CFB. CFB fans, 2024 was not a schedule-induced Indiana one-off. Cignetti was the recruiting coordinator for Nick Saban at Bama. His Dad was the HC at West Virginia for years and is in the CFB Hall of Fame. The Cignettis' ties with Saban go back to Saint Nick's roots, West Virginia. Cignetti was making $200,000.00 a year working at Bama. To his wife's chagrin, and his daughter's, who was a student at Bama, he took a $125,000.00 pay cut to become the HC with the University of Indiana, Pennsylvania Crimson Hawks, not Crimson Tide. The same school his Dad coached for before moving up to West Virginia. Then it was on to D2 Elon and then on to FCS James Madison, where he moved up with the Dukes to the FBS and success in the Sun Belt. Danno's career is the antithesis of Cignetti's. In his own sardonic way, Curt has gone out of his way to emphasize the success Dan Lanning has had a a 'young coach.'😁 Curt now makes $8 million + a year. In 14 seasons as an HC, Cignetti has never had a losing season. The impact of his hire on Hoosiers' football is right there with Prime Time, except for more wins. One reason I believed Indiana could be this season's Indiana was the manner in which Gig acknowledged his 2024 team LOS problems, addressed the same in the portal, as well as bringing in a likely 1st round draft pick at QB, and Maryland's best RB. OBD wins on Saturday, and it will be Cig's 3rd loss at Indiana, where Indiana used to have three losses or more in every season's first four games. His two losses. At the 2024 National Champion, Ohio State, and at the 2024 PO runner-up, Notre Dame. OBD has the better roster, no doubt. But I'm not sure there is a coach in CFB who would have his team better prepared than Gignetti for Saturday's visit to The Autzen Zoo. I think an OBD cover will happen, a cover of a line now bet down to: Autzen ZooMysterious movement in the betting line, odds for Indiana...Something weird is happening with the betting numbers ahead of Oregon's home game against Indiana. As noted in the article, this could be due to PSU's face plant in LA and OBD not having a win vs. a Top 25 opponent. The only Top 25 and Top 25 wins that matter will be revealed by the PO committee on 12/7/25. HOSE THE HOOSIERS! PUT OUT THEM CIGS!

CIG's team is smokin' and he's nobody's fool. 0-47 - The Hoosiers' record in road games versus Top 5 opponents. 🤪 PUT OUT THAT CIG!

ESPN's Week 6 Take - A 'Devastating Loss' for PSU and Updated B1G Champ Odds have OBD and TOSU close to neck and neck. ESPN.comHow shocking upsets and near misses of Week 6 impact conf...How bleak are things for Penn State and Texas? What's next in the ACC and Big 12? Bill Connelly has answers.

Good effort by Gabe. Bo brings the blues and boos to Philly. 😍 YardbarkerComeback win over Eagles gives Broncos QB Bo Nix somethin...Denver Broncos second-year quarterback Bo Nix lacked one big thing through his first 21 starts: a signature win.

The AP Poll Week 6-7 Playoff. ROSE BOWL - No. 1 Ohio State vs. 9 Texas Tech at 8 Alabama SUGAR BOWL - No. 4 Ole Miss vs. No. 12 Memphis at No. 5 Texas A&M ORANGE BOWL - No. 2 Miami vs. No. 10 Georgia at No. 7 Indiana COTTON BOWL - No. 3 OBD vs. No. 11 LSU at No. 6 Oklahoma No Penn State - 😁- With Nebraska and Cincinnati's wins on Saturday, UW's sterling road comeback, Michigan finally closing out the team with the best rush D in the country, yes, Wisconsin, PSU with games at Ohio State and home vs. Indiana and Nebraska, USC with but one loss and games vs. Michigan, at Notre Dame and at OBD, and one-loss Illinois and Maryland, are in theory, still in the PO hunt. B1G PO separation games in Week 7: OBD vs. Indiana; Ohio State at Illinois; Michigan at USC; Nebraska at Maryland. [Northwestern at Penn State - 🤔- Don't laugh! NW defeated UCLA.] SEC PO separation games: Florida at A&M; Oklahoma vs. Texas; Bama at Mizzou; UGA at Auburn; Wazzu at Ole Miss - move right along, nothing to see here.😧. It's the SEC, so ... The 1st Bobby Petrino audition game sees the Hogs at Tennessee. (Traveling by plane, not motorcycle. 🤪) Mari-oh-oh with a chance to play the PO opener and the champ game in his 'home' stadium. For finishing ranked No. 3, OBD plays a lower-ranked SEC team in Dixie. Can we please have a Playoff and not a Bowl Extravaganza!

David, thank you again for another entertaining, enlightening article. It's so good to have true frosh come in with stars attached to their names and produce in their first season. That's talent meeting opportunity and excellent coaching, schematically and otherwise. All right, youngsters, Put Down That Cig!

Kentucky has moved its Athletic Department from under the university umbrella and into a newly formed Limited Liability Company. In the pursuit of cash, one size will not fit all. OBD fans are blessed to have an Athletic Department in the black. If you look across the landscape of B1G schools, this is the exception and not the rule. Where else could many unsuccessful 'subsidiaries' have their 'parent company' valued at $40 billion? Private capital puts up $2 billion for 5%, with the 5% going away in 2046. Of course, beware the details, but on its face, it looks like a good deal, one that will deliver funds to flat-broke UCLA athletic department. But any deal will not happen, of course, without sign-offs from Ohio State and Michigan.

More on No. 3 OBD vs No. 7 Indiana (More Moore to Moore, please 😁) Ducks drop back to No. 3 behind Mario Cristobal's Miami, host No. 7 Indiana Saturday Behind Mari-oh-oh as of now. But Wait A Minute!

Jimmy Knowles, Go to Your Room!