Jon Joseph

The Pac-8 + Gonzo was ready to back the B12's push for a 2026-27 playoff format of 5 automatic qualifiers and seven at-large. Then they read the fine print. The B12's support for the 5-11 is dependent upon all conferences playing nine conference games. OOOps! 🙃

That's like your opinion, Man. Way too early Week 5 predictions: Penn State v. Oregon VICTORYBELLRINGS.COM The Penn State football team's schedule starts out with what should be a warmup for the rest of the 2025-26 season. The Nittany Lions open their season with a t 4 of PSU's preseason -4.5 odds vs. OBD are likely based on home field advantage. Last season, OBD was 4-0 on the road vs. the B1G, 1-0 at the neutral site champ game vs. PSU. PSU is 12-8 in White Out games. PSU defeated UW in a White Out last season, but would have lost the WO if the WO game they wanted vs' TOSU wasn't benched by Fox. James Franklin is 1-18 vs. top 5 teams. His only win came against Ohio State in 2016. He's 3-17 vs. the top 10. Plus, he's never had to play a WO game with Forum Fanatics in attendance! 🤪 Way too early Week 5 predictions: Penn State v. Oregon VICTORYBELLRINGS.COM The Penn State football team's schedule starts out with what should be a warmup for the rest of the 2025-26 season. The Nittany Lions open their season with a t

What team in the 247 composite recruiting rankings has the highest per-player average ranking? OBD. Of course! 🦆 https://247sports.com/season/2026-football/compositeteamrankings/

I'll take 'Delusional' from Column A, 'Stupid' from Column B, and I most definitely do not want what the Italian guy ordered. 😁

Thank you, Mr. Editor, for doing your email to article magic. 😍 The SEC is doing the same thing over again in 2025 and expecting different results. Hmmm? The conference schedules in 2025 are the same, except for a change in the game venues. Georgia plays Bama, Texas, and Ole Miss at home this season instead of part of the brutal conference road schedule the Dawgs played in 2024. The media is gaga over 23andMe Archie Manning, but road games at Florida and Georgia, as well as rivalry games against Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas A&M, will challenge the Longhorns. Florida in The Swamp is a tough out, and QB DJ Lagway, and not a transfer from Yale, will likely be starting for the revenge-minded Gators. The out-of-conference schedule has three cupcakes for Bevo to trample, but as of today, Texas is a 3-point under-steer on the road vs. The Ohio State University. Texas returns zero starters at WR, and its 2024 stud TE is also in the NFL. One starter returns on the O-line. Could top 25 No. 1 preseason composite-ranked Texas miss the 2025-26 playoffs? I, of course, do not know, but I like Georgia to win the SEC, finish in the top four ranked teams, have a 1st round bye, and this season, win the Sugar Bowl and advance to the semifinals. Kirby Smart went 2-0 vs. Texas last season and repeated as the SEC champion with a schedule, as Kirby made note of to Greg Sankey while receiving the championship trophy, that was too Dawg gone difficult for any other team not named Georgia. Based on roster talent, the SEC could place four and possibly five teams in this season's playoffs, but it would not surprise me to see SEC title contenders with three losses again being stiffed by the committee. Have a great and safe 4th of July!

Cold Streak 🥶 Be Gone! 🥵 What cold streak? Oregon's recruiting class jumps into top-10 nationally WWW.SPORTINGNEWS.COM The trolls are awfully quiet about Oregon's recruiting class now

The Eye Sees Royal Purple for Recent Ducks Recruits - Latest college football commitments, graded: Which recruits truly move the needle? - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Our scoring model cuts through the stars and the buzz buzz to reveal which commitments actually change a program's outlook—and which ones are just window dressing.

"Oregon had the best people." 😍 Five-star OT Immanuel Iheanacho commits to Oregon - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM Offensive tackle Immanuel Iheanacho joins longtime Ducks tight end pledge Kendre' Harrison (No. 12 overall) and No. 1 safety Jett Washington as Oregon's third five-star commit in the 2026 class.

Hot July 4th weekend for OBD! Never doubt Danno! 👌👍😍

A NIKE for OBD, Of Course, and Corporate Sponsors for Other CFB Teams. These hypothetical college-sponsor corporate deals would break the internet SOARINGTOGLORY.COM The money being funnelled into college sports has become obscene. Between boosters and collectives amassing huge amounts of cash to boost recruiting efforts, re

Light Up the Fireworks! 🍻 5-Star OT Immanuel Iheanacho Commits to Oregon Ducks WWW.ON3.COM 2026 Baltimore (MD) Georgetown Preparatory School offensive tackle Immanuel Iheanacho has announced his commitment to the Oregon Ducks.

Geo, Done Deal! Nacho put his chips on OBD!😁

EA Sports is Latvia 😁 to the party. EA

EA Sports is Lat(via)e 😁 to the party. EA is the only site I have seen that ranks Alabama No. 1 in the preseason. EA must love Bama QB Ty Simpson's work with a mop in garbage time? 😴 Then again, Meand23 Archie is favored to win the Heisman. 🙈🙉🙊 In its top 25, EA ranks six B1G teams and 12 SEC teams. 🤔 OBD is ranked 9th, behind a Texas A&M team that is Blue Chip when it comes to its roster and Blue Spit by the end of the season. Texas and LSU share the ignominy of giving up a lead and losing late to SC last season. 🍻 EA ranks Clemson, which finished 2024 ranked No. 16 by the PO committee, ahead of OBD. In the last ten seasons, no team that finished the prior season ranked lower than 13th in the final committee ranking won a CFB championship the following season. Clemson is loaded with quality returning players, including a solid QB in Klubnik. However, these Tigers open with LSU, close with South Carolina, and, along with playing South Carolina on the road, have tough road games against Georgia Tech, in Atlanta's MB Stadium, and in Louisville against a team that defeated Clemson in 2024. Many of the same Clemson players on D who are highly touted coming into 2025 played on the 2024 team that gave up a lot of points and lost two close games in Death Valley. EA's most egregious faux pas is portraying Dan Lanning as a Zombie who forgot to shave.🥸 I know. We'll probably see Clemson vs. A&M in the title game. 🙃 Everyone have a great and safe 4th! Speaking of Zombies, I'll be entering my Cybernetic Chamber at 11:59 AM on July 4th, with instructions to be awakened when The Forum returns to the world of the living. 🦆

An under-the-radar player for the top 25 teams, who will have an impact. Malik Benson? One hopes Malik awakens from the spring game nap. Sleeper players for college football's top 25 teams in 2025 - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM These players could play a bigger role than expected for the 2025 season.

USC Women's Basketball Needs a General Manager? 🤪 USC women's basketball hires Selena Castillo as general manager TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Selena Castillo comes to USC from Duke, where she served as the program's director of external affairs

Can a school opt out of the settlement and be eligible for postseason play? NCAA's House settlement era begins, shaking up college athletics as some schools opt out APNEWS.COM The NCAA’s House settlement era has launched, with athletic programs across the country free to start paying millions to their athletes in the biggest change in the history of college athletics.

Phil Steele is sending out a B1G SOS - He ranks the Badgers' SOS as the most difficult in college football. Phil Steele ranks Big Ten Football schedules from toughest to easiest - On3 WWW.ON3.COM . And here's the ranking of the "Loyal Opposition's" 😧schedules. Phil Steele ranks SEC Football schedules from toughest to easiest - On3 WWW.ON3.COM . The strength of mega conference schedules is not close to even. Why Tony Petitti wants B1G AQs and why he wants the SEC playing a like number of conference games. What would the win percentage be for an SEC team's opponents if the SEC played 9 conference games? 9-4 South Carolina finished the season 6-1, not 6-0, with the loss coming in the Gamecocks bowl game against 10-3 Illinois. Michigan coach Sherrone Moore's two-game suspension, handed down by the Michigan AD, does not begin at the start of the season. Moore is suspended for games 3 and 4.

Oregon's commits ranked second per recruit to LSU. It's July, I'll take Quality over Quantity, especially when many programs are overpaying for recruits. The author advises OBD fans not to go Quackers, and chill 🥶 out. I've seen several comments on the board questioning and criticizing OBD's recruiting efforts to date. It's early in the recruiting day, and the players 'committed' to Qregon are top drawer. Don't worry, be happy! 😍 College football recruiting panic index: Should Auburn, Colorado slow summers be cause for concern? - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM As recruiting heats up for the 2026 class, these prominent programs are trailing behind. But is it time to panic?

Until there's a Natty, or two, in the trophy case, OBD will be overlooked. I was listening to an interview with ASU QB Sam Leavitt. The two guys doing the questioning noted Dilly's time and great learning curve under Mike Norvell at Memphis, with nothing regarding his time spent with Dan and OBD.

Tony Petitti on the PO expanding to 16 with automatic qualifiers. 'This format means better OOC games.' Big Ten boss pitches playoff tweak, says more AQs will boost non-league matchups HUSKERCORNER.COM Tony Petitti argues extra Big Ten auto bids and a 16-team CFP would spark tougher non-conference games. I'm happy that Tony is speaking up. He's not falling for the SEC 5-11 while continuing to play 8 conference games. The B12 voting for the 5-11 format is also dependent, at least as of today, on the SEC playing 9 conference games. Missouri does play Kansas OOC, but also plays LA-LA, UMass, and Central Arkansas. MO. misses Georgia, Texas, Ole Miss, Florida, and LSU. 😜 The 8 conference game ACC? UNC plays TCU and UCF OOC, which gives the Tar Heels 10 P4 opponents, but misses Miami, FSU, Louisville, SMU, and Pitt. No consensus on the format? Fine, stay with a 12-team field through the 2031-32 season. This will cost the B1G and the SEC multi-millions of postseason money, but the B1G brings in more revenue than the SEC. A stalemate hurts the SEC's bottom line more than the B1G's bottom line.

😴 🙃🤬 It's All a Huge Mis-State 🤪 Pac-12 officially announces Texas State as new member of conference - On3 WWW.ON3.COM . Gould blew through the purloined Pac-12 Gold for this? 🤑 🤮

Rece Davis agrees, CFB needs collective bargaining. But why would the athletes who have everything in their favor agree to bargain anything away? Join the 'Union' or you can't play? How would this work in right-to-work states? One Union for all sports? The Moneyball sports only? Do revenue sports have the same issues as nonrevenue sports? Rece Davis suggests 'only answer' to stop college football tampering is collective bargaining WWW.ON3.COM . Atlas Shrugged, no more athletic scholarships, every sport is a club sport, may be the only way to force Congress to provide schools with relief from litigation. How do you decide who is in the Union, who manages the Union, and what constitutes Management?

Day 1 - I'MM NO Rutgers.😁 Day 2 - M-N-O-P ...... W W? 🧑‍🎓 Day 3 - I'M'S PUS 🤓 - LA schools are appropriately at the end of the line. 🦨 What they deserve for all of the traveling whine.

Nothing better than late July in Vegas. 🥵 🥵 🥵