Jon Joseph

Scuttlebutt has it that the B1G and the SEC are seriously considering a 24-team playoff and are working with ESPN, the ACC, and the B12 to see if the CFB calendar could be changed to make this happen in 2027. I am not here as an advocate, only as an informant. But I do note that if the NCAA had managed the 'Division 1' postseason years ago, the playoff field would have had a 24-team field. Four teams from the ACC, B1G, B12, and the SEC would be in the field. Two teams from the G6 would be included, along with six at-large teams. Using the PO committee's latest ranking, this would be the PO field. The top eight seeds would host a second-round playoff game. 1. Ohio State vs. 17 USC at 16 Texas. 2. Indiana vs. 18 UVA at 15 Michigan. 3. Texas A&M vs. 19 Tennessee at 14 Vanderbilt 4. Georgia vs. 20 ASU at 13 Utah 5. Texas Tech vs. 21 SMU at 12 Miami 6. OREGON vs. 22. Pitt at 11. BYU 7. Ole Miss vs. 23 Tulane at 10 Alabama 8. Oklahoma vs. 24 JMU at 9 Notre Dame. Other than for 'The Good of the Game', I see no reason why any conference, and Notre Dame, would not favor this format. Put the Dawgs Down in Seattle!

Lane's No. 7 Rebels don't miss a beat-down of the Cowboy Crazies, 38-19—no bowl for Miss Stark, and a worse loss for ASU in Starkville. Post-game, Lane Spur(ns) the Gators. Still no clue on whether he will Baton down LSU?

8-4 Iowa shucks the Huskers, 40-17. Thank you, H, for pointing out that the win in Iowa City in a monsoon was not insignificant. A 4-loss Iowa deserves to be ranked over a 4-loss AZ or ASU.

Not These TWO, but 11 Utes, pluck Jay's Hawks - 31-21. No. 13 Utah finishes 10-2.

Ducks Wire - Three Keys to Defeating UWho. https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/11/28/oregon-ducks-three-keys-victory-washington-huskies-football/87490930007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGba My three? 1. Score 2. More. 3. Points! 😁😁😁

How about this late Thanksgiving tidbit about the turkey who is coaching in South Central. 😁😁😁 https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/trojans/football/2025/11/28/athletic-criticizes-lincoln-riley-usc-football-program/87496187007/?utm_source=smg-trojanswire-strada&utm_medium=email&u

Thank you, Jordan, for the A++ article; a great, fact-filled, and humorous read. Last season, Ohio State hosted a 1st round PO game. The Buckeyes destroyed Tennessee 42-17 in Columbus, before playing in some obscure bowl game. 🤬 A win in Seattle and 11-1 finish, guarantees a PO home game in Autzen. As you so noted, after defeating UWho (knock wood), on December 6th, please, football gods, let the Oregon players and fans watch Cigs and Bucks do battle in Indy to determine the B1G team that gets the higher one through four seeding. Thanks again, and GO DUCKS!

Now on CBS, Iowa at Nebraska - Come On Hawkeyes! - We need the SOS.

Don't Give Up the Ship! 9-2 Navy sank Memphis last evening, 28-17. The two losses came against Notre Dame, with Navy's starting QB out, of course, and to fellow American Conference member, North Texas. Navy has clinched a tie for 1st place in the conference and is in the (sea)hunt for the PO's G6 spot. https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/tecza-horvath-help-navy-beat-035751665.html

With Lane possibly post-game missing, will the Ole Miss players give an Egg about today's game or, will they be missing. As Nick Saban pointed out on the last GameDay, it's terrible to have the players put into this position. In this week's press conference, Kiffin said the players are 'transaction oriented' and don't care that much about who is coaching them. 🤮 Good luck to the program that makes a guy who has won nothing of note the highest paid coach in CFB history.

Thank the heavens for CFB Turkey Ball - 37 impact games? 20 Short of Heinz Ketchup, but ... ESPN.com37 games with postseason implications to fill your Rivalr...As if the intensity of rival games weren't enough, there are high stakes everywhere you look this weekend.

Drinks all around in CoMo, Coach Drink ain't MOving. The largest contract Bear Bryant signed at Bama was in 1982 for $450,000.00. $1.48 million in today's dollars. ESPN.comDrinkwitz agrees to new 6-year deal with MissouriMissouri has agreed to a new six-year contract with coach Eliah Drinkwitz with an average annual compensation of $10.75 million, the school announced Thursday.

Thanks to you and yours, Danno. ❤️❤️❤️ Bring a Ducky win back from Seattle with you. 👌👍😍 Oregon Ducks On SIOregon's Dan Lanning Shares What He’s Grateful For and Fa...It’s rivalry week, but it’s also Thanksgiving... a perfect combination for Oregon fans who are thankful to see the Ducks head north for a Saturday showdown with

54 Million reasons to be thankful. I doubt BK will share any of this with the AD who fired him. 😁 The 'cause'? "You didn't win a Natty! Even Eddie O and Les, who, fortunately, is now Miles away, won a Natty here! Get lost!" He's not without baggage, but if you want to play for a Natty Penn State? AP NewsLSU confirms Kelly was fired 'without cause' and is owed...Former LSU coach Brian Kelly has received a letter from LSU confirming that he was fired without cause and is owed his full $54 million buyout.

My Forum Friends, may you and yours have a blessed and bountiful Thanksgiving. ❤️❤️❤️ Charles has given us a terrific place to Quack, and without having to Duck for cover. 😁 (And I thank those of you who can suffer through my run-on posts and comments without falling asleep. 😴)

Rumor has it that next man up for Beavis, is head coach Joseph Smith? Not from the BYU Cougars, this Joe is the HC of the Linfield University Wildcats. 🤪 Linfield AD, and former MLB player, Scott Brosius, promises to use some of his and/or Pat McAfee's $$$ to match the offer from Beavis and keep Joe mellow in McMinnville. My confidential sources tell me that Joe's Agent, Jimmy GPS, Jimmy Sexton's 4th cousin twice removed, has told Brosius he wants a deal done for Smitty before the next millennium. Makes sense. No one, including John Canzano, wants Beavis in coaching purgatory beyond 2099. In other big-time college football news, this Saturday, having dispatched Colby College, Bowdoin College will try to master Bates College. 😁

The college coaching carousel. Never a DeBoering Moment. EssentiallySportsKalen DeBoer’s Future Enters a Do-or-Die Window as Penn S...As Alabama enters rivalry week, pressure mounts on Kalen DeBoer while Penn State quietly positions itself for a blockbuster coaching move.

With JMU in the hunt for the G6 12th seed, I think Chesney will wait until he knows whether JMU is in or out. I have no idea, based on performance, why anyone thinks Kiffin is worth $14 million a season—more than Kirby Smart, Ryan Day, and Dabo, who have won championships. Kiffin had Ole Miss on the cusp of the PO last season, and his team choked at Florida. This season, Ole Miss had the SEC's 5th easiest conference schedule and played dog meat out of conference. Kiffin won a conference championship at G5 FAU, and that's it. He is not a great recruiter. His rosters at Ole Miss have been built on players from the portal. With Kiffin noting in his pre-Egg Bowl press conference that today's players care about money and not who their coach is, I think he's off to Florida or LSU. Don't blame me for leaving. If the players don't care about who is coaching them, why should I stick around Oxford town?🤬 The Ole Miss AD has said the program will match any salary offers. If he's smart, which is debatable, he'll stick around. He'll have a two-year haven't won a Natty yet grace period at LSU and perhaps three years at Florida. I believe better coaches will be hired for less money. Including Tulane coach Jon Sumrall, who will be hired to replace Kiffin if Lane heads down the lane. 😁

North Texas HC Eric Morris is moving on and up and will be on the sidelines when OBD visits Stillwater in 2026. I expect he will bring many Mean Green players along with him. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/oklahoma-state-eric-morris-coach-north-texas-mike-gundy/?ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0b&ET_CID=493117&ET_RID=52482716

One example. Massey Rankings Oregon SOS No. 20. Texas Tech's SOS is ranked 51st by Massey. The Committee's metrics cannot be that much different than Massey's. The Massey rankings take every meaningful CFB stat into play, except perhaps for the color of the Red Raiders' socks.😁 This is not a Playoff. It is bowl extrvaganza owned and operated by a media entity. The CBB Committee throughout the season lets fans know the quality of wins and losses across 4 quadrants. But they have one top 16 sneak peek before 'judgement day' and that's it; not a six week sideshow. I sense support for the Big Ten's PO format growing.

Man vs. Machine. The committee has come 4th with a ranking we can translate to a 12-team PO field and compare the committee's rankings with the Massey Computer rankings. COMMITTEE MASSEY 1. Ohio State 1. Ohio State 2. Indiana 2. Indiana 3. A&M 3. Oregon +3 4. Georgia 4. Georgia 5. TX Tech 5. A&M -2 6. Oregon 6. Notre Dame +3 7. Ole Miss 7. Alabama +3 8. Oklahoma 8. Ole Miss -1 9. No. Dame 9. Oklahoma -1 10. Alabama 10. TX Tech -5 11. Miami 17. Miami +6 12. Tulane 37. Tulane -25 (Massey would have No. 36 JMU at 12.) The Massey Computer has no concern over OBD's schedule, but is concerned about the Texas Tech schedule. SOS: OBD 20 - TX Tech 51 With a game left at Washington, Massey No. 19, OBD will finish with a schedule ranked 15. With a game left at West Virginia, Massey No. 66, the Red Raiders finish with the 54th most difficult schedule. Massey's Computer Ratings are well respected. Can the Committee's machines be that much different from Massey's? If so, we'll never know. The computer favors 2-loss Notre Dame, No. 6, over 2-loss No. 17 Miami by 11 spots. So much for head-to-head results. In this case, it looks like the Committee's computers agree with Massey. Again, we'll never know. Committee - 5 SEC, 3 B1G, 1 ACC, B12, Notre Dame, G6. Massey - 5 SEC, 3 B1G, 1 ACC, B12, Notre Dame, G6. The same number of conference members in the PO fields, with a higher Massey seeding for OBD and far lower for Texas Tech. The Committee is far more impressed by the B12 than is Massey. 3-loss ASU and Arizona are ranked, and not 3-loss Washington? 8-3 Washington, Massey No. 19/SOS 39. UW 12 game SOS - 24 (The power of OBD) 8-3 ASU, Massey No. 24/ 31 SOS has a Week 13 case. ASU 12 game SOS - 35 8-3 Arizona, Massey No. 28/SOS 53, when compared to UW, has a weak Week 13 case, and a weaker than UW, Week 14 case. AZ 12 game SOS - 51 If the Committee's metrics are not much different than Massey, and how much data input difference can there be, the Gurus of Grapevine use metrics when they so choose, and go by their gut when they want to. Greg Sankey may well have access to the Committee metrics. 'Logically," there can't be anything justifying Alabama with four wins against the Committee's top 25, being ranked on the cusp at No. 10. Sankey's 2024-25 concerns over the Committee valuing a team's losses and what teams you lost to more than what teams you defeated, seems to have continued into this season, enhanced metrics or not. Back channel, and with ESPN extending the new PO format date from December 1st to January 23, 2026, between the SEC and the B1G are likely happening, with the SEC with no objection from one bid ACC and B12, possibly moving closer to an automatic qualifier (AQ) PO format. Another thing moving the parties toward an AQ, many programs are making it known that a 13th conference champ game is not a reward for teams looking forward to a 16 or 17 game season. With all teams ranked above OBD being strong favorites in Week 14, OBD may have reached its PO zenith at No. 6. Mari-oh-oh in Autzen? Bring It On! GO DUCKS! Waste Washington!

The Big Today show is repeated throughout the day on BTN. Today's show includes a terrific take from Urban Meyer on the program Dan has built at Oregon, including praising Oregon's backup OL players for their effort in the game vs. USC. And, there are many minutes dedicated to this Saturday's game at UW. GO DUCKS!

Some More on the Chaos Front from SI - Of course, all of this stuff means every favorite will win and cover, right? 👌👍😁 Fine with me, I want to watch a PO game in Autzen. Dear Pat, Indiana plays Purdue on Friday night, not Saturday. Really a witch to check and get right, right? 🤬 It's OK, and have a really swell day. 😁 SICollege Football Playoff Scenarios Leave Room for Chaos i...Nothing is set in stone in the CFP, but there are a few near-locks (and lots of potential drama) as we await the final decisive slate of the regular season.

Border War Games - Missouri vs Kansas, and Colorado State vs Wyoming. Backyard Brawl - Pitt vs West Virginia How about - Duck Duck, Woof? Dog Day Afternoon? Brake for Animals? On the Waterfront? Feathers vs Fur? Or how about, NONE OF THE ABOVE! 🤪

Forum Friends, are you OK with the moniker 'Cascade Clash'? Whatever it's called- Neuter the Huckies! FanSidedThe Ultimate Guide to College Football’s 2025 Rivalry Wee...From CFP-shifting showdowns to century-old feuds, here’s your complete guide to every must-watch rivalry game.