Jon Joseph

The same could be said for SC and Oregon's schedules compared to Ohio State. But the Oklahoma and Texas schedules remain the same with different home and away venues in 2025 while Ohio State and Michigan drop off the Ducks schedule. With Super Sized conferences, the intra-conference SOS will vary widely. I am surprised many SEC ADs did not raise a stink over repeat schedules in 2025. 16 teams and 8 conference games? Are you a conference or an ATM? O’Gara: It’s wild how much tougher Oklahoma’s Year 1 SEC schedule looks compared to Texas WWW.SATURDAYDOWNSOUTH.COM The Sooners got the short end of the stick for 2024 as they enter the SEC.

We'll see. 10/12/24! Can Ohio State's Jeremiah Smith, No. 1 recruit in 2024, set new standard for freshman receivers? - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The company Smith will try to keep in 2024 includes names like Julio Jones, A.J. Green and Sammy Watkins Will Muhammad shut this guy down? The kid looked great in the Buckeyes spring game.

Pac-12 releases? Get A Grip!

CBS announces 2024 early games B1G broadcasts. CBS will be B1G at 3:30 eastern instead of SEC. 2024 Big Ten on CBS schedule: Notre Dame vs. Purdue, Michigan vs. USC, Big Ten Championship Game announced - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Two game selections for the early weeks of the regular season are set as the Big Ten headlines on CBS

No way that OSU and WSU will meet the ACC requirements for membership, at least before the ACC implodes. B12, maybe? But ESPN/Fox would have to find the money and believe these two to be accretive. To make this happen the Pac-2 could agree to lesser shares. Taking a media haircut for a few years would make sense with the Pac-10 $uckers money on hand. Cal joined a P4 conference did it not? Cal didn't get as much money as UCLA because SFO is a bad market for college sports and the Cal administration has done little or nothing to fund and promote football. But UCLA owes Cal money? Think USC is happy that it's a private school? SC played Cal every season in CFB but is off to the B1G without paying Calimony. Perhaps John Canzano lobbied on behalf of Cal. If the House case is settled will Cal be able to come up with $20M+ a year to fund revenue sharing? Ditto, UCLA? Will the administrations of the two schools agree to pay to play in the championship tier of CFB and Men's CBB? Is there enough booster money to pay the cost? Extra cost to make sure the athletes are not brutalized by plane travel. When Minnesota played UW during the Gophers 3-year title run the round trip took eight days. Thanks, Darren. Oregon is ranked No. 8 in portal pickings because Dan filled needs and not an entire roster.

Baker is Bullish. Charlie Baker seeks 'clarity' for college sports amid settlement talks WWW.NYTIMES.COM Baker said Monday that he wouldn’t put a hard deadline on the organization’s decision on a proposed settlement in House v. NCAA.

Going to Corvallis: 'It's like Czechoslovakia, it's like going into Wisconsin. I went to Corvallis once and Lane County got the whey kicked out of it to the tune of @$8M.'

DC, good take. But the 2024-25 and 2025-26 schedules were already filled without shoehorning in 2 games versus the Nutrias.

I would have accepted it better if the bag had come from a judge after litigating the matter instead of the Pac-10 simply bending over.

Horse Hockey! Every time JC goes whiney on behalf of the Pac-2 I make certain to comment that in summary, JC is full up with fecal matter. This is a 'choice?' being a beta site for Apple at less than $30M a year or receiving more than half this amount as a junior partner and likely to receive $100M+ as a full partner come 2031. And something is owed after bending over, 'settling' a case with no claim for damages for $350M+ and going through hoops to cancel a home game vs a P4 opponent to play a G5 team on the road. Give me a break. But it's pay site and JC needs the dues.

Author David Kenyon, a Central Michigan grad FWIW, is Buying five SEC teams to win the 2024-25 championship. Huh? Lay down your money evenly on Missouri, Ole Miss, Bama, Texas, and UGA and you will not get much of a return. With LSU playing Ole Miss, Bama, and Oklahoma at home and the two toughest road games at A+M and Florida, I think the Bayou Bengals have a decent shot at making the Delightful Dozen; you have to make the field before you can win a title. But LSU at +1500 based on the schedules, Mizzou at Bama, and A+M and gets its other top 30 ranked opponent, Oklahoma at home, at +3000 is the better bet. Buying both Ohio State and Oregon makes some sense as both have an excellent chance to be in the field. No matter the QB for Ohio State, I think Oregon with Gabriel will have the better QB. Oregon at +900 and Ohio State at +425 would have me place a bet on the Ducks. Frankly, I don't think these odds support a bet so far out in the future. Clemson and FSU are both Buys? Clemson plays at FSU in a battle of under-achieving QBs, DJU, and Clemson's Klublik. Clemson opens against UGA in Atlanta which will likely be a loss. FSU travels to Notre Dame, and Clemson misses Notre Dame. One or the other could be a decent bet, maybe? I don't think that any ACC team has the chops to win it all. Will a 10-2 Notre Dame with a 12-game schedule and no champ game be in the running for a playoff spot? I'd like to think not. I think ND will lose the bookend games, at A+M to open and at USC to close, and will lose one more game, FSU or possibly Louisville or an upset loss, to finish 9-3. At least I hope so. The ND independent scam will hopefully end come 2026. There is no reason for the Power 2 to bend over for Notre Dame. Thanks for the post.

Michigan vs Ohio State - The B1Ggest rivalry in sports? Thus says Buckeyes Wire. I think that Ohio State at Oregon on 10/12/24 will be a prime-time game, 4:30 Pacific time kick-off, and the Penn State at USC game the same weekend could be played on Friday night. PSU would be coming off a home game vs UCLA and USC off an away game vs Minnesota. I don't believe the teams would be happy about a short week before the game. There are so many impactful games on 10/12 including Oklahoma vs Texas that there will be broadcast conflicts. Fox Big Noon Kickoff will be at Ohio State on November 30 BUCKEYESWIRE.USATODAY.COM No surprise here. #GoBucks

Hmmmmh? I'd like to see the receipt. This from UW boosters for a CBB player. Kentucky, UConn, and maybe Indiana I would understand, but UW? What was the reporter's source? I can see $2M for an all-conference transfer QB but not this. Money from the Tournament if UW qualifies, will be split evenly among B1G members through 2030. Where is the ROI here? More folks tuning into the B1G Network will not yield a return for UW. No comprende. Nonetheless, thanks for the post.

Hello, Triple A, please send someone to pick me up from the floor. 🤣

A center jump after every basket. No shot clock. Two-handed set shots. There were 3 point plays but no such thing as a 3 point line. 'Things' continue to evolve in sports and the evolution seems to come faster every year. Certainly the athletes, male and female are bigger, faster, and stronger than when the Tall Firs were hooping it up. Thanks for the blast from the past.

Terrific take, thank you. Dan via recruiting and portal picking, is doing all he can to assemble a Georgia-like D that won a couple of national titles. As to big body guys from the West Coast, Korey Foreman is now playing ball for Fresno State. I recall a 5* recruit from the Islands not so long ago who never got on the field. As you noted Duckster, you have to cast a nationwide net for agile, mobile, and hostile run stuffers; run stuffers who can also pressure the QB. And have an eye for true talent and not just the stars next to a recruit's name. Oregon did bring Haloti Ngata out of Portland to Eugene but missed on Ndamukong Suh. Would Dan have missed out on Suh? Recruiting today at Oregon is far different from when Mike Bellotti was the head coach. As noted above, get over the final hurdle and bring a Natty to Eugene, and guys from the southeast and the Midwest will join the flock in Eugene. Thanks again.

Got enough guts? History tells us, "NO!" When it comes to litigating, the Pac-10 Prez have bent over, under, and through more than a yoga instructor. They may be invited to the B12 in 2025-26, but I don't see it happening with the schedule already in place. The two draw on average, at least when in the Pac-12, more viewers than several B12 teams. One way to be accretive is to copy SMU and receive nothing in media revenue for the next five seasons. I don't think that ESPN and Fox are in any hurry to pay the price for adding these two programs.

ESPN updates House and other antitrust litigation settlement discussions. A Multi-Billion dollar industry without proactive leadership; no wonder college sports are under attack. The NFL has antitrust protection from Congress because the players have a union. I do not see Congress stepping in unless college sports and the athletes can collectively bargain. The idea as discussed in the article that athletes would have the opportunity to 'appeal' the settlement every year is senseless. A plaintiff's lawyer trying to pave the way for a $2.7B settlement. This would yield a very nice payday for the plaintiff's lawyers. What a possible multibillion-dollar NCAA antitrust settlement means for college sports - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM The NCAA and its schools are considering a deal to settle its antitrust cases. What would this mean for paying players, NIL collectives and non-power schools? This is not 'fun stuff' to ponder. But the future of big-time CFB is dependent on the B1G/SEC getting a deal done in the absence of any leadership from the NCAA. Make no mistake, it is the two big-boy conferences and their media partners, leading the way. The B1G/SEC are not doing this with 'charity' in mind. A new look CFB will be molded by the Power 2.

A few spring practice takes. It's nice to see Dillon G's photo with the Heisman discussion. The top storylines coming out of 2024 spring football practices WWW.YARDBARKER.COM College football spring practices and games have passed, but there is plenty to discuss. Here are some notable happenings from 2024's spring action. Statistics in parenthesis are from 2023...

From MLB on down if you win every series you will win titles. Thanks again for the updates.😁

Refs from, TA-DA, the Big Ten. I lose sleep when I think of Gene Chizak with a Natty. Although Geno did a heck of a job, winning the 'NIL battle' for the services of $cam. And it was Chip and Oregon sanctioned for recruiting violations? Diogenes, where are you?

In the NFL, will the AFL eat and destroy the NFL or vice versa? How about "NO!" BTW, Show Me the Money! It may not be kind to the Cyclones of the CFB world but the marketplace will decide which ACC and B12 teams make the final cut. Proposing an 80-team playoff is the last gasp from the folks left behind.

How about 'Stumble?' His climb to the top has resembled that of Sisyphus. What exactly is there to swagger about? The bowl loss to Rutgers? This from the guy who received the largest one-year coaching compensation in the history of CFB. Someone call a Time Out! And Thank You Canes' boosters; boosters who must have missed the Stony Brook broadcast. Or perhaps, the Fiesta Bowl laydown vs. Iowa State? It's ALL Good.

Be kind to your fine feathered friends, 'cause a Duck could be somebody's Mother.

DM, a very reasonable comment; however, with NIL and a wide-open transfer portal, I think there are more than two or three teams that could win a CFB championship. If FSU had not been given a stiff arm by the committee, the SEC would likely have been left out of the playoff with the SEC champ game eliminating UGA and Bama's loss to B12 champ Texas benching the Tide. 13-0 FSU, with a healthy starting QB, UW, Texas, and Michigan would have been the Final 4. In particular, FSU would not have gone 13-0 without bringing in top players from the portal, including RB Trey Benson from Oregon. Players were incented to relocate to Tallahassee, in part, by NIL. I'm reasonably certain that the 2024-25 playoff games will set many viewing records. I hope that in 2026 we will see more on-campus games. These games will bring a level of excitement and interest that is not often seen in bowl games. I expect the twelve-team field and seeding will come down to the wire in the P4 and the G5.