Jon Joseph

Scarlet + Grey (Ohio State site) with some love for the Ducks? Other Big Ten teams besides the Ohio State football team who can make the CFP SCARLETANDGAME.COM The Ohio State football team isn't the only Big Ten team who has a chance to make the new 12-team College Football Playoff.

How many games will Michigan have to win in 2024 to be a playoff team? Calculating Michigan football wins needed for College Football Playoff at-large bid GBMWOLVERINE.COM The 2024 college football season is going to be the first that features the 12-team playoff. As far as Michigan footballfourth is concerned, that provides a gre Maize and Brew make a guess here but until we receive data from the PO Committee the answer is 'Who knows?' Let's take a look at a couple of M + M's. Sports Illustrated (SI) ranks Michigan as having the 10th most difficult schedule in the nation in 2024. SI ranks Missouri's schedule as the 127th most difficult. Mizzou will play Two, Dos, II, Due, teams in 2024 that won eight or more games in 2023. Oklahoma in CoMo, and Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Michigan will play seven teams with eight or more wins in 2023, including two of 2023-24's playoff participants. Fresno State, App State (what could go wrong?), Texas, USC, UW, OREGON, and Ohio State. It's down to 10-2 Mizzou, with a loss to Bama, OK, or both, and 9-3 Michigan for the 7th at-large spot in the playoff. Playoff Committee, which team gets the nod? December 8, 2024, could become a second Day of Infamy for college football fans.

NCAA - The lawyers' lifeline. 'WE never win, but WE get paid!'

Danno coming in 2nd is impressive.

Athlon's take on the B1G race. https://athlonsports.com/college-football/big-ten-football-2024-predictions

CBS Sports ranks Danno as one of the B1G's best head coaches. Big Ten coach rankings 2024: Ryan Day recaptures No. 1 spot as Lincoln Riley, Dan Lanning debut in top five - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Ranking the Big Ten coaches ahead of the 2024 season as the conference welcomes four new members "Sorry, Linc but I am not about to share the secrets to recruiting. Maybe you should ask Chip Kelly?"

Maryland in the Big Ten: From 'what are we doing?' to 'amazing decision' WWW.NYTIMES.COM There’s more enthusiasm for the Big Ten around College Park than there was during the school's muted celebration in 2014. I posted this article elsewhere on OBD today. The more I pondered the article I felt it was worth a separate subject post as the concerns Maryland fans and administrators went through ten years ago are with Oregon today. Without the move to the B1G, Maryland powers-that-be knew they would not have enough revenue to adequately sponsor and fund varsity athletics. Maryland recognized (as Clemson and Florida State have recognized) that the ACC was not going to produce and provide adequate income to allow the Terps to compete at championship levels. ( Why can't John Canzano, Jon Wilner, Ashley Adamson, and unspooled Beavers and Cougars fans figure THIS out? It's painful but it's the Real World of business and not the mythology of the Student-Athlete playing after-school sports,) As a founding member of the ACC in 1953, it was difficult to decide to go B1G. The campus was split and there were a lot of angry Maryland alumni. Today, Maryland has thrived in sports like lacrosse, soccer, and men's and women's basketball. A once-insolvent athletic department usually finishes close to breaking even or in the black. The trepidations of a decade ago have disappeared. The Terps are happy campers who wish their football team would do something B1G!

Thanks, Ryan, but I am mindful of your caveat: Time will tell if Dan's recruiting will result in on-field championships. To date, Dan has not won a conference championship. The recruiting is en fuego, no doubt. The coaching except for needing to perhaps improve in-game decision making is there. Hopefully, Dan and friends will stay on this run through early signing day and translate the recruiting and portal success to a title on Oregon's maiden B1G voyage. 👍👍👍

I hope Oregon will be hoisting the B1G Trophy; however, I do have some of Geroge Schwartz's hesitation built in. The schedule is difficult. Only once this season will Oregon have two conference games back-to-back in Autzen, 10/5 vs Michigan State and 10/12 vs Ohio State. Sports Illustrated (SI) ranks Oregon as having the 5th most difficult schedule in the nation. Ohio State's schedule is ranked as the 57th most difficult. Ohio State and Michigan play 8 home games. Oregon had 8 home games on the schedule but now has 7. Byes in week 4 and the penultimate week of the season is a bad draw. This results in 8 conference games in a row without a break. The last 4 of the 8 are a yo-yo: Illinois; at Michigan; Maryland, with the Terps coming off of a bye week, and, at Wisconsin, with the Badgers coming off of a bye week. SI ranks USC with the 2nd toughest schedule in the nation but this is due to the Trojans playing LSU and Notre Dame out of conference. Oregon has the most difficult schedule in the B1G conference in 2024. It's doable no doubt. But it will not be an easy row to hoe, including having to most likely match up with Ohio State again in the B1G champ game on 12/7/24 in Indianapolis, 175 miles from Columbus and 2262 miles from Eugene. I love everyone's enthusiasm and hope Danno and company will make it so.

Many Terps fans concerned about the move to the B1G a decade ago are now delighted. Slow and steady wins the race. Maryland in the Big Ten: From 'what are we doing?' to 'amazing decision' WWW.NYTIMES.COM There’s more enthusiasm for the Big Ten around College Park than there was during the school's muted celebration in 2014.

With Saban's retirement only 3 active coaches have won a national championship - Kirby Smart, Dabo Swinney, and Mack Brown. Today, these 3 have to deal only with 8 and not 9 conference games in the regular season. This is an elite company. Any criticism of a coach entering his third season for not winning a title is way off base. And winning a title is not getting easier. CFB has gone from the media deciding titles, a title could be won even if a team decided not to play in a bowl game, to winning one postseason game, then two games, and today, having to win three or four postseason games. Further, in the next two seasons, the playoff format and game venues provide advantages for teams located in the south. In 2024, Oregon is one of 16 schools with a Blue Chip Roster but the only Power 4 school playing eight weeks straight without a break. The Ducks' 2024 SOS is No. 5. Ohio State's SOS is 57. Keep up the good fight under Danno and titles will come. Not all schedules are created equally. This season Rutgers misses Iowa, Michigan, Oregon, Ohio State, and Penn State, and plays UCLA and UW in Jersey. In 2025, Oregon will play neither Michigan nor Ohio State. Kick the damn ball off! Vandalize the Vandals!

6 B1G teams currently reside in the 2025 recruiting top 25 - Wisconsin, Rutgers, Penn State, Michigan, OREGON and Ohio State. 10 of the 16 SEC teams are in the top 26.

Welcome to the New College Landscape: How Each Power Four Conference Stacks Up WWW.SI.COM The SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC each gain members as the great migration in college athletics officially begins today. Check out all of the NCAA titles won by the (New) SEC in 2023-24. WOW!

Phil Steele - Oregon WRs are a B1G Deal! Phil Steele: Top 25 Wide Receiver Unit Rankings ahead of 2024 college football season - On3 WWW.ON3.COM The college football season grows closer by the day, which means it's prediction season for college football magazine mogul Phil Steele. I wonder what Buckeyes fans think about this?

From Traveler's mouth. One fact shows how much Oregon has surpassed USC in football recruiting SPORTS.YAHOO.COM The numbers don't lie when Oregon and USC football recruiting are discussed. Nuck, nuck, nuck 🤣.

Bye, bye Pac-12 and you too Pac-2. As the calendar flips to July, the ACC, Big Ten and Big 12 expand while the Pac-12 is officially down to two teams SPORTS.YAHOO.COM The Pac-12 is officially a two-team league.

Looks like you have to win a Natty to tick off fan bases coast to coast. Alabama = The New York Yankees. IMO, along with many others, Notre Dame is and has been the most obnoxious program in the USA. Many Ohio State fans appear to be unspooled. Ryan Day has lost 3 B1G games since his hire in 2019. Unfortunately, all have been to That Team Up North. tOSU fans are the most obnoxious in the B1G. Although SC is close. Today, SC fans would vote Oregon as the most annoying. SC is losing recruiting battles to Danno far more than to Ryan Day. Come 2026-27 and it may well be Oregon that's at the top of the B1G - 'Take your ball Puddles, and fly home' list.'

College Football Playoff Announces 2024-25 Kick Times and Broadcast Schedule for 2024-25 Playoff on ESPN and TNT Sports - College Football Playoff COLLEGEFOOTBALLPLAYOFF.COM College Football Playoff Announces 2024-25 Kick Times and Broadcast Schedule for 2024-25 Playoff on ESPN and TNT Sports The above posting shows the critical dates for the 2024-25 College Football 12-Team Playoff. The Playoff Committee will release the Playoff field and seeding on December 8, 2024, the day after conference champ games are concluded. The B1G and the SEC will play their champ games on December 7, 2024. The Playoff's top four-seeded teams will consist of the four highest-ranked conference champions. The fifth-highest-ranked conference champion will also be in the field in addition to seven at-large teams as ranked by the Committee. The B1G and the SEC champs will likely be seeded No. 1 and 2. The ACC and B12 champs will likely be seeded No. 3 and 4. The highest-ranked Group of 5 teams (G5) will likely be seeded 12th. The top 4-seeds will have a 1st round bye and will have to win three games to win the Playoff title. Teams seeded 5-12 will have to win four games to win the championship. The first playoff game will be contested on the home field of a team seeded 5 through 8 on Friday, December 20th, 2024. The three other first-round games will be played on the home fields of the higher-seeded teams on Saturday, December 21st. A much shorter interval between Selection Sunday and the 1st-round games than with a 4-team playoff. The Fiesta Bowl will host a quarter-final game on Tuesday, December 31, 2024, with kickoff set for 4 PM Pacific time. (All other times are also Pacific.) The Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl, and Sugar Bowl quarter-final games will be played on January 1, 2025, at 10 AM, 2 PM, and 5 PM respectively. I have seen a good deal of confusion as to what bowl game a conference champion will play in. Unlike the 4-team playoff, the two highest-seeded teams will not have their choice of bowls in which to participate. The B1G champion will be in the Rose Bowl. The SEC champion in the Sugar Bowl. The ACC champion in the Peach Bowl*, and the B12 champion in the Fiesta Bowl. (See a possible exception for the ACC and B12 champs below.) For example, if Georgia is the No.. 1 seed, it will not have the choice of playing in the Peach Bowl in Atlanta. The Dawgs will play in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. Now that that's been straightened out (kind of,) the semi-final games will be played on Thursday, January 9, 2025, in the Orange Bowl kicking off at 4:30 PM, and on Friday, January 10, 2025, in the Cotton Bowl at 4:30 PM. The highest-ranked team advancing to the semi-finals will have the choice of playing in the Orange or the Cotton Bowl. (I know, this is like three blind mice trying to describe an elephant!) The title game will be played on Monday, January 20, 2025, at 4:30 PM in Atlanta. This is a long grind for the teams that play in a 1st-round game a month earlier. [OBD friends, HELP! I have tried every way my tech-challenged person can come up with and I cannot find the date in August when the AP will release its 2024 preseason Top 25.] While not dispositive the Preseason AP Poll, which will be released sometime between the Ides (singular, when a full moon occurred in a given month in Rome, usually the 15th) of August and Kalends ( the date of a new moon in Rome, usually on the 1st) of September, has been very good at ranking the ultimate champion. From 2014 through 2022, the No. 1 team in the AP Poll made the 4-team playoff seven out of eight seasons. No. 1 Ohio State in 2025 was the odd man out. Teams ranked No. 1 to No. 8 in the preseason combined for 28 of the 36 4-team playoff games. In the 2023 preseason, in the preseason the AP Poll ranked Georgia No. 1, Michigan No. 2, Ohio State No. 3, and Alabama 4th. UW was ranked 10th and Texas 11th. This would be the playoff field using the College Football News and Clutch Points guess at the AP Top 25. Sugar Bowl - No. 1 Georgia vs. 9. Notre Dame at 8. Ole Miss Fiesta Bowl - No. 4 Utah vs. 12. Boise State at 5. Texas ............................................................................................................ Rose Bowl - No. 2 Ohio State vs. 10. Michigan at 7. Alabama Orange Bowl - 3. Florida State vs. 11. Penn State at 6. OREGON Note - And as noted above, the Rose and Sugar bowls are locked into the B1G and the SEC champs. The Orange Bowl traditionally hosted the ACC champ but is a semi-final site this year. Thus, if Cal won the ACC (😍) and West Virginia won the B12, the Committee would send the Golden Bears to the Fiesta Bowl and the Mountaineers to the *Peach Bowl. (Sorry, but I did not design this goobly-gook. In fairness when the format was designed there was a Power 5 with only the B1G and the B12 expected to extend from sea to shining sea,) Being seeded 5th is much better than being seeded 6th. In general, the above playoff field is not kind to the B1G and is most kind to the SEC. Texas, Alabama, and Ole Miss would host 1st-round games. Unlike Penn State at Oregon, there would be no 1st-round games between SEC teams, This format will lead to many disgruntled fan bases. and we will see format changes in 2026-27. Especially if Texas defeats the G5 representative in Austin, then defeats an underdog B12 champion in 'Phoenix,' and then plays its semifinal game in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Georgia could play in New Orleans, then Miami, and then Atlanta. Once the AP folks speak, I will update the playoff projections and continue to do so with the AP, followed by the Committee's first and subsequent rankings up to December 3, 2024. Let's Play Ball!

DUH! USC is not going to restore Pete Carroll glories in one season SPORTS.YAHOO.COM USC is not in position to go all the way this year. Merely making the playoff would be amazing for the program. An obscure insight into the obvious.

Noah swallowed the SEC line and is off to College Station, Texas, not Eugene. Best of luck to the young man but he could be making a whale of a mistake. 😒 Amazing, it's now kind of surprise when Dan doesn't bring one of these B1G Fish on board.

Connor O'Gara continues with his take on the 12 teams that will be in the 2024-25 playoff field.Here comes The Portal King. Predicting the Playoff: No. 9 seed Ole Miss SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Yes, Ole Miss will have a breakthrough season and get into the first 12-team Playoff.

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Amen. I was surprised that before the 1st season in the SEC with one of the more difficult schedules in the SEC, which will be repeated next year in conference plus adding Michigan OOC, the Sooners gave Venables a bump in pay and a 6 year extension. Venables is 16-10 at Oklahoma, 10-8 in the B12. This season OK plays Tennessee, Auburn, Ole Miss, Missouri, + LSU on the road! Plus Texas in Dallas and Bama in Norman. Looking at these opponents I can understand why Riley wanted out. As many of us have asked about Mari(o), did any SC folks watch the OK play D when Riley was the HC? In the offseason, SC completely overhauled its coaching on the D side of the ball but these coaches are not recruiting closers. And Oregon has more $ than SC. Lanning can't coach, etc. Excuses won't bring the Blue Chip guys through the door. I've exceeded my Mr. FishDuck GIF laugh quotient for the day, I have to take a nap. (Something Riley does when recruiting?)

"Paranoia strikes deep. Into your life, it will creep." Buffalo Springfield. Honey, pass me the smelling salts! Yuck, Yuck, Yuck. 🤣

I understand and respect your POV. Jesse Owens medals won in Berlin are just as meaningful and perhaps more so toaday than the medals that will be won in Paris this summer. Past triumphs fade but they are never irrelevant. Sign enough of these young recruits and very soon Oregon will be what USC once was. Dan has the Ducks on a championship path. Greater the glory when Troy is passed by on the field. [Goodness, enough philosophy! Honey, where's the Scotch?]