Jon Joseph

In the NFL in 2023/24, 83% of all snaps came out of a shotgun formation. Not dispositive as to the number of times teams huddled before a play. An NFL game last season averaged 155 snaps per game. College averaged 180 snaps a game, 90 per team, down an average of only 2 plays a game with the clock changes. The Browns ran the most plays on average, 69.8. Seattle had the lowest number of plays on average, 58.5. If anything, in-helmet mics and improved communication without having to look over to the sideline should reduce the number of times a team huddles. But up-tempo does not equate to more wins. Per Bleacher Report, teams that ran 77 or fewer plays in CFB in 2023/24 won the majority of their games. Hello? Can you hear me? 😁

More ammunition for the B1G and the SEC to have 3 automatic bids and the two top seeds with a 1st round bye in a 14-team playoff field. Plus, a prediction that the B1G may have the most players selected in the 2024 NFL draft. O’Gara: The SEC & B1G reportedly want the top 2 seeds in a potential 14-team Playoff? Give it to ’em WWW.SATURDAYDOWNSOUTH.COM The data shows exactly why the Big Ten and SEC are the leaders in the clubhouse.

A Bama fan(atic) weighs in. 14-Team CFB Playoff an SEC and Big Ten power move or common sense? BAMAHAMMER.COM The format for the 2026 CFB Playoff appears headed to a 14-team field with lots of automatic qualifiers. The most recent conversations are being driven by the S

What other choice did NCAA president Baker have but to pause NIL enforcement? Trying to make this sound like it was the NCAA's decision is typical NCAA backfill. Pathetic. 'Leadership' and the NCAA do not belong in the same book let alone sentence. Change coming to NCAA after president pauses 'NIL-related enforcement' WWW.YARDBARKER.COM Radical change is coming to the NCAA when it pertains to name, image and likeness rules for schools and players. For now, at least.

The 3rd place team in the B1G is unlikely to finish with more than 3 losses in any given season. The top teams do not play each other enough intra-conference for this to happen and the majority of B1G and SEC teams do not schedule more than 1 P4 opponent out-of-conference. With 16 teams in the B12, I don't believe the runner-up would have more than 3 losses. As to Notre Dame. the gig should have been up long ago. The ACC loses its top teams and ND will join a conference. I think come 2026 we will end up with a 16-team PO field with some manner of assurances for the B1G and the SEC. The Power 2 should not leave everything up to a 13-member committee that operates with no disclosure as to how it made its choices and with B1G and SEC committee members not being in the room when teams from their conference are discussed.

Delusional. Aided and abetted by folks like Canzano. The Pac-2 commissioner speaks; If a tree falls in the forest ...

I think it is a good name. I think Fox's Gus Johnson may have come up with the name. I cannot take credit for the moniker. The Border War is already taken 3x over. North/South Clash sounds too much like The Civil War. Dogs vs Birds, NO!

https://collegefootballnews.com/news/college-football-playoff-14-team-expansion-idea-5-things-to-know

Helmet communications, two-minute timeout among college football changes proposed by NCAA rules committee - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM College football rules are on track to be modernized in time for the 2024 season after Friday's vote

Dennis Dodd gets it. The B1G and SEC proposal for three automatic qualifying (AQ) spots for each conference and a 1st round bye for the SEC and B1G champs in a 14-team playoff, may on the surface appear to be greedy but is justified by some of the playoff committee's screwy decisions, by the make up of the SEC's and B1G's 34 teams, and what the fields would have looked like had a 14-team playoff started in 2014. Three votes for this format are in the bag; B1G, SEC, and Notre Dame. Notre Dame finishes in the top 14 and it's in the playoff. The ACC and the B12 may not like it but there is no assurance that the conferences would have two teams in the playoff every year and 3 AL spots would give the B12 and the ACC a shot at three teams in the field. The G5? The guarantee of one spot in the field is no different than the G5 will have in a 5/7 format and the G5 will be convinced to vote in favor of the B1G/SEC proposal by some additional sugar spooned over to the G5. The G5 commissioners know that for the most part, the G5 playoff game will be a body bag game for the P4 opponent, and more than one such game every season would hurt the money to be made from the new playoff media deal. "If a 14-team field had been in place over the prior ten years, the newly formed (2024 version) Big Ten and SEC would have landed 75% of the top two seeds (15 of 20.)" It sure is nice to be B1G. Big Ten, SEC power grab tough to stomach but difficult to argue amid College Football Playoff negotiations - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Big Ten and SEC aim to have their brands and schedule strength do the flexing

B1G/SEC Playoff moves, "tough to stomach but hard to disagree with." I agree with the 2nd part of the sentence. As to the first part, follow the money. Big Ten, SEC power grab tough to stomach but difficult to argue amid College Football Playoff negotiations - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Big Ten and SEC aim to have their brands and schedule strength do the flexing

The B1G goes 1, 2, 3. Chip Kelly, Bobby Petrino among 10 most consequential coordinator hires for 2024 college football season - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM These are the coordinator moves that will shape the 2024 landscape

Oregon is a Volleyball school?

Ding, Ding, Ding! Nevada Dawg, winner, winner, chicken (not Duck) dinner!

UW will be the last game in the regular season year after year. The Huskies are the Ducks' only permanent opponent in the B1G. Because they will meet every season with the game having an impact on Oregon's post-season goals, champ game, and playoff, I expect the Cascade Clash will be right at the top if not at the top of Oregon's B1G rivalries. How dramatic was the 2023 Apple Cup when UW needed a late FG to win the game? WSU could have put a big dent in UW's PO hopes. Beginning in 2024, Oregon will play Michigan and Ohio State in 2026 and 2027. No games vs. these 2 in 2025 and 2028. 3 games vs. USC in the next 5 seasons, 2025, 2026, and 2028, 2 of the 3 games will be played in Eugene. In the same period, Oregon will play UW 5 times; 3 games in Eugene. Ducks Wire, IMO, does not pay enough attention to schedules when making many down-the-road predictions.

I doubt the ACC stays as is through the end of the 2036 media deal. UVA, UNC, Clemson, and FSU will be attractive candidates for the Power 2. And if the ACC is no longer a P4 conference, Notre Dame is headed to a P2 conference, probably the B1G. I don't believe that there is a B12 program that would be immediately accretive upon joining one of the Power 2. Kansas would be a fit for the B1G but would the Jayhawks bring in enough CFB viewers? I doubt that CFB has finished the game of conference musical chairs and you are right, no matter what happens the Ducks are in a cat bird seat.

The author answers his own question as to why the a rush to expand the playoff from 12 to 14 teams. There is no broadcast deal beyond 2025 in place. The B1G and the SEC are not going to sign a new media deal without knowing what the format of the PO will be and more importantly, what will be the P2's cut of the revenue. They are not going to allow Notre Dame, the ACC, B12, and the G5 any leverage regarding the revenue split after the fact. This is big business. This is how the big entities act and should act in a capitalist world of big business. As Mike Witty recently pointed out, collegiality was neutered once the NCAA lost its exclusive broadcast rights in 1984. Expanding the soon-to-be expanded College Football Playoff already? Just chill, Big Ten and SEC SPORTS.YAHOO.COM Ideally, the people that run the College Football Playoff wouldn’t be discussing expanding the College Football Playoff before the College Football Playoff has even officially expanded.

To wit: SEC, Big Ten would hold rights to first-round byes in new proposed CFP format SPORTS.YAHOO.COM Such a concept — guaranteed byes for the Big Ten and SEC — is an unusual but somewhat expected maneuver from college football’s goliaths.

The Big 10 Network has already provided lots of Oregon coverage. The attached article has the Oregon spring game being broadcast on 4/27 on TBD. College football spring games 2024: Schedule, dates, TV channels WWW.FOXSPORTS.COM Everything you know about college spring football, including storylines, schedules and extended reading from around the nation.

Charles, I agree with you. But will the media allow the games to be dumped before the next media renegotiations go round? 2032 for the B1G. 2034 for the SEC. 2036 for the ACC. The SEC game in particular brings in a lot of viewers and with divisions gone in the B1G so will the B1G champ game.

I was blessed to be at the game in Tampa Bay when the underdog Raiders blew out the Washington Redskins 38-9 and prevented the Redskins from winning back-to-back Super Bowls. Marcus Allen was the star of the show rushing for 191 yards on 20 carries. Stud Washington RB John Rigins was held to 64 yards rushing. The Trophy Presentation was tense with Commissioner Pete Rozelle handing the trophy to Al Davis at a time when the Raiders were suing the NFL over the NFL's refusal to allow Davis to move the franchise to LA.

Yes! You have been missed. And Ohio State fans are among the most self-entitled in CFB. As evidenced by the tOSU fan expecting you to service all of his requests. The Buckeyes fans are the most SEC-like fans in the B1G. I doubt that the tOSU fan you communicated with is the only Ohio State fan to have purchased Oregon season tickets. I expect the secondary market for the Ohio State game will have the highest-priced tickets in Autzen Stadium's history. No school got a better shake during the 4-team playoff era than did the Buckeyes. Making the field twice when it did not win the B1G title. Penn State won in 2016 but with 2 losses was benched in favor of the Buckeyes. 2022 was the other occasion when non-B1G champ 11-1 Ohio State lost to Michigan and made the playoff field. And in 2014 (sigh) Ohio State lost early to VA Tech but made the field after blowing out Wisconsin in the B1G title game and also because the B12 decided to have more than one conference champion. It's great to have you back and it is going to be B1G fun.

A very good summary of issues facing college football excluding the Dartmouth 'employee' situation. As noted, the NCAA when it comes to G5 and P4 football is over and out. More Playoff Expansion, Recruiting Changes, Other Top CFB Storylines Entering March BLEACHERREPORT.COM The college football offseason is upon us, but February wraps up a busy month of news and notes from across the sport. Arguably the biggest news is that the…

Interesting takes on OBD regarding whether CFB Conference Champ games should be played in the future. Here's an article discussing the issue from Yahoo Sports that was authored before the 5/7 model was approved for 2024 and 2025 and before discussions concerning expanding the field come 2026. It has been reported that the B1G and the SEC favor a 3-3-2-2-1 model. 3 B1G and SEC teams in the field, 2 ACC and B12 teams, and 1 G5 team, 3 at-large teams would be seeded in a 14-team playoff field. If approved, with 3 guaranteed spots for B1G and the SEC and with teams playing as many as 16 or 17 games, is a 13th conference champ game that would only affect seeding needed? Also, would the automatic qualifiers from the Power 4 be chosen by a PO Committee or be put forth by the P4 conferences? The 3-3-2-2-1 model has already been criticized by TCU's AD and other B12 ADs but how much leverage does any conference other than the B1G and the SEC have? Not much. Should conference title games continue in playoff expansion era? Commissioners mulling future of college football SPORTS.YAHOO.COM Are college football conference championship games on their way out? College football's powerbrokers are divided.

CFP circulating new 14-team model with 3 spots for Big Ten/SEC, 2 for ACC/Big 12 SPORTS.YAHOO.COM One of the potential models for a new College Football Playoff may be emerging.