Jon Joseph

Mike, Love you Brother but I believe the SEC did a terrible job with the conference schedule which, but for a venue change, will be repeated in 2025. Compare Florida's SEC schedule, the Gators also play three P4 opponents OOC, with Missouri. Compare Oklahoma's SEC schedule with Texas. Georgia has a much more difficult row to hoe than Ole Miss. This is far from a fair fight. The reason for the SEC's future conference schedule running only through 2025 is that the conference wants more money from ESPN before it adds a conference game. Georgia will play eight SEC games in 2024 and 2025 and will miss the same seven conference (association?) members in both seasons. The B1G schedules through 2028-29 assure that every B1G team will play every B1G opponent three times through 2028. Oregon plays both Michigan and Ohio State but misses both next season. The B1G schedule is far from perfect. This season, Rutgers misses Michigan, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, and Iowa and plays UCLA and UW in Jersey. (Rutgers plays 3 Pac-12 newbies; OBD plays 2.) Compare Rutgers's conference slate to Purdue's. It isn't a fair fight. The wide variance in conference schedules is endemic to Mega-Conferences playing only eight or nine conference games. A few teams will have a significant in-conference scheduling advantage every season. But to play the same conference schedule in back-to-back seasons in 2024 and 2025 is 'extra' unfair to the teams with the short end of the scheduling stick. I understand the stiff upper lip we don't care because 'we will overcome' POV but wait until your team reaps the short end of the scheduling shaft such as Oregon being the only P4 team this season playing eight conference games in a row without a break and traveling east for two games in November. Power 4 fans had better study conference tiebreaker rules because tie-breakers for conference champ game purposes and bowl spots outside the playoff will be needed. IMO, all Power 4 conferences should play ten conference games with all having the same number of conference home and road games. But this will not happen before we see a Super Conference and a CFB Czar. Let's Play Ball!

No matter the team, compared to the Steeler's Steel Curtain D, your D line is weaker than a 97 pound weakling! Bill Connolly had to come up with something or Georgia fans might start believing they have a half-decent 😁program?

No matter the team, compared to the Steeler's Steel Curtain D, your D line is weaker than a 97 pound weakling! Bill Connolly had to come up with something or Georgia fans might start believing they have a half-decent 😁program?

Back of shirt: "But not enough to make the Playoff." 😁 Is any team of the 134 eligible to qualify from the Playoff backing away from the Playoff on August 3rd of 2024? HACK-KNEED much?

The B12 would have the Huskers surrounded by better teams? 🤣🤣🤣 The B1G - 17 AAU members and Nebraska. Michigan took away the AAU honor? Right. The B12 would be a better fit but it would cost the Huskers millions of dollars that the administration will not walk away from. I attended a CU/Huskers game and for the most part, the fans were gracious to CU visitors. The stadium does provide a terrific in-game experience. Lincoln is a personification of a 'truck stop league.' Nebraska is a team that could not win the weak B1G West. The Huskers haven't been to a bowl game since 2016. Music City Bowl - Tennessee 38 - Nebraska 24. In the Huskers favor, unlike the living in the past fans of The U, Nebraska fans sell out the stadium for every home game. (In fairness to the Hurricanes that blow, the Huskers stadium is on campus and not 24 miles and a 45-minute drive, depending on traffic 😒from campus. Miami fans, when you go 7-6 with a bowl loss to Rutgers, do you want to be bowl eligible? Ruhle will improve the program. With one of the weaker schedules in the B1G in 2024, the Huskers should win at least six games and be bowl-eligible. But a return to the glory days? I don't think so. No game vs the Huskers until 2026 when Nebraska visits Autzen and learns something about Oregon's stadium. The Ducks visit Nebraska in 2027.

2031 - $100M+ per annum! 😍 And if CFB moves to unequal shares as I believe will happen, Oregon will be in line for a B1GGER piece of the pie.

It would be nice to play UW in the B1G opener and not in the last game of the regular season when Fisch should have the team significantly improved. Regardless, kick the Huskies in the tail. QUACK!

Puddles showed up in the Big Ten Network's newly renovated Chicago studios and gave one of the announcer's a B1G beak kiss. 😍

Welcome Aboard 😍. The B1G 'Saturday Site,' Saturday Tradition's Derek Petersen, has the Ducks flying over the Buckeyes in the regular season and in the conference champ game. Betting Stuff: My conference title picks for the 2024 season SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Picking conference champions from each of the top 4 leagues entering the 2024 season. This is a duplicate post, but it's so nice I wanted to play it twice. 😁

Saturday Tradition's Derek Petersen predicts CFB Conference Champ Games and Conference Champions. Betting Stuff: My conference title picks for the 2024 season SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Picking conference champions from each of the top 4 leagues entering the 2024 season. Miami? Texas? Playing for a conference title? I don't see it. Oregon vs Ohio State with Puddles flying away with the B1G title. This I see with 20-10 vision.😍

Amen, Brother. For an Ivy Leaguer, this guy is smart. https://athlonsports.com/college/ducks-digest/on3s-j-d-pickell-has-surprise-pick-for-the-big-ten-title In addition to the Ducks having the better QB with Gabriel blowing his horn, JD believes the Buckeyes O Line could put Ohio State in a Pickell. JD 'gets' that the Oregon D Line will not be overwhelmed by B1G competition.

Putting a stamp on it being B1GGER. https://athlonsports.com/college/ducks-digest/big-ten-officially-welcomes-oregon-usc-ucla-and-washington-but-whats-next A 64-team Super Conference? Too B1G by at least 22 teams. Why can't folks who cover CFB understand that it's the media that pays the bills and media is not going to pay for teams that don't draw a significant number of eyeballs? The author believes Oregon should play Stanford and Cal every season based on nostalgia and not the bottom line. Get - A - Grip.

College Football News Forecasts the AP Poll. https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/ap-top-25-college-football-rankings-final-2024-preseason-projection OK, I think Texas is overrated. Caveat: Last season I predicted that FSU would be 2-2 after its first four games. 😒

Some more B1G Wisky. Tyler Van Dyke's last chance at career redemption means turning Wisconsin's Air Raid dreams into reality - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Once on the cusp of becoming a superstar, Van Dyke hopes to reinvigorate a derailed career with the Badgers

Did the Duck drink Champaign? If so, I hope Puddles did not feel ILL. (SORRY!)

It's getting B1GGER (and BETTER) all the time. 😍

A dozen newbies who could crash the 2024 Playoff Party. College Football Playoffs candidates to make the field for first time COLLEGESPORTSWIRE.USATODAY.COM These 12 teams could crash the CFP party for the first time in 2024. Ole Miss, Mizzou, and Penn State have Playoff-friendly schedules. Mizzou has the easiest out-of-conference and easiest-in-conference schedule in the SEC. LIberty's schedule is more than manageable. Once again the Flames flame out when it comes to playing a P4 opponent. An 11-2 or even a 10-3 Boise State would deserve the G5 spot over a 13-0 Liberty. Again CFB fans ask: Will strength-of-schedule matter?

The Buckeyes come up B1G with folks willing to risk a bob and a quid while the Longhorns are Dawged. 😊 NCAAF futures: Should you back this most-bet-on team in college football? WWW.YARDBARKER.COM With less than a month until the new season opens, college football is drawing bettors to their favorite sportsbooks at an exceptional rate. So who exactly is everyone backing in 2024? So, why the photo of Quinn Ewers and not Chip Kelly? Puddles is flying under the radar, which is nice.

Feeling BIGGER today? I don't mean to be Fickell but I hope the Badgers take at least one more season to "get it." Luke Fickell, Max Stienecker rapidly rebuilding football culture at Wisconsin WWW.YARDBARKER.COM After finishing their first season at Wisconsin with a 7-6 record, they face significant challenges heading into their second year together. To rebuild the once highly competitive program, many big moves...

The NFL is as of now, $4.7B better off. Will beer prices stay flat? (Oops.) Judge overturned $4.7 billion verdict in NFL Sunday Ticket lawsuit for curious reason WWW.YARDBARKER.COM The plaintiffs are likely to file an appeal, but for now, the case is closed in favor of the NFL.

Hang in there Justin. OBD Forum and all other Ducks are rooting for you and your 'new' Chargers. Justin Herbert injury: Chargers QB hurts his foot, but he's expected to be ready for start of regular season - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Herbert will spend the next few weeks in a walking boot He'll escape the boot and kick booty!👍👍👍

Huzzah! Athlon provides us access to an ESPN+ Paywall article. Although the author beefs about it, ESPN FPI has Oregon with the second-best odds of making the 2024 playoff, 76%, and decent odds of winning it all at 12.8%. Well worth a read. 11 Florida State would represent the ACC. 15 Kansas the B12. 22 Boise State the G5. The first two out are Oklahoma and Michigan. https://athlonsports.com/college/oregon-ducks/espn-fpi-predicts-oregon-ducks-best-big-ten-chances-national-championship

Coaches Poll = Sports Information Directors Poll. AP Poll as noted in Steven's post comes out on Monday, August 12th at 9 Pacific. Predicted Coaches Poll has only 9 out of 16 SEC teams ranked. Better call Paul!

CBS Sports ranks OBD No. 3 in its preseason poll of No. 1 Georgia through 134 UL- Monroe. College football rankings: Georgia repeats at No. 1 as SEC, Big Ten dominate top of Preseason CBS Sports 134 - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Familiar names are atop the rankings as the 2024 college football season approaches

Even if House is settled, there will still be lots of worms left in the can. Why revenue sharing with college athletes remains complicated amid antitrust settlement pushing forward - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Pay-for-play has nearly made its formal arrival, but athletes being left voiceless in the process has created confusion