Jon Joseph

Great picks. The Boise State starting QB has transferred to Arkansas and will not play in the bowl game. Bryson Barnes is in the portal but will be the starting QB for Utah against Northwestern and B1G COY David Braun. The once Bowl Guru Coach Whit has lost his last 4 bowl games. Liberty will come Flaming into the Fiesta Bowl and playing a unique style of offense, the spread-triple option that Coach Jeremy Chadwell brought with him from Coastal Carolina. Oregon will not be able to sleepwalk and win this game.

Augduck - great take. Miami's reward for being bowl-eligible is playing in NYC in late December. Enjoy the trip Mari(o.)

Thanks, Darren. Great take and you beat me to it. The P5 is gone. Accounting for 2024 realignment, 13 of the 18 B1G teams, 72%, are going bowling. 11 of 16 SEC teams, 69% are doing the same. There will be 7 B1G vs. SEC games this bowl season: Rose Bowl - No. 1 Michigan vs. No. 4 Alabama Sugar Bowl - No. 2 Washington vs. No. 3 Texas Cotton Bowl - No. 7 Ohio State vs. No. 9 Missouri Peach Bowl - No. 10 Penn State vs. No. 11. Ole Miss Music City Bowl - Maryland vs. Auburn ReliaQuest Bowl - Wisconsin vs. No. 13 LSU Cheeze-It Bowl - No. 17 Iowa vs. No. 21 Tennessee You can bet that Greg Sankey, Paul Finebaum, Mickey Mouse, Tony Petitti, Joel Klatt, and Bob Murdoch will be paying special attention to these games as the 'New B1G' and the 'New SEC' begin the battle for the leader of the Power 2 CFB Hegemony. Bowl Factoids. No team that lost the Pac-12 champ game has won the Fiesta Bowl. The Rose Bowl is mentioned in the Alabama fight song. Bama is 5-1-1 in Rose Bowl games with the COVID season game being played in Dallas, Saint Nick Bowl record at Bama - is 16-6, 8 PO game wins, 6 championships. Jim Harbaugh at Michigan is 1-6 in Bowl games and 0-2 in Playoff games. Utah's 'Pig Farmer' QB, Bryson Barnes, is in the portal but will play in the Las Vegas Bowl vs. Northwestern. All Ohio State draft-eligible Juniors are playing in the Cotton Bowl with Marvin Harrison yet to decide whether to opt in or out. If Jaden Daniels opts out of Wisconsin vs. LSU game, he will be the 1st Heisman winner to do so. Caleb Williams is on a Holiday. Will the SC D return from a season-long Holiday and hold down Jack Plummer who played well against Troy in 2022? Boise State has won 4 games in a row since Avalos was fired but the Boise starting QB has morphed from a Bronco and into an Arkansas Hog. Is UCLA the 1st team to be playing a bowl game closer to campus than where it plays its home games? Thank you STUDENT-athletes. Minnesota is 5-7 but APR'd its way into a bowl. You qualify for a bowl in this fashion and you deserve a trip to Detroit. Hey Miami, you're going Bowling! Enjoy the trip to NYC in late December! I think Rutgers and coach Greg Schiano drop the Mari(o) bowl record to 3-3, fitting for a '.500 coach.' Thanks again, Darren. EXTINGUISH The Flames!

Some clarification. The NCAA is contesting the court ruling that allows for immediate eligibility of players who have transferred before. NCAA responds to major court ruling about transfer eligibility WWW.YARDBARKER.COM Transfer rules and the granting of waivers regarding eligibility have resulted in some bad PR and sharp criticism of the NCAA recently.

If Cam Ward decides on the Hurricanes or the Seminoles instead of the Buckeyes, what can anyone say? Ryan Day sends QBs, including this season's NFL Rookie of the Year, CJ Stroud, to the NFL. Mario sends guys there despite his coaching. The Miami, FSU, et al NIL money will not overwhelm Ohio State's NIL money. If Ward has a shot at tOSU and goes little league he will end up exactly where he belongs. 10/24/24 I expect Ward will be starting for Ohio State in Autzen. Day isn't going to give McCord a shove out the door without a backup plan in mind. Ward is in Day's mind. This is a Caleb Williams before he headed to USC dance.

In this life for better or worse, you reap what you sow in any given venture. Ty sowed nothing bad, but he also sowed nothing that matched his recruiting ranking. Ty was a highly-rated recruit. As PIttDuck so correctly noted being a big fish in a small high school pond does not mean that you will be a big Duck in the Oregon pond. Mark Helfrich was a terrific OC. As a Head Coach, not so much. This has nothing to do with Ty as a person but everything to do with Ty as a player. If the coaching staff believed that Ty was The Guy, Ty would be The Guy. He had plenty of practice reps to prove his worth. Big-time CFB is a big-time business. Many businesses fail, and a few survive. Two Harvard dropouts almost took down IBM. All the best to Ty. A loyal Duck who made the right move to find playing time and will hopefully thrive in a new pond.

I have a great idea! Surrender a home game vs. a P4 opponent so 'we' can play a G5, kind of, team on the road in a stadium smaller than that of B1G fellow Northwestern's smallest B1G stadium and where Oregon fans will be welcome with open arms, right? BTW, an opponent that does not have a 2024 media agreement. Rob, it's only a movie.

Spot ON. As is Steven A's take. But Steven A's thoughts focus on another reason why the HUGE money teams will need to somewhat spread the sugar as does the NFL, across the board. Including going with a draft for the 32 to 40 members of the Super League. And a salary cap of some kind with no cap on individual rights for players to market their NIL as is the case today in the NFL. Broadcast rights will be negotiated in concert. Money-wise, and sadly it's all about the Benjis, will incent parity. And can you imagine the money a Super League can bargain for with streaming coming on? Make no mistake, I like none of 'This.' I want to go back to a world before the BCS but that will not happen. And to have any control over player compensation and transfers, etc. will require an agreement with a union. But for today. I'll enjoy CFB the way it is. What choice do we have? Go Ducks! Extinguish the Flames!

WOW! The last vestige of control on transfers is G-O-N-E gone. Managing a roster in CFB is exponentially more difficult than in the NFL. Another reason why NFL-Lite including pay-for-play, an HS draft, possibly a salary cap, and negotiated restrictions on transfers, will be here sooner rather than later. Lose a few of the big-time suits that are out there and the NCAA will have no recourse but to file BK. This and Baker's proposed pay-for-play are both raising the flag against the attorneys and the NLRB.

Man, The Truth hurts! If he only had more experience as a head coach, he'd learn from his mistakes! 74-72. 3-3 in bowl games. He is the definition of a Mendoza Line head coach.

1 game, but he certainly delivered vs. No. 3 Texas in the Red Rivalry game including a sterling late 4th Q game-winning drive and overcoming a blocked punt that resulted in a Texas TD. My concern heading into 2023 was the OL. The OL was a Joe Moore finalist. In 2024, my concern is the DL. Lots of ballers leaving Oregon. I have very little concern regarding the O side of the ball including the all-important QB position. Even 'very good' QBs like McCord at Ohio State will not win championships. This is why Ryan Day showed McCord the door. OBD, we have a P4 All-Conerence QB coming on board. A guy who beat out Quinn Ewers, one of the favorites for next season's Heisman Trophy, for all-conference honors. Under Stein and with the supporting cast on O, I think Gabriel not only produces as he has in the past but also improves. As for starts by a QB, I'm not great in math but if DG stays healthy it's in the numbers.

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Miami transfer QB Van Dyke will likely be the starting QB for the Badgers when Oregon visits Madison. Kid was the ACC Frosh of the Year at Miami and then went downhill when Mari(o) arrived. Former Miami QB Tyler Van Dyke transferring to Wisconsin - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM Quarterback Tyler Van Dyke, a three-year starter for the Miami Hurricanes, is set to transfer to Wisconsin, he announced Tuesday.

Manny, son of a mayor of Miami, had Miami headed in the right direction. He did a great job with the Penn State D turning it into one of the best in the nation. Recruit like Mario. No. But IMO he is far better game day coach. It will be interesting to see if Manny can follow the success of Elko, a former All Ivy League CB at Penn and returning to A+M where he was the DC, at Duke. Thanks for the post. Off the wall coaching thought. If Chip is fired it will not be before his buy out goes down in about a week from now. How about Jedd Fisch to UCLA bringing QB Fifita and other stud AZ players along with. As broke as the UCLA athletic department is, AZ is worse off. A job in the B1G provides more security than a job in the B12.

Here's a playoff idea. Is 24 too many teams? Not for FCS schools. What if the College Football Playoff featured a 24-team format like the FCS? THEATHLETIC.COM The FCS playoffs feature iconic matchups in great venues. So let's have some fun and replicate that for the FBS.

Spot On! I watched the Cisco Kid on living black and white TV, aided by rabbit ears. Ditto the Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, etc. Hiyo Silver, Away! The Lone Ranger 'theme song' was my intoduction to Classical music. Before we owned a TV, I listened to the Lone Ranger on the radio. You know you're old when all the shows you watched as a kid are now broadcast on Nick at Nite. 😁

Oregon Ducks/TCU. Bookend Blowouts for UGA last season. oregon and TCWho? The only team that could have and probably should have defeated UGA last season was Ohio State with this season's NFL Rookie of the Year playing QB and a Heisman Trophy candidate catching the ball. And a college kicker missing what would have been a walk off FG win. Harrison doesn't get injured and I think that tOSU wins the game and blows out TCU for the title. As Kirby Smart said after the Oregon game, 'Dan knows that we have the better players.' I am looking forward to watching a dual threat QB, an escape artist, play in Stein's system. Should be a lot of fun. Dear Division Street, please pony up for Troy Franklin. Thank you.

Go get 'em Bucky. You were so much fun to watch and played with outstanding effort. Best of luck in The League.

Hey Cisco! Hey Poncho! Way to go young man. Odds on to start at center in 2024.

Because Fox did not see the value in the SFO market? Because the 2 schools failed to invest enough in football and basketball? One of the main reasons the ACC/ESPN got the 2 SFO schools on the cheap. One thing I do not want to see is an FSU or Clemson, or any other school, brought in as a full share partner while Oregon and UW are junior partners.. Would either school leave the ACC for less than a full share? The ACC unlike the Pac-12 is not imploding. The ACC has agreed to extra shares for teams that participate in moneyball playoffs, And more concessions may be coming Clemson and FSU's way. The travel is bad enough as of today without adding on travel to Florida and South Carolina. Neither FSU nor Clemson is a fit like the Pac-4 that has had a close relationships with the B1G for decades. How accretive would these 2 schools be? Notre Dame draws far more viewers than does Clemson and FSU and is one hour from Chicago. If you are going to add two more mouths to feed you best be sure that they will put food on the table. Also, we are headed toward an era of a larger distribution to teams that participate in moneyball playoffs. Want to add 2 schools to the competition? Two schools without academic barriers to recruiting. I'll believe the B1G takes in a non-AAU member school only when I see it. 17 of the 18 B1G schools are AAU members and Nebraska was an AAU member when it joined the conference or it would not have received an invitation. Today, Notre Dame is the only no-brainer addition for every conference.

College football is a big business. Size goes to size in business. Consolidation will continue until there is a Super Conference with 2 divisions (B1G + SEC?) and it will be NFL Lite with restrictions on transfers, direct pay-for-play, a high school draft, with players being union members. It seems like sudden change. But this all goes back to 1984 when Oklahoma, Georgia, and other plaintiffs sued to end the NCAA's broadcast monopoly and won. From then on it was a race to see what schools could make the most in media dollars. I miss a lot of the tradition. But I don't miss having only one game broadcast on a given Saturday. And I love OBD and other blogs and sites that cover CFB year round. When the boss is being paid $10M a year, the workers will be compensated one way or the other. And if the boss is free to leave for greener pastures shouldn't the workers have the same opportunity? IMO. following roster management today is very entertaining. And because of NIL and the portal, we just finished a season with more parity coast to coast than we have seen in a long time.

Why was the OSU game scheduled in the first place? Give up a home game for an away game. Schedule someone who is suing you so they can make more money to pay legal fees. Schmuck!

As it should be. Recall that the young man was dinged up this season. Thank you JPJ for your great play this season. Time to cash in on your success and get the 3 year free agent meter running.

I like these ESPN recruiting rankings with Oregon ranked three behing UGA and OHio State and also a mention of Gabriel coming on board. 2024 college football recruiting class rankings: Top 50 schools - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM We stacked the top recruiting classes in the country, and the Tigers are making moves and new coaches are putting together their classes.

I'm still LOL over the above, 'Get Off My Porch GIF." And this is a bit OT. On today's B1G Network: Team you are most excited about coming into the B1G in 2024? Urban Meyer - "Oregon. Oregon will bring speed on both sides of the ball that the B1G better be ready for." The new B1G match-up game are most looking forward to in 2024? Urban Meyer. "Ohio State at Oregon. In one of the toughest places to play in the USA."