Jon Joseph

Picking up on Charles take in regard to the offspring of unmarried parents, Kalen De Boer, UW has not lost a football game in the last 450 days. The winning streak of 21 games is the tops in CFB. Last 10 wins have been by 10 or fewer points. Last 5 wins by one score. That's some darn fine coaching and the wins have not come against a carton of cupcakes. Penix 1st QB with 4500+ yards in back-to-back seasons since some guy named Mahomes did this in 2015/16 at Texas Tech. As Charles notes, 31 rush yards and no sacks was icing on the Husky Texas victory cake. The UW O will be by far the best O Michigan has played against this season with a far better OL than Bama brought to the Rose Bowl. No QB Michigan has faced has anywhere near the talent of Penix helped out by CFB's best group of WR's and a TE who can catch the football. How in the heck did Bama beat the Right Coast Dawgs? I guess it's a Saint Nick/Kirby thing? Kirby did win one huge game vs. Nick, but Nick is 5-1 against Smart's UGA teams.

Michael Penix Jr. serves as unlikely final villain to Michigan’s title hopes SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Michael Penix Jr. is all that stands between Michigan and a national title, and he's a familiar if unlikely foe for the Wolverines.

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A Michigan title may be sleazy but not as sleazy as Auburn's title playing with $cam.

3-0! They're playing for clicks! OBD be playing for Ws! Keep best QB in the conference, DG, upright and good things will happen.

At least one if not 2 PO records will fall when UW faces Michigan. For the 1st time a team that played 9 conference games will win a championship. No team without a Blue Chip Roster, more than 50% of the roster made up of 5 and 4* recruits (BCR) has won the BCS or Playoff. UW does not have a BCR. 16 teams came into 2023 with a BCR. Michigan at 54% was 14 out of the 16 BCR teams. If UW wins, another record will fall.

Thanks, David, for another great take. Who will play QB at Ohio State? (Cam Ward has declared for the draft.) QB Air (!) Noland is a 5 star recruit but being a 5* does not equal playing great ball in the Power 4. And at least in part, I think Lou was right, tOSU is 'softer' under Day than it was under Urban Meyer. Will Michigan's McCarthy declare for the draft after the champ game? Regardless, Michigan is losing the core of the team that has gone 3-0 vs the Buckeyes in the last 3 games. Oregon does not play Penn State in 2024 but the Pann State O is as bland as an O can get. And the vaunted Penn State D was lit up by Ole Miss. Iowa was pathetic yesterday. Wisconsin had a chance to defeat LSU playing without the Heisman winner. Next year's trip to Madison in November will likely be a tough game. SP+ has ranked the 15 most difficult schedules in 2024. 7 B1G teams are on the list: No. 2 USC/ No. 3 NW/ No. 5. Purdue ( OREGON trips to Purdue in 2024); No. 8.UW; No. 12 UCLA (at UCLA will be Oregon's first game against a B1G opponent); No. 13 OREGON; and No. Michigan State. Sparty will be visiting Eugene next year. No Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State on the list. DeBore did get a quality QB transfer out of the portal. Will (I Never Met A Football I Didn't Like) Rogers who was prolific playing for The Pirate at Miss State will attempt to replace Heisman Winner (Ooops!) Penix and I expect will play well in DeBoer's system. 2-loss Oregon, Missouri, Penn State would have been in a 12 team field this season. With 2-loss Ole Miss and Oklahoma on the cusp. I expect that will see at least two 2-loss teams in the PO in 2024. Danno is 2-0 in his bowl games with a close win vs. UNC and QB Drake Maye and yesterday's roasting of the Flames. I believe Oregon will be competitive in the B1G from the get-go and will go at least 2-1 vs. Michigan, Ohio State and UW. It's going to be B1G Fun.

Mike, great take. UW played a more difficult schedule than Michigan. Michigan's B1G wins, and yes there were opt outs, came against bowl favorites and bowl losers, Ohio State and Penn State. UW's best wins. Twice, sigh, over Oregon bowl winner Oregon and a win onthe road vs. No. 14 Arizona that defeated No. 12 Oklahoma and a road win at a NR SC that just pasted the No. 15 team in the land. The Pac-12 conference in 2023 than was deeper than the ACC, B1G, B12 and even the SEC. I thought this would play out last night. And I think it will play out in Houston.

OK. 14-0. Run your conference slate and go 13-0. The 1st team to do so since CU and Utah signed on. 4500+ passing yards. 430 pass yards last night against the number 3 team in the nation playing a Southern team in Dixie. 7 wins over bowl teams and 2 wins over what will be AP top 10 Oregon, top 15 Arizona on the road, and in addition, wins over bowl teams Cal, USC, Oregon State, and Utah. I think USC may finish in the AP top 25. It will be a joke if SC is ranked behind Louisville. The best player in CFB came through last night.

I humbly disagree. I don't think that Michigan has the fire power to hang with UW's O and I very much doubt that the UW OL will give up 6 sacks like the Bama OL did yesterday, that the UW center will play bocce ball with his snaps, or that Penix will fumble or otherwise turn the ball over 4 times. The Rose Bowl was an exciting game but it was a error-filled with both teams stumbling and bumbling.

Thank you, Doctor. Michigan opens -4.5 vs. UW. Some of the margin can likely be attributed to UW's Dillon, the leading rusher in CFB from November 1st on, going down late. One of the most untimely injuries in CFB history that along with an interfering with the TX punt returner correct call, gave the Horns the chance to pull out the victory. I'm betting on Penix. 14-0, The last 5 wins have come in one possession games. The 3 top teams I watched yesterday were UW, Texas and Oregon. I think all 3 with all hands on deck, Troy Franklin among Ducks opt outs plays as does the Rimington Award winner, and I think all 3 would have defeated Michigan or Bama. I am so happy that both Bama and Texas went down to shut up the ESPN SEC hype machine. How disengenous to say that FSU could have been in a playoff if the ACC, B1G and Pac-12 had not delayed the 12 team field with no mention of SEC Commish Greg Sankey working to take OK and TX out of the B12, while working with B12 Commish Bowlsby, in structuring a new PO format. The B1G goes first with SC and UCLA and the SEC would have been fine with this? Right? And I am so sick of Herbie et al telling us about all of the great SEC games we will be blessed to witness on ABC and ESPN come 2024. Hey, Herbie, how about these games: Texas at Michigan; Oregon at Michigan; USC at Michigan; Michigan at UW; Ohio State at Oregon; UW at Oregon; Oregon at Wisconsin; Penn State at USC, and 2023's most watched regular season game will again be played when Michigan visits your alma mammy. After watching the Sugar Bowl I came up with a great idea! Maybe, CFB should wait to hand the CFB MVP Award until after the biggest games of the season are played? The ESPN/SEC hype machine went to work and a guy who finished 2-3 vs, teams with winning records won the Heisman over a guy who just threw for 430 yards, 4500+ for the season, went 14-0 to date, and defeated 7 bowl eligible teams including Oregon twice. And in the process, played 9 and not 8 conference games. If Penix had played in the SEC do you think he might have won the Heisman? Michigan's D is absolutely legit. But Michigan did all it could yesterday to choke with a missed FG, 2 fumbled punts, and an O that disappeared in the 2nd half before a great late drive to tie the game. Michigan with 6 sacks and 4 Bama QB Milroe fumbles almost found a way to lose the game. I like the Dawgs, Penix, the UW OL, and a D that comes through when it has to, to win back-to-back games in Dixie and take home the final Final 4 title. But no matter which team wins, it will be a B1G win. Cue Paul Finebaum? If Paul doesn't opt out he's on at 3 PM Eastern today to tell us Michigan should have been disqualified from the post-season and why Harbaugh should be in CFB jail. Hey, Paul, what's the old SEC rubric: If You Ain't Cheatin' You Ain't Tryin'. Of course there is the 2024 season to be played but UW at Oregon in the final regular season game in 2024 could be right up there with Michigan at Ohio State. GO! (GULP!) Dawgs!

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Not sure about that but I am sure that Penix, who if he played in Dixie would have won the Heisman, threw for 430 yards against the Horns and did not come close to this number vs. Oregon. As good friend Mike West pointed out after the game in Seattle, an Oregon D back perfectly positioned intercepts or at least knocks down the pass after Oregon was, again, stymied on 4th down, Ducks win. Oregon pasted a 13-0 team today. Oregon trucked a whole lot of once ranked teams before basically no-showing for the champ game, at least early on, in Las Vegas. It's too bad because this was a champ quality team. But I am fired up for next season. With Ohio State and Michigan on the schedule and perhaps, gulp, Natty Champ UW, how after extinduising the Flames, can you not be fired up.

YES! YES! YES! ESPN, go to your room!

WOW! 2 B1G Boys headed to Houston (?) to play for a title. 4th and 2 and Jimmy goes for it skidoo! And a Wolverines star, Blake Corum seals the deal with a great run in OT. And picking up on the Poncho no snap muffs posts, the last snap as were a number of others to Bama QB Milroe never allowed for an RPO to be other than an R. And how about them SACKS! Oregon lost twice by 6 points to a team that I believe will win the title. Oregon made mincemeat of the team it was relagated to play. Never complained about the matchup, simply took care of business. Hats off to Bo, the players, Danno and staff. The Ducks new B1G buddies best watch out. Oregon comes into the B1G off of a terrific season and with the conference's best QB, whether or not McCarthy returns for Michigan. And with Danno beefing up the DL with athletes. and not some of the blubber guys Sark fielded tonight: well, 😍! And the B1G finishes 8-5 in bowl season. 3-0 in NY 6 Bowls. 2-0 vs. the SEC in the semis. So, the B1G will finish post champ game 9-6 with bragging rights and lots of Foxie, and not EsecPN headed into 2024.

I like it! Pefection or nada. Bo by a scintilla beats out Bama's Mac Jones for the career percentage record. Looking at the NY6 bowl games, I have not watched a better QB than Bo, Miroe? McCarthy? Welcome to Bo's jock. And the Heisman winner went 2-3 against teams with winning records. Come On UW. I want an ALL-B1G champ game.

OK, Hoosiers reduced to Hosers. Flames, EXTINGUISHED!

Oh No! I should not have watched Hoosiers last night! And David took a rock ...

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. - Mike Tyson. Come out fired up and punch the Flames in the mouth. Thanks for thoughts, Charles. Go Ducks! Extinguish the Flames!

Go Ducks! Extinguish the Flames!

The video opens with a shot of a swamp? 'Molly, where in the heck are my teeth!'

1578 more miles from Eugene to Rutgers than it is to Tucson. About 2 and a half more hours on a jet plane. And the B1G, based upon the great job the conference did with the football schedule, will set this up for a trifecta, Rutgers, Maryland, Penn State, And today, the class room is in your laptop. Minnesota football in 1930's traveled to play UW. 7 and a half days and no one was beefing. I think this entire travel 'thing' has been overblown. Especially by the Pac-2, John Canzano, and people who hate travel agents. Hats off to Oregon's women athletes who were queired about travel and opted for better competition over easier travel. On 1/1/24 a new and B1G day is dawning for OBD. It's going to be B1G. With B1G coverage for all sports. Moneyball and otherwise.

An LA school sweep by the Ducks. What to date, happened to SC, we have all the recruits and UCLA ditto? Sandy, I still have a lot of trust in Dana. Keep this up and perhaps the Ducks is looking at 6 seed? Dana at some point will say 'so long' and I wager that Rob will bring in an heck of a replacement; especially, with Puddles going B1G and being covered by a B1G network. The future's so bright I've got to 😍.

It's West Coast Tobacco Road vs, the B12. The ACC team won. What's new?

The Right Coast. When it comes to watching sports on the tube, cable, steaming, FUBO, whatever, is No Country For Old Men.