Jon Joseph

The Conference of Quarterbacks is not going away without a fight. The Pac-12 after Week 3 is 29-6 with USC idle this week. Game of the Week - 3-0 Colorado 43 - Colorado State 35 - 2 OT CSU had the Buffs in the Coffin (Corner) but forgot about putting the stake in Ralphie's heart. 1:21 minutes later, Shedeur Sanders, absent his playmate Travis Hunter (Cheap Shot!,) took CU 98 yards for the tying TD and 2-point conversion in front of a raucous Folsom Field crowd. In the 2nd OT, CSU committed the 17th of 17 penalties on the night, 187 yards lost, and the hat and sunglasses had a season-opening hat trick. You Cannot Make This Stuff Up! Game of Next Week - 3-0 OREGON 55 - Hawaii 10 - This is how you take down an undermanned opponent. Go Hawaii 5-0 twice. Danno booked 'em. As to this coming Saturday, I leave it up to true journalist The Athletis's Stewart Mandel. "It felt like the hype surrounding Deion Sanders ratcheted up 10-fold during the week. So I can't even imagine what this week will be like leading up to CU's conference opener at (Week 2 ranked) #13 OREGON. And the more the hype grows, the more Deion's cynics will be looking for any confirmation that his team is overrated, which it may well be. All I know is, Shedeur Sanders is a legitimate first-round NFL Draft pick with some big-time receivers, and I could not be more pumped to watch him and fellow draft prospect Bo Nix go head-to-head." AMEN, Brother Stewart, AMEN! Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 12:30 Pacific, ABC. The Pac-2 Conference Champ Game of the Week. 3-0 Oregon State 26 - SDS 9 at 3-0 Washington State 64 - No. Colorado 21. Larry has respectfully and graciously come out of a well-deserved retirement to pinch-hit as the Pac-2 Conference Commissioner for this game. It was Larry's belief that no one was having any fun in Las Vegas, so Larry decided to move the Pac-2 Conference Champ game to beautiful downtown Pullman. At the end of the game, Larry will be handing out the coveted Left Behind Except for the Lawyers Trophy Saturday, September 23, 2023 - 12:30 Pacific FS1. (Larry used all of his clout to keep this game off of his network.) Over/Under on more viewers for Ducks/Buffs vs. Beavers/Cougars is about 7 million viewers or so. Never Quit! Keep those billable hours coming! 2-1 Arizona 31 - UTEP 14. Snore. 1-2 ASU 0 - Fresno State 29 - Dilly, your 0 needs a wake-up call. Especially with Caleb and friends coming for a visit. 2-1 Cal 31 - Idaho 17 - The FCS 10th-ranked Vandals could not steal the Bear's handle. leaving the job up to the SS Hornets. 1-2 Stanford 23 - Sac-of-Suds- (Hello, Cousin Vinny) State Hornets 30 - Virginia welcomes you to the ACC. 3-0 UCLA 59 - NCC 7 - Hey Chip, pick on someone your own size! Get ready to step it up next Saturday in Whit-burg. 3-0 Utah 31 - Weber State Grills 7 - Will there be a Rising? 3-0 Washington 41 - Michigan State 7 - I'm not certain what type of harassment Mike Penix, Jr. visited on Sparty but I do know harassment when I see it. Next on the firing line, the ACC Cal Bears. Get your popcorn ready for a Prime Time visit. A final thought from Stewart - "Maybe CU will pull off another stunner. Maybe the Buffs will lose by four TDs. The only certainty is that everyone will be watching." 😍

What an uncalled-for cheap shot. One of 17 penalties against the gutty but undisciplined Rams that cost CSU 187 lost yards and the football game. The last one was a stupid blindside block that cost CSU an OT TD. The Buffs mascot is named Chip. The game was more than chippy.

They put the Buffs into the Coffin (Corner) but forgot to put the stake in Ralphie's heart. I would have rather seen Prime tripping to Eugene with a blowout win and not on this kind of Rocky Mountain high.

That may have been the best Gameday ever. 1st time in Boulder since 1996. Great interview with Prime. The Rock was great. Lee Corso's 400th hat dance. A 2025 Duck 'commit' is in Boulder today. I hope he doesn't flip.

Log, great thoughts. However, I think Deion knows full well that he is a target and so is his team.

Mic, great points. In addition to winning on the field Oregon with the help of NIKE had a marketing plan to win off the field including the then-unique uniform changes. And Chip Kelly with a then avant-garde, hurry-up no huddle offense took the country by storm. He certainly got Saint Nick's attention down in Tuscaloosa. But Deion? The man is a media magnet all on his own. He personally has increased the Buffs 'market cap' by 100%.

Oregon - 60 - Hawaii 17 - Book 'Em Danno! 3 TO 5 Sacks 250 yards rushing

Light, meet bushel.

Absolutely! Maybe via litigation, the Pac-2 hangs in for the playoff through 2026 but after that? Sayonara. What really stinks is that the 2 left behind draw more fans and are better programs than a number of B12 programs.

The Pac-12 should file a Chapter 7 liquidation. As part of the liquidation plan, give OSU and WSU the Pac-12 trademark and give the 2 a bigger piece of the assets after liabilities are paid off, including a Comcast suit asset that should be filed against Larry. The lawsuit the left-behind schools filed should have been settled via negotiation/mediation. But I have zero beef with the 2 left-behind schools filing the same. It's interesting that on the way out the door, the Pac-10 setting sail schools could be leaving 2 NY6 games money behind.

College Football Odds: Looking Ahead to Colorado-Oregon Odds for Week 3 WWW.ODDSSHOPPER.COM Web site created using create-react-app Depending on this Saturday's results, I expect these odds will trend more in the direction of CU. A 2 TD win over CU in Autzen is what I hope to see but on the road against a ranked TCU, CU put up a lot of points and the Ducks pass D will be stressed.

Roll against CU? I think that this is selling this CU team way short. And perhaps, selling the Ducks pass D too high? 9/30 at Stanford, agreed. 10/14 at UW? And the game after at home vs. WSU will not be a layup. No easy day in the Conference of Quarterbacks in 2023.

NO! The pollsters will wait to see what happens in Week 4 when the Buffs rubber hits the Autzen road. A win against a G5 team in Boulder will not jump #18 CU over a G5 winner at home in Eugene, #13 Oregon. Move up? Maybe. But both the Ducks and Buffs moving after a weak Week 3 group of games depends upon teams ranked above them being upset.

And also equipping the Gameday crew with 'Deion Sanders (no joke!) shades. A media magician.

Daughter Hillary, a Junior at CU at the time, now an MD and Mom to my 3 grandkids, and I were in the B1G House for this: 29 years ago? Say it ain't so! https://athlonsports.com/college-football/colin-cowherd-michigan-stadium-the-craziest-cfb-moment-miracle-big-ten-colorado

Desmond Howard rips Jay Norvell over Deion Sanders comments SATURDAYOUTWEST.COM Desmond Howard called Jay Norvell's comments on Deion Sanders 'petty' and 'ridiculous.'

This should help UW recruiting, right? UW finally escapes Larry's Loser Network yet still gets The Bird.

If Tuck gets trucked and it looks like things are headed toward the guy being self-inflicted pan-caked, I think the obvious choice would be to bring back Pitt HC and former MSU DC, Pat Narduzzi. Then, perhaps Narduzzi will shut up about poaching, NIL, and the transfer portal.

Thank you, DNC, terrific take. I also recall the OL under Mario and his crew struggling to put away Fresno and Stony Brook. Far too often under Mario, the team including the OL played down to the competition. See, ASU. I'm definitely on board with you in regard to the game at Ohio State. But a 1-point Rose Bowl win over a 3-loss team with one of the now top NFL QBs leading the way? OL is a ballet. Lots of new guys were on stage in the 1st true game of the year in Lubbock. And as expected, the hostile crowd contributed to lots of OL miscues. It's a long season and we are only 2 games in if you count the 1st game against the junior, junior, varsity. I expect the OL play will improve during the course of the 2023 season. I expect the run game will materially improve this Saturday. I for one am not ready to count out the OL and the Ducks run game. Again, thanks for the great take.

I did not forget that UGA plays a Varsity game this Saturday. And I was tempted to take UGA to cover the big spread. I think UGA will do so and that Rattler will be running for his life but strange things have occassionally happened when the Dawgs play USC(e.) I am very happy that UGA will finally be able to show its worth on the way to a potential 3-peat. GO DAWGS!

MY BAD! Shedeur and Travis are both draft-eligible after this season and both will be headed to the NFL.

Any and all shots at Deion are entirely reasonable and expected, no doubt, by Deion. But the Prime Time Show tripping to Eugene in 2023 is a huge benefit for Oregon football compared to having the same game on the schedule in 2022. Bill Connelly - ESPN+ writes - "Week 4 will give us Ohio-State - Notre Dame, Alabama - Ole Miss and a shockingly big Colorado - Oregon game." Without Prime Time, next Saturday's game would have kicked off at 7:30 Pacific on Larry's Network. It may not have drawn an Autzen full house. Now, the ticket cost will come close to the cost when SC visits Eugene. The game would have been watched by 25% or fewer folks who will now tune in at 12:30 Pacific on ABC. Now a likely lead-in game to Ohio State - Notre Dame. The game will get the ESPN full Monty coverage during the week and post-game. And will be watched by the vast majority of recruits across the USA. As the folks in the SEC learned, a Rising Tide lifted all SEC boats. CU at Oregon will be under the Neon bright lights and not hidden under Larry's bushel.

BOOOOOOOOO! Hawaii vs Oregon Prediction, Odds, Trends and Key Players for College Football Week 3 FANSIDED.COM Last week, it came down to the wire for Oregon as they beat Texas Tech 38-30 on the road. They needed 20 fourth quarter points to get the comeback victory after Pay no attention to this guy. Move right along.

The coaches, the quarterback, and the culture of Colorado football SATURDAYBLITZ.COM There's an old country saying, "If you want the bull, you get the horns." That is precisely what you get when you hire Deion Sanders. While ... In an earlier post, I was in error (no surprise there) noting that Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter have another season to play before being draft-eligible. Both are draft-eligible after this season.

Perhaps? But ESPN, Fox, and the national media are not yet sleepy. And the folks who hired Prime are most happy. CU football had not been relevant for two decades before this hire. In 2022, no one gave a whip about a 1-11 team that was probably the worst team in the P5. Love him or hate him, Prime and CU are dominating the coverage of CFB to date. Does anyone think that ESPN and the Big Noon game crew would show up in Boulder on the same Saturday last season? And when a guy like Jay Norvell pipes up, it just helps Prime pump up the disrespected music. Music that Prime loves to hear. From a monetary and to-date W/L POV, this is likely the best HC hire in the history of the game. Deion has already covered his salary and then some.