Jon Joseph

Was that the sound of the deck chairs on the Titanic shifting? KIDDING! Totally agree with Charles that Puddles will be happy to stay or find a nice new nest to settle into.

Someone is paying attention to the Left Coast? Who knew? Love the Civil War Game at 22. SC in Autzen at 11. And, Oregon at UW at 9. Also good to see Utah at SC at 11 and UW at SC at 7. Not so good to see these 2 games being played in LA. But USC does have to play both Cal and Stanford with the Cal game being played in Berkeley. (Now that SC is off to the B1G can we talk Stanford out-of-scheduling Notre Dame and helping with the Domers recruiting in California?) Speaking of the B1G - Iowa at Wisconsin comes in at 12. Why? The B1G W division punching bag will be punched out by Ohio State, Michigan, or Penn State. 2. LSU at Alabama and 1. Ohio State at Michigan are clearly both likely to be impactful games but the loser of these games as we have seen before with Ohio State could both make the final Final 4. Especially if Bama defeats Texas in Tuscaloosa, LSU defeats FSU in Orlando and Ohio State wins in South Bend.

Therein lies the rub. Deal disclosure is not required so it is hard to know the terms and conditions. FWIW, it was reported that the hot-shot QB recruit who signed with Tennessee has a four-year deal. Was money front-loaded with a bonus? If so, I see no way out without returning at least a portion of the money received. The NIL deals are no doubt signed by the player if he meets the age of majority to enter into a contract and if not, by his parents or guardians. I would not be surprised if NIL deals have restrictions on transfers.

Great take David, thank you. Love this stat. In 2022 Bucky Irving was one of 2 CFB RBs to carry the ball 150 times or more and average 6.5 yards or more. UCLA's Zach Charbonnet was the other RB to accomplish this feat. And during the season he had a rocky start as a pass receiver but very much improved in this regard. Yes, other RBs need to see the field because they are good and Bucky needs the break but if I'm Coach Stein I'm feeding the ball to Bucky. Bucky and the other RBs on the roster give Oregon the best balance on offense of any team in the Pac-12.

Matt 'Purple' Hayes weighs in. And the NLRB has filed a complaint against NW, a copy of the complaint filed against USC and the Pac-12. Why are these complaints never filed against the SEC? Hayes: If this can happen to Pat Fitzgerald, it can happen to any coach in America SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Allegations of hazing and racism within the program led Northwestern to fire the widely respected coach who took the...

https://collegefootballnews.com/cfn/northwestern-fired-pat-fitzgerald-will-hire-a-new-football-coach-and-it-will-all-be-okay-daily-cavalcade Some reasonable and realistic thoughts here on the NW situation.

David Shaw? Guffaw! I don't think David wants to be the Vandy of the B1G. 3 replacements for Northwestern after firing Pat Fitzgerald FANSIDED.COM Northwestern fired Pat Fitzgerald after hazing and culture issues came to light. With the season approaching, these hires would...

2023 Heisman Trophy odds (Caleb Williams favored to go back-to-back) FANSIDED.COM College football season is drawing closer and one of the key storylines will be who can dethrone USC quarterback Caleb... Bo comes in at #6. Hoping Bo will own Caleb in Autzen.

Top 10 Pac-12 Non-Conference games for 2023 SATURDAYBLITZ.COM When it comes to Power-5 conferences, the Pac-12 ranks near the bottom. In order for that perception to change, Pac-12 teams are...

Meathead? Pot, meet kettle. Northwestern hazing under Pat Fitzgerald proves meathead culture still permeates game at highest levels - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM For all the ways football has changed for the better, clearly there is still a ways to go inside certain locker rooms

I have pondered NIL deals and the issue of the 13th Amendment's prohibition on Indentured Servitude. The NCAA today allows for a one-time free transfer. If Dante or any other player is subject to an NIL contract can this agreement be voided based upon the 13th Amendment or otherwise? Does the NCAA's right to one-free transfer void, with a likely return of money already received, an existing NIL deal signed by the player and his parents or guardian if he is under the age of being permitted to enter into a contract? Do any of these agreements have escape clauses? Jaden Rashada, now at ASU, had a NIL deal with Florida that was breached prior to inception. Different from what Dante likely signed on for at UCLA. Cue the lawyers.

Compared to the Ducks, UW recruiting, like the young lady, is in the shallow end of the pool

If Dante gets the starting nod he will have 3 cupcakes to devour before playing P5 competition. Although Coastal Carolina is a tricky game and you know the Aztecs will be fired up to beat the Bruins in Snapdragon. With no Oregon and UW, UCLA is a legit dark horse for the conference title but games at Utah, Oregon State, and across town versus SC will be tough. Wow! In 2023, 6 teams on paper have a legit shot at the conference title. There will be no deeper conference in 2023 including the SEC.

The repeat should not have happened. Cal's RB Chuck Muncie who went on the make 3 Pro Bowls in the NFL was far better than Griffin in Archie's repeat season. Toby Gerhart at Stanford is another guy along with McCaffery who should have won the trophy. But 'character' mattered then and as the saying went you only saw Chuck on campus on Saturdays. Williams has the benefit of playing both Cal and Stanford and also the benefit of playing against Rising and Penix in LA. Plus, with the Grinch Who Stole Defense on the sideline, it will be necessary for Caleb to win a lot of shootouts. I like the Ducks running game far more than SC's. I think Williams (and Penix) will throw a lot more passes, especially with Kliff Kingsbury helping out on the O side, than will Nix. The Heisman and the All-Conference QB spots are stat driven.

Thank you, Coach. I love the Xs and Os articles you and Charles bring to OBD. Very enlightening.

And next season Caleb will be balling in the NFL while the Trojans schedule, without the Cali Scheduling Agreement, ramps up starting with LSU in Las Vegas where I think SC will roll craps on its way to a 9-3, 8-4 regular season.

Thanks for re-post of your great 8/22 article, David. Mike Leach, RIP. The money isn't that much different in the B1G than in the SEC but the on-field, on-court, on-diamond, track and field, and generally across the college sports panoply of sports favors the SEC way over the B1G. The SEC not only racks up wins but it racks up titles. In 2023 Florida won the men's golf tournament and the Outdoor Track and Field title. LSU won the Women's CBB title and the College World Series for the 7th time trailing only USC with 8 titles. And of course, Puddles got an upfront and personal look at UGA's back-to-back football championship team. The SEC's new media deal needed 1 media company, Disney/ESPN to score $70M per school per annum. The B1G needed Fox, CBS, and NBC/Peacock to arrive at $65M a team per annum with the $65M not yet cast in stone. Among other oops was the back-stabbing Kevin Warren anointing NBC to broadcast the B1G football champ game, something he had no business doing. And lo and behold, NBC's Peacock with 20M subscribers will be broadcasting 8 B1G games in 2023. And NBC/Peacock forced Michigan State to move a home game from E. Lansing to Detroit. Without the poaching of the LA schools, the B1G media deal would have been closer to $50M to $40M. If the LA schools had stayed home a Pac-12 media deal would be done at this date, coming in at $40M to $50M a school. And the LA schools could have received as was the case for SC before Larry brought CU and Utah on board, a bargained for bigger piece of the media pie. Instead, the LA schools are sneaking out of town with a media revenue gain of approximately $15M to $20M at best from what the 2 could have scored if they had stayed home and with difficult travel for its football teams and torturous travel for the non-revenue sports athletes. (With UCLA being whacked annually by a $2M to $10M payment to Cal.) And the chances of SC/UCLA playing in an expanded football playoff are not as great as Oregon staying in the Pac-10. Be careful of what you wish for. With the football playoff going to 12 teams and the basketball tournament going to a rumored 80 teams, with a streaming component that taps into far more homes than Peacock and 'traditional' media money drying up, I think Oregon is just fine, subject to the media deal finally coming to fruition at a decent number, staying with its Pac compadres on the West Coast.

But if you're not going to take Larry to trial ...

Thanks for the post NJ. I have likely iterated and reiterated this fact too often but it is a fact that since the BCS x 2, so-called playoff inception, no school that played 9 conference games has won a playoff title. Ducks 1-1, UW 0-1, TCU 1-1, Michigan State 0-1, Michigan 0-2, Ohio State 3-4 with the champ win coming when Ohio State played 8 conference games (SIGH,) And our buddy Lincoln Riley at Oklahoma went 0-4. Notre Dame lost the ACC conference champ game to Clemson when it played as a full-time ACC member, keep the enabling coming ACC, and made the Final 4 but is 0-2 and plays 12, not 13 games, in a season. IMO, Notre Dame should be required to play 13 games with 10 at least versus P5 opponents but ND must have photos of the other 10 G5/P5 conference commissioners. As far back as Steve Spurrier, many have called out the Domers to no effect. Teams that played 8 regular season conference games. Alabama - 9-4 - 3 titles Clemson - 6-4 - 2 titles Georgia - 5-1 - 2 titles and Tua'd out of a 3rd LSU - 2-0 - 1 title. Cincinnati - 0-1. FSU - 0-1. (Nuck, nuck, nuck! But it was a game that could have gone either way, right Jameis?) Of course, 8 conference games do not mean you cannot schedule additional P5 opponents OOC. It also doesn't mean that SEC teams with stacked rosters that played 8 would not have won a title playing 9. 6 titles speak for the power of the SEC. But Oregon playing a 9th conference opponent is, no matter what SEC honks have to say, more difficult than playing New Mexico State in the penultimate week of the regular season. Yes, in 2023 Bama plays Texas and LSU plays FSU but only 2 SEC teams in 2023 play 10 games vs P5 teams. Way behind the other Power 4 conferences. In 2023 10 Pac-12 schools play at least 1 P5 opponent OOC and CU and Utah play 2 P5 teams OOC. UCLA and Oregon State play Zip.

I am a bit more high on the Buckeyes in 2023. tOSU gets Penn State in Columbus while Michigan trips to Happy Valley. Unlike the Wolverines, Ohio State does have an OOC opponent with a heartbeat, Notre Dame.

SC. The ESPN answer is Four! Back to School with this projection. Trojans are getting too much respect. Ducks at 11 are in the ESPN FPI mix. 2023 College Football Power Index - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM View the 2023 College Football power index on ESPN. The FPI is the best predictor of a team's performance going forward for the...

Too bad, so sad. Alabama Football: Phil Steele disappoints Auburn and Tennessee fans BAMAHAMMER.COM In his 2023 preseason rankings, Phil Steele has Alabama Football ranked No. 4, behind Georgia, Clemson and Michigan, and one...

Great observation H and ND, IMO, should have been included. But ND already plays in CA every season and I doubt that the Domers want to take on both Troy and Puddles; especially, when considering Stanford (!) defeated ND in South Bend last season. But it would be a CFB fan viewer's must-watch game. And with the LA schools leaving eyeballs on OOC games could matter for at-large and seeding spots come the expanded playoff in 2024.

'Most conferences play 9 conference games?' 3 do and 2 do not and no team which played 9 conference games has won a playoff title. We now have the data to pretty convincingly state that this is not a coincidence. My, FWIW, thoughts on the potential match-ups. A general comment is that most out-of-conference dance cards are filled for the next 7 years to a decade. Alabama - The Tide coming west of SEC country for an OOC game happens about as often as Haley's Comet showing up. Miami - The Mario match-up will be of interest for a few more seasons but it is Clemson and FSU that move the ACC viewer needle. Michigan - Has a permanent scheduling opponent in UCLA and like Ohio State I expect Michigan does not want to book more West Coast travel. Penn State - A White Out with a return game would be great. Oklahoma - Would have been nice to play the Sooners sooner in 2022. Tennessee, Texas, A+M, Ole Miss - Maybe I'm a masochist but I'd love a home-and-home match-up with the Dawgs, and the same for Auburn which twice has escaped Puddles by the skin of its teeth. I don't know if I'll be around to see it but Michigan State and Ohio State are on future dance cards. And I'd like to see the addition of Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. Solid Central time zone B1G opponents. And the dust has to settle but home and home series with UCLA and USC would be intense match-ups. Meanwhile, defeat a solid Texas Tech squad in September. Oregon Football: 12 non-conference opponents we want the Ducks to play DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Oregon’s non-conference scheduling is respectable, with games against Ohio State, Auburn, and LSU on the record. Here’s who...

Phil is often wrong, UW was his 'Surprise Team' in 2022, a big mistake courtesy of noted scholar Jimmy Lake, but never in doubt. His college football preseason magazine is as good as it gets for detailed team-by-team coverage. No surprise to see 6 SEC teams, Georgia, Alabama, LSU, A+M, Tennessee, and Ole Miss in the top 25 and Kentucky at 35 in the top 40. It sure is nice to see 5 Pac-12 teams, USC, UW, OREGON, Utah, and Oregon State in the top 25 along with UCLA at 28. IMO, these teams are overrated. 2. Clemson, I think the Tigers win the ACC again but suffer at least 2 losses including at home versus Notre Dame and at least one of the games vs FSU, Miami, and NC State. 3. Michigan - I see a loss on the road at Penn State and Ohio State turning the tables back on the Wolverines. 8. FSU -This season's preseason media darling that I think will be punched in the mouth in the opener vs 9. LSU. 12. A+M. I've seen this movie before. 13. Wisconsin. I do believe Luke Fickell was an outstanding hire but I don't see this much improvement in year one. IMO, these teams are underrated. 15. OREGON - OK, so I'm a homer, so what? 5. Ohio State. I see a Final 4 berth for the Buckeyes. 9. LSU. I see the Tigers repeating as SEC W champs. 19. Tennessee. Other than for Georgia the SEC E is not all that and I see the Vols outscoring most of their opponents and going 10-2 or 9-3. 20. Oklahoma. With the Sooners roster talent in the B12, I see a bounce back in 2023. 29. K State. I think K State will be in the mix for back-to-back B12 titles. 39. Texas Tech. Joey McGuire has the Red Raiders on the rise and TT misses Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in 2023. Your thoughts? Phil Steele: College Football Preseason Top 40 WWW.ON3.COM .