Jon Joseph

As expected, the Education Department changed course on direct payment of student (😁) athletes violating Title IX. U.S. Department of Education Rescinds Biden Administration's Title IX NIL Guidance WWW.SI.COM The NIL guidance pushed through in the final days of the Biden administration would have flipped college athletics on its head.

TOSU hiring Patricia as the new DC makes Michigan fans happy. But should it? https://athlonsports.com/college-football/michigan-fans-rejoice-after-ohio-states-controversial-coaching-hire This author and many others demur. Ohio State coach Ryan Day gets ideal defensive coordinator replacement in 3-time Super Bowl winner Matt Patricia WWW.SPORTINGNEWS.COM Ohio State has its replacement defensive coordinator moving forward.

More on the subject from Athlon. https://athlonsports.com/college-football/college-football-coaches-considering-massive-offseason-changes

Athlon predicts the top B1G teams in 2025 will be TOSU, PSU, and OBD. https://athlonsports.com/college-football/big-ten-football-predictions-early-2025#gid=ci02f1ea98e0002609&pid=3-oregon Dear Athlon, Coach Knowles has said: Goodbye, Columbus and Hello, Happy Valley.

O + O. A ranking of 2025 B1G football rosters. https://athlonsports.com/college-football/big-ten-football-ranking-rosters-2025

OBD's Top 2026 Recruits. Top Commits of Oregon Ducks' No. 1 Ranked Recruiting Class: Kendre Harrison, Kodi Greene WWW.YARDBARKER.COM The Oregon Ducks are currently ranked No. 1 in On3’s Industry 2026 Recruiting Rankings. Oregon has 10 commitments thus far consisting of eight four-star and two three-star recruits. The...

Thank you, Darren, good stuff. And Chip in the NFL is one step farther away from having to deal with ridiculous roster turnover and fan outrage at a loss. It's OK to lose a game or seven+ in the NFL. And Chip has Six Million reasons to smile with the smile made brighter by Nevada having no state income tax. 😎

It's an interesting date with the second portal window opening on April 16th and closing on April 25th. TOSU has announced that it will not play a spring game. With its season ending in Atlanta on 1/20/25, TOSU moved the start of spring practice back two weeks. Matt Ruhle does not want Nebraska to play a spring game even though the game is traditionally sold out. He does not want to give portal poachers the chance to scout players in game-like conditions.

2025-26 - Another Battle of the Os? TOSU No. 1 and OBD 2nd in the odds to win the 2025 B1G football title. Early Odds to Win the 2025-26 Big Ten Championship SATURDAYBLITZ.COM It's early February and thanks to FanDuel, we already have betting odds to win next season's Big Ten Championship. Join me as I break down the odds for each pr

Game Wrap Up - Oregon Ducks Snap Losing Streak: Jackson Shelstad's Career Night Vs. Northwestern WWW.SI.COM The Oregon Ducks snapped their five-game losing streak in a 81-75 win over the Northwestern Wildcats. It was a much needed win for the Ducks as they were in a c Hard to win in this conference. As noted above, Indiana took down Sparty and Michigan beat Purdue. Parity and mediocrity or solid teams that will surprise in the Tourney? The SEC came in with all of the pub last season and flamed out.

As in 2024-25 and every season since the beginning of the BCS, a team with a Blue Chip Roster will win the Championship in 2025-26. Blue-Chip Ratio 2024: These 16 college football teams can actually win the national championship - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Breaking down the programs that have done well enough on the recruiting trail to win the first 12-team CFP in the 2024 season

The seeding and not the participants made it a mess.

OK, in 2026, let's keep a 12-team PO, but one that is based solely on merit. If you finish in the PO Ct's top 12, you're in! And you are seeded as ranked. Top 4 ranked = top 4 seeds with a 1st round bye. No automatic bid for a G5 team. Without an automatic bid in 2024-25, why would a 1-loss Boise with a batspit schedule get in instead of a 3-loss Bama, Ole Miss, South Carolina, or Illinois? A close loss at Oregon? Well, how about close wins over Wyoming and Nevada? Clemson made the field as the ACC champion. Should Clemson with a blowout loss vs. Georgia, and home losses to Louisville and South Carolina make the PO field? Would SMU with a home loss to 2 loss BYU be in the PO field? A PO of the top 12 teams based on CBB benchmarks including Quad 1 wins, SOS, etc.? Almost a certainty that the Power 2 would have at least 8 teams in the field, that no G5 team would be in the field, and that the ACC and B12 would be fortunate to have one team in the field. It is also a certainty that the Power 2 draws far more eyeballs than other conferences.

Athlon Ranks the 2025 B1G Schedules from Easiest, 1. Nebraska to Hardest, 18 Wisconsin. OBD at 5. has one of the easier schedules per Athlon. https://athlonsports.com/college-football/big-ten-easiest-toughest-schedules-2025

A 2025 SEC Roster Ranking. Note, this ranling excludes portal transfers which will affect rankings after the 2nd portal wave of transfers. https://athlonsports.com/college-football/sec-football-ranking-rosters-2025

Five things about Canady. 5 things to know about Jadon Canady, Oregon's newest safety transfer DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Breaking down the most important things to know about Oregon Ducks new safety transfer Jadon Canady, the newest member of the team.

Canady's potential impact. How Oregon's newest transfer addition impacts the Ducks' secondary DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Breaking down how the addition of transfer Jadon Canady will impact the Oregon Ducks secondary in the 2025 season.

Thank you for this post! For any business the decline in numbers watching (buying) your product would lead to a new delivery system ASAP or, failing this, to bankruptcy. Selling out to bowl-broadcast-oriented ESPN may have made sense in the short run, but in the long run a 'Super League' must do directly to the market and eliminate the media middlemen or work with an entity like Venu to stream the product. The College Football PO needs to end on 1/1 every season. (1/2 if 1/1 is a Sunday.) With a little thought and the Bowl Paradigm being eliminated, this is doable

Thanks, Mike. An NFL model 14-team playoff will work if the season begins in Week Zero, Conference champ games are flex-scheduled to be played on the last Saturday of the regular season, half of the team's bye in Week 6, and the others in Week 7. The 1st two rounds of the PO should be played at the higher-ranked team's home field. I'd like to see three played at home. Make these changes and the champ game could be played on January 1st in the Rose Bowl, and would draw huge numbers of viewers. In 2025-26, the geniuses behind this so-called Playoff-Bowl Extravaganza will play the champ game five days later on 1/25/26. Sunday's Super Bowl was a blowout but set a record for viewers. The CFB champ game on 1/20/25 drew 10M viewers less than the number who watched the Ducks vs. Bucks in the 1st 4-team champ game. College Football needs a Player's Union and a Super Conference that can negotiate with the union, restrict transfers, etc. House? The $20.5 million direct payment per annum cap on money that can be paid to college athletes will be overturned as a restraint on trade. Seven accountants deciding whether a NIL deal is within 'market value' is DOA when the first suit filed by a player who brokered a Chip Kelly-like assistant coach salary is shot down and his lawsuit hits the courthouse. The Emperors behind the House settlement have no clothes. NFL-Lite if structured properly with scheduling agreed upon with the NFL (if there is an NFL-Lite, the agreement that restricts NFL games being played on Saturday through mid-December arguably goes away) will draw eyeballs. Vandy and Northwestern football could disappear or more likely become a club sport but the SEC and B1G conferences will be there for all other sports. Failing to recognize that an old paradigm has been shattered has led to the ruin of many business entities and today's Big Time CFB is Big Business.

The 10 best and a nod to Matayo U at No.11. https://athlonsports.com/college/oregon-ducks/ranking-the-top-10-oregon-defensive-linemen-of-all-time

Hats Off to a Bunch of Dynamite Dawgs! The Philadelphia Eagles' plan to draft as many Georgia Bulldogs as possible is clearly working SATURDAYBLITZ.COM The Philadelphia Eagles have taken an unconventional yet highly effective approach to building their defense—drafting players straight from Kirby Smart's Georgi

Hoosier Up Next? Indiana coach candidates: Michigan's Dusty May, Texas A&M's Buzz Williams lead options to replace Mike Woodson - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Here are some names to watch as the Hoosiers begins the search to replace Woodson, who will resign at end of season

I'm going to fly like an Eagle to the sea. Hurts so good, come on Baby make it Hurts so good! Relationship status? Taylor: I'm looking for a new squeeze. 😛 $$$ is not an issue.

Mike, you are the Man! And I like your ideas on how to deliver and maintain college football. However, I do not believe that NFL-Lite will destroy college football. As you so note, a financial divide has happened. There is a Power 2 that continues to financially distant itself. People will watch Stanford at SMU but nowhere close to those who will tune in to watch Texas at Ohio State in the opening game of the 2025 season. FWIW, I think that a split of the Biggest Boys negotiating with a players' union to curtail an unregulated transfer portal, impose a direct-payment salary cap (but like the NFL no cap on NIL,) and introduce a high school draft, etc. is coming and needed to obtain relief from myriad law suits. CFB has been capitalized and IMO needs to take the next step in recognition of what we know, 'student-athlete' in money-ball sports is an oxymoron. The House settlement, if approved in April, will create a $20.5 million per year separation benchmark. A separation of monied programs from the programs that cannot step up to the big-time sports plate. That this will happen in court-of-law and not on the field and basketball court is a further indictment of the NCAA; the B1G/SEC split has happened and it needs to be recognized. OBD sponsored by NIKE, Bama sponsored by Nick Saban's Mercedes Benz dealerships, etc., is the next step. Will a realization of where big time sports is financially kill college sports? I don't think so but I certainly recognize and appreciate your concerns.

Into the turnbuckle! That's got to Hurts Gene! 😁 And. the college football PO stunk because many of the games were blow outs, right? If only Bama, Ole Miss, South Carolina, LSU, or Vandy could have been the opposition in New Orleans tonight. Herbie?