Jon Joseph

With the PO Committee Poll arriving on Tuesday night we may see a different calculus but this is the PO scenario using the last 2021, relevant AP Poll. NOTE: The 10 commissioners and the ND have not dumped expanding the PO field. Discussions regarding same are scheduled for next week. Too much $ is involved to put this topic away before the 2026 season. 12 Teams: 1 UGA -SEC vs 9 Michigan AL at 8 Notre Dame AL 2. CINCINNATI - AAC vs 10 Wake ACC at 7 Oregon Pac-12 3. OK - B12 vs 11 OK ST AL at 6 Ohio State AL 4. Michigan State - Big10 vs 12 Auburn AL at 5 Alabama AL 8 teams with all P5 champs in. 1. UGA - SEC vs 8 Wake Forest - ACC 2. Cincinnati - G5 vs 7 Oregon - Pac -12 3. Alabama - AL vs 6 Ohio State - AL 4. Oklahoma - B12 vs 5 Michigan State - Big 10 MY guess? 12 will be adopted with no conference being allowed more than 3 entrants. And possibly, ND if it wants independence, having to play 13 regular season games? But Alliance or not, the ACC, Pac-12, reconstituted B12, Notre Dame and the G5 cannot leave expansion money behind.

Gary Patterson out at TCU. A Rose Bowl winner. And a guy whose likeness sits outside of the stadium. USC, LSU, TEXAS TECH, TCU all open.

SMU? Maybe Houston instead? SMU had the game at Houston in hand with under a minute left and Sonny Dykes decides to KO deep to one of if not the best return guys in the Country? Thanks Sonny. Here's your $M + pay check. As of now, Cincy has both SMU and Houston down the road. Both AP ranked. Houston 20 and SMU 23. No ranked team for Oregon to play against.

Thank you, Sir! Despite my hubris in dissing the ESPN's Bear Bank, I missed on Ole Miss but both Wake and Miami covered. 14-9 for the season ATS with 1 straight up win. But in all humility, and even with a shave, a hair cut and better threads, I look and looked, no where close as good as does the man in the photo.

On the Committee, Rich George AD at CU and an also a female professor at ASU. It is not a PO, it is an invitational. Disney owns ESPN and ESPN owns the ACC and SEC Networks. You practiced law. In a court of law testimony from ESPN would be excluded for bias. But in the world of CFB?

FACTS ARE DIFFICULT THINGS TO IGNORE - John Adams COMMITTEE - 1 UGA without any doubt. Then what? Cincinnati 8-0 - Strength of Record (SOR) 7 - Strength of Schedule - 103 Ohio State 7-1 - SOR - 20 - SOS - 93 Oregon 7-1 - SOR - 12 - SOS - 15 And BTW, a win over tOSU on the road without the Ducks best player available for the game. Maybe CIN being 8-0 and with a SOR of 7 deserves to be ranked ahead of Ohio State and Oregon, but no way should Oregon be ranked behind Ohio State.

NJDuck, how many conference members have the will and the money to compete against the best at the highest level in college football? I think many of the Pac-12 'leaders' would be happy to go the way of the Big East, drop football and focus on basketball? More and more I find this lack of leadership ticking me off because Oregon does not deserve these kind of partners. I hope Oregon does not pledge its media rights to the conference without testing say, the B12 waters? To get Oregon the B12 might well pay a premium for Oregon's media rights? AS it did for OK and TX. So long OK and TX, but with the 4 schools the B12 is adding it will be a stronger football conference than the Pac-12.

The conference is a garbage dump. Oregon is the only team with fewer than 3Ls. Bust your guts to go 11-1 and that brings you the reward of playing a 3L + team for a championship in front of a whole bunch of empty seats in Vegas? In this conference, does keeping or dropping divisions make any difference? Is there any evidence other than the Beavers play, At Home that is, that any team in the conference not named Oregon is going to step it up? 2022 recruiting rankings for one say , "No!." But Oregon gets the same pay cut?

That's 7:30 in the sports viewing challenged part of the world. ABC is one heck of a lot better than ESPN 2 or Larry's Lost Network.

Sweet and sour, both. A sad but beautiful reflection. Miss every hound I ever owned.

AB - 25-31 307 yards, 3 TDs should not be ignored. The D finally had the luxury of not having to save a W. 29 points put up by CU trouble me not.

The problem is that the Ducks is the only team in the conference with fewer than 3Ls. Hopefully with Fresno's victory over SDS, the Bulldogs are #25 in the AP Poll, Fresno will be ranked by the CT? Ohio St has MI, MI ST left and most likely a top 25 team in the B1G champ game Go 11-1 and the Ducks will play a south champion with at least 3 Ls. Senseless Larry follow the leader BS. The Beavers do not travel well. ASU players appear to have given up on Herm. WSU players have not given up with a interim HC. If you watched Stanford/UW yesterday you have to ask how in the heck did UO lose to Stanford? SC defeated the worst P5 team in all of football but Drake London is out for the rest of the season. Utah after the moving ceremony came through. Could have added OK ST, TX Tech, SMU, TCU , Houston and BYU? But none are good enough fit for the Pac-12, right?

WOW! Harsh! Yeah the D gave up a lot of points but the D, for once, did not have its back to the wall in the 4th Q. As to DeRuyter, he is doing his best but he was never all that as a HC and no better than slightly above average as a DC. Look, today we could be Michigan fans? Michigan and its coaching staff kicked that game to the curb. Without anything going nuts later tonight I see the Committee coming with 1 UGA, 2 Michigan State (SOS really helped by Miami's win at Pitt today,) 3 Alabama (just because it's sweet home Alabama,), 4 Oklahoma, 5 Cincinnati, 6 Oregon and 7 Ohio State?

Wasn't 2021 supposed to be the year if the Pac-12 South? WAZZU, hats off for coming through at ASU. As I have suggested before, an 11-1 Oregon could be facing a 3L team in the 'Champ Game?' Divisions must go!

Hopefully today the end game will be irrelevant?

Great comeback by Michigan State! But in the 4th Q you substitute in our true frosh QB who turns it over 2 snaps in a row? Harbaugh is going to be lit up by Michigan fans. How about Wake transfer MSU RB Walker. 5 TDs and lots of critical yards on the ground. THAT was Heisman like effort.

Oregon needs to go 12-1 and hope that Ohio State does the same. A 2nd L by tOSU will not help Oregon's SOS that needs all the help it can get. One of the 2 teams bracketing the Ducks in the AP Poll, 6 Michigan, 8 Michigan State, will lose today. This will help the Ducks. Best sign on Gameday? Fade the Bear. The Bear is 12-13 for the season, soon there will be a run on Bear's Bank. Try JJ's Bank, 12-8 on the season with 1 +210 straight up win. Upset of the day that will help the Ducks the most? Pick 1 of Florida over Georgia or more realistically, Texas Tech and interim coach Sonny Cumbie, taking down Oklahoma. I now bid you adieu. Being on the Right Coast, I tape the games and watch beginning at 3 eastern. I'll watch the late games tomorrow; I have zero interest in NFL ball before the playoffs start. I do not want to see 'spoiler' scores. But go for it folks. It's fun to check out the other games. Go Ducks!

Love the meme. "I don't think that was my fault?'

Great take Charles, thank you. I'm not thrilled to learn that Mario is that involved with the in-game play calling. I do not understand this in the least. Certainly he should participate in developing the game plan but then, get out of your $1M a year OC's way. I do not believe Mario recognizes his own weakness when it comes to clock management? I hope Mario is in Eugene for decades and brings football titles to UO but as a leader you have to know your own strengths and weaknesses and accordingly, delegate to the quality people you have hired. You have to know your personnel. AB worked hard and played well to get you a lead. He played within himself. For the 3rd time this season he ran for what turned out to be the winning TD. But he is not a guy to turn the game over to when, I am going back to 1st late in the game pick, you have a 2 score lead in the 4th quarter. And in this game your D is playing great and has basically shut down the powerful Bruin run game. You so perfectly nailed it Charles. When you have the lead late in the game 1st downs are often the equal of touchdowns. Coaches and players, how about making it easier today on us fans; blow out these Buffs all the way back to Boulder!

As to the 1st Amendment. I think the founders wanted truth but based on their collective experience they had never seen the same. In Ben Franklin's time there were as many liars per capita as there are today. However, there were 'constants' then that we do not have today. Not everything was 'relative' and subject to revision by later generations. Also Charles and I spot on agree, gentlemen then were expected to tell the truth. Not as they saw it but as the facts so revealed. The facts could be interpreted differently but people did not stray from the facts or make facts up, or ignore same, when rendering an opinion. One thing that was also different back when the Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights and certain amendments were added to the Constitution, although there were duels fought, most folks could disagree without being disagreeable. Today? It's back to kindergarten: I'm right so anything you have to say otherwise is wrong. And anyone with access to a key board can, no matter how senseless or insipid, go public with his or her beliefs. You pay your $ to see the show and you have the right to applaud or to boo. IMO, anyone who sees it differently is sitting on a fabricated high horse. When in the modern history of CFB has a QB not performing to the expectations of the fans not been booed? Fans, short of course for 'fanatics,' are not allowed to vent because it might hurt the feelings of a multi-million dollar a year salaried coach and the players in the bully pulpit's, feelings? My advice for what it is worth, tune out and tune into a site like FD where decorum matters. Where free expression and not denegation is allowed. Where criticism is allowed unless unduly directed at a fellow poster. As many have noted above. The negative slant on things brings click-bait and $. I'm reasonably certain that once a month the talking heads at CNN and FOX go somewhere incognito and raise a glass to one another.

NEWS. Negative Events With Spin. Oklahoma almost defeated by Tulsa, Texas and Kansas. Nothing to see here, move right along. Bama takes an L versus a 2L team that beat CU by TD? No problem because A+M is 14 and a 2L team A+M lost to, Auburn, is at 16. Go 12-1 and shut all of these people up. Show up in the Orange or Cotton Bowl and fight to the finish. NO PO expansion without every P5 champ in. I hope the Alliance won't back down.

Spinning like a spinning top. Herbie on ESPN Tuesday night on the preview show of the this Tuesday's night PO Committee first reveal completely dismissed the Ducks W in Columbus in favor of his personal eye test. Since the Ducks L the Buckeyes have played better than Oregon so it is 'logical' to rank OH ST ahead of the Ducks. Right? Herbie mentioned that he was not going to be bound by what happened in the 2nd game of the season. But every game counts, right? THIS notwithstanding his employer has Oregon with a better strength of schedule and a better strength of record than Ohio State. THIS notwithstanding that KT did not dress for the Ohio State game. On the other hand on the weekly CBS, CFB show, all 5 folks said that if head to head does not count then why play the games? Why indeed? These people simply make it up as it goes along to fit their particular narrative.

Great take! And DJ Johnson has been one heck of a pinch hitter.

1. Georgia -14 vs NR Florida in the World's Largest Gathering Of Folks Imbibing Adult Beverages Game - 3:30 CBS Florida despite the debate over the starting QB, can put up points. But against this D? How about NO! 5. Ohio State -18.5 vs 20 Penn St. - 7:30 ABC With PSU's 2nd L in a row vs Illinois in a 9 OT game, this contest has lost a lot of its luster. PSU is only the 2nd top 25 team the Buckeyes will have played this season. Don't tell the AP voters but the 1st top 25 match up did not go well for the Buckeyes. I think a desperate PSU team keeps the final score within the spread? If both tOSU and the Ducks win, will the PO Committee have the Bucks ranked ahead of the Ducks. And where will the Committee rank Cincinnati? 6. Michigan -4 at 8. Michigan State - Noon - FOX The B1G E with this game and the OH ST/PSU game starts to sort itself out. In the long PO run an L by either team should help the Ducks? First time these 2 have played as top 10 opponents in over 5 decades. If Harbaugh wins will he ask for his former pay to be restored? If Tucker wins the Tucker to LSU talk will heat up. 10. Ole Miss +2.5 at 18 Auburn - 7 ESPN Matt Corral has taken the lead in the Heisman race. (If Mr. T keeps it up and isn't in NYC, something is very wrong.) Can Corral outduel Bo Nix on the road at a tough place to play? Can Kiffin continue the impressive year 2 turn around? 11. Notre Dame -3.5 vs NR UNC - 7:30 NBC Only because of Clemson's poor season, UNC, with all due respect to Washington, is the most disappointing team in 2021. Will the Domers 'steal' another Final 4 spot? CLOSER TO HOME 7. Oregon -24 vs NR Colorado - 3:30 FOX It's too bad this game is opposite UGA vs UF. The Ducks need style points and lots of folks watching Puddles put them up. I expect this game will not show up on big FOX until well into the 1st quarter? Although the style of offense played by both MI and MI ST should help run the clock in East Lansing? UCLA +3.5 at Utah - 10 ESPN UCLA is very much in the hunt for the Pac-12 S. Will DTR be able to play? Will Bruins FG tries be reviewed? Did you know? The HC of Troy also goes by the name the name of Chip Kelly? Oregon State -2.5 at CAL - 7 Pac-12 Network The Ducks need the Beavs to keep on rolling. Strawberry Canyon has not been a fruitful place for the Beavers to play. OR ST is 1-2 on the road in 2021. Once again the Beavers light is hidden under the bushel that is Larry's Lost Network. After the loss in Corvallis, Utah HC Whittingham expressed his belief that the Beavers have the best O in the conference. Keep an eye on: NR Texas at 16 Baylor - 2.5 - Noon ABC; 9 Iowa +3 at NR Wisconsin - Noon ESPN; 17. Pitt -9 vs Miami - Noon ACC Network. The Canes defeated ranked NC State last Saturday but a win here would help get Manny Diaz off the hot seat. Did you know? The Fighting Flecks a/k/a Minnesota, are tied for the lead in the B1G W? GO DUCKS! Make the Buffs ralph!

The CFB Playoff Powers That Be will soon be revisiting the issue of an expanded Playoff field. The G5, undergoing massive change since OK/UT to the SEC started conference realignment rolling again, want a 12 team field. Ditto the SEC and Notre Dame. It appears that the ACC, B1G and Pac-12 (so-called Alliance) favor an 8 team field with all P5 champs guaranteed a spot in the field. Also, these 3 appear to want Notre Dame in a conference or playing 13 regular season games as an independent. And these 3 do not want ESPN to have any kind of exclusive when it comes to broadcasting the Playoff. I do not believe there is enough consensus for the field to expand before 2026, if then? I still believe there is a chance for the ACC, B1G and the Pac-12 to take 'the academic high road' and abandon the existing PO in favor of the 3 conferences competing for a title of some kind in the post season. There are zero antitrust problems now with the B1G and the Pac-12 contracted to play in the RB 2 out of 3 years and I do not see any antitrust issues if 3 conferences were to agree to compete for the 2 RB spots? HOWEVER and it is a big $ however, the Alliance going it alone in the post season will be profitable but nowhere near as profitable without the SEC in the mix.