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11:30 Pacific - NFL Network Ducks playing in the game: Dillon Gabriel; Tez Johnson; Terrance Ferguson; Josh Conerly; Ajani Cornelius; Jamaree Caldwell; Jordan Burch; and Jeff Bassa. 2025 Senior Bowl roster revealed; 120+ draft prospects to attend WWW.GIANTS.COM In just two short weeks, some of the top college prospects in the country will come together in Mobile, Alabama for the 2025 Senior Bowl. East-West Shrine Bowl - Thursday, January 30, 5 PM Pacific - NFL Network. Ducks - Trashon Holden and Jabbar Muhammad.

One USC Icon is back. Raiders hire Pete Carroll as their next head coach. Pete, you don't have the NCAA to worry about. Which is nice. 😁 Is 70 years now middle age? I hope so. 🍻 The Raiders new GM, John Spytek, (I hope he doesn't use Spy Tech like Bill Belichick 🤓) was the GM at Tampa Bay when Raiders minority owner Tom Brady played for the Bucs and was Brady's teammate at Michigan.

Questions for the playoff teams in 2025. College Football Playoff: The biggest question each 2024 CFP team faces in 2025 FANSIDED.COM Can the Buckeyes repeat? Will Penn State breakthrough? Is Arch Manning the guy? Let's evaluate the toughest challenges for each CFP team entering next season.

Nine OBD players with breakout potential in 2025. Predicting which veteran Oregon Ducks will break out in 2025 DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Predicting when veteran upperclassmen on the roster in Eugene will break out for the Oregon Ducks in the 2025 college football season.

USC is not ranked 😁. Is anyone surprised? NO! USC football fails to crack ESPN preseason top 25 for 2025 season TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM USC football is not in preseason top 25s for 2025. Is anyone surprised?

Great take, H. Thanks. On Monday, January 12, 2015, Ohio State defeated OBD to win the inaugural 4-team Playoff title. 34 (33.9) Million people tuned in. The 2015 game did not feature an SEC team. Alabama was defeated by the No. 4 seed, OSU, in the semi-finals played in the Sugar Bowl. OBD eliminated Dixie with a defeat of FSU. The semi-finals were played on New Year's Day. All four teams played in their conference champ game and the four teams had the same delay in play before 1/1/2015. The title game was played on Monday, January 12th in the Cotton Bowl in Arlington, Texas. The game was not up against a historic event. The game as will be the case in 2026-27 through 2032, was broadcast on network TV, ABC, and not on cable TV. With many cables being cut this had to affect the number of willing viewers able to tune in. The CFB season starts and ends too late. As you so noted, by the 4th game many fans had likely seen enough of Ohio State and Notre Dame. SEC fans were likely tired of being told that their conference was no longer the lead sled dog. (Recency bias IMO.) Why tune in to watch two teams from the Midwest play ball? The fans of the twelve playoff teams were involved in the first round with their team either playing ball or watching to see what team the four teams with a bye would play. The championship game in 2015 was played the week before the NFL semi-final playoff games; the biggest weekend of NFL football will be played this weekend. The PO format including the timing of games needs to be fixed as noted by many OBD fans on the Forum. Not happening before 2026-27. Perhaps in this electronic peripatetic world in which we live, eight teams in the field are enough? Five automatic qualifiers and three at large? Four on-campus quarter-final games, semi-finals on January 1st. Champ game earlier than the Ides of January. But Di$ney/E$PN is not likely to reduce the inventory.

Storylines for 2025. College Football 2025: Arch Manning, Bill Belichick, Jeremiah Smith and more storylines for next season WWW.SPORTINGNEWS.COM The longest college football season is in the books, but it is not too soon to look ahead. Arch Manning will start, Bill Belichick will coach and Jeremiah Smith will continue to dominate.

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Fondly. It was a treat to witness the evolution/revolution of offense coupled with NIKE's marketing. Together, Oregon became a national, must-watch, brand. Having grown up in Boston I expect shots across the bow from Boston (Manchester, NH) Irish guys. Along with rooting for the Red Sox, it comes with the territory. Very happy for Chip and Manchester, NH's Ryan Day. A third well-known coach from Manchester, Dan Mullen, just signed on to return to coaching at UNLV. Terrific article, DM. Thank you.

Notre Dame is Losing DC Al Golden to the NFL. Not an easy guy to replace. Notre Dame loses DC Al Golden to NFL's Bengals WWW.YARDBARKER.COM Losing to Ohio State in the College Football Playoff national championship is bad enough, but losing, 34-23, and looking overmatched in the process ... well, that wasn't good. 'Overmatched?' Compared to Tennessee and, er, forget about it. 😧

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Cause for Concern? No doubt. But will anything be done about it? I don't see anything significant happening in 2025 when a change requires a unanimous vote. Declining TV ratings for College Football Playoff National Title should be reason for concern SATURDAYBLITZ.COM The College Football Playoff (CFP) National Championship has long been a marquee event in the sports world, drawing millions of viewers each year. This year's c It has been reported on various sites that come 2026 the Power 2 will push for a 14-team field, a 1st round bye for the top two ranked teams, and home games through the quarter-finals, four automatic bids for the B1G and the SEC top, two for the ACC and two for the B12, one for the G5/6, and one at-large; A/K/A the Notre Dame automatic bid. The hoi polloi are of course outraged at the GREED 🤑 of the Power 2. However, this is not March Madness and not CBB where schools can play multiple games in a short time. Like it or not, the football games that bring in the viewers are games featuring a B1G or SEC team, Notre Dame, and CU if Prime is in Boulder. CFB has been monetized and like in any business the movers and shakers will call the shots.

From Michigan site Maize + Brew, a list of B1G teams ranked in major media preseason Top 25 rankings. OBD is in the top 10 of every ranking, except USA Today which has OBD at 11. (I've canceled my subscription!) Where Michigan Football lands in way-too-early top-25 rankings for 2025 season WWW.MAIZENBREW.COM Now that the 2024 college football season is over, it’s everyone’s favorite time of the year: way-too-early szn. Today, we roundup all the national media coverage on where they currently rank...

MICHIGAN WINS AGAIN! I'm shocked that the Wolverines want to rub it in. 😁 Michigan-Washington National Championship had higher ratings than Ohio State-Notre Dame WWW.MAIZENBREW.COM The television ratings are in for the Ohio State-Notre Dame National Championship and the numbers are down compared to the Michigan-Washington National Championship last season. Charles is spot on; the CFB champ game was not the most important thing on that day's agenda, at least for those not addicted to CFB + OBD, like me. 😜 Many good ideas have surfaced on OBD that would have the season begin earlier and the playoff end earlier. When Ohio State and Notre Dame do not bring in the expected viewer numbers the people in charge should notice. However rapid change in CFB happens due to legislatures and courts; not from in-fighting conferences and certainly not from the NCAA. The B1G and the SEC are taking over the management of CFB and while I have concerns about further consolidation of CFB I think it is inevitable. I'd rather have the Power 2 managing the CFB post-season than a biased media company.

I believe he was on Chip's staff with the 49ers. Pro jobs remain open and will be open every season. Any move in CFB would be lateral at best.

RED ALERT! I am responsible for monoriting Ducks Wire from 11 AM to 4 PM Pacific. Thus, I am posting Ducks Wires's Zach Neel's take on what the 2025-26 Playoff field will look like. Unfortunately, Zach has laid another egg. 🤓 After noting the 2025-26 playoff format will be the same as the 2024-25 format, Zach forgot to include a G5 team in the field. A G5 team and not the LSU Tigers will be in the field. Predicting Oregon Ducks 2025 College Football Playoff field DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM An early prediction of what the 12-team College Football Playoff field will look like for the Oregon Ducks next season. SMH! So many 'EXPERTS' still don't get the PO format. 🧑‍🎓

Lame Kitten, er, Lane Kiffin could not stop whining about his 3-loss team, home loss to 4-8 😁 Kentucky, road losses to 9-4 LSU and 8-5 Florida, not being in the PO field. 🤪 Kiffin finally stopped his withching when 2-loss Tennessee was blown up by The Ohio State University and after Michigan defeated Bama for the second time in 2024 and 9-3 at the time Illinois defeated higher ranked 9-3 South Carolina. Ole Miss was scheduled to open the 2025 season versus USC in the Coli. The two teams agreed to cancel the scheduled two game series. SC, I get it. The Trojans in 2025 will play Nine conference games including PO No. 1 seed Oregon in Eugene and will also play PO runner-up Notre Dame in South Bend. Ole Miss will play Eight conference games. The Rebels four out-of-conference games: Georgia State; Tulane; The (🤔) Citadel; and Pac-Whatever WASHINGTON STATE. WAZZU! All games will be 'contested' in Oxford, Mississippi. Lane, how about STFU!

The naysayer conferences against needed change in 2025, seeding for instance, better be ready to be shown the kid's table in 2026. 😩 Greg and Tony WILL be taking names. Pac-Whatever, dinner 💩 is served. Surprise! The games with the biggest number of viewers in playoff 2024-25 featured B1G and SEC teams and the Domers.

The B1G Comes Up B1G! Big Ten makes history in final AP college football poll WWW.YARDBARKER.COM The Big Ten Conference has to be feeling pretty good about itself right now.

As OBD fans know, it's not how you start but how you finish. But you can count on two things. A team with a Blue Chip Roster will win the 2025-26 playoff and it will most likely be a team ranked in the first iteration of the AP top 10. College football rankings: Tight race for preseason No. 1 serves as key storyline entering 2025 season - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Ohio State, Texas rank among top contenders for preseason No. 1

Wait Until THIS Year! Lots of roster turnover but OBD will be in the hunt. First 12-team College Football Playoff delivered massive success, but flawed seeding model must be addressed - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The expanded CFP brought the national spotlight to more programs, but glaring flaw remains

I feel the need, to change the way CFB playoff seeds. First 12-team College Football Playoff delivered massive success, but flawed seeding model must be addressed - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The expanded CFP brought the national spotlight to more programs, but glaring flaw remains

SPOT ON! Everyone starts Week Zero. 12th game is Flex-Scheduled with the top two teams in every conference playing for a conference title; No. 2 at No. 1. The Army/Navy game also played the same weekend. If the G5 and Notre Dame don't like it, tough. Everything moves up two weeks. No 1st round byes. 16 teams seeded as ranked. Quarter-final games on campus. Semifinals on New Year's Eve. Maybe we'll see something like this in 2026? The media will have to buy into the 12th game on campus being the champ game.

CBS Sports All-Playoff Team - Lots of Buckeyes 2024-25 All-College Football Playoff Team: Ohio State beats out Penn State, Notre Dame for most selections - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM It should come as no surprise that the Buckeyes landed plenty of players on the CBS Sports' All-College Football Playoff Team Don't worry buddies, Skattebo made the list.👌👍😍 How about all four D linemen from the B1G!

IMO, it is more than OK for OBD fans to be salty about playing in the Rose Bowl and coming up with only the Thorns. It is also OK to be a bit peeved about playing the National Champion in the first round that the Committee ranked No. 6 but was the No. 8 seed. What will not be acceptable is a young group of coaches not learning from the B1G beatdown and come 2026, PO seeding matching the PO Committee rankings.