Jon Joseph

Go Dawgs. SEC starts to separate on Saturday after Kentucky almost took down Kiffin back-to-back. Vandy at South Carolina should be a very interesting game. And down the road for Georgia lies Georgia Tech, a team that could Wreck Clemson's season on Saturday. GO Dawgs!

- 27.5 / O/U Vegas Insider Consensus 48.5 They're not playing in Wrigley, but Oregon pitches a shutout, +750 NW's best RB is out for the rest of the season. NW Preston Stone to date - 4 picks, 3 TDs. Sorry about last Saturday, my friend. It turned out to be a Trap with USF coach Alex Golesh turning Billy Napier into Gator Goulash. A spitty effort in the Swamp. 🤬

What's the score? You can't see the scoreboard? Yeah, I can see it, but it's on fire! What if I were to tell you that your team scored 69 points on Saturday and finished third in the B1G in most points scored? A dozen Big Ten teams scored 40 points or more. And seven B1G players accounted for 4 TDs or more? Holy Woody Hayes! Except in Iowa City, this is not your Grand Dad's three yards and a cloud of dust Big Ten. Minnesota lights off fireworks every time the Gophers score. This popped up on the Gophers scoreboard early in the 4th period: "We Ran Out of Fireworks - Ope, Sorry!" ('Ope' is a local dialect for Oops. See the movie, Fargo.) 70 points - Ohio State and UW Mighty Oregon 69 points/ Nebraska 68/ Minnesota 66/ USC 59/ Indiana 56/ Rutgers 45/ Illinois 45/ Northwestern 42/ Wisconsin 42/ Michigan State 42. B1G Week 2 - 15-3 - 2-0 vs. the ACC. 1-1 vs. the B12. 0-1 vs. the SEC. No. 9 Illinois 45 - Duke 19. Give Me 5! Five Blue Devil turnovers keyed the Battling Bielema's win. No. 22 Indiana 56 - Kennesaw State 9 - Both of the Hoosiers' QBs finished above the Mendoza Line. Fernando - 3 TD passes. Alberto - 1 TD pass. Iowa 13 - No. 14 Iowa State 16. QB Gronowski threw for 83 yards, almost the length of a football field! No. 14 Iowa State won its first Cy-Hawk game on its home field since 2011. This was the sixth time in the last seven Cy-Hawk games that neither team scored 20 or more points. Maryland 20 - Northern Illinois 9 - Close to home in DC, Terps true frosh QB Malik Washington beats 2024 Notre Dame nemesis Northern Illinois. No. 23 Michigan 13 - No. 13 Oklahoma 24 - Oklahoma puts a stamp on the best home record, to date, in the 21st century. Coach Brent Venables' school's 18-year-old QB Bryce Underwood and (Kirk Ferentz in-waiting?) Sherrone Moore. Michigan State 42 - Boston College 40 - 2 OTs. QB Aiden Chiles was clutch, not choke. Minnesota 66 - NW Wherever 0 - Mother Nature shows that she has a heart. Her arrival led to an early end of a 'We're Out of Fireworks ' beatdown. Week 3 sees the Gophers in a Golden State showdown vs. the Cal Sags, er, Golden Bears. No. 35 Nebraska 68 - Akron 0 - Joe Moorhead needs this? Week 3 sees Houston Christian coming to Lincoln. The Cornhuskers volunteered to not play Tennessee. Northwestern 42 - W. Illinois 7 - Preston Stone rebounds from throwing 4 picks against Tulane to throw 3 TDs against the Leathernecks. If these Leathernecks were the USMC, we'd all be speaking Mandarin. 🤪 No. 1 Ohio State 70 - Grambling State 0 - The battle between Grambling's Best Band in the Land and Ohio State's Best Damn Band in the Land was a toss-up, with the tiebreaker favoring Grambling for the Best Band without the Blasphemy 🤬 No. 4 😍 Oregon 69 - Oklahoma State 3 You don't tug on Superman's Cape; you don't Spit into the Wind; and you most certainly do not (Cow) Poke Danno! 39 wins in a row when the Ducks score first. No. 2 Penn State 37 - FIU 0 - Next up on the Nits OOC Beatdown Cupcake Bakery Tour, Villanova. And then you need a nap? Purdue 34 - Southern Illinois 17 - Not only has new coach Barry Odom doubled the 2024-win total, but he's also the first first-year Boilermaker coach to match Cleo O'Donnell's 2-0 record. Cleo got the gig in 1916. Rutgers 45 - Miami (Not Mari) OH-OH 17. To date, the Greek Rifle QB is firing on all cylinders. But the D? Better call the Sopranos! UCLA 23 - G6 UNLV 30 - What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas? Holy Hankie! Not according to the refs who called 14 penalties on the Bruins and 13 on the Runnin' Rebels. It looks like Nico is being paid far too many Nickels. And Foster's boys aren't frosty. 😧 https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/deshaun-foster-nico-iamaleava-under-microscope-after-0-2-start-why-ucla-coaching-change-could-be-on-horizon/?ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0b&ET_CID=473176&ET_RID=52482716 No. 30 USC 59 - Georgia Southern 20. Lincoln Riley defeats Clay Helton and closes in on matching Clay's winning percentage at SC. Washington 70 - UC Davis 0 - UC Davis, I C a Donut Hole. RB Jonah Coleman has back-to-back excellent games, 5 TDs scored on Saturday, but it happened Way After Dark. A needless Week 3 bye before heading to Pullman for an Apple chomping and then home to play Ohio State, and trying to keep Judd Fisch's no-loss streak in Seattle streak alive. Wisconsin 42 - Somewhere in Tennessee State 10 - I don't think +16.5 is enough points to find a cover against a post-Seminoles Tsunami-like Rolling Tide. Don't miss the wake-up call and turn Wildcats into Mildcats!

Week 4's Civil War game will be a Noon Pacific kickoff on the Big Ten Network. https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/09/08/oregon-ducks-oregon-state-beavers-game-time-set/86045485007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGbaseline&utm_term=Content%20List%20-% Stay with Fox Saturday to watch Pac-12 behemoth Beavis battle No. 21 Texas Tech in Lubbock. Good ruck, Beavers, yuck, yuck. 😊

Ducks Wire with more on the B1G Noon game. 9 AM body clock time for OBD. 11 AM for NW https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/09/08/oregon-ducks-football-big-noon-kickoff-northwestern/86043685007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGbaseline& If you go and have free time on Friday night, check out Chicago's Blues clubs on Halsted Street.

How about the No. 4 seed in the latest AP Poll mock-PO? A field that would not thrill Greg Sankey. 🤬 Rose Bowl - No. 1 Ohio State vs. 9 Illinois at 8 Notre Dame Cotton Bowl - No. 4 OBD vs. 12 USF at 5 Miami 😁(1st round would be a repeat of this Saturday's game.) Orange Bowl - No. 2 Penn State vs. 11 Iowa State at 6 Georgia Sugar Bowl - No. 3 LSU vs. 10. FSU at 7 Texas First two out - South Carolina and Clemson. 4 B1G - 3 SEC. You think Greg Sankey might go back to supporting the AQ model?

Highest rated receiver ever signed by OBD. Preseason All-Frosh all over college football sites. So, I think not. It's a pleasure to watch him play.

Because and as well noted above, it's a very weak slate of Week 3 B1G games. The headliner is 2-0 Wisconsin at 1-1 No. 19 Alabama - 9 AM on ABC. College GameDay will be in Knoxville for No. 6 2-0 Georgia at 2-0 No. 15 Tennessee. ABC 12:30. The only other B1G P4 vs P4 sees 2-0 No. 30 USC at 2-0 Purdue (double the wins from 2024!) 12:30 CBS and 2-0 Minnesota at 2-0 Cal 7:30 ESPN. I thought Big Noon might have been in Iowa City to watch the Hawkeyes defeat UMass for Ferentz's 207th win and the record. But OBD, Penn State, and Indiana all play at Iowa later in the season. I expect USC at Illinois in Week 5 will be a Big Noon game. NW's temporary stadium is high school-sized at 12,000 capacity, but in a beautiful setting on the shore of Lake Michigan.

Herbie is not Ducking about what he sees, wake up to the Ducks! Kirk Herbstreit Reveals National Championship Contender 'Nobody Is Talking About'

Gainesville is so confusing. All of those Waffle Houses to choose from. 😁

CBS has OBD Cruising to the PO. OBD reined in the Cowboys - I'm trying to rein in the Hubris before surviving a White Out.🤔 https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-playoff-traffic-report-where-each-power-four-team-sits-on-road-to-cfp-ahead-of-week-3/

More ESPN love for OBD. Holy Pawalll! 😎 ESPN.comTrue or false? What we think we know about SEC QBs, the B...The start of the 2025 season has been a delightful mess. Bill Connelly tries to make sense of what we've seen.

What happened to Oklahoma State? The Cowboys were Ducked. ESPN.comWhat happened to Oklahoma State? Is USF the team to watch...From South Florida to Oklahoma State, we take a look at key takeaways and performances from Week 2.

The Snap Count from Crushing the Cowboys evidences DM's dive into OBD's depth. https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/09/08/oregon-ducks-snap-count-takeaways-week-2-oklahoma-state/86036120007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=e

The AP's remarks on its eponymous poll. AP NewsAP Top 25 Extra Points: No. 9 Illinois rides 6-game win s...These are heady times at Illinois. The Illini are enjoying their most successful run of football in over two decades.

The B1G Reveal: 9/27/25 Beaver Stadium, State College, Pennsylvania. 4:30 PM NBC. Dress for a White Out!

Thank you, David. Another in-depth article from a writer most certainly not out of his depth. Recruiting, from high school and the portal, is paying (right, Mike Gundy 😁) off. In today's CFB where you have to win three or four games on the way to a title, talent and depth are critical to winning it all. There's no need to revisit 1/1/25 other than to note that we usually learn more from failure than we do success. This team is focused. This Saturday, playing in front of 12,000 fans on the shores of Lake Michigan, will be a flash back for many players to the glory days of high school. OBD Bobbed Bob's Cats, and Lassoed the Cowboys. Wake Up for a '9 AM kickoff' men, and Stone Preston and the Wildcats.

Mike, don't let the door hit you in your back door on the way out the door. 😊 SIForde-Yard Dash: This May Be the End for Several Coaching...Oklahoma State, Iowa and Kentucky are facing similar dilemmas when it comes to declining program legends. Plus, early picks for the CFP bracket.

Don't Tug on Superman's Cape and Don't Cross Oregon's Dan Lanning👍👌😁 SICollege Football Week 2 Takeaways: Welcome Back to the Ho...The Gators lost to another unranked opponent under Napier, and his seat once again is uncomfortably hot.

Big spread, -27.5, for OBD's first 2025 B1G game on the shores of Lake Micigan. https://sports.yahoo.com/article/oregon-ducks-open-massive-favorites-010159556.html

We'll see how the season plays out, but if UW improves as much as I believe it will this season, Florida graduate Jedd Fisch, who coached under Spurrier at Florida, could be on the list. UW will not be able to come close to what Fisch would be offered. Jedd has a wealth of coaching experience and is 49 years old. And Dan Mullen, who did not have a bad record at Florida but got sideways with the fans over what was believed to be lackadaisical recruiting, is back coaching at UNLV, 2-0 with a win over (supposed P4) UCLA. The teams do not meet for the second season in a row, but Mizzou's Eli Drinkwitz could be on the radar. With the loss to USF, Billy Napier could have a difficult time finishing 6-6. Florida's schedule for the rest of the season is absurdly difficult. OOC, the Gators are on the road in Week 4 at Miami after playing at LSU this Saturday, and have home games remaining against Texas, Tennessee, and a Mississippi State team that just defeated ASU. The Gators play Georgia in Jacksonville, and road games at A&M, Kentucky, and Ole Miss. Napier is sitting on a scalding seat. 🤬 Don't forget Kiff. Billy Napier replacements: Ranking Florida's best coachin...Florida could be on the lookout for a coach for the fifth time since Urban Meyer left in 2010.

That you're an idiot, or that Limar is good. 🤪 KIDDING! I'm less surprised that Jayden has stepped up than I am with Hughes lack of playing time.

January 1, 2025, was a B1G Bad Day. That's Day squared. 😒 Laying a Huge Duck Egg before the Sun started to disappear behind the San Gabriel's resonates. I think everyone from the top down is dialed in. Those who haven't completely bought-in are suspened or spend time on the pine. I recall feeling the same about Georgia the season after Tua broke the Dawgs hearts. Will we see the same results? It isn't easy to overcome a figurative and literal decapitation. 😁Quack! Waste the Wildcats!

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Nuck, Nuck, Nuck! 😁 Saturday TraditionOregon tried to 'break the scoreboard' vs. Oklahoma State...Oregon took Mike Gundy's comments throughout the week as disrespect. The Ducks tried to break the scoreboard on Saturday because of it.