Jon Joseph

Ducks Wire Gives Us Its Top 5. Having grown up in Boston I get Cig and why Cig has a chip on his shoulder. Tom Allen, now Penn State's DC, was one of the nice guy coaches in Bloomington. When you take over the losingest program in CFB you best be ready to kick booty. Cig did so and he deserves the booty that followed. 😁 Oregon Ducks 2025 football schedule ranked by game intrigue DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Ranking the Oregon Ducks 2025 college football schedule based on level of intrigue for each individual matchup.

This is in anticipation of Sam Houston State joining the elite Pac-7, Plus Gonzo, 🤪 and clearing the 8-team: Hey, We're a Real Conference with 8 Football Teams so show us the big media money! Seriously, all the best to the man if he takes the gig.

I for one, love the losingest program in the history of the CFB, the Hoosiers and I'll be cheering on The Cigarettes vs. The Catholics!😁 Leave the Domers Stranded South of Bend!

Reasons -1. A broadcast entity that controls 90% of the bowls runs this postseason tournament; 2. college football is fractured with no central leadership; 3. athletic departments are drowning in debt and took the ESPN monetized lifeline and to hell with the student-athletes and the fans who are the true lifeblood of the programs if the fans can't get tickets or can't afford to travel thousands of miles for games, Tough wick. This PO format is broken, from selecting the teams to where and when the games are played. GOOD! The feedback is loud enough that it may be clear to the donut holes running things and it doesn't hurt that Bama was the 1st team out. There will be changes made in 2026, if not before, and an entirely new structure in the 2030s. PS - How'd you like to be a Sun Devils fan? Your team played a more difficult schedule than G5 Boise State. ASU has one more loss but ASU's 2nd loss was on the road at Cincinnati with the Sun Devils QB, Leavitt, unable to play. The Committee is supposed to recognize key injuries. One common opponent - ASU 48 Wyoming 7; Boise 17 Wyoming 13. ASU defeated P4 Mississippi State OOC, It was close in Eugene as we well know, but Boise defeated no P4 opponent. (Unless you want to count Wazzu.) Boise as the 3-seed plays in the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, AZ. As the 4-seed, ASU is rewarded with a bowl game in Atlanta, Georgia. A 90-minute drive from Clemson, SC, and also closer to probable opponent Texas. College Football Network Strength-of-Schedule Rankings (a compilation of all available SOS Rankings after the Week 15 champ games) Arizona State - 35; Boise State 78. Res ipsa loquitur, I rest my (futile) case. Under this vapid format, Boise does deserve a bye but not ahead of a P4 champion. I see ZERO justification for this abomination other than: Because, Peons, We Said So! I believe on 1/1/25, agents of ESPN will refer to the game as: "The Rose Bowl" with neither equivocation nor qualification.

GAMES? 😁

OBD wins the Rose Bowl and it will have its choice of semifinal sites between the Orange Bowl, on Thursday, 1/9/25, or the Cotton Bowl on Friday, 1/10/25. As a member of the SEC, Texas no longer has a tie-in with the Cotton Bowl. The Champ game is 1/20 in Atlanta. If the semifinal is versus Texas, I think OBD opts for Miami. Dallas is just up the road from Austin and the Orange Bowl means one more day to travel home and prepare for the champ game on 1/20.

I can no longer find mine. 😧 OBD - Rose Bowl over tOSU. Orange Bowl over Texas. Payback from way back on 1/20/25 in front of Dawgs fans in The ATL. This time Kirby, your pupil Dan has the players. 😍Revenge is a dish best served in Hotlanta, and Three Years Old. 🤩

Happy Valley in September should be a friendlier locale than in November. The latest trip East is the visit to Iowa on 11/8.

Far too logical to model the ESPN Playoff after the NFL and NCAA Football Playoffs. Tennessee Will Totter. The Buckeyes Will Be Bucked.

Friend Happy, four trips East, two Central and two Eastern, and one trip to The Other School Up North. No back-to-back road games. No Bucks before the Champ game in Indy. 😁 With the possible exception of Penn State on the road, OBD should be favored in every game. Current Rose Bowl odds: OBD -1.5 vs Ohio State, and -4.5 vs Tennessee. Make Ryan + Chip Lose the Day! No Roses for Vols tripping to Pasadena for the 1st time in 79 years!

All 4 have the goods. 5 PM Pacific Saturday to watch Gabe hopefully win and Danno and Gabe no matter who wins. 2024 Heisman Trophy: Why Dillon Gabriel, Travis Hunter, Ashton Jeanty and Cam Ward are finalists for the award SPORTS.YAHOO.COM There's a great chance a quarterback will not lift the trophy for just the fifth time in the 2000s.

The hire of Bill is not being universally applauded.😵 Bill Belichick to UNC memes: Social media pokes fun at longtime NFL coach's decision to join Tar Heels WWW.SPORTINGNEWS.COM The news of Bill Belichick joining UNC came as a shock to many — but that didn't stop people from flexing their sense of humor in response.

6 reasons why the hire won't work; one for every Super Bowl ring. 😁 6 reasons why Bill Belichick's new coaching job at North Carolina won't work WWW.SPORTINGNEWS.COM On Wednesday, Bill Belichick was officially hired as UNC's next head football coach. Despite being one of the winningest NFL coaches in the modern era, there are some doubts about whether...

Pondering 12-0 in 2025. Inside the Pylon Asks, Do Duck Fans See Another 12-0? - Athlon Sports I see a floor of 10-2 which = a return to the PO. Maybe this time as the Coveted 5 seed? 😁 8 home games? I guess Athlon is calling the 5-seed for PBD? Nice math skills, right? BRUTAL!

Stewart Mandel, The Athletic ($) - UNC Will Regret Hiring Bill Belichick. 🦨

Weigman has signed with his hometown Houston.

Schedule Story Lines from Yardbarker. Big Ten Champion Oregon Ducks' 2025 schedule release has plenty of storylines worth noting in quest to repeat WWW.YARDBARKER.COM Oregon is still focused on the goals that are in front of them, but while they wait to figure out who their opponent is going to be between Ohio State and Tennessee for the Rose Bowl matchup... Future Rose Bowl Odds- -1.5 vs. Ohio State; -4.5 vs. Tennessee. Opaque Ohio State! Violate the Vols!

ON Wisconsin! Should be changed to NO Wisconsin 😧 The Badgers finished 15th in the conference in 2024 and will not be bowling for the first time in 23 years. QB Tyler Van Dyke who was out most of 2024 is in the portal. Wisconsin plays 7 of the 8 B1G teams that finished in the top 8 in 2024. Play 3 B1G Playoff teams, one in Madison and two on the road, and the 1st PO team out, Alabama, on the road. How about these apples? From Week 6 through Week 10 - At Michigan, Iowa, Ohio State, OFF, at OREGON. Then UW before tripping to Indiana, playing Committee No. 20 Illinois, and at Minnesota for the rivalry game. Whew!

Note her hand reaching for his wallet 😁. THIS is what true love looks like. 😍 Billy's move makes sense. In North Carolina you can marry your 1st cousin and the statutory age of consent is 13. 😋

Is Tom Brady eligible? Check the record for The Curmudgeon with and without Tom. This hire confirms that Chapel Hill is a 55 and older community for coaches wanting to retire to North Carolina. (He'll have to sneak his paramour through the back door 😁) When an AD has reached puberty and is still using the name 'Bubba,' you might want to double-check his decision-making. What's the over/under on Bubba having tar on his heels? Will 17- and 18-year-olds flock to BB because he won the Super Bowls in New England? Or because of his beguiling personality? 🤪 No group is happier over this hire than the scribes covering UNC football. 🤓

It's a PLAYOFF - Lose the Bowls! OBD should open at home in the 2nd round vs. the remaining lowest-seeded team. CFB needs the money. The NFL Business-Person Owners play ONE game at a neutral site. Follow the folks with the $. If a game is played in Buffalo in January, thems the breaks. Home fans deserve to be rewarded and not sent hither and yon paying jack-up airfares, hotel prices, and absurd ticket prices. No. 1 seed OBD. No home game(s.) Pasadena, Dallas or Miami, Atlanta. If you don't want to follow the NFL model, simply follow the model the NCAA uses for its football playoff championships. FUBAR! 💩

Be fair, Charles! The Water Boys at Northwestern are 5* Smarties! 😁

One early reaction; Michigan and Indiana play 5 of the 6 B1G teams not playing in the 2024 postseason. Purdue and its new coach, Barry Odom, are once again being handed one of the toughest B1G schedules. Week 12 and 13 are OBD's only B1G back-to-back home games; Minnesota and USC. Ducks play 8 teams that play in the postseason in 2024, including FCS No. 1 seed Montana State. OBD's B1G opener at no-bowl NW will be played before the 3rd and final OOC game vs. Beavis. 2 trips Central, NW + Iowa, and 2 trips Eastern, Penn State, and Rutgers. 1st game for the Ducks vs. one of the teams that played in CFB's 1st game, The State University of New Jersey, a/k/a Rutgers. All and all, including the OOC games, a 'manageable schedule; especially, when considering the odd years, at least through 2028 are the years OBD plays five B1G road games. Trash Tennessee! Obscure Ohio State!

9/27/25 - Big Noon, The Eye, or a Prime Time White Out? Oregon football 2025 Big Ten conference schedule released

No Surprise. The Varsity Broadcasters Will be in the Rose Bowl Booth. I'm so happy that Gus Johnson will not be there. 😎 Oregon Ducks' Rose Bowl Broadcast Team Announced: Kirk Herbstreit? WWW.YARDBARKER.COM As the No. 1 Oregon Ducks await their opponent in the Rose Bowl Game in the College Football Playoff, ESPN revealed that Kirk Herbstreit and crap Fowler will be in the broadcast booth for the... If the opponent is Ohio State, Herbie does not pump his alma mater. (I continue to miss Keith Jackson 😒) BLAST THE BUCKS! THROTTLE TENNESSEE!