Jon Joseph

Go Gabe Go! To NYC and Pasadena as the PO's Top QB. Ranking the 12 College Football Playoff quarterbacks SATURDAYTRADITION.COM National championships are won with great teams and strong quarterback play. Who's the best this year? We rank the 12 Playoff QBs.

Place Your Bets. Texas Keeps Getting the Love. 3L Clemson in Austin. College Football Playoff odds, games, lines: Texas, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Penn State sizable home favorites - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM An early look at the opening lines for the first-round CFP games

I Get It! You Get It! CBS and the Entire CFB Community Gets It! So Why This? College Football Playoff snubs, surprises: Oregon has brutal path as reward for No. 1 seed, Notre Dame stung - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM There were a few surprises as the selection committee unveiled its final rankings

A Ducks Wire Duh. The FPI = Faulty Prediction Index. Oregon Ducks highlight broken ESPN Football Power Index system DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM The Oregon Ducks final standings in the ESPN Football Power Index highlight a broken and flawed ratings system.

WA-WA-WA-WA-WA-WA! Poor Wittle Tommy. 😁 Oregon football success shows Dan Lanning is outclassing Lincoln Riley TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Dan Lanning and Oregon are actually doing the things Lincoln Riley was hired to do at USC. It’s the harsh but obvious truth.

"LOGIC? If only we'd known how every other post-season tourney in the world works. We ain't rocket surgeons!" Warde Manuel 🤪 😴 🤮

A Great Way to Start the Day (not Ryan.) Dumping on Bama. And the Principal Architect of this PO Mess. SEC and Greg Sankey kept Alabama out of the College Football Playoff TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey was slow to adjust to the reality of the 12-team playoff. His lack of adjustments very clearly hurt Alabama and Ole Miss. Perhaps you might want to give reasonable SEC schedules to Bama and Georgia and not Mizzou and Texas? Then again, Bama lost at Vandy and was Mugged in Norman. 😁

9-3? Yuck, Yuck, Yuck! Las Vegas Bowl - SC and A+M Deserve One Another. College Football Playoff bracket is a warning to USC and other schools TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM A very clear message was sent to USC and other teams about the College Football Playoff: Don’t expect to get in if you go 9-3. You will need to go at least 10-2.

DM, as always, SPOT ON! It's OK, I'm used to being corrected by teachers!😁

12/20/25 - 1,000,000 to 1 Preseason Odds that the first 12-team Playoff game would feature two teams from Indiana playing in Indiana when The Irish host the Hoosiers. 🤪 12/11/24 - 2025 B1G Football Schedule Reveal - 11 AM B1G Ten Network. 9/27/25 - Already revealed - OBD vs. Penn State. Beaver Stadium, University Park, PA. B1G Noon, The Eye, or White Out? TBD. 4 - B1G teams (and 3 SEC teams 😁) in the Playoff field. 🤑 🤑🤑🤑 2 - Trips to the Central time zone in 2025 - Iowa and Northwestern. 2 - Trips to the Eastern time zone in 2025 - Penn State and Rutgers - (1 of these is not like the other. 😁) 1 - Trip Up North to empty a dog bowl back-to-back. 😛 7 - Games in 2025 vs. B1G teams playing in the postseason - Home vs. Indiana, Minnesota, and USC. On the road vs. Iowa, Penn State, Rutgers, and UWho. 1 - "Cupcake Opener" vs. FCS No. 1 Playoff Seed, 13-0 Montana State. Next game for the Bobcats. Saturday, No. 8 Idaho in Bozeman, Montana. 3 - Words for Rob Mullens - PORT. LAND. STATE! 3 - Newbie Conference Champions - AAC - ARMY, B12 - ASU (from the DL coaching tree!) AND the B1G's OBD!!! 25-0 - Dan Lanning's record when OBD scores first. 😍 4-4 - OBD's Rose Bowl Record. 3-0 in the last 3.❤️ 59-20 - OBD's last Playoff Game in the Rose Bowl - A Skewering of the Seminoles, Dumbo, er, Jimbo, and Jameis. 👌👍🤣 But it was as close as crab legs, right, Jameis?🙌 2 - Teams that don't need your stinkin' Portal. US Military Academy, West Point, New York. Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. 22-3 - OBD's Dillion Gabriel TD to INT ratio versus ranked teams in the last three seasons. 63rd - Start for Gabe on 1/1/25 in Pasadena. No. 1 - Our Beloved Ducks with the No. 1 QB in the field. Gabe, Blow Your Horn! 13-0 - It's not how you start. It's how you finish! Natty? Book It Danno! 😎 VIOLATE THE VOLS! OSTRACIZE OHIO STATE!

Desert, I think it's 1-18? 1-14? NO PROBLEM, right? 😒

1-18 vs. the Top 5. Wouldn't you be testy? 😩 "Lopsided Officiating." Move over, Sark. 😁 It Isn't My Fault! 😜

Thanks, Alex. But 'dominating' Penn State? My empty bottles of IPA and Pepto Bismal beg to differ. Dominate Ohio State? Just win baby! Pretty? Ugly? It doesn't matter. Georgia - Which Georgia team shows up and how serious is Carson Beck's injury? I don't see UGA even with its great D advancing to Atlanta with Beck not playing. The Georgia O has not lit up scoreboards in 2024. However, the Dawgs D held Texas to three TDs in two games. The D versus Texas in 2024 came up with 13 sacks and 15 Tackles For Loss 😁. It was a grind but even down to its second-string QB, UGA getting points in Atlanta was a gift. IMO, if OBD can defeat Ohio State/Tennessee with one team coming off a momentum-building win, and all hands are able to go in the next two games, I like OBD's chances. Especially with a wake-up call for the D in Indianapolis. Of the QBs still playing ball, I like Gabe to blow his horn in Atlanta on 1/20/25. Our OBD guy is the best player at the most critical position heading into the CFB playoffs. Thanks again. Trash Tennessee! Blast the Buckeyes! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Athletic's Bruce Feldman has OBD winning it all. Cites Gabe as the best QB in the field. "Gaberiel has a 22-3 TD-to-INT ratio versus ranked opponents in the last three seasons. And Gabriel has played against and defeated Texas." FIRST - Vanquish the Vols or Crush the Buckeyes!

You will never obtain favorable results from a faulty design. Oregon and Georgia should have 1st round byes. After the 1st round games are played, Oregon should open against the lowest-ranked team still standing in a 14-team field and Georgia the second lowest-ranked team. This is how the NFL with decades of Playoff experience does things. Second. LOSE THE BOWLS! Do not try to serve two masters. Using traditional bowls and playing the champ game in Dixie equates to 5 of the 7 PO sites in Dixie as is the case this and next season. Play games on the home fields of the higher-ranked teams before the College Super Bowl or at least until the semifinal round. It isn't always sunny in Philadelphia, Buffalo, Green Bay and Chicago. 😁So what! It's FOOTBALL. Third. Adopt and disclose standard metrics for rankings and seedings. This is not difficult. Model the CFB Committee on how the CBB Committee operates. Adopt Quads or the equivalent, to value wins.There is no way a G5 team with close wins against Wyoming and Nevada should be seeded anywhere other than No. 14. Boise has a great player and a very good loss. So Boise like OBD and UGA gets a bye? The CFB Committee pays for advanced SOS and SOR stats that are not available to the public and seemingly ignores these resources. SOS is at the top of the list for the Committee to take into consideration. This did not happen this season. Is the goal to incent teams and conferences to play the easiest possible schedules? Why in the heck is Texas opening at Ohio State next season when both teams are in the field in 2024 with the best OOC win being the Longhorns win on the road versus a 7-5 Michigan team? Why is OBD opening with No. 1 FCS seed 13-0 Montana State (and counting) and not Portland State? (Rob?) Why Oklahoma State and not Tulsa? Fourth. From a proverbial mile away you could see this train wreck coming. From the first rankings release it was apparent that the 5th seed, while having to play one more game would have the easier path to the championship game. Senseless. Come 2025/26, the Powers-That-Be (the Power 2) must insist on the Committee being less opaque, and the Committee's final rankings matching the PO seeding. If you want 5 conference champs in the mix, fine. But No. 9 Boise State should be the 14th seed opening at Texas and No. 16 Clemson should be the 13th seed opening at Penn State. (BTW - how do you figure that a Clemson team that just defeated SMU should be No. 16 with SMU No. 10?) I like Dan's attitude: Winning a championship should not be easy! But, like the NFL, the best team in the regular season should have the easiest path to the Super Bowl. The regular season should not be a whimsey. Obliterate Ohio State! Trash Tennessee!

I like The Sporting News Projecting the Ducks to Fly to a Title. College Football Playoff bracket predictions: Expert picks for 2024-25 CFP games, national championship WWW.SPORTINGNEWS.COM Sporting News' Bill Bender breaks down the 2024 College Football Playoff bracket with predictions for every game, from the first round to the CFP national championship game. Could it get any better than beating Texas and winning it all against Georgia in Atlanta? 😍

Love It. But I'd as soon see the Domers housed by the Hoosiers! 😁 Last time Indiana won a game in South Bend? 1898. My train broke down and I missed the game. RATS! 🤪

It's B1G! One-third🤑 of the PO Field. With 4 B1G teams headed to the Playoff, it really does just mean more … SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Sunday was stress-free for the B1G. It knew it was sending 4 teams to the Playoff. Turns out, that's more than any other league. The SEC is so rough, tough, and manned up that BAD losses to 6-6 SEC teams shouldn't count!😁

25-0! Danno's record when OBD scores first. WOW! 👍👌😍

What do you want? The guy played QB at PoorDon't. 😁

ROSES! Thanks, Jordan for a great recap of an exciting, back-and-forth ball game. Tez was a most deserving MVP and Gabe was calm in a shootout storm. PENN STATE, not Texas, deserves the fifth seed. ASU, not Boise State, deserves a first-round bye. SMU, not Bama, should be in. PSU and OSU deserve home games; Notre Dame, 3-1 vs the G5, does not. Heck of a format. 3 loss Clemson gets a bye with two home losses including a bad home loss to unranked Louisville, a home loss to SEC South Carolina, and a Mercedes Benz beat down from SEC champ Georgia. 😧 It's High Noon (Right Coast) for the Committee in Grapevine today. These experts are supposed to start fresh every week. Yet, Committee Chair Michigan AD Warde Manuel said that teams that did not play yesterday would not be moved. Will SMU fans in Dallas picket the pickers? CFB has changed. It's on to Pasadena 😍 and I don't recall seeing a Rose anywhere last evening. What an exciting game. Hats off to Penn State for competing to the end and to OBD for staying the course. Go Ducks. Erase No. 8 or Nuke No. 9! 😁

1 2 3 - That's How the PO Rankings Should Be! 1. OBD 2. Penn State 3. Ohio State Why did PSU not run more creative plays on the goal line against tOSU? Where was Ty Warren? SEC - SEC - SEC ??? Thanks for bringing home my $ Dawgs but that was what the SEC has shown all season - two good but not great teams balling out. OK - does 3L Bama get in instead of 2L SMU? ROAST OBD's ROSE BOWL OPP!

ASU But, coming up Roses, who cares?

Like many QBs, DG's QBR drops significantly when he is blitzed, from the top 12 to the mid-40s. PSU plays a lot of man D counting on a good D line to pressure the QB. It will be interesting to see how often former Indiana HC and current PSU DC, Tom Allen, brings pressure. Will Howard did not play well vs. PSU. I was surprised that Chip, like he did vs. Michigan, went away from the passing game so early in Happy Valley. Will Stein, like Chip, has quality WRs. And Will has a better QB. I expect Will will exploit the advantage at WR and DG's quick release and the average PSU DBs will suffer if Allen blitzes too often. PLASTER PsU!

How about Jax State blowing out W Kentucky? Rich Rod, Redeemed? - Take me home country roads to the place I belong, West Virginia Mountain Momma take me home country roads. 61 years old. Perhaps not too old to go home again? I hope Rich Rod gets the West Virginia gig. What a long strange trip that will have been. Go AAC Champ Army! But beat Navy? Sorry, I was raised by a US Navy officer. And G5 Boise with a Bye before a Fiesta. WOW! POLARIZE PENN STATE!

Give Me a B1G Champ Game 5. 24-0 - Danno at OREGON when OBD scores first. 3-18 - James Franklin vs Top 10 teams. 1-12 - James Franklin vs. Top 5 teams. ZERO - TD passes thrown by PSU QB Drew Allar vs ranked teams in 2024. 44-17 - Kenjon Barner's game prediction. On the way to Pasadena, Plaster, Pound, Paste, Pillage, Plunder, Pulverize, Prostrate, Paralyze, Plague, Pummel, Pelt, and Punish Penn State. And SPANK FRANK on his way out the door!👌👍😍 TAKE NO PRISONERS! LEAVE NO CRUMBS.