Jon Joseph

CBS Sports on the B1G/SEC PO format stalemate. Big Ten, SEC stalemate headlines College Football Playoff meetings with strength-of-schedule metrics in focus - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The two most powerful conferences in the country may now be on opposing sides as deadline nears

Unusual Suspects, including several B1G teams like Rutgers, are doing well on the recruiting (NIL management?) front. 2026 college football recruiting class rankings - top 25 schools - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM We break down the best recruiting classes so far in the 2026 cycle.

A look back at the BCS computers, how we arrived at today's 'Eye Test' committee, and an argument that, with improved programming, at least in part, CFB should bring back the use of disclosed metrics. How the BCS’ endless self-tinkering influenced the Playoff WWW.BANNERSOCIETY.COM Twenty years ago, the BCS unveiled its original formula, and college football was never controversial ever again. Ralph Russo of The Athletic ($ wall) has an article up that bores holes through Sankey and his incessant beating of the drum for the SEC. Sankey is a self-promoting, SEC-promoting 💩 Head who isn't protecting The Good of the Game, only the SEC. Thank you, Ralph.

Money is not evil; the love of money is evil. 🥵

BO has a chance to shake up the West. How Bo Nix could make Broncos 'biggest threat' to Chiefs in AFC West WWW.YARDBARKER.COM The Kansas City Chiefs have won nine straight AFC West titles. Could Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix help end that streak this upcoming season?

This is a big week for future CFB playoff formats. Will it come out B1G? Ross Bjork wants conference commissioners to discuss College Football Playoff format talks in private - On3 WWW.ON3.COM Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork explained why College Football Playoff format discussions should be kept private. First, Hats Off to the City of Asheville, NC, which was devastated by Hurricane Helene but was able to recover and host the CFB PO pooh-bahs. Per the broadcast agreement with Disney/ESPN, the PO format that will be used for 2026 and thereafter through the 2031-2032 season has to be approved by December of 2025. Not so long ago, the meeting in Asheville was predicted to resolve PO format issues and deliver a new format. Now? Greg Sankey has reversed course on his view of the PO Committee's role; he supports the Committee, and has backed off from guaranteed PO spots for the B1G and the SEC in favor of a 5-11 format with the kicker that the SEC will stay at 8-conference games. In other words, a B1G FU to the B1G and commissioner Tony Petitti. So, I understand why Ohio State AD Bjork and others want the debate to be behind closed doors. The discussions could get heated with Sankey's flip in preferred PO format from 4-4-2-2-1-3 to 5-11, the latter format being favored by the ACC, B12, the G6, and likely, Notre Dame. The SEC teased the B1G and CFB, with a B1G/SEC Football challenge, playing 9 conference games, and cooperating as members of the Advisory Committee. Sankey led the B1G down a path of cooperation before pulling the rug out. Sankey was not aware before the SEC meetings in Florida that the SEC would have had six teams in a 16-team 5-11 format in 2025-26, that he and the SEC ADs weren't aware of SEC coaches pushing back on going to nine conference games, and that the SEC already played an 8-game conference gauntlet unlike no other? Disengenous garbage. The detente between the SEC and B1G with the formation of an Advisory Committee now appears to be little more than a Sankey and SEC smokescreen. The SEC and Sankey are heroes, the B1G and Petitti are greedy, selfish SOBs bent on destroying college football. If Petitti rolls over on the format and the SEC stays with 8 conference games, it will be a bad look for Tony and the B1G. Petitti will join former B12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby as Commisioner's screwed over by Greg Sankey. From an Old Timer's POV, the B1G and the Pac-12 never should have agreed to the SEC's Roy Kramer's 'College Football Needs One True Champion' nonsense and stayed with the Rose being the be-all and end-all. But, as has consistently been the case, all of CFB followed the money. Expect fireworks in Ashville. Prepare yourself for a B1G bend over.

Penn State Wire's top B1G receiving rankings are Duckless. B1G Mistake. TOSU TE Max Klare but no Sadiq? How soon they forget the Champ Game. Oh, and Phil Longo and his Dairy Raid at the request of Luke Finkell have left the Wisconsin building. Details, right? Top 10 Big Ten receiving leaders returning in 2025 NITTANYLIONSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Penn State's transfer additions are among the most productive wide receivers returning to the Big Ten in 2025. Returning? Pena transferred in from Syracuse. I believe Syracuse is in the ACC and not the B1G conference. Ohio State's TE Klare transferred in from the B1G's Purdue, but he's not returning to the Boilermakers. Many guys on this list require me to go Butch Cassidy and ask: Who are these guys?

Scouting the opposition. PSU should be strong at the RB position. Top 10 Big Ten returning rushing leaders in 2025 NITTANYLIONSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Do Nicholas Singleton and Kaytron Allen top the list of returning Big Ten rushing leaders? PSU, not surprisingly, ranks its two RBs 1st and 2nd in the B1G. Both PSU RBs gashed OBD for 100+ yards in the conference champ game. Can the D hold these guys down on 9/27/25? FYI. Nits, along with Whit, OBD is bringing Makhi to the White Out. And, a lot of fired-up Forum members. 🥵

U are spot on. 😁I think with the Texas Bobcats, they may have made a miss-state?

I have an idea. After the Mountain West helps us out with our scheduling problem, we'll sue the MW instead of reverse-merging with them, steal their best teams, and lift the Pac-12 back into the Power 5. What's that, Tulane, Memphis, Grand Canyon for B-Ball, and UNLV said, 'No thanks,' and we're running out of the Real Pac-12's money, and we still don't have the eight schools that play football? Let's grab Texas State! What do you mean, Who? What, are you ignorant? You haven't heard of Boko and the Bobcats? What's that? No, I didn't say American Conference UTSA in metropolitan San Antonio (they told us to whizz off), I said, Sun Belt Conference TSU in somnambulant San Marcos. One of the best places to retire to in the great State of Texas. 😋 Don't laugh, once we get the Bobcats off of benzodiazepines, TSU will awaken to its sleeping dwarf potential! With TSU on board, we'll score $10 million in media dollars a year! Take that, traitor Ducks and Huskies! We only have to travel as far as Texas. You fools have to go all the way to Jersey. And folks are worried over college kids having too much NIL money?😁

Oklahoma Lost, and the Ducks and Gabe Won. How to fix the College Football Playoff: Format, schedule changes necessary with expansion on the horizon - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Tom Fornelli's complete guide to ensuring the best college football product as changes loom ahead of the 2026 season

Son, do you want to play in and win games versus the top 5? Respectfully submitted, Jimmy Franklin.😁

I again tapped into A Eye 🧐, a knowledgeable dude. The Tennessee coach in 1962 was Bowden Wyatt. Jim McDonald took over in 1963. I'm guessing it was under Jim that the Vols passed on home boy Steve Spurrier.

CBS Sports Ideas for 2026-27 PO Format. Good ideas on the whole. There are 136 teams eligible for the PO in 2026-27, not 135. There is no need for 2 G6 (CFB has a G6 and not a G5) teams in the field. This gives the 1st and 2nd seeds home game gimmes. Last season, No. 1 OBD would have played No. 16 Army. That No. 2 Georgia would have had to play No. 15 Clemson is absurd. Boise State should have been last season's No. 12 seed; Exhibit 'A' on the Committee's process being screwed up. If you want the best teams in the PO, why cap the B1G and the SEC at 4 teams? I do like 16 teams with no byes and home games until the semi-final and championship games. I'd have the Rose, Sugar, Cotton, and Orange Bowl as PO sites, not the Fiesta and Peach Bowls. I generally agree on the changes to the schedule, but the semifinals should be played on the 1st of January, the 2nd if the 1st falls on a Sunday. The Champ game should be played on a Saturday. If the NFL does not agree to block out an exclusive broadcast window on Champion Saturday, how about no more NFL on-campus Pro Days? And NFL scouts have to buy a ticket to attend CFB games. I love Notre Dame having to play 10 P4 teams. Getting rid of conference champ games sounds good, but how will the loss of media deal revenue be made up? Play the conference champ games Thanksgiving week on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Use the AP poll before Selection Sunday, with positive and negative outlier votes tossed out. Broadcast the CFB PO committee deliberations and require the committee to use publicly disclosed metrics as part of the process, and explain any variance from the use of a metric. Don't allow Greg Sankey to be a part of the PO design. 😁 How to fix the College Football Playoff: Format, schedule changes necessary with expansion on the horizon - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Tom Fornelli's complete guide to ensuring the best college football product as changes loom ahead of the 2026 season

Is Sankey Schizo? Didn't he call out the PO committee last season for counting losses and not quality wins? Now, the 13 experts will certainly 'Get It?' Greg Sankey explains why he's in favor of keeping College Football Playoff selection committee over computers - On3 WWW.ON3.COM Greg Sankey is in favor of a College Football Playoff selection committee over utilizing computers to figure out who the top teams are. Why not the CBB committee approach of using human beings who rely upon disclosed metrics and explain if they go 'off-metric '? 'The SEC wants guaranteed PO spots because we don't trust the committee.' 'Oops, what we really want is our champ in and 11 teams chosen at large.' 'We need to play 9 conference games?' 'Oops, considering our conference has a gauntlet like no other, 8 games is just fine.' 'Let's have an SEC vs. B1G Football Challenge!' 'Oops, maybe not?' Is he trying to drive Tony Petitti crazy? 🤬

Phillip Fulmer was the coach at Tennessee. Fulmer went 2-7 vs. Florida and Spurrier. 2-2 vs. Spurrier at South Carolina. (Disclosure: I looked this up. 🧑‍🎓)

OBD, 1st on PSU and James Franklin's 2025 List - What does head coach James Franklin need to do to avoid the hot seat in 2025-26? VICTORYBELLRINGS.COM The strides made in the 2024-25 Penn State football season don't go unnoticed. If anything, they only make people expect more. For head coach James Franklin, no Danno, you just made the list, buddy. White Out! B1G Deal. PSU is overlooking the impact Charles and Company will have on this Week 5 game. 👍👌😁

I think her play in the Olympics helped her confidence. A terrific athlete improving their game is great to watch. Caitlin Clark X'd on the US Open at Oakmont. was shown yesterday on NBC's broadcast: 'Does anyone have fun playing there? I wouldn't break 130!' Color Commentator Kevin Kisner - 'If she played from way back tees, she'd run out of ammunition before finishing her round.' 😁

A Lesson in Never Giving Up US Open champion JJ Spaun turned a free fall into a title at rain-soaked Oakmont APNEWS.COM On a day built for umbrellas, J.J. Spaun reversed his own free fall, took advantage of everyone else’s and hit two shots that turned him into a major champion.

I guess these two college sports 'experts' were too Soon(ers) at the bar and stayed later than closing time? 🍻 Understandable confusion, once upon a time, Nebraska was Oklahoma's biggest rival. 🙃 They're two Fly Over states, who cares? 😴

Presumptuously jumping in. (I know, you're shocked 😁!) For younger Gators, it has to be the iconic Tebow. For a person in advanced middle age, I'll take Steve Spurrier as the all-time greatest Gator. Steve won games for the Gators at QB and also as Florida's head coach. Steve was known coast-to-coast well before (un)social media. In 1966, Spurrier won the Heisman Trophy. The 1st time a Gator won the Stiff-Arm. (I was a senior in HS and watched Steve play ball.) Spurrier finished with a college coaching record of 228-89-2, a .718% winning percentage. He amassed this record coaching Florida, which he transformed into an SEC power, as well as at 'punching bags', Duke and South Carolina. He was the SEC COY on 5 occasions and the ACC COY twice in three seasons at Duke. In 1996, under Spurrier, Florida won its first national title in football, defeating rival No. 1-ranked FSU 52 - 20 in the Sugar Bowl. The victory was made sweeter by Florida having lost 24-21 to the Seminoles in the regular season. If you have two QBs you have too many? In 1997, Spurrier took Florida to a 10-2 second-place SEC finish behind Tennessee, alternating QBs Doug Johnson and Jesse 'The Bachelor' Palmer on every play, and occasionally, also playing QB Noah Brandise. Spurrier's O was justifiably referred to as the 'Fun N Gun.' Tebow was one of the greatest Gators, but Spurrier elevated Florida as a player and a coach. Oh, and don't forget the great one-liners. In 1993, Florida State was put on probation for agents paying for free shopping trips at Foot Locker. (I know 🤣, compared to today?) Spurrier: 'You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes U.' Asked about a fire at the Auburn football dormitory that destroyed twenty books. 'The real shame is that 15 hadn't been colored in yet.' 'You can have good ballplayers and still not win games. All you LSU fans know that' Spurrier loved to tweak his home state of Tennessee. 'Peyton Manning came back to Tennessee for his senior year because he wanted to be the first three-time MVP of the Citrus Bowl.' 'You can't spell Citrus Bowl without UT.' I rest my case 🤓.

There's a reason why Golf is Flog spelled backwards.😁 One guy, JJ Spaun, who played his college golf at San Diego State, finished -1 to win the 125th playing of the US Open. Every other player finished over par. And these are the best players in the world.

Shake Your $ Maker! FOOTBALL! And a Good Knight for Uncle Phil! 🍻

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm? SC finished 4-5 versus the B1G and 2-0 versus the SEC. So, if SC changes conferences? 🤔 USC will dominate college football again, and that should scare everyone else REIGNOFTROY.COM Too many refuse to acknowledge how the improper NCAA sanctions from the coach Pete Carroll days affected USC. Not only has it been proven in court that it was a To Dominate 🙃 college football, don't you first have to qualify for the Playoffs?

I wonder if this guy will waffle on his commitment🤪, or will Penn State have a double order of waffles? 😁😁 Penn State is in the running to land No. 6 EDGE recruit Luke Wafle VICTORYBELLRINGS.COM The Penn State Nittany Lions picked up transfer defensive tackle Owen Wafle, who previously played for conference rival Michigan, after the Orange Bowl. Now in