Jon Joseph

YES! A 5* from Bama's back yard! On3Commitment Impact: Oregon Lands 5-Star EDGE Anthony 'Tank...Analyzing what the commitment of 2026 5-star Mobile (Ala.) St. Paul's Episcopal EDGE Anthony Jones means for Oregon Football.

For Entertainment Purposes Only! 😁 https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/article/college-football-betting-preview-one-bet-i-like-for-almost-every-week-this-season-140101954.html

Get Your B1G Bag of Popcorn Ready! Saturday TraditionBig Ten football: 5 best games across first month of 2025...Big Ten football returns at the end of August! These 5 games will dominate the first month of the 2025 season before October rolls around.

In his mailbag posted on The Athletic yesterday, Stewart Mandel continued to excoriate the B1G and B1G Commissioner Tony Petitti's 4-4-2-2-1-3 playoff model, calling it a 'Power Grab.' In a separate article the day before, Mandel claimed that the B1G's format is emanating from 'Planet Gaslight.' Twice, Mandel has claimed that SEC schedules are more difficult than those of the B1G. Among others, College Football News (CFN) demurs. The SEC has nine teams ranked in the top 25 of CFN's most difficult 2025 CFB schedules. The Big Ten also has nine teams ranked. With 16 teams, this gives the SEC a very slight edge. https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/2025-college-football-strength-of-schedule-rankings-preseason I believe Stewie is upset about Tony Petitti, in the Q and A after Tony's opening statement at B1G media days, blowing off Stewie's reference to a poll conducted by The Athletic, which showed 76% of the people in favor of the 5-11 model. In his first skewering of the B1G's format, Stewie also beefed about having to walk so very far to the Mandalay Bay convention center. Poor wittle Stewie ☹️. My guess, Tony P doesn't spend a lot of his time reading what Mandel has to say. I find it interesting that Mandel, who sold The Athletic to the NY Times holding company, continues to view FBS college football as an after-school sport played by amateurs. Here's my question for Stewie: How do you justify the PO committee ranking a G5 team as the ninth best in the nation in 2024? I'm waiting🤔.

My friend, that would be the 4-4-2-2-1-3 format that B1G commissioner Tony Petitti is backing. With 4 AQs and the committee out of the equation for choosing the four teams, and 4 AQs for the SEC, a B1G/SEC football challenge would be likely to happen. It could take a while as teams clear their existing OOC schedules, but the money from such a series would justify paying teams off to get out of scheduled OOC games. Then add a conference champ game and two PO play-in games in the last week of the regular season, and more money rolls in. Sankey switching to a 5-11 format is not for the good of the game but, in his reasoning, for the good of his conference. Why Sankey wants to leave money behind so the SEC's weak sisters can go 6-6 and qualify for a bowl game, well, I don't get it. On the other hand, your spot-on comment, I get 100%.

And, when it comes to unis, B1G players are unified. OBD is No. 1.😁 YardbarkerBig Ten Athletes React To Oregon Ducks Uniforms in New Vi...At Big Ten Media Days, some of college football's biggest stars were featured in online content. One video doing the rounds this weekend includes a heap of praise for the Oregon Ducks uniforms.

This is not good for Florida and college football fans.😧I hope this young man will be good to go and throw for many TDs. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/dj-lagway-injury-floridas-star-qb-heisman-hopeful-day-to-day-with-lower-body-issue-ahead-of-fall-camp/?ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0b&ET_CID=460842&ET_RID=52482716

CBS tabs Michigan, UCLA, and UW as off-season basketball winners. The Pac-2 are both Losers! https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/college-basketball-transfer-portal-winners-and-losers-will-wade-starts-strong-at-nc-state-kentucky-reloads/?ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0b&ET_CID=460842&ET_RID=52482716

On3's JD Pickell's 2025-26 PO prediction. No. 1 LSU, No. 2 TOSU, No. 3 Clemson, and No. 4 Texas, with PO seeding mirroring the committee's final ranking on 12/7/25, have 1st round byes. Five SEC teams and three B1G teams are in the PO field. One Independent, ACC, B12, and G5 JMU are in the field. Pickell has No. 6 Penn State defeating No. 11 Notre Dame in Happy Valley before losing to No. 3 Clemson. LSU is projected to be the SEC champ, Ohio State the B1G champ, Clemson the ACC champ, and Baylor the B12 champ. The Sun Belt's James Madison U represents the G5. 5 seed Oregon opens against 12 seed JMU in Autzen and defeats No. 4 Texas in the second round, before losing to LSU in the semifinals. 2nd-ranked Ohio State defeats 10th-ranked Baylor and 3rd-ranked Clemson before losing to No. 1 seed LSU in the champ game. That's a whole lot of love for Brian Kelly and his Bayou Bengals. The B1G would go 6-3 in this scenario, a nice payday for the B1G. The SEC would go 4-4, not a very good showing, but a return to championship status. Not sure why the Gamecocks players are cheering? At 9-3, they miss the PO field. Garnet and CockyOn3 gives their 2026 College Football Playoff Prediction,...The early 2026 College Football Playoff predictions are starting to roll out, and it looks like a certain team from the Palmetto State is being left out. That iAccording to Pickell's projections 😁Vegas has LSU and Baylor underranked. Saturday Blitz4 college football win totals that are too low for 2025The college football season is fast approaching with Week 0 right around the corner. Some teams enter 2025 with legitimate playoff aspirations, while others are

The safety position in 2025 is looking good. 😎 https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/07/30/oregon-ducks-football-safety-preview-2025/85434194007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SM

Freshman who could start in 2025. Dak, you made the list, buddy. On3True freshmen who could start Week 1 of 2025 college foot...Ahead of fall camp opening, On3 is evaluating which former top-ranked recruits could contribute in Week 1 as true freshmen.

Notre Dame is going to go the way of its Independent Life Support System ACC. When the ACC craters, ND's independence hopefully goes along with it. By the way, Coach, how did playing 4 G5 opponents work out for you in 2024? That Northern Illinois team was a real witch, right?

Son, didn't I already recruit you? AP NewsCoaches race to master art of retention amid NIL, revenue...College coaches are racing to master retention as revenue sharing and NIL opportunities steer athletes toward the transfer portal.

The Gators have a brutal schedule, once again. I noted going into last season that the SEC could be PO way laid by the schedules handed to the top teams. Compared to Florida, Oklahoma, and Georgia, the SEC welcomed Texas with open arms, and the Horns, Tennessee, and Mizzou had relatively easy slates compared to Florida. And we're doing this again? What in the world is the AD who arranged the Gators' schedule trying to prove? Being the King of Florida, don't forget a win over South Florida might help a high school recruit choose Florida over FSU and Miami, but how much so in today's world of pay-for-play? In a CFB world where a team has to play 16 or 17 games to play for a championship, what sense does it make to load up OOC? Especially with a selection committee that seems to count Ws and Ls, and that's it. Florida would be better off playing Vandy in a ninth conference game than playing at Miami. But schedule disparity is not unique to the SEC. There are sites that rank Wisconsin with the toughest schedule in 2025. Conversely, there's Michigan with a tough road game at Oklahoma, but with a conference schedule against opponents that went 27-54 in 2024. The in-conference SOS disparity is the reason why I think Petitti's AQ formula makes sense. At the end of the regular season slate, the first and second teams in the standings are going to the PO, notwithstanding the winner of the championship game. How do you parse teams three through six when No. 3 had an easy conference schedule and the No. 6 team's schedule was brutal? Settle it on the field. More fans would have skin in the game late into the season, the play-in games, and the champ game would be the 12th conference game, ending the season a week earlier, and the PO could end a week earlier. And at a time when athletic departments need the money, there would be more media money paid for three meaningful end-of-the-regular-season games. I don't understand why Sankey moved away from the AQ PO Model, which is leaving money off the SEC table? An extra at-large PO spot or two is two birds in the bush. A 9th conference game, and a model that includes PO play-in games, is a bird with benefits in the hand. Plus, with the AQ model, you are not trusting a committee that does its business in the dark with deciding on the top 4 teams from the conference. Was Tennessee the third-best team in the SEC last season, or a team that benefited from a by comparison easy schedule? I know I would have tuned in to watch Tennessee versus Ole Miss and South Carolina versus Bama. Good luck to the Gators in 2025. I'm hoping we'll see payback when Texas visits The Swamp.

Will Michigan and others break on through to the other side in 2025? Will ASU and others maintain excellence? In the conference, Michigan has one of the easier schedules. In 2024, the B1G teams the Wolverines play this season went 27 and 54. 🤣 No less, no (Sherrone) Moore. ESPN.comWhich teams take the next step in 2025? We have 11 candid...FSU has nowhere to go but up, Michigan can get way better, and Arizona State is building on its CFP berth. Which other teams are primed for bigger things in 2025?

Terrific take. In 2025-26, I want the Ducks to play 16 or 17 games. Whatever it takes to get to the champ game.

CBS ranks the 2025 SEC SOS - https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/sec-strength-of-schedule-rankings-2025-georgia-catches-favorable-draw-oklahoma-staring-down-rough-road/ SEC teams predicted 1st loss - Saturday Down SouthPredicting every SEC team’s first loss in 2025No one made it through the SEC unscathed during the 2024 season. Here’s where each program will stumble first in 2025.

Luke Altmyer deserved a higher ranking. He won 10 games last season. to date, Sayin has won Zip. Writing IlliniLuke Altmyer keeps building his Illinois football legendHonestly, you can count the number of legendary Illinois football quarterbacks on one hand, that is how few and far between they have been. As the Illini enter

Look at the SEC OOC slates. Cig was spot on. Indiana plays 3 cupcakes OOC, but the majority of SEC teams do the same. Unless you count Washington State as a P4 team, Ole Miss plays four non-conference games, all at home. 3 SEC teams play 10 P4 games in 2025. 13 B1G teams play 10. No doubt Georgia, Oklahoma, and Florida have brutal in-conference schedules. Not so with Tennessee, Ole Miss, and M1zzou. The tough schedules do not translate up and down the entire SEC conference. The point Cignetti tried, and IMO did make to anyone who passed math in elementary school, is that with nine conference games, half of the conference cannot schedule its way out of an additional loss. Petitti's point, with a committee that conducts its business in the dark and seemingly focuses on losses rather than the quality of teams you lost to, is one reason we need AQs. Greg Sankey wants to remain at eight conference games, but in the process of promoting the 5-11 format and staying at eight, he also noted the SEC wants to see significant changes to the selection process. I guess Rhett Lashlee didn't like Pawalll taking him behind the woodshed, even though he was correct: Since 1964, six SEC programs have won football championships. In this period, Bama won fifteen. Facts are stubborn things. John Adams

Sweet Home Autzen, Where the Skies are Always Blue. CFB-HQ On SICollege football's best home teams the last 3 years, rankedHome field advantage has been just that, an advantage, for teams in just about any sport, but when looking over how college football teams perform at home vs. o

A few 'First Loss' nuggets. In 2025, no B1G team will go undefeated. The author has the B1G going 0-3 versus the SEC. 🤬 Ohio State is 8-0 in its last eight games versus Penn State. Ohio State hands Minnesota, Penn State, and UW their 1st loss of the season. OBD hands Indiana its first loss of the season. 😎 The CFB world is well aware of James Franklin's little-game record versus top teams, but Matt Ruhle's 0-16 in his last 16 games against ranked teams is also noteworthy. Indiana defeats Illinois in a B1G 'PO Play-in game.' Let's Play Ball!

Saturday Tradition likes the Illini's PO chances. Saturday TraditionIllinois football: Will Illini make College Football Play...Illinois has reloaded with a mass of returning production and is hoping it helps pay off in a trip to the College Football Playoff.

There's No Question About It. B1G coaches ticked off SEC folks B1G Time. 😁 Saturday Down SouthThe SEC's top 5 enemies for 2025Who are the people/teams/conferences that the SEC is in battle with in 2025? These 5 fit that description.

Michigan is knocking on wood, hoping that Underwood has 'IT.' https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/freshman-phenom-bryce-underwood-already-has-all-the-tools-but-michigan-qb-battle-wont-be-won-on-paper/

SI is top 25 high on the Trojans. SISports Illustrated’s College Football Preseason Top 25: N...The first foray into the Big Ten did not go as planned, but the Trojans are hoping a ton of off-field changes will help get the program back on track.