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On3's thoughts on whether the B1G will support the 5-11 model. On3SEC moving to 9-game schedule strengthens odds of Big Ten...Now that the SEC has expanded to a nine-game conference schedule, will the Big Ten agree to a College Football Playoff model?

Long-time Northwestern Coach Pat Fitzgerald has settled his wrongful termination suit with the school after the school, upon review, found no evidence of Fitzgerald being aware of the hazing of freshmen football players. Pundits believe Fitzgerald scored B1G time. With the admission by Northwestern, how could he not have? Fitzgerald is 50 years old and anxious to return to coaching. He has no NCAA show-cause to overcome and will be number one on many ADs' new hire radar. He has stated that he does not want to return to coaching at his alma mater, Northwestern.

And no bowl game for Mark Stoops? As Sankey noted, 'not everyone,' a/k/a the coaches, is in favor of this move. But the money won out. Who knew? 🤑 For this to have happened, I think ESPN will be writing a larger check to the SEC.

I thought it could be another 'we want to play 9 conference games' head fake, but the SEC will go to 9 conference games in 2026. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/sec-adopts-nine-game-conference-slate-commissioner-greg-sankey-explains-how-new-cfp-metrics-spurred-move/ The Football Playoff Committee agreeing to use an 'enhanced metric' to determine strength of schedule sealed the deal for Sankey and the It Just Means More Conference. Which means that Tony P and his B1G IT guys better take a close look at the new metric programming. Assuming the new metric and its use thereof pass the B1G smell test, far more important than the eye test 😁, this will likely result in the 5 highest-ranked conference champions and 11 at-large teams beginning in 2026. This should also allow, subject to schedule changes, an annual B1G/SEC football challenge. The Devil is of course in the details but this could be a positive for the Power 2 and all of college football.

OMG! The SEC will Talk the Talk beginning in 2026. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/sec-adopts-nine-game-conference-slate-commissioner-greg-sankey-explains-how-new-cfp-metrics-spurred-move/ This could result in the B1G signing off on the 5-11 model and an annual SEC/B1G football challenge. The CFB changes keep right on coming!

Yet again, the SEC talks the 9-game talk, but where's the walk? SEC fans and sites are celebrating the PO committee using a new metric to determine SOS. The metric's programming will not be revealed by the committee. The CBB committee makes all of it the metrics it uses public knlowledge and if ranking or seeding does not follow, the CBB folks explain why they varied from the metric. But the NCAA owns the CBB Tournament. ESPN owns the CFB Playoffs. If the metric's programming uses ESPN's FPI SOS ranking, with 15 SEC teams in the top 25, why would the SEC move to 9-games? Unless the SEC, with the committee using this metric, believes the B1G will support the 5-11 PO format. If this is the case, Tony Petitti and the B1G IT folks, better require a full disclosure of the metric's programming and how the committee intends to use the metric. In Sankey I do not trust.

Georgia's 'Dawn of the Dawg' is on board with the metric's use, mainly benefiting the SEC. Greg Sankey's propaganda and ESPN's broadcast money appear to be paying off. The metrics the committee intends to use for SOS and Sor should be disclosed and commented on before being adopted by the PO committee. Dawn of the DawgGeorgia owes the College Football Playoff committee a big...The College Football Playoff committee did not have very many fans at the conclusion of the 2024 season. This was especially the case from fans of the SEC as ma

Hopefully, this won't mean much if anything, on CFB PO judgement day, 12/7/25, but here's a preseason SOS ranking. FanSidedCollege football rankings by initial strength of scheduleWith the 2025 college football season kicking off this weekend with some Week 0 action, now is the perfect time to be reminded of this new wrinkle being inserte The CBB Tournament Committee updates its Quad team records and wins and losses based on which quad an opponent is ranked almost daily during the season. For the sake of every team outside of the SEC, the CFB PO Committee had best do the same. As of today, the FPI has 15 SEC teams ranked in its top 25, and the above ranking uses this FPI tripe. If the FPI is the metric the CFB PO committee plans on using, Tony Petitti had best have a Restraining Order at hand.

The Ohio State University is never short of hubris - Archie Manning is overrated? It may be advisable to wait until 4:30 to 5:00 PM Eastern on August 30, 2025, to say so. Plus, why not tweak Penn State and Michigan?🤪 Scarlet and GameThe three most overrated quarterbacks the Ohio State foot...The Ohio State football team is going to take on a lot of talented quarterbacks, but these three are fairly overrated.

Thank you, Charles. A terrific look at the roster turnover being experienced in today's CFB. Roster management in the NFL is a piece of cake compared to what we see today in college. On paper, the 2025 schedule should help OBD's champ run cause. This schedule is the easiest from last season's schedule through the 2028 season. The top third of the schedule, the first four games, sees OBD with a significant roster advantage over the four opponents, further helped by three home games. A perfect segue into a Week 5 White Out. This season, OBD does not play a P4 out-of-conference opponent on the road; not the case, as currently scheduled, in 2026, at OK State, and 2027, at Baylor. Only two teams ranked in the preseason AP, Penn State and Indiana, are on this season's schedule, and OBD plays the Hoosiers at home. The off weeks are optimal and not the crazy eight games in a row against B1G competition that OBD faced in 2024. Hopefully, the roster gels before Week 5 at Penn State, followed by a bye week and then Indiana. Let's start with a W against Montana State!

B1G+ Half Full? Or, Half Empty? https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-rankings-each-ap-top-25-teams-biggest-beacon-of-hope-cause-for-concern-in-2025/

Preseason SOS is guess work. The SOR ranking on 12/7/25, will be based on the PO Committee's final ranking. The SOR is all good IF the metric is truly unbiased. Anything out of ESecPN is suspect. Any metric the committee uses should be disclosed, including the programmer and the factors used by the metric. This sounds good in theory, but how does the metric rate a loss in the G5 compared to a loss in the Power 2? The committee's process being opaque and its subjectivity are one reason I like the B1G's 16-team, automatic qualifier proposal. Please explain how, in Hades, a G5 team with zero wins against the P4 was the ninth-best team in 2024? It looks like the metric could be akin to the CBB committee's Quad System? If so, and administered properly, including disclosing the results along with a weekly ranking, this could be good for CFB. If the SEC is behind this and uses it to stay at 8 conference games, we all better Duck. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/explaining-the-college-football-playoffs-new-strength-of-schedule-metric-and-the-secs-campaign-behind-it/

The announcement is not on the Bruins football site. I'm calling Horse Hockey! Tennessee fans invaded Ohio State (to no avail) and perhaps took over the On3 site?

More from Josh Pate on the 2025 Ducks. Beyond Super Frosh Dak Moore, is there enough depth and talent at WR? Malik Benson. I wish I could get his drop of a perfectly thrown deep ball in the Spring Game out of my head. I note that we haven't heard much about Hughes at RB. Will he be the same player in the Power 2 that he was in the G5? Tune in on 8/30/25 for the first installment of: Danno and the 2025 Ducks on Display. 😁 YardbarkerCollege Football Analyst Reveals Biggest Concern On Orego...The Oregon Ducks have received conflicting projections over the summer. College football analyst and host of Josh Pate's College Football Show, Josh Pate visited Oregon and provided some behind-the-sc

I know, we've had enough of this Klatt - Play Ball! Before Beavis and the Cougs are in someone's PO field. OBD versus Michigan in Autzen in a 1st round game? Ducks lose quarter-final game to Dabo. 🙃 On3Joel Klatt predicts 2025 College Football Playoff field,....

Dan Lanning - It's more than the money; recruiting has to be first and foremost about football. Oregon Ducks On SIWhat Oregon Ducks' Dan Lanning Said About Treating Player...In an era of college sports where coaches, players, and staff are constantly trying to keep up with changes to name, image, and likeness (NIL) landscape. Due to

Everybody's Doing It! So, Watch Out! Predicting MLB's 2 Expansion Teams and the 8-Division Bre...During Sunday night's Little League Classic between the New York Mets and Seattle Mariners, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred talked about the possibility of not just expansion, but also

At my age, I don't know about leaving what looks to be a case and not a mere six-pack of this brand of Beers behind.

I blame them; specifically, I blame The Athletic's Editor-in-Chief and Northwestern graduate Stewart Mandel for having his B1G undies in a twist over Tony Petitti's PO format. We all know Greg Sankey is the hero doing everything in his power to save the sanctity of CFB, right? Here's Stewie's take on the B1G - Penn State 11-1; Ohio State 10-2; Iowa 10-2. 9-3 - AP No. 14 Michigan, AP No. 20 Indiana, and AP No.7 OBD.🤪 7-5 - No. 12 Illinois. !!!!! 14 starters back, including a QB who could be the first B1G QB off the NFL draft board, 5 OL starters back, and one of the easiest B1G in-conference schedules. Two B1G titles in a row? 5-1 in the postseason against THE SEC, move right along, nothing to see here. OBD will only get respect when it wins two titles, one will, of course, be a fluke. Just like being the only P4 squad to go 13-0 last season was an aberration. MERCY!

Urban, you know what they say about folks who live in glass houses, right? Saturday BlitzUrban Meyer declares the NCAA dead over the Michigan sign...On Friday, the long-awaited decision was made when the NCAA finally put the Michigan Wolverines' sign stealing scandal to bed with their official decision. The

OBD's 2nd opponent in 2025 comes out of the B12. However, one of the Cowboys starting safeties, one of the top transfers to Oklahoma State coming to Stillwater from Miami, will be missing in action in Week 2. It's not just the Dallas Cowboys with troubles at the top of the organization. https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/08/19/oregon-ducks-week-2-opponent-makes-big-roster-move-prior-2025-season/85719477007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=ema

On the Big Ten Network's tour of Fall camps, BTN's Yogi Roth opined that the job is Dante's, and in practice, he looked like he would be one of the top QBs in the conference and also in the nation. It didn't sound like he was blowing smoke as a talking head. Roth was more effusive in his praise of Moore than any other player on the stops he's made on the tour. Following his mentors, Saint Nick and Kirby, Dan Lanning likes to keep things close to his vest. Which newbie QB will reach the highest plateau at Oregon, Ohio State, Michigan, Indiana, Bama, Georgia, Ole Miss, Texas, among others in The Season of the Which? The wait is almost over. 😊

CBS Sports Tom Fernelli's B1G 2025 Predictions - CBSSports.comBig Ten expert picks 2025: Most overrated and underrated...Taking a close, detailed and opinionated look at the Big Ten ahead of the 2025 college football season

Thank you, Charles, for what could be the greatest post in Forum history? 😍 I wonder who the Oregon Prez's hairdresser was? He fit right in with the 60s look. Hats off to him for taking a path different than that of most of the stuffy college presidents.

'Don't worry about Montana State - the time to do so is coming.' Dan Lanning YardbarkerOregon Ducks' Dan Lanning Reveals Who Won Scrimmage in Fa...The Oregon Ducks had their second scrimmage of fall camp on Saturday, and Oregon coach Dan Lanning gave a rather positive update on both the offense and the defense when speaking to the media afterwar