Jon Joseph

Hey Cisco, and Dante, Poncho is back! How about adding Moore returning talent and joining OL QB Poncho and DL Bear for the 2026 season? Dante, do you want to join the NFL before you can buy a cocktail?😏 Great news. Poncho is the perfect guy to build a new OL around in back-to-back seasons. Next season, perhaps Poncho won't be cheated out of the Remington Award. Speaking of screwed over, make us happy, Sadiq, and come back for a deserved Mackey Award. If he declares for the draft, I think 🤪 Kenjon will be drafted before Vandy's Eli Stowers. Eli Who?

Sorry, but SC made the appropriate business decision. Getting upset over 'Tradition' in today's world of NFL-Lite transactional CFB is nonsense. It makes no more sense than OSU and Wazzu blaming OBD for going B1G. A 2-loss SC would have had a very good case for being in the PO field this season, and if included, millions of additional PO dollars would have hit the B1G's bottom line. To Hades with Notre Dame. Knute Rockne left the building long ago. The brand didn't help bring in viewers for the 2025 PO champ game. Not wanting to share seems to me to be counterintuitive to what the school purportedly represents.

I believe ND is contractually locked in to the ACC. However, in 2030, ACC exit fees drop significantly, part of the settlement with Clemson and FSU. And in the same year, a new B1G media deal begins, with B1G schools expected to earn $100 M in media revenue. Notre Dame ice hockey competes in the Big Ten. If ND were to join a conference, it would be one of the Power 2 conferences, and the B1G makes more sense than the SEC.

A&M and Texas disappeared before Texas joined the SEC, to A&M's chagrin, and are now permanent opponents. Perhaps SC/ND will return when ND joins the B1G? CFB PO folks, and ACC conference, stop enabling ND's independence!

A Take from Tech. And Hats Off to Dan for criticizing the time between the start of the PO and subsequent PO games, and opining that OBD should be playing Texas Tech in Lubbock on Saturday and not in Miami on 1/1/26. Wreck'Em RedOregon HC Dan Lanning shares huge injury news as Texas Te...All throughout the season, Oregon Ducks head coach Dan Lanning and his staff have had to adjust and account for injured stars. They’ve missed having a number of

September 12, 1970 - USC 42 - Alabama 21. The Sam Bam Cunningham game. Bama, using a wishbone offense that Bear Bryant kept secret before the game, defeated SC in LA the next season. Bear was long in favor of SEC teams being integrated and worked with SC and Oregon grad coach John McKay to have an integrated team play Bama in the South. One of the best OL players of all time, Bama's John Hannah, said after the loss in 1970 that he went to block SC defenders and found thin air. Spot on comment, ND. Bubba Smith and myriad players of color no longer had to play for an HBCU team or head north to play ball. Integration of the Southeast and Southwest conferences helped calm tensions in the South. Lee Corso was another person who helped integrate college football. An assistant coach at Maryland in 1962, and with the approval of HC Tom Nugent, Corso convinced African-American Darryl Hill to transfer from Navy to Maryland. Hill was the ACC's first player of color. Wreck Tech! And UGA, Diss Ole Miss!

I know that the Sun Belt champion, 12-1 JMU, has better starters than OBD's backups, and is a well-coached team that never quit. I think UCLA may have found a heck of a coach. I think JMU was the best G6 team and should not have been ranked behind Tulane. I know football is a game of emotion, and it's hard to stay focused and fired up when you lead 34-6 after the second quarter. I know JMU never had a shot at winning the game, and this game has no bearing on how the team performs in the Orange Bowl on 1/1/26, and hopefully back in the same locale on Monday, 1/19/26. I know I'm happier than A&M and Sooners fans. And I know the Luckeyes lucked out again, playing Miami and not the Aggies in Dallas on New Year's Eve. I know that OBD is also fortunate to have played JMU and not BYU, and to play Texas Tech in Miami instead of in Dallas. I know this is a bowl extravaganza and not a playoff, and where you play is the luck of the draw, not decided on the field in the regular season. I know the PO field should expand to 16 teams, start and finish earlier, with no byes, 1st and 2nd round games, at least, played on the home fields of higher-ranked teams. Wreck Tech!

Looks like the end for the intersectional matchup, and why not? ND makes money off the series. ND's recruiting benefits from the series. USC gets a jeweled stick if it wins. 🤪 A B1G SC does not need another trip east every other season. SC offered to compromise and continue the series if the game was played earlier in the year at a neutral site. Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas is what SC offered as a neutral venue. https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/sources-notre-dame-usc-rivalry-series-ending-next-year-as-irish-finalize-2-year-deal-with-byu-165245493.html

Notre Dame vs. USC is on pause. Probably 'forever.' From a B1G perspective, and a USC travel perspective, I think Troy made the right call. USC asked for the game to be played earlier in the season at a neutral site. The Irish said 'No.' SINotre Dame Football Fills Future Schedule Signaling End t...The Fighting Irish will play BYU the next two seasons with other marquee opponents already on the books until 2030.

The Joe Moore winners will play ball on Wednesday, 12/31/26 - No. 14 Vanderbilt - 10-2 vs. No. 23 Iowa - 8-4, 9 AM Pacific, ESPN. This should be one of the best non-PO bowl games. Two more Power 2 matchups see Illinois vs. Tennessee in Nashville, playing at 2:30 PM on Tuesday, the 30th, and No. 13 Texas vs. No. 18 Michigan, Noon ABC, on the 31st. Thursday, 1/1/26, 1 PM, ESPN, sees the fourth postseason matchup of B1G vs. SEC, when No.1 Indiana plays No. 9 Bama in the Rose Bowl, with Indiana -6.5, the favorite. Indiana, the favorite? DOCTOR!🤪 Three seasons back, everyone saw this Rose Bowl battle coming on, right? 🙃 Odds on that one of Georgia/Ole Miss will play Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl on Thursday, 1/8/26, with a chance that OBD plays Alabama in Atlanta on Friday, 1/9/26. Saturday Down SouthEarly thoughts on each quarterfinal matchup of the 2025 C...The quarterfinal matchups of the 2025 College Football Playoff are set. Here's what you should watch out for. WRECK TECH!

Saturday Down South evaluates the PO quarterfinals - Saturday Down SouthEarly thoughts on each quarterfinal matchup of the 2025 C...The quarterfinal matchups of the 2025 College Football Playoff are set. Here's what you should watch out for.

Pawaaaaaaalllllll, if you need any help packing, or a ride to the airport ... Please text or call - 1-800-ITS-BIGG. 👍👌😍 He'd earlier promised to leave if an SEC team didn't win it all.

Good call, although Lubbock, Texas, is not a large market. Ditto Tuscaloosa and Eugene. Booster money is fungible. The NFL billionaires play nice with one another because parity means more money for all. With an agreement in place with a players' union, NFL owners have been able to restrict player movement, cap rookie salaries, and impose fines and loss of draft picks for teams that exceed a salary cap. I think that one day, CFB billionaires will learn to play with one another and negotiate salary caps, restrictions on transfers, poaching penalties, and other reasonable restrictions akin to the NFL. A CFB player draft could be on the way. Take away recruiting and portal picking responsibilities, and CFB coaching salaries will come down. Booster money is not restricted by geography. Mark Cuban lives in Dallas but writes B1G checks that are cashed in Bloomington, Indiana. For sure, media markets likely matter when NFL teams are recruiting free agents. Which teams can provide a player with the best NIL opportunities? A team in Jacksonville, New York, or LA? Wreck the Heck Out of Tech!

Thank you, David. In the 1st half, the Ducks were EduBirdies. In the 2nd half, DumBirdies. Dan and Tosh have a lot of teaching material in hand. Credit JMU for balling out for 60 minutes. UCLA folks had to be happy with the fight put up by the Dukes. Everywhere he has been, Bob Chesney has put winning teams on the field. If he's given the resources, OBD could be battling Trojans and Bruins for SoCal recruits and wins. We have something in common with our UGA friends on the Forum, WRECK TECH! Dirty, New Fashioned Hate! 🤬

And the quarter-finals should have been played on Saturday, played on the home fields of the higher-ranked teams, with the semis played on New Year's Day. And if the NFL insists on biting the hand that feeds it by playing on Saturday before the CFB PO ends, Congress should extend the NFL Saturday no-play date.

Knute Rockne had to pull The Gipper out of a pool hall and sober him up to get him to practice. Way back in the day, players would play for two or more teams and be compensated by all the teams they played for. UCLA basketball players were paid. USC football players were paid. Among others, Michigan State's Bubba Smith went to an ice cream parlor in East Lansing on Monday afternoon to be paid. All cash, nothing reported to the IRS. IMO, two years with back-to-back titles do not cancel the SEC's postseason dominance. By every metric, recruiting rankings and players drafted, for example, the SEC is at the top. SEC sports, especially football, have been aligned from school presidents on down for decades. Pay for play and unrestricted transfers are evening things out. It took time for Oregon, with the help of NIKE, to build its brand and put Oregon football on the map coast to coast. It took Texas Tech billionaires one season to open their wallets and have the Red Raiders in a position to win the first B12 title in football and be nationally relevant for more than just having an eccentric coach. The Hoosiers under Curt Cignetti would not be in the midst of a historic turnaround without graduate Mark Cuban and his friends. Without Oracle's Larry Ellison's money, Bryce Underwood would be playing ball for LSU and not for the Wolverines. As many have pointed out, the first question a coaching candidate for a Power 4 position asks is what percentage of 'House settlement' payments are dedicated to football and what resources will I have on the NIL front. The most-watched game of the regular season was the Ohio State at Michigan game. For the most part, SEC games were more watched than Big Ten games. There is a B1G difference perception-wise between the Big Ten and the SEC. Not every game in the SEC is (cue stentorian voice) a battle like no other ever witnessed in the history of college football. In 2025, the Big Ten was dumped on for playing weak in-conference schedules. SEC in-conference schedules were trumpeted. With eight conference games, the SEC had many teams that finished with two losses or fewer, with half the conference ranked in the top 25 all season long. Rankings like this produce results like Bama defeating four ranked opponents in a row, so the FSU loss had to be an anomaly, right? Wins over Missouri and Tennessee turned out to be no big accomplishment, but the narrative never changed. How often did anyone hear about A&M defeating seven SEC opponents without a winning record and losing to a team with a winning record, three-loss Texas? ESPN controls the CFB bloody pulpit and is the SEC's partner. Next case. Six of 18 B1G teams did not finish 6-6 or better. Six of 16 SEC schools did not finish 6-6 or better. The ACC and the B12 also had six teams that did not qualify for a bowl game. I believe the SEC has the bona fides to rank the SEC as the top conference in CFB. We could see Oregon playing Ohio State for the championship, or we could see Georgia playing Alabama for the title. A B1G team winning it all in 2025-26 will move the Big Ten closer to the SEC. But the SEC will remain as the conference with the most on-field decided championships. And it isn't close. Come On OBD - 3 More Wins - Please! PS - Adopt Tony Petitti's PO format, and we will likely see an annual B1G/SEC football challenge and the money that will come with it. This season, a 16-team field with automatic qualifiers would have resulted in the B1G, SEC, ACC, and the B12, all having an additional team in the field. Plus, we wouldn't have had to suffer the whining coming out of South Bent.

I'm hoping and betting on OBD being able to run the ball. Utah averaged 270 yards on the ground this season; TT held the Utes to 101 rush yards. These B12 guys will be fired up over the chance to take down a Power 2 team. Wreck the Raiders!

Saturday Tradition Posts JMU Game Stats - Saturday TraditionRapid Reaction: Oregon runs over James Madison, into CFP...Oregon ran all over James Madison in the first half of Saturday's College Football Playoff first-round game to book a trip to the quarters.

Thanks, AOD, for the terrific post. TX Tech played five teams with winning records this season, defeating BYU twice. TT scored 21 plus points in all of its wins. OBD went 5-1 against teams with winning records, plus two wins over 6-6 Northwestern and Penn State. Both teams handled a common opponent, Oregon State, with ease. SOS - OBD 16 and TT 54. As you ask AOD, how much of TT's success was the result of playing inferior competition? On 1/1, will Oregon face an elite defense? By the numbers, the answer is 'Yes.' The TT defense is 1st in QB pressures, and No. 1 in TOs created with 31 on the year, including four against BYU in the champ game. Texas Tech finished the season No. 1 against the rush, allowing an average of 68.5 yards a game and 2.3 yards per rush. In 2024 and 2025 to date, Oregon is 25-0 when rushing for 100 yards or more a game, and 0-2 when rushing for fewer than 100 yards. If OBD cannot run the ball against TT, the Red Raiders should win the game. This should be a classic battle on the line of scrimmage. Wreck Tech!

Four not to be ignored. I'm hoping OBD, TOSU, and Indiana will all start the New Year right with B1G wins. 🤑 https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/college-football-playoff-a-quick-look-at-the-four-quarterfinal-matchups-that-will-ring-in-2026-043913463.html

Way to go, Gat! There's nothing better than a Ducks opponent being Swamped. 😁

OBD and TX Tech Game and Team Info. NOTE - OBD Strength-of-Schedule 16th - Texas Tech 54th. FanSidedOregon vs. Texas Tech preview in 5 minutes: Fast facts, p...The Oregon and Texas Tech have played just three times, the Ducks winning each meeting. The fourth time has a College Football Playoff semifinals berth at stake

Thank you, Doctor. The line is set close to a Pick 'Em. Despite the hyperbolic title of the linked article (🤪shocking, right?), the only message the early lines speak to is, 'Balance the Book!' The below referenced book has Texas Tech -1.5. This will be the first time this season that Joey McGuire and his Red Raiders match up against a team with a Blue Chip Roster and also a team that was in the portal pickers' top 5. Texas Tech will not have the roster advantage it had in all 13 games played before 1/1/26. TT played one game in the Eastern time zone this season, destroying West Virginia 49-0. TT and OBD shared one opponent this season, both played Beavis at home: OBD 41-7, TT 45-14. TT did have two impressive wins against BYU, scored often in the 4th quarter to win decisively over turnover-prone Utah in SLC, and lost at ASU behind its backup QB when Sun Devils QB Sam Leavitt was healthy. One of the wins over BYU was in Lubbock, and the other came in Arlington, Texas, where the Dallas Cowboys roam. Ohio State in the Cotton and not the Orange Bowl? Did the Buckeyes have their choice after Big Ten champ, Indiana, won the right to play in the Rose Bowl? If so, with Miami's win over A&M, Brutus got lucky on two fronts. No game against Miami, a team that does not travel well, in Miami's home stadium, and no A&M in Dallas. (Why do the Luckeyes get all of these postseason breaks?) I agree with above comments that TT will have the majority of fans in the Hard Rock Stadium on the 1st, I expect TOSU fans will take over Jerry's Joint. I hope Indiana and its fans, that have not visited Pasadena since 1968, can find the stadium? Grand Pa Duck could get his wish of playing Bama, but in Atlanta? No thanks. However, I don't think Cig's guys will help the Tide Roll Sooner than later. 9 AM body clock kickoff for OBD and fans, but no team has done better playing two or more time zones away from home than Danny and the Ducks. FWIW, my buddies and I have OBD +1.5. It should be a terrific game. Lasso the Tortillas! Oddsmakers send a clear message about Texas Tech, Oregon with Orange Bowl line

And Beck? What the heck was that? It was windy, but 103 yards; that's a lot of dinero per yard. I understand A&M only played eight conference games, but in the name of Greg Sankey, how did the Aggies, without a rematch, find seven SEC teams without a winning record to defeat? The epitome of mega-conference scheduling. Lasso the Tortillas!

ND, I expect and am hoping that your Dawgs assault and salt Ole Miss's title hopes in the Sugar Bowl. I'm UGA all the way, but we need a format without 1st round byes where Ole Miss QB and RB are dinged up in a game that the top seeds sit out.