Jon Joseph

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When your Fraudulent Power Index has 81.25% of the SEC in the top 25 😜, I expect at least three SEC teams to go undefeated, with the three not-ranked SEC teams all going 0-8 in conference. 🦨

USA takes a look back at what the PO fields would have been with a 16-team, 5-11 format. Big winner? Not the SEC, it's The B1G. Who benefits from College Football Playoff expansion to 16 teams? WWW.USATODAY.COM If College Football Playoff indeed expands to 16 teams, it will become a more attainable destination for three-loss teams from coast to coast. FWIW, I believe the B1G should go with the 5-11 format, IF the SEC plays 9 conference games.

Good Luck, Yuck Yuck 😁 What is NIL Go, and why is it the latest subject of debate among college sports leaders? SPORTS.YAHOO.COM All NIL deals must now pass through a process run by Deloitte. It threatens to significantly scale back the millions of dollars being handed to athletes from booster-backed collectives. Lawyers are lining up to blow past NIL Go on their way to the courthouse.🦨

More (Moore?) on Messiah. Oregon lands exhilarating 4-star commit Messiah Hampton in major recruiting win WWW.SPORTINGNEWS.COM The Ducks held off other major programs.

Five B1G coaches with second-season tests. College football coaches entering Year 2 who are facing defining campaigns in 2025 season - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM These 12 coaches have pivotal years ahead in the 2025 college football season

Dante Moore Walks the Walk! 👍👌❤️ Oregon Football star QB Dante Moore gives back with heartfelt gift to hometown alma mater WWW.YARDBARKER.COM Dante Moore is beginning the journey of becoming the next great Oregon Ducks starting QB. Entering his junior season, Moore is slated to start for Dan Lanning's squad after transferring into...

Among the thousands of CFB preseason prognosticators, Phil Steele is usually the real deal. Phil Steele praises Penn State and projects a title-winning season VICTORYBELLRINGS.COM Phil Steele has high hopes for the Penn State Nittany Lions, and not only in the Big Ten. Whereas Ohio State triumphed to its first College Football Playoff cha Phil is far from the only playoff picker to be high on PSU. Yes, a quality new DC is on board, but isn't it the same old head coach and a pick-throwing QB? Week 5, OBD gets an upfront and personal look at the Nits.

In this CWS, Parity has replaced SEC. Talk of power conferences taking over the College World Series was premature judging by 2025 field APNEWS.COM Six conferences and an independent will be represented at the College World Series. None were among the final eight in Omaha a year ago. The dominant conference would have been the former and real Pac-12. Not the Pac-7 plus Gonzo. Arizona, Oregon State, and UCLA. How did 'THEY' screw 'THIS' up?

Again, the Title IX appeal has not put payments on hold. The Title IX plaintiffs will not be 'irreparably' damaged if revenue sharing payments begin. If the appeal is successful, monetary damages will adequately compensate the plaintiffs (and their lawyers 🤮). 'Clarity' regarding this settlement is akin to 'commitment' in the world of football recruiting. The road ahead after the NCAA settlement comes with risk, reward and warnings APNEWS.COM The annual National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics convention this week included a very hot topic: The $2.8 billion NCAA antitrust settlement.

Hope the young man's 'commitment' holds up; it helps to have a Messiah in the locker room. 😇

A look at how revenue-sharing money is likely to be split. College sports athletic departments face tough revenue sharing decisions WWW.USATODAY.COM How will schools share revenue with teams and athletes? That’s left to schools to decide. Welcome to "Capology."

Pressure? What Pressure? 🤬 Which college football coaches are under the most pressure this season? WWW.FOXSPORTS.COM After a quiet coaching carousel this past offseason, Joel Klatt shared which 10 coaches are under the most pressure heading into the 2025 college football season.

College Football News with a Favorable 2025 Preview of UW. 😒 Washington Football Preview 2025: The Huskies Will Roll Under Jedd Fisch - College Football News | College Football Predictions, Analysis and Updates

Was OBD's 13-0 record on the way to the conference title a B1G anomaly? Why Steve Sarkisian and oddsmakers are exactly right about the new era of the SEC - Saturday Down South WWW.SATURDAYDOWNSOUTH.COM Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said the quiet part out loud about going undefeated in today's college football.

Illinois went 5-1 in one-score games in 2024, so caution is advised. However, Illinois returns 18 starters who won 10 games last season, including the 2nd-ranked B1G QB, Luke Altmyer, and, according to USA Today, plays the easiest B1G schedule. The Fighting Illini +630 to make the PO is one of the best available future bets. With a game at Duke, Illinois may not go 3-0 OOC, but it will be no worse than 2-1. The two toughest conference road games will be at Indiana and UW. Illinois hosts USC and Ohio State. It's sweet to draw Purdue, Rutgers, Maryland, and Northwestern. +630 for Indiana, 12th most difficult schedule per USA Today, is also worth a look if you believe QB Mendoza out of Cal will be as effective as Kurtis Rourke, coming over from MAC-member Ohio, was in 2024. The opening B1G game for both teams sees Illinois playing Indiana in Bloomington.

There's some B1G recruiting happening. 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. Don't count your Ducks before they hatch in December. I'm reasonably certain OBD will out-recruit Rutgers. 😁 SC has the numbers going for it.

FWIW, one gaming site's Big Ten odds to make the 2025-26 PO. Big Ten Football: Betting odds to make College Football Playoff in 2025-26 SATURDAYBLITZ.COM Odds have been released for teams’ chances to make the 2025-2026 College Football Playoff. Similar to last year, this season's bracket will feature 12 teams, in Ohio State, OBD, and Penn State are odds-on to make the PO. OBD at -260 means you have to put up $260 to win $100, plus the $260 wagered back.

QUACK! This positive take on the House settlement being favorable for Oregon applies, per John Wilner of The Wilner Hotline ($ wall), to the B1G in general. NIL is not going away. Wilner cites the B1G number of living alumni dwarfing the ACC, B12, and SEC alums, and the corresponding close to a certainty that the B1G will bring in more media revenue, as is the case today, when media deals are renewed in the early 2030s. That B1G media revenue comes from three traditional media companies and not ESPN, with more cords being cut than network TV, is also a plus. The House settlement terms exempt NIL deals with public companies from NIL Go oversight. Many more public companies are located in the B1G footprint headquarters than is the case with the SEC, ACC, and B12. B1G graduates lead the Power 4 in CEOs and Board Members of Fortune 500 and other public companies. College athletics today are big business, and the B1G conference has the biggest business impact. What the NCAA house settlement means for Oregon Football DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM The NCAA house settlement will bring widespread change to college football, but the Oregon Ducks stand to benefit.

AP coverage of the Title IX-based appeal to the settlement. Female athletes appeal landmark NCAA settlement, saying it violates federal antidiscrimination law APNEWS.COM Eight female athletes have filed an appeal of a landmark NCAA antitrust settlement. They argue that women would not receive their fair share of $2.7 billion in back pay for athletes who were barred...

Point well made. Do you feel the same regarding the PGA male golfers earning far more in prize money than the LPGA female golfers? Women pro golfers play 3 rounds to determine a winner instead of the PGA's four rounds, and draw on average 930,000 viewers compared to the PGA's 2.2 million viewers. Should the LPGA money be the same? The marketplace says: "No." Close to 80% more viewers watch Men's Major events compared to the women's Majors. Why would sponsors put up the money to reward women golfers the same as male golfers? 'But Title IX does not apply to pro sports; it does apply to college sports.' I agree. Because a school accepts federal funding, it's only fair and equitable that athletes who earn no money for the school be paid the same as athletes who produce the revenue that is being shared? This is certainly not the case in the capitalistic business world and and college sports are big business. In a business sense, Title IX is a relic of an amateur athletic system that no longer exists. Title IX has been a boon to women's sports, and it's terrific to see women receiving college scholarships and the appropriate stipends. However, it was not fair and equitable from the inception of Title IX to include football scholarships in the fairness calculus when there is no comparable women's sport. It was not fair to men that men's teams were cut to make women's sports equal to men's sports. $20.5 million is the year one House settlement direct payment cap. Allocate 50% to women's sports, and the result will be a significant reduction in men's and women's sports teams. No big-time athletic program has budgeted revenue sharing in the same dollar amounts to non-revenue sports as distributed to revenue-making sports. Baseball players will not receive the same revenue slice as football and male basketball players. If you distribute the revenue equally, there will be a drop in Men's football and basketball talent, lesser merchandise sales, and a reduction in attendance, which will equate to a significant drop in the revenue available to be shared. If we're talking FAIRNESS, revenue should be distributed as earned. This is how the marketplace defines fairness. It will be interesting to see if this Title IX complaint is sustained. If the complaint is found to be meritorious, such a finding will hurry along the coming NFL and NBA Lite.

Some in Congress are trying to help college sports. Congress introduces new bill to provide uniform national guidelines for college sports TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM A proposed bill would create uniform national rules for college athletics that all schools and conferences would be required to follow I don't see congressional relief coming before a collective bargaining agreement is reached between Athletes and Management. School A is directly paying Athlete B. But it's 'Revenue Sharing' and not a salary, but Athlete B is not an employee, right? This is SSDD NCAA semantics designed to thwart what the marketplace has delivered. The IRS does not care whether income arises from NIL deals; it's all income and subject to taxation.

Great post. None recently, but six B1G teams have won NCAA baseball titles. Minnesota has won three and Michigan two. All titles were won before the Beavers won their two titles.

Probably the last season with 12 teams in the PO, but at least seeding is squared away this season if the committee doesn't do something stupid like ranking a G6 team at No. 9. OBD definitely got the shortest end of the seeding stick. Still, I'm happy the Ducks defeated Penn State.

We have seen Bo Nix elevated from a suspect FBS QB to a 1st round draft choice.