Jon Joseph

"Hugely" (🤪) Pivotal Season for PSU? Can/Will James Franklin win the B1G Games vs. The Os? Home vs. OBD and on the road vs. TOSU. Why Penn State faces hugely pivotal 2025 season WWW.YARDBARKER.COM Penn State, which hasn’t held the No. 1 spot in any poll this century, is already in the white-hot spotlight this offseason. I think PSU will be 3-0 after these 'Hugely' Heinous OOC games. Nevada (not UNLV), Florida International (not Florida), and Villanova (in Football, not Basketball.) 🤮

He's in the mix. Oregon Ducks Coach Identified as Front-Runner for Ohio State Defensive Coordinator Job WWW.YARDBARKER.COM The Ohio State Buckeyes got some unfortunate news on Sunday afternoon, with it being made official that defensive coordinator Jim Knowles was leaving Columbus

The Empire🥵 Strikes Back. On behalf of SEC football fans enough with the 'Big Ten owns college football' mania BAMAHAMMER.COM On behalf of SEC football fans, pushback is needed about the Big Ten owning college football. Granted the Michigan Wolverines and the Ohio State Buckeyes have w

How about this stat? The Chiefs have won 17 one-score games in a row! In the NFL!

Dawgs would have challenged Michigan, no doubt. After all, Bama took Michigan into OT. But Beck? Does he have the chops to win on the biggest stage? Bennett was a leader; Beck? I think Miami fans are going to be disappointed. (What a shame 😁.) With a run game suffering from injury and without Bowers and McConkey, Beck struggled. He threw the most picks in the SEC in a season when quarterback play in the conference was sub-par. Tough game in the opener against Notre Dame and the 4th game vs. Florida. Will Miami have more fans at these games than the Domers and the Gators? And Week 3 versus USF is not a sure win. The Canes again miss Clemson. Miami plays Louisville and Syracuse and plays away games vs, Florida State, Pitt, and SMU. And we know that in the biggest games, Mario has perfected the art of coming up small.

Maytayo's sack and fumble recovery in Madison.

Great take, Gat. But after seeing what Day and his family went through, who would want to coach in Columbus? Urban Meyer has noted on several occasions that coaching in Columbus is as pressure-packed as coaching in the SEC.

DeBoer. Nice work vs the top 10 at the time, but about Oklahoma and Vandy? 😜 And this year's Michigan team? 7-5 missing key players and DeBore lost back-to-back games to the Wolverines. Michigan in the 2024 PO is a top-10 loss. Tennessee may not have been in the top 10 when the Vols defeated Bama this season but finished ranked No. 7 by the Committee. Until the Committee's final vote, you may have played an INTERIM top-10 team but so what? In the first game of the 2024 season, Georgia Tech defeated FSU. In retrospect was this a top 10 win?

With Miami signing a Wisconsin player with an NIL agreement and not in the portal are there any restrictions? The portal opens for a change in HC but not in the case of position coaches. But I imagine position coaches might encourage 'their guys' to enter the portal in the spring and follow along. All of this 'stuff' further monetizes the game and will lead to a Super Conference. With the B1G and the SEC making nice and Fox and ESPN teaming up on the o-date anti-trust challenged Venu, consolidation could happen before the early 2030s. How many teams outside of the Power 2 are 'must have?'

Wow! Penn State DC Tom Allen to Clemson. Minnesota DC Corey Heatherman to Miami. Ohio State DC Jim Knowles to Penn State. I wonder how Tpm Allen feels leaving PSU for more $ and Knowles getting $3M? Knowles will have plenty of talent on the D-side of the ball at Penn State. Interesting that Ohio State came with large to keep draft-eligible juniors on board and bring in key additions but did not step up to match the PCU offer. Meanwhile, TOSH?

Ranking the B1G Football Teams Heading Into 2025. You can't spell Purdue without a PU. 🦨 Big Ten football program power rankings entering 2025 season BADGERSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Power ranking all 18 Big Ten football programs after the 2024 season

The Pac-4 B1G Newbies Have One More Season of Subsidizing the Pac-Whatever 😴 Before Moving into the B1G Bowl Game Rota. Hell of a "Settlement." 💩 College Football Bowl Ties, Affiliations For Each Conference 2025-2026 - College Football News | College Football Predictions, Analysis and Updates

A fourteen-team playoff in 2024-25. Scenario No. 1 would have been just Ducky. What a 14-team College Football Playoff would have looked like in 2024, assuming new proposals take effect - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Roadmapping the four different first rounds a proposed 14-team CFP would have yielded Unfortunately, with the Sun Belt, Mountain West, and the Pac-Whatever having a Veto, we'll see the same stuff next season with the possibility of the No. 1 seed being hosed over yet again. The only reason for ACC, B12, the G6, and Notre Dame to agree to a change in the format next season is the potential for the Power Two to turn the PO into a B1G/SEC World Series starting in 2026. How far would OBD have advanced if Oregon lost to Penn State in Indianapolis, and instead of playing No. 8 seed (😧) Ohio State in the Rose Bowl, played SMU in Autzen and Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl? The No. 7 and No. 8 seeds played for the title. This would be huge news in the CBB tournament but drew crickets in the CFB PO because scribes, fans, Greg Sankey, and other cretins knew that the format was bogus. 🦨

True Frosh Who Might and Hopefully Will, Help the Cause in 2025. Predicting which true freshmen Oregon Ducks will contribute in 2025 DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Predicting which true freshmen on the roster in Eugene will contribute for the Oregon Ducks in the 2025 college football season.

Based on variances in The Sporting News Composite Rankings, Alabama, BYU, Illinois, LSU, and Miami 😁 are 2025's Boom or Bust Teams. Alabama, LSU, Miami lead college football's boom-or-bust teams in 2025 WWW.SPORTINGNEWS.COM Opinions vary widely on Alabama, LSU, Miami, Illinois and BYU when it comes to the Way-Too-Early Top 25 projections.

2025 Preseason Top 25 Composite Rankings. Composite college football top 25 rankings for 2025: Texas, Ohio State lead Way-Too-Early lists WWW.SPORTINGNEWS.COM The Arch Manning effect is real. Six B1G teams are in the composite top 25. 2. Ohio State/ 3. Penn State (as of now, OBD is a 3.5 favorite at Penn State) / 6. OREGON/ 14. Illinois/ 19. Michigan/ 21. Indiana.

The B1G has lost DCs at Minnesota, now at Miami, and Penn State, now at Clemson. Is Ohio State's Jim Knowles the next DC to depart? Jim Knowles situation reportedly ‘complicated’ amidst departure rumors SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Jim Knowles could be on the outs at Ohio State, with a couple of destinations already being rumored as fits for the defensive coordinator. Ohio State wants to keep Knowles in Columbus. Ohio State football offers Jim Knowles extension that would make him highest-paid DC SPORTS.YAHOO.COM Ohio State has made Jim Knowles a contract extension offer that would make him the highest-paid defensive coordinator.

Will We See a B1G 3-Peat? Don't Count Out OBD, TOSU, PSU, and maybe Illinois. 10 critical questions as the B1G seeks a 3-peat in 2025 SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Ohio State is still celebrating the 2024 national championship, but it's never too early to start looking ahead at the key questions for 2025. I like the Photo. QUACK!

I've Got a Whale of a Tale to Tell You Boys. Oregon Football Recruiting: Ducks Try to Blow Up Another Whale in Brandon Arrington Chase - Athlon Sports

2025 Biggest Games for B1G + Other Teams in CBS' Top 25. One game each team in way-too-early Top 25 rankings has circled ahead of 2025 college football season - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The 2025 college football season is full of great matchups of the inter- and intra-conference variety. No surprise that the Ducks game at Penn State on 9/27/25 is the most anticipated 2025 game. [What in Hades is MIA doing at No. 3? 🤮]

In 2026 the Power 2 Will Structure a New Playoff Format. Sources: SEC, Big Ten to hold second AD meeting to explore CFP format changes and more SPORTS.YAHOO.COM Is a 14-team College Football Playoff with multi-automatic qualifiers per league possible? The 'association' between the two conferences is logical and necessary for a billion-dollar industry without a CEO. Financially the B1G and the SEC will continue to distance themselves from the ACC, B12, and the G5.

Come 2026 will the SEC eliminate the conference champ game and could the B1G follow suit? 2025 SEC Championship Game could be the league's last BAMAHAMMER.COM It may not be probable, but it is possible that the SEC Championship Game will not exist in 2026. There are multiple intertwined reasons why. The main one is th Dropping champ games in a 12-team PO era makes sense; however, media partners will have to agree to drop games that draw many viewers in the SEC and the B1G. With Flex Scheduling, a champion game could be played at the end of the regular season, with the top-ranked team hosting the second-ranked team. But in the B1G and the SEC the top two teams are in the playoff. Why play a game that will lower the seed of the losing team? If Penn State and Texas had made it to the PO championship game, it would have been their 17th game. Playing a 16th game was tough enough. Notre Dame had a lot of guys out with injury and Ohio State had another starting O-line combination.

Here comes a flock of young Ducks. QUACK! Predicting which underclassmen Oregon Ducks will breakout in 2025 DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Predicting when sophomores on the roster in Eugene will break out for the Oregon Ducks in the 2025 college football season.

Top 6 or 7? This season, yes. Ten deep as of today, I hand it to the SEC and this is where the B1G needs to make up ground. On the other hand, in a season when it just meant more to South Carolina, Vandy, and Florida in the back half, should it not have meant more to SEC-SEC-SEC fans? And therein lies the rub. SEC fans loved to stock-car draft behind The Tide and other top teams but with more balanced coaching and talent levels does it still Mean More when it means more to "lesser" SEC teams? From a mile away you could see that 2024 SEC schedules for some unfathomable reason were weighted against SEC upper-crust teams, Bama and Georgia, and in favor of newbie Texas, Ole Miss, and Missouri. And other than a change in venues, the SEC is doing the same in 2025. And expecting a different result? 🤪 Not only has the B1G closed the gap but Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick Tony Petitti has closed the most powerful commissioner in the sport gap. When it comes to media revenue, the B1G is in the lead and will not surrender the lead. And on the field it is, no doubt, tightening up.

On the current state of things Other Hand: College football rankings: Ohio State is No. 1 as three Big Ten teams land in top five of final CBS Sports 134 - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Ohio State, Oregon and Penn State all ranked in the top five of our final FBS-wide rankings for 2024-25