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Dabo opened himself up for criticism by saying in the preseason that he believed his team had the talent to go 16-0. Three things I disagreed with the most from the preseason 'expert' nationwide nattering nabobs.😁 1. Archie Manning will win the Heisman Trophy. 2. Texas will win it all. 3. Clemson, with stud players everywhere, will roll through its schedule. Archie came into the season having never started a game on the road and unable to beat out a 7th-round draft pick before this season. The Texas O-line and receiving corps were wiped out. Sark won a conference title in the B12 with a superior roster (defeating OK State in the conference champ game), but other than this accomplishment? With road games at Florida, Georgia, and what looked to be an improved Oklahoma team in Dallas, the degree of SEC schedule difficulty ramped up from 2024. As of today, road games at Kentucky and even Mississippi State will not be layups. Ditto for Arkansas, Vanderbilt, and A&M at home. All of the highly touted Clemson players on D were on the 2024 team that was lit up by SMU and Texas and lost to Louisville and South Carolina at home. In the 2024-25 PO, Cade Klubnik played a very good game at Texas, but the rest of his stats were padded by his play against the weaker teams on the schedule. This season's 2024 Florida State? Clemson and Texas are in the running.

Cover Me! (No injuries, please.)

Gat, take down Mari-oh-oh Saturday, please! 😍 Hopefully, with GameDay in town, Miami goes down to your Gators and then to the Seminoles in Tallahassee on 10/4. And on 10/4, Florida Swamps Texas and puts another nail in the Arch Madness coffin. When in the heck will the Gators play a half-decent team? 😁

B1G Time! https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/b1g-time-bryce-underwood-vs-dylan-raiola-hogs-spotlight-as-illinois-indiana-vie-for-cfp-positioning/?eid=c7d8647c6247db8d08c59fe44bc30380a147aa90b9e33099045cd46ddc6a485b&ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0b&ET_CID=475875&ET_RID=524827

These FanDuel 'rankings' are bullish on the B1G. An airhead biffs her AP Top 25 vote? No B1G deal. The 'bookies votes' mean $ in one direction or the other. 🤑 Victory Bell RingsBig Ten dominates CFP championship FanDuel odds after Week 3After Week 3, No. 1 Ohio State, No. 2 Penn State, and No. 6 Oregon lead the list for most likely to win the College Football Playoff Championship Game. Per Fan

Keep your Bruin paws off of OBD's Stein! https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2025/09/16/realistic-coaching-candidates-ucla-football-coaching-job/86179403007/?utm_source=smg-trojanswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campai

Week 4. B1G games and Big Games. AP NewsCollege football Week 4: Conference matchups in spotlight...The college football season has reached the point where conference play starts taking center stage. All three Top 25 matchups Saturday are conference games with intriguing storylines.

Bob, simply fantastic! Further proof that 89 is the new 50. I love the blasts from the past. 'Looked up phone numbers.' Younger OBDers, the numbers were found in a book, not on a handheld computer. 'Prepared maps.' To accomplish this, you needed to examine printed materials and write down the directions using something referred to as a pen or pencil on something called 'paper.' If you got lost, the paper most definitely did not speak to you to get you back on track. I'm guessing here, but I imagine there was less traffic, coming and going, on what is referred to today as the I-5. 'Coats and ties.' Huh? 'Pay phone.' Huh? '1957 Open.' I'm on the verge of becoming a mere octogenarian, and I'm pretty sure you could kick my 'young' butt on the golf course.😁 No Amber Alert? No police dragnet? No disgruntled families, 'victims,' or editors-in-chief. And college authorities with a sense of humor? Who knew? Thank you, Sir, can we have another?

All great and interesting comments. With a win at the game's end, let them wear whatever. What are the Forum Fanatics attending the game wearing? Camouflage? It's 5000 of OBD vs. 101,000 of them, and I like the odds 😍. Allar's been Allar, and James been small ball James, since I don't know when. Meanwhile, bash the instigators of faux treachery, the cesspool of avarice, the charioteer of reverse hypocrisy, the receptacle of malice, the disseminator of hatred, the fabricator of lies, the artful backbiter notorious for deception, and Pelt the Beavers! Take No Prisoners! Salt the Corvallis Earth! Let the Civil War see no further birth.

Some more love for Mr. Mixon. 👍👌😎 https://athlonsports.com/college-football/new-oregon-starter-ranks-as-nations-top-graded-linebacker

College Football News - OBD 47 - Beavis 10 - Oregon covers -35.5! https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/oregon-vs-oregon-state-prediction-preview-2025

Week 4 - 10 games with possible PO impact. Saturday BlitzThe 10 most fascinating games on the College Football Wee...Week 4 of the College Football season has arrived, and while it doesn't have as many high caliber matchups as Week 3, this should be another exciting weekend. T

Without Golden, the Golden Domers' D has turned to Ash. 😁Notre Dame now has to cheer on for old SC! 🤬 Trojans are Grin(ch)ing. 😍 https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/trojans/football/2025/09/15/chris-ash-notre-dame-football-alex-grinch-usc/86164827007/?utm_source=smg-trojanswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGbaseline&utm_t

Mad about Manning? How about mad at Manning? On3WATCH: Texas fans boo Arch Manning, Longhorns amid sluggi.... Multi-millionaire players are not 'student-athletes' and will be subjected to boos, especially when preseason rankings and Heisman odds have no clue. 🤪 Boo Hoo. 🤬

On3's Ari Wasseman's Review of Week 3. Ari is one of many writers formerly with The Athletic who have jumped ship and are on board On3. How about Arch Madness coming about with Texas fans mad at and booing Archie? On3Unfiltered Takes after Week 3: Arch Manning, DJ Lagway, T...There is a lot to keep up with on a college football Saturday. Here are some takes to keep you up with what happened over the weekend.

SC is ranked 25th in the current AP Poll. SC should take care of business at home Saturday against Michigan State. Then the Trojans play at Illinois, bye, host Michigan, and then play ND on the road. ND will be rooting for Illinois to win at Indiana on Saturday. This Saturday, Notre Dame hosts (and likely hoists) Purdue, plays at Arkansas against a prolific Hogs O, hosts a now off-the-radar Boise State, has a week off, and then hosts SC. SC is not happy with the timing of ND's 2nd bye week, and is not happy that, in addition to traveling to South Bend, it also travels to Illinois, Nebraska, and Northwestern. 2026 is the last game scheduled in the long-running series. ND makes more money from NBC with SC on its schedule. The SC series helps ND recruit So-Cal. Games played in South Bend are but one game where SC has to travel East. SC decides to cancel ND, and I would understand, and I also believe that the cancellation would not shake the very foundation of CFB.

I have no beef with Freeman. I have a beef with Georgia and Penn State having played one more game, against an excellent opponent, than Notre Dame last season, and that ND played four G5 opponents in 2024. I also have a beef with an AD having the same voting power as a conference commissioner, at least the Power 2 commissioners. Chris Ash is not doing the job as Al Golden's replacement at DC.

Great take. It's hard to win football games. The 100% accomplishment vs. NW, there were no penalties called on OBD.

Bill Connolly's model is MAD about, not at, the Ducks! ESPN.comRanking CFB's 39 unbeaten teams: Who is most likely to st...Bill Connelly separates the contenders from the pretenders among the remaining undefeated teams.

The Athletic's Bruce Feldman rates the candidates for the UCLA job in this order - USC DC - D'Anton Lynn - 2nd-highest-paid assistant coach in the country behind Jim Knowles. Penn State grad. Lynn was contacted by PSU for the DC job before Lynn was hired. Baylor HC - Dave Aranda - LA guy. Kelani Satke - HC BYU Tosh Lupoi - OBD DC FSU DC and UCLA grad Tony White. Browns OC Tommy Rees New Mexico HC- Jason Eck Rivals has UCLA ranked 49th in recruiting.

One thing I do know, I'd love to be Pat Fitzgerald's agent. 🤑Pat has to be on the Wisconsin AD's speed dial. AD train wreck, Dan Guerrero, put UCLA athletics in the deep red. Jim Mora never should have been fired. What bona fide coach would want to coach football in Westwood? Basketball, yes. But football. Brent Pry was a graduate assistant at VA Tech before serving as James Franklin's DC at Penn State from 2016 through 2021. Could Michael Vick return to his alma mater? How about a return home for South Carolina coach Shane Beamer? Vandy beat up the Gamecocks yesterday, but the damage was done after QB Sellers left with a concussion. Beamer's done a very good job at USC(e), including on the recruiting front, but the Gamecocks' next SEC title will be the first. At VA Tech, Shane played on 3 teams that won Big East Conference championships.

Week 3 AP Poll - 11 SEC teams ranked. Last week, Michigan lost at Oklahoma and dropped nine spots. Yesterday, Tennessee lost at home and dropped 0 spots. 0-2 Notre Dame is still in the top 25. 12-team playoff sees 11 Oklahoma and 13 Ole Miss as the teams knocked out by 12 Iowa State and 32 Tulane. Greg Sankey's response: 🤬🤬🤬 No. 6 seed OBD would host No. 11 Iowa State in the 1st round. Win and it's LSU in the Sugar Bowl. 😧 AP NewsNCAA College Football Rankings: AP Top 25 Football PollThe official page for the AP Top 25 college football poll, a tradition since 1936. Keep up to date and view the latest ranking updates each week.

Many of the highly preseason-touted QBs in Dixie have failed to play as advertised. Cade Klubnik, Archie, Lagway threw 5 picks yesterday 😧, even LSU's Nussmeier has not played to the level expected preseason. Gunnar Stockton came threw 😁 yesterday with a late and great TD throw and a toss for a 2-point conversion. Ditto Marcel Reed. And how about Ole Miss backup QB Trinidad Chambliss, who transferred in from Ferris State and won a shootout against Boise State transfer Taylen Green and Arkansas. 0-2 Notre Dame's trip to Arkansas could be the nail in the Irish PO coffin. Other than at LSU, is there a D in the SEC?

UCLA paid the New Mexico Lobos $1,250,000.00 to visit the Rose Bowl and Win the Day in LA. The official attendance was reported as 31,123. Folks on hand say that the 'real attendance' was less than half of the official attendance. Rumor has it that most of Nico's family decided not to attend. 😉

I hope BTN announcers show up in Autzen to do a live broadcast and not an off-screen broadcast from Chicago. How's Rico paying off? At 0-2, with losses to UNLV and New Mexico, the far from frosty Foster's have moved into the Mountain West basement. The basement is located in Cheyenne Mountain, where the Bruins' D is probably safe from being bombed. 😁 UCLA is checking with Cal to see if the Golden Bears will accept an We O U?