Jon Joseph

When Texas plays at A+M on 11/30 if both have one loss and A+M wins, a team that lost to NOTRE DAME and was blown out by South Carolina will play in the SEC Champ game. 😁

Let's Hear It for JJ! 😍 Why isn't the world talking about Oregon's Jordan James? SATURDAYBLITZ.COM The No. 1 Oregon Ducks are soaring high in their first season in the B1G, and their star running back Jordan James is a huge part of it. With the Ducks having t

Hopefully, OBD will play Bama in the Rose Bowl one day soon. I want the B1G titles and Byes!😍

Danno has repeatedly said that he wants his boys to graduate from the same high school and that his cancer-survivor spouse has been moved enough. He just earned a $9M+ bonus. How much more money will he earn trying to motivate seasoned professionals? He's not Chipper. He does not hate to recruit, he relishes the game and has terrific support from Division Street. Not dumping on the post but on the author. Can't we escape idle speculation during the season? We have more than enough of this clickbait stuff in the too-long off-season. How about letting the guy win a Natty before speculating on his leaving Eugene? PLEASE!

Far from the only thing Barry squeezed the last drops out of. 😁

Recall that if the House settlement goes through teams will have to come up with $20M next season and year after year. I do not think FSU fans with their team in a conference it is trying to escape for better media money will come with $70M. Norvell just fired his OC and DC. His portal picking last season including DJU was B - A - D! Plus, FSU boosters would also have to cover Prime's buyout. FSU is also a school focusing on academic improvement to try and become an AAU member. This also takes $. FSU is in good company. Florida's college teams went 0-6 on Saturday. 😁 And Mari(o) owns this, right?

The B1G Today is so B1G! I watch it every day. It's the Varsity versus Larry's Little League Network. The Urban Analysis takes are excellent.

Quack! The Film Tells the Tale of an 'Unusual' Win Over the Turtles. Duck Tape: Film Review of Oregon vs Maryland WWW.ADDICTEDTOQUACK.COM Analyzing the Ducks’ curious conquest of the Terrapins

Saturday afternoon for you on the Left Coast which is the right coast for watching sports on TV. It will be dark at 6:30 in Madison, 7:30 on the Wrong Coast. (I have complained to my Congressman about Elder Abuse. He says he can't hear me that well and I should send him money for better hearing aids. 😁) Frack Fickell!

I think Georgia fans would disagree with your premise. Texas has one win vs. a P4 team with a winning record, Vanderbilt. Texas' other win over a team with a winning record came against Colorado State, not CU. No. 12 UGA lost to No. 10 Alabama and No. 11 Ole Miss on the road. Through Week 11 UGA has the No. 1 Strength of Schedule before playing No. 7 Tennessee in Week 12. UGA toyed with Texas in Austin. A -3.5 favorite coming into the game, UGA won 30-15 in a game that was not that close. Today, No. 12 Georgia would be knocked out of the playoff by No. 13 Boise State, and Texas would be seeded second. Why? SSDD. Texas has One Loss, and UGA has Two Losses. THIS is exactly what Greg Sankey and Tony Petitti were concerned about with this format and humans making subjective decisions without disclosing the tools used in making the decisions. Tony can breathe easy with Four B1G teams in the top five. Although Indiana is probably on the cusp depending on how performs in Columbus a week from this Saturday. Greg will have a more than respectable two-loss, not three-loss, SEC team, not Mizzou and LSU which are ranked only because the Committee needs to fill in the 25 spots, most likely left out. Even a three-loss Georgia would have played a far better strength of schedule than playoff teams with fewer losses. Left out in favor of Notre Dame with a home loss to a G5 team, one of four G5 teams on its schedule, and a Bye on conference champ Saturday. The Domers' annual ACC sacrificial lambs conclude with a game vs. UVA on Saturday. Left out in favor of likely 3 or 4-seed BYU, a team that was lucky, lucky, lucky to get a one-point win over Utah on Saturday which moved BYU up three spots? IMO, a 3-seed or 4-seed BYU will be waxed by the 5th or 6th-seed in the Fiesta Bowl. Miami? Georgia played and blew out ACC Clemson and is favored by two TDs over Georgia Tech. SMU? Lost at home to BYU. I have much respect for Georgia and Coach Smart but if a two-loss, forget about 3-loss Georgia, is left out I will be happy for one reason. This kind of snub will be close to guaranteeing that we have a more reasonable playoff format come 2026. Great post, thanks. College Football Playoff Rankings reactions: Texas overrated, Georgia underrated in second top 25 - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM A couple of major losses caused a major shakeup in this week's rankings

Not that I want to be 'fair' to the SEC, but not all schedules are alike. No. 12 Georgia - Has played 3 top 25 SEC teams on the road to date with a game Saturday vs. No. 7 Tennessee at home, a team that I think would wax No. 6 BYU. And Georgia played No. 20 Clemson OOC and has a game left vs. a Georgia Tech team which will not be a walk-over. No. 3 Texas has 1 win vs a P4 team, Vanderbilt, and was destroyed by Georgia in Austin. Next best P4 win, vs. 5-5 Michigan. No. 22 LSU and No. 23 Missouri are ranked for lack of a better reason. In a 12 team PO world there is no sense in ranking more than 12 teams plus top ranked P4 conference champs and a G5 representative not in the top 12. For ESPN entertainment value perhaps 15 teams should be ranked? Giving Miami credit for defeating 6-3 Louisville. Giving Notre Dame credit for defeating 6-3 Louisville? WHY? As I have opined before, probably ad nauseum, we will not see 'THIS' come 2026. (If I'm around to see it? 😁) Bring The Wrecking Ball to Camp Randall!

JUST WIN BABY! It's Week 12 on the way to identifying The Delightful Dozen via a Fool Proof Method! The same method I used with my kids: BECAUSE I SAID SO! Don't you just love subjectivity unexplained? NEXT CASE! 1861 - Governor Alexander Randall provided land in Madison, Wisconsin, the state capital, to be used as a training camp for Union Army soldiers. 60,000 Union soldiers were trained at Camp Randall. An estimated 1,000 Confederate soldiers were held in Camp Randall: the 120 who died there are buried in their own small graveyard in Madison. After the war developers planned to build houses on the land but Civil War veterans strenuously objected to the Camp being converted into homes and prevented the site from being used for development. There is Nothing New Under the Sun. The first stadium constructed on the site in 1914 sat 7,500 fans. Today, Camp Randall, the 5th oldest B1G stadium (Only 5th!), sits 76,118 fanatics and its structure is tested when the fans Jump Around at the end of the 3rd Quarter. 1. The history and tradition of the B1G Ten is No. 1 and that's a fact Jack! 8 - A trip to Mad City and Camp Randall mercifully concludes OBD's 8 P4 games in a row. 3 - Danno who has laid off this season using the whip at the 3rd Quarter Pole, unleashed a 290 pound 'He Won't Bend Burch Behemoth' against a bunch of shell-shocked Turtles. 179 - An O-line back up, Gernorris Wilson, caught the TD pass that put Gabe at the top of the all-time college QBs total TD heap. Hats off to Gabriel Dillon. Son, blow your horn. 2 - Point conversion. Why not call on OT John Connerly, Jr. to blast the ball into the end zone. 7 of 8 - THIS Kind of Stuff Makes Football FUN in the grind of being the only P4 team in 2024 to play 8 games is row without a break. With opponent 7 and 8 coming off an Off Week. 😒 12/9/24 - Trip to NYC? Book It Danno! Will it be Roses the day before on 12/8? 6 Out of 10 - Show Up Effort versus the Terps. IT Happens. But it was Never in Doubt. I did not show up at work every day at a Perfect 10. Have any of us ever done so? OK, maybe Charles? A Week 12 P4 Conference Championship Game Guess. The P4 champ games will be played on 12/7 - The day before College Football's 12/8/2024 Committee Final Reveal Day of Infamy. A Guess at the P4 Champ Games. ACC - No. 9 Miami 😁vs. No. 14 SMU - My Cristo Ball says: Et Tu SMU? Mario - 'We will learn so much from this!" B12 - The No. 17 Prime Time's vs the No. 6 Who Knew, BYU. Preseason Polls had these two scooping up Ralphie and Cougar scat. SEC - THIS is a WAG. In 2024, no conference has beaten the whey out of itself like the SEC. And with the disparate SEC in-conference strength-of-schedules at least one two-loss SEC team will feel the pain on 12/8/24. No. 10. Alabama vs No. 15 Texas A+M - THIS means that A+M defeats a Texas team that was trashed by UGA. A Texas team with 1 win over a Power 4 team, Vanderbilt. (Vanderbilt😒) Indiana has played No One but Texas? B1G - OBD vs Ohio State - Ducks win in the 2nd of 3 matchups in The Battle of the Os in 2024/25. See you Brutus in the Cotton or Orange Bowl. Streaks - Good and Bad - 124 - Miami's Penalty Ranking before the loss at Georgia Tech. 271 - rushing yards given up by the Canes MIA D vs. Georgia Tech. Null Set - How does a coach go from burying talented QBs to handing the keys to a talented QB while continuing to play down to the comp and asking The Guy to put his uni on in a phone booth? 126 - Years before Indiana won 10 games in a season. The cherry on top? The Football Hoosiers are 10-0. Cigs all around! 2016 - Last time Nebraska went bowling. $10 Million - Paid to a guy who may not go bowling this season. 😒 1. Mighty Man of Oregon - A guy who played ball for OBD and was a College Football and NFL winning coach and a heck of a guy. RIP - John Robinson. Brutalize the Badgers!

Based on the BCS and 4-team playoff, the SEC which dominated CFB, is not out of line wanting 4 spots at least and the B1G, looking at conference participants in the same period of time, is not out of line demanding 3 or 4 spots. Notre Dame with 12-game no champ game schedule screws things up. Play 4 G5 teams? No problem. Half-ACC'd and miss Clemson, Pitt, Miami, and SMU, no problem. The B12 and ACC champs will play chumps compared to the SEC and the B1G. We have to put up with 'THIS' Abomination for this and next season. Then, the Power 2 will define the format.

SSDD - It does not matter the quality of the teams you played; it matters how many losses are in your way. 2 Loss UGA is 9 spots behind a Texas team the Dawgs defeated in Austin 30-15, and it wasn't that close. Strength of Schedule - Georgia is at or near No. 1. Texas has defeated 2 teams with winning records, Colorado State and Vanderbilt. This ranking says, "We value wins and losses and not the quality of teams you played." Yes, Texas beat a Brand Name OOC, 5-5 Michigan. This erases an embarrassing home loss to Georgia. 30-15 UGA and Kirby called off the Dawgs. No wonder that Greg Sankey and Tony Petitti will demand a different format in 2026. I was hoping against hope and hoping got the H kicked out of it.

A Texas team that could be ranked 2nd by the Committee tonight has one win against a P4 team with a winning record, Vanderbilt. The Horns next best win, over 5-5 Michigan. Georgia has played 4 teams currently ranked by the Committee, 3 of the games on the road and is 2-2. This includes destroying Texas in Athens. Next up for UGA, a top 10 Tennessee team. Should Texas be ranked above Georgia because it has one and not two losses? Does Sark deserve COY over Cig? A subjectively determined PO will screw a few teams over year after year. At least the Basketball Committee reveals the metrics it uses along with the rankings and folks are still ticked off over Team 68 being in over Team 69? 2026 will see automatic qualifers from the B1G and the SEC and 14 to 16 teams. If it's 14 the two top ranked teams will have a 1st round bye like we see in the NFL. Seedings will match rankings.

OBD Brothers and Sisters, Can I Get an AMEN! I understand folks questioning Indiana's schedule but Texas has defeated one team, Vanderbilt, with a winning record. It's next best win is against 5-5 Michigan. Georgia, Texas and the folly of ranking teams by number of losses WWW.NYTIMES.COM Georgia should arguably be ranked above Texas given the Dawgs' stacked resume.

This is one of the reasons FOX is behind ABC/ESPN in 2024 CFB viewer numbers. Indiana-Ohio State showdown deserves better than its early kickoff WWW.YARDBARKER.COM When Indiana plays Ohio State in two weeks, it will be the weekend's marquee game. So, why is it being treated like a matinee? This Saturday instead of showing Oregon at Wisconsin, FOX will broadcast Utah at Colorado kicking off at 10 AM Mountain time. And CBS is also making strange broadcast decisions. This Saturday, CBS will broadcast Penn State at Purdue at 3:30/12:30 instead of Oregon vs Wisconsin that will be broadcast at 7:30/4:30. Perhaps CBS could not show 3 OBD games in a row but FOX certainly could have shown Oregon at Wisconsin at B1G Noon, kicking off at 11 AM Central instead of opting for a B12 game. OBD's viwership numbers are up in 2024 but they could be improved with better broadcast decisions by FOX, CBS, NBC, Peacock, and BTN. Why FOX insisted on owning the B1G Noon broadcast window instead of swapping times with CBS and NBC is baffling. Penn State's White Out game featured UWho instead of Ohio State and was shown on Peacock. I get that the B1G took the money but why would the B1G's broadcast partners not want to have the most viewers possible and the best ROI? I hope that come 2031, the B1G will have more influence in regard to broadcast dates and times. A White Out versus UWho on The Bird = A Comparative Blackout Compared to a Broadcast on CBS, FOX, or NBC at 7:30 Eastern.

Well Deserved Kudos from Trojans Wire. John Robinson, dead at 89, made an extraordinary contribution to USC TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM John Robinson won big. He won a lot of Rose Bowls. He was a great USC head football coach for all the obvious reasons. His legacy, though, is even more specific.

RIP Coach and Duck, John Robinson Oregon mourns the passing of former player, coach, and Hall of Famer John Robinson AUTZENZOO.COM John Robinson was a tight end on the Oregon football team before he eventually got his first-ever coaching gig with the Ducks.

Bobby Orr erases the Stanley Cup Blues for Olde Towne folk with the game winner vs. the Saint Louis Blues. How sweet it was! 😍

Nice article, eh? But only Hosers play Volleyball, no fights, no penalty box, chiclets intact, and a ball bigger than Rhode Island instead of manning it up and strapping on sharpened blades. And the gals who aim at a tiny net instead of bouncing the big ball over a net the size of Alaska, aren't Rinky-dinky either, eh? It's too bad you grew up in a tropical paradise like Eugene, and missed out on the Game of Cement-Heads, eh? If the real game of ice hockey was four periods long, the games would last one hour and twenty minutes (I'm good at math, eh? 😁) and the Zamboni (that's a machine not a sub sandwich) would run out of gas, eh? Was it the Miracle on a Volleyball Court or the Miracle on Ice, eh? SERIOUSLY, another terrific and fun read. I think there could be some rope-a-dope going on here. Dan knows how important the Middle 8, 4 minutes before the 2nd half and 4the first 4 minutes of the 3rd quarter, are in a football game. He also knows this will be the longest CFB season ever and that he is playing in a conference where most teams are not built to come back from a two-score deficit. In a conference with fewer possessions on offense and with clock rules that have shortened the game. Puddles, we're not in the Pac-12 anymore. 😁 In its 8 wins, Ohio State has given up 64 points. Against Ohio State, OBD put up 32 points. And in your excellent article, you noted that OBD did not play Portland State, instead swapping the Vikings for a top FCS program in Idaho and a 3-point grind it out, thank you special teams, win over Boise has turned out to be a good win. Against Ohio State, Oregon unleashed what Charles refers to as 'Bird Bombs' against a highly touted group of DBs to great effect. OBD lost the 1st Q 6-7 and the 3rd Q 0-7 validating your point. But this came against a team that surrendered no TDs in the last two games against ranked Penn State and bottom feeder Purdue. I am hoping that OBD will have all hands-on deck for the possible deep run in the playoff. However, I think we will see the same strategy if OBD gets the lead of burning time off the clock instead of trying to light up the scoreboard. Thanks again, great take. I'm off to pound down a Molson's, eh.

Where Do They Find These Guys? Indiana plays Ohio State on 11/23, not this Saturday. This Saturday Indiana is off and Ohio State plays Northwestern in Wrigley Field. And No. 1 Oregon would play in the Rose Bowl Not The Sugar Bowl where Texas would play. Even if the top seeded teams had their choice of 2nd round bowl sites, why would No. 1 Oregon opt to play in New Orleans instead of in Pasadena. This is not a secret, the PO Poobahs have explicitly stated: B1G to the Rose; SEC to the Sugar; ACC to the Peach; B12 or G5 rep if seeded 4th, to the Fiesta. I hope that experiencing puberty will not be too B1G of a shock for Ethan (Perhaps He's) Stone(d)? Big Ten bowl projections after Week 11: Does an 11-1 Indiana make the Playoff? SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Big Ten bowl projections following an eventful Week 11. Enquiring minds want to know: Would Mr. FishDuck allow Ethan to volunteer to write for the Forum? Is this guy being paid by Saturday Tradition? Bag the Badgers!

Scoop Duck Writers Split on Ducks at Wisconsin 2 See an Easy W - 2 Think OBD Struggles ScoopDuck Roundtable: Surprise Storyline vs Wisconsin - On3 WWW.ON3.COM Oregon heads to a hostile environment in Wisconsin on Saturday and here are the storylines we are predicting.

B1G Week 12 Storylines - Can the Badgers 'Stifle' OBD? B1G storylines for Week 12: Can the Badgers stifle the top-ranked Ducks? SATURDAYTRADITION.COM The B1G has 4 teams ranked in the top 5 of the AP poll. Can they keep it going in Week 12? We examine the biggest storylines. In the words of Archie Bunker: Stifel It, Meatheads! A/K/A - How About NO! Bury Bucky!

Great take. I prefer a Bye until the Rose Bowl on 1/1/25 rather than having to play a physical quarter-final game vs a Boise team that will come in confident after a last play 3 point loss in Autzen. More time for Tez, Marcus and other dinged-up Ducks to get healthy. OBD does not defeat Boise without TJ's punt return.