Jon Joseph

UW has the 2nd-longest home win streak behind Georgia. UW has won 20 consecutive games in Husky Stadium. Before OBD arrives for the last regular season game in 2025, to continue the streak, UW will have to defeat The Ohio State University and a veteran Illinois team.

I hope Mario takes it in the shorts. This will be a landmark case as to whether a contractual agreement can prevent a player from transferring. How often does a team sue over the transfer portal? Wisconsin levies landmark suit against Miami WWW.SPORTINGNEWS.COM The University of Wisconsin is suing Miami (Florida) for poaching a player while Xavier Lucas was under contract with the team. How often does it happen? Never. This is an unprecedented case that... I don't want to hear any, 'He's just a kid BS.' The player and his representatives knew what was being agreed to. There is no excuse for Mario and Miami to interfere with the contract. How would Mario and Miami like the flip side? But it's Uncle Phil going all out to buy a Natty, right? 🤔 This is going to be B1G. Here's a more detailed report from Yahoo. The Big Ten supports this filing. Good luck to the Canes in a Wisconsin courtroom. I expect that, along with a Motion to Dismiss, Miami will move to have the case transferred to federal court. If a contract does not restrict a player's transfer outside of the portal period, then let even more chaos rein in CFB. Including in-season walkouts and perhaps suiting up for an upcoming opponent. Wisconsin files suit against Miami for poaching Xavier Lucas while he was under contract with school SPORTS.YAHOO.COM In a landmark moment in college athletics, one university has filed suit against another over tortious interference, according to documents obtained by Yahoo Sports.

A look at the Hoosiers, coming to Autzen on 10/11/25. https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/indiana-football-preview-2025-hoosiers-season-prediction-win-total-projection-top-players

According to Game on Paper, last season, OBD had the 38th-ranked CFB D. The 2024 Top 10 Ds and their Havoc Rate. (Havoc Rate is the percentage of downs where a defense disrupts the opponent's offense. Sacks, interceptions, fumbles, hurries, deflected balls, turnovers, etc.) 1. Texas - 16.6% 2. Notre Dame - 11.9% 3. Ohio State - 12.5% 4. Tennessee - 15.9% 5. Indiana - 14.9% 6. Penn State - 14.3% 7. James Madison U. - 13.3% 8. Oklahoma - 13.6% 9. SMU - 13.7% 10. Alabama - 12.8% Seven of the Top 10 made the 2024-25 playoffs. In 2025, OBD's D should consider using one of Willie the Shake's Battle Cries - "Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Ducks of War!" - Marc Antony (I know, Marc and his gal pal, Cleopatra, came in second to Agrippa and Octavian and their cry of 'Revenge!'.) Oregon's Havoc Rate last season was 10.8%. Not terrible, but not among the leaders. Of course, the D stats are not adjusted for strength of schedule, an issue with all of college football's statistics. With a close to an all-new starting cast on O, the D with many newbies of its own, will need to step up for OBD to return to the playoffs, instead of visiting Darren's basement. A gloomy, gloomy place. 🥶

Poor Due 😒 From Bill Belichick to Rich Rodriguez: Grading first-year college football coaches' 2025 rosters - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Grading the rosters assembled by new coaches at the Power Four level

A Shoutout From ESPN - Hmmmmmm. Oregon lands No. 1 safety Washington, nephew of Kobe Bryant - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM Four-star prospect Jett Washington, ESPN's No. 1 safety in the 2026 class, announced his commitment to Oregon over Alabama and USC.

Texas State's Boku the Bobcat says: Buzz Off Buddy! We Da Neu Bozzie! 😁

Give it Up 4 WASH! Out of a Legit B1G Time Program, Bishop Gorman! Jett Washington commits to Oregon: Five-star safety, nephew of Kobe Bryant, tops Ducks' 2026 recruiting class - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Washington is the No. 18-ranked prospect in the 2026 college football recruiting class Is CBS finally figuring out that they're a B1G partner? 🧐

Bama Hammer Uses the FPI Strength of Record Stats to Support the SEC's Playing an 8 Game Gauntlet Like No Other!" Big Ten and SEC misperceptions block progress to an expanded CFB Playoff format BAMAHAMMER.COM Negotiations stalled this week on a new CFB Playoff format for 2026 and beyond. The debate goes back years. The words now being used to describe it are stalemat Shocking! 😴

The 5-11 Model is Best for the ACC and B12. Thank goodness CFB has experts like Nicole Auerbach to help us out. 😴 However, Hats Off to the Big 12 for joining the B1G in not supporting the 5-11 format unless the SEC plays 9 conference games. (The ACC and the Pac-8? Who Cares?) 😁 National writer says SEC interest in 5+11 CFP model best for ACC CANESWARNING.COM In an article updating the stalled talks between the Big 10 and SEC regarding college football playoff expansion, Nicole Auerbach of NBC Sports says the 5+11 mo Greg Sankey and the SEC using the ESPN FPI rankings to support its superior strength of schedule isn't biased. After all, 'Baghdad Bob,' currently writing Op-Ed pieces for the National Enquirer, believes that It Just Means More !, and that Spanky, er, Sankey, is Spot On! 🤮

Worst Case, Sans Injuries - 10-2 - and a return to the Playoffs. Best Case - 13-0 - Playoff No. 1 seed, play the winner of No. 9 at No. 8 in the Rose Bowl. The winner of this 1st round game will not be the committee's 6th-ranked team. 🤬 (And No. 9 seed had better not be the G6 representative.) Two opponents in the regular season with Blue Chip Rosters - Penn State and USC. No Michigan and no Ohio State on the schedule. From 2024 through 2028, 2025, on paper, is OBD's easiest schedule. 2027 sees OBD at Michigan, at Baylor, and at home versus Ohio State and Penn State. YIKES! A ton of roster turnover, only 5 starters return. But this is a 'make hay while the sun shines' schedule. BOB THEM CATS!

B1G coaches comment, sub rosa, on B1G conference opponents. https://athlonsports.com/college-football/big-ten-coaches-talk-anonymously-about-conference-foes-for-2025#gid=ci02fba553a0002724&pid=usc

Bret Bielema, who coached in the SEC, Gets It! Can't Wait For Saturday Illinois coach making the right points on CFP SPORTS.YAHOO.COM Jun. 19—*** In a Chicago media blitz on Tuesday, Illinois football coach Bret Bielema made two very good points. First, he wants to see the College Football Playoff expanded to 16 teams when the...

Thank you, friend 30, for honing in on today's most important college football issue, a possible revision to the playoff format that means hundreds of millions of dollars. Tony Petitti cannot allow the B1G to be sucker punched by the duplicitous Greg Sankey.

CFB Format change held up because of a beef between the B1G and the SEC, Naturally? What's holding up CFP expansion? SEC and Big Ten are at a potential impasse on these key issues SPORTS.YAHOO.COM Keeping the playoff at its current 12-team format is a grim reality for some, but it’s a possibility, perhaps even a probability as negotiations creep closer to the Dec. 1 deadline. The PO staying at 12 is better for the B1G than a 16-team field with an 11-5 format. Did the author of this article not get the memo that the Advisory Board member SEC was on board with automatic qualifiers before sucker-punching the B1G? The SEC using ESPN's FPI data to justify staying at 8 conference games is laughable for anyone with the slightest clue. The 2025 FPI preseason ranking has 13 SEC teams in its top 25. If need be, Commissioner Petitti, use a B1G veto and stay at 12 teams.

One of these things is not like the others: Honest Abe, George 'I Cannot Tell a Lie' Washington, Greg Sankey. College Football Playoff format talks go back to drawing board as SEC gains momentum to keep 8-game schedule - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM Newly proposed metrics could work in the SEC's favor as it looks to avoid a nine-game slate Will the B1G's Tony Petitti pull a Larry Scott and let Sankey and the SEC get away with this crud? I'd rather see the B1G exercise its 'veto power' and stay with a 12-team PO.

Injury Reporting and Player Availability should be required for all teams for the entire season. OK, maybe not D3 teams? 🤔 College Football Playoff will require teams to provide player availability reports beginning with 2025 season - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The CFP will follow in the footsteps of the Big Ten and SEC

Come On, Palmetto State Coastal Carolina! Chanticleer's, Tame Them Tigers! LSU version, not Auburn or Mizzou. 2025 College World Series: Schedule, results, bracket, as Coastal Carolina, LSU will battle for national title - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM After a thrilling win over Arkansas, LSU will take on Coastal Carolina for a national championship in Omaha Too bad Beavs. I guess the 8-States Pac-8 + Gonzo is not the conference of champions? 😁

B1G fans rate this article a solid: DUH! College football fans are growing tired of the SEC's authority in College Football Playoff changes STORMININNORMAN.COM College football world reacts to CFP chaos I wonder what ointment his dermatologist prescribes for the bruises covering Greg Sankey's breast?

With stats from 5 starts at 'terrible O-line UCLA' and OBD mop-up duty, Dante should have received an Incomplete grade from PFF. PFF not sold on Dante Moore’s star potential for Oregon Ducks in 2025 DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Pro Football Focus released rankings for all Power Four quarterbacks and Oregon’s Dante Moore was grouped near the bottom. Just more fuel for the Incentive Fire. 🥵

Matayo Makes USA Today's Top 50. Where Oregon Football's Matayo Uiagalelei ranks among USA Today's top 50 players in 2025 DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM College Sports Wire has Oregon defensive end Matayo Uiagalelei as a Top 50 player and says could be the key to the Ducks' national title hopes. And he should have been a First-Team ALL B1G Edge last season.

Thank you, David, for a terrific, balanced look at today's world of recruiting. As Ohio State evidenced last season, it's also important to have money on hand to keep quality players on board for one more season. NIL is influencing decisions on whether to leave early for the NFL. Meanwhile, the Spendthrift Portal King did not take 'sure roster thing' Mississippi to the playoffs—Ditto for Norvell at FSU, whose incoming portal class was lauded at the start of the season. And then there are the spend like there's no tomorrow MIA Hurricanes. 😁Cam could not do what NIL-trailblazer $cam did at Auburn. (SIGH) Thanks again. Let's see where things stand after signing days for recruits and the portal.

Big Hitter, The Lama, and The Butler. 😊

A Nits's flimsy excuse for a bogus 2025 OOC schedule and a take on the B1G's biggest OOC games. Ranking the Big Ten's top 10 nonconference games in 2025 NITTANYLIONSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Ranking the top 10 Big Ten nonconference games of the 2025 season. The Cincinnati-Nebraska game is being played in Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, not in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Ducks-Cowboys game made the list, which speaks volumes about the B1G's weak OOC slates. Utah at UCLA deserves more B1G love. UCLA at UNLV could have been on the list. In addition to SC, Purdue plays at Notre Dame in 2025. I would have had Michigan at Oklahoma as the second-ranked game on this list. The Northwestern at Tulane opener and the BC at Michigan State game could go either way.

How about Moore to Moore for another B1G score! College Football Playoff X-factors: Players poised to make or break contenders' 2025 postseason chances - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM These players must perform when the lights are brightest for their teams to reach the CFP