The beat-down regarding Oregon's playoff bona fides goes on. With its woeful schedule, if OBD does not finish 11-1, kiss the PO goodbye. Huh?

The latest to question whether a 2-loss OBD deserves to be in the playoff field is On3's Ari Wasserman. Ari notes that the only decent team (the nation's 2nd-ranked Iowa) that Oregon played, it lost to at home.

First in line to question Oregon was the now-replaced PO committee chair, Mack Rhodes, who went out of his way after the first release of rankings to explain why it was Oregon that was being dropped three spots from No. 6 in the AP to 9th by the committee.

At the same time, Rhodes went out of his way to mention how good 2-loss Notre Dame looked in the eyes of the PO committee.

Move right along. Metrics are used only when needed.🤪

Notre Dame is 1-2 against teams that will be ranked by the committee on Tuesday night, in a half-hour broadcast of the rankings that ESPN is squeezing in between its broadcast of CFB games.

Why the two-loss Trojans with road losses at Illinois and Notre Dame are ranked behind many two-loss SEC teams is not worth the debate.

It's apparent that Losses suffered by teams not in the SEC Just Mean More. To the committee, the AP voters, and the majority of learned scribes.

The super-duper, at the request of Greg Sankey, computer rankings used by the committee, simply cannot be that far off from the well-respected Massey Computer Ratings. Can they?

(The current Massey rankings are posted under the 2025 Football Poll Rankings on the Forum.)

No. 5 Massey-ranked OBD, ranked No. 8 by the committee, has played the 26th most difficult schedule to date, with the remaining SOS ranked 18th. Not great, but not junk.

By comparison, Texas Tech, ranked No. 6 by the committee and 9th by Massey, has a SOS of 48 to date, and 54th, with one game remaining on 11/29 at West Virginia.

Committee No. 9, Notre Dame, has played the 22nd hardest schedule, but finishes 43rd with games remaining versus Syracuse and Stanford.

Can the data being used by the committee be that different than the data used by Ken Massey?

The Week 13 games and game broadcasts follow this Week 12 take:

Smart can't beat Bama, and Sark can't get Smart. 😁

FYI, I like the guy with the beard and not the guy with the 5 o'clock shadow.

SI

College Football Week 13 Schedule: Full List of Games, Ti...

A complete look at college football's Week 13 slate.

On the other hand, and from an entirely objective source 😁

Oregon Ducks On SI

Oregon Might Have Already Locked College Football Playoff...

The 2025 College Football Playoff race is shaping up with many meaningful games left to be played in November. The No. 8 Ducks (9-1, 6-1 Big Ten) and coach Dan

JJ thanks for the info and your witty thoughts and remarks.

It is frustrating that the bias against rhe BIG and OBD's is rearing its ugly head with the committee, talking heads and pollsters.

However, and most won't like my take on this, OBD's has not helped themselves on some big stages. The massacre at the hands of Georgia. Does anybody on the Forum think SEC fans and honks have forgotten this game?

OBD's shite the bed against tOSU in the quarterfinals and against IU this year. And they havent annihilated teams they should have, like Whisky.

Performance builds perception and those poor performances leave an impression that lasts.

ODB's don't measure up to how tOSU and IU have destroyed most of their BIG opponents. Remember I said most!

There is no room for another loss. None!

As much as we love our Ducks, that love is not receprocated anywhere else. The Ducks control their own destiny.

Go Ducks.........

1 minute ago, HappyToBeADuck said:

JJ thanks for the info and your witty thoughts and remarks.

It is frustrating that the bias against rhe BIG and OBD's is rearing its ugly head with the committee, talking heads and pollsters.

However, and most won't like my take on this, OBD's has not helped themselves on some big stages. The massacre at the hands of Georgia. Does anybody on the Forum think SEC fans and honks have forgotten this game?

OBD's shite the bed against tOSU in the quarterfinals and against IU this year. And they havent annihilated teams they should have, like Whisky.

Performance builds perception and those poor performances leave an impression that lasts.

ODB's don't measure up to how tOSU and IU have destroyed most of their BIG opponents. Remember I said most!

There is no room for another loss. None!

As much as we love our Ducks, that love is not receprocated anywhere else. The Ducks control their own destiny.

Go Ducks.........

Great take and reality check. The great news is that Oregon's destiny totally sits right in our hands.

Win out, and screw the AP... because the B1G will have 3 teams in the playoffs.

End up with 2 losses, and nobody is going to do us any favors.

Playoff pondering from Ducks Wire -

https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2025/11/17/oregon-football-cfp-ideal-scenario-and-path/87305682007/?utm_source=smg-duckswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campa

Ohio State, after a 'battle' versus UCLA, plays Rutgers on Saturday.

TOSU is a modest -35.5 favorite. 😁Perfect for WRs Jeremiah Smith and Carnell Tate to get healthy before The Game next week at Michigan.

11-0 Indiana is off this week, preparing for a pasting of Purdue.

OBD? Finishes with games vs. ranked USC and UW in Seattle. Along with Oklahoma, hosting Mizzou and LSU, this is as tough a close to the season as there is in CFB.

No apologies should be needed when it comes to OBD's 2025 schedule.

It just means more:

stretch run this Saturday:

Georgia 45-1/2 vs Charlotte

Auburn vs Mercer

Alabama vs Eastern Illinois

Tex A&M vs Samford

1 hour ago, HappyToBeADuck said:

However, and most won't like my take on this, OBD's has not helped themselves on some big stages. The massacre at the hands of Georgia. Does anybody on the Forum think SEC fans and honks have forgotten this game?

Anyone pointing to Dan Lanning’s very first game as a head coach against a loaded Bulldogs team as evidence of anything meaningful need to try harder.

Well, win out and that's that. Lose and you give up control.

2 hours ago, Jon Joseph said:

On the other hand, and from an entirely objective source 😁

Oregon Ducks On SI

Oregon Might Have Already Locked College Football Playoff...

The 2025 College Football Playoff race is shaping up with many meaningful games left to be played in November. The No. 8 Ducks (9-1, 6-1 Big Ten) and coach Dan

Autzen seems to have pretty much been a problem for opposing teams for close to 20 years, based on the record...

No. 3 Texas A&M

41-40 at Notre Dame

16-10 vs Auburn

45-42 at Arkansas

31-30 vs S. Carolina

Will play Texas

 

Not on the schedule:

Georgia

Ole Miss

Alabama

Oklahoma

Vanderbilt

Tennessee

Gotta play your schedule.

A brief look at the Ducks out of conference schedule, the only part of the schedule we have control over.

Montana State - A pretty good FCS team, but an FCS team. But most FBS teams play an FCS team and the result is that the FCS team is going to lose.

Oklahoma State - A Power 4 program and usually a pretty good program. They were not good this year and there is nothing the Ducks could have done about that but scheduling them wasn't inherently scheduling a cupcake.

Oregon State - Well... a G6 team and most teams schedule a FCS team, a G6 team, and a P4 team. Oregon State became exceptionally bad this season.

As for our conference schedule, as which we don't have any control over... we miss two of the worst teams in the conference in UCLA and Purdue which Indiana and Ohio State both got UCLA this season and Indiana gets Purdue yearly. Rutgers and Northwestern are both ok teams and Iowa is better than their record... they after all have three of their four losses to teams ranked ahead of them.