Jon Joseph

OBD, even without TT, 😧is still PO alive - 25.8% chance. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/three-loss-team-cfp-contenders/

We've heard this stuff before. Oregon is only successful because of the players it buys. Michigan fans are at Whit's end. So am I. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/kyle-whittingham-michigan-oregon-nil-recruiting/

The Big Ten could use a B1Gger PO this season, no doubt. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50422353/cfp-playoff-2026-bubble-watch-week-10 In today's CFB world of watered-down rosters, the 24-team PO provides some protection from injury to key players. Not too long ago, the starting QB at Louisville would have been Julian Sayin's backup.

Cheer Up! Oregon is the Playoff No. 11 Seed playing at Bama in the 1st round! (According to On3 😁) On3College Football Bowl Projections Week 11: Full list of m...If teams with 5-7 records are needed to fill any bowls, the bowl’s conference will choose the replacement. Unlike in past

ESPN is all-in on the CFB PO for the Good of the Game, right? 2nd PO Committee rankings will be revealed tonight on ESPN at about 9 PM Eastern, when the Duke vs. Michigan State CBB game concludes. There should be no interim rankings, and ESPN should not manage the CFB PO. 🤬 CFB-HQ On SIWhen Do the New College Football Playoff Rankings Come Ou...Coming out of another active and confusing weekend of college football, the playoff selection committee is tasked with reorganizing the top 25 rankings. The one

Thanks, David, total agreement with your take on Dan. The Gambler? Good reference. However, if 'you never count your money when it's sitting on the table', how in Hades do you know how much to bet? 🤑🤪

Sad, but true - 🥸😒😧 🤬Go Trojans! https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/trojans/football/2026/11/09/dan-lanning-oregon-football-hoping-lincoln-riley-usc-win/92688319007/

Playing a P4 team out-of-conference is required by rule. By 2030, we'll see an SEC/B1G challenge and the money that comes with these value-added out-of-conference games. I believe we'll see similar ACC/B12 matchups. 4-loss Iowa would have been in a 2025 24-team PO field. Deservedly so, with four close losses to quality teams, before defeating 10-2 Vanderbilt in an all-hands-on-deck bowl game. This was with playing and losing to Iowa State OOC. The calculus for PO admission has changed. Strength of schedule and strength of record will factor into seeding, which is critical for securing a 1st or 2nd round home game. I am not certain, but I expect the PO home games will have the same attendance criteria as today's first-round PO games. These are true home games. The host team has to make 3500 seats and seats for the visiting band available; that's it. Tony Petitti is an intelligent businessman. He heard the same kind of concerns when he helped engineer MLB playoffs expansion. Expansion was needed because the cost of fielding a quality team skyrocketed. Exactly what we see in today's CFB. People still attend MLB games and watch postseason games in record numbers. I expect OOC games vs. FCS opponents will disappear. Most programs will play two G6 opponents, with the majority of these games played on home turf, and, again, all P4 teams have to play a P4 opponent OOC. (Rob needs to seriously consider whether playing the Beavers home-and-home makes $ense.) How can OOC game quality not improve? The five B1G teams that played no P4 teams OOC this season will not be able to do so next season. Requiring a P4 OOC game is an ipso facto improvement over scheduling three lower-level teams OOC. In 2027, Oregon will have to exchange Eastern Washington, Coastal Carolina, or Western Kentucky for a P4 opponent. Another benefit to the format is starting the season on what is now Week 0 and starting the PO earlier. (Not too far in the future, I expect the Army-Navy game will not have an exclusive broadcast window on a Saturday, and the PO will start a week earlier than next season through 2031. How about an exclusive window on the eve of Thanksgiving? ) Give 24 a chance. IMO, it will be terrific. And quality teams like BYU and Notre Dame will be in the field. Going back to the first season of the four-team PO, with a 24-team format, 80 programs would have participated in the postseason. And in today's CFB world, programs across the board need the postseason money. I'm hoping a 24-team PO will hold off consolidation into a Super League and that the ACC and the B12 can survive. I do not want millions of ACC and B12 fans to be 'disenfranchised'. I don't know if this will help assuage concerns over expansion, but the NCAA not conducting a D1 football PO is a quirk of history. If the NCAA managed the postseason, D1 would have had a 24-team PO field decades ago. I hope that by 2032, using bowl games for quarterfinal and semifinal games will be eliminated. And that the PO is managed by the FBS schools and not ESPN. If the expansion concerns come to fruition, I'll be at the front of the line with a Mea Culpa, but I don't see it happening. MASH MICHIGAN!

The hits just keep on coming. 🤬 Healing blessings for Mr. TT. https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2026/11/10/oregon-football-teitum-tuioti-injury-impact/92701991007/

At the very least, better than Oklahoma's defense. 😁

Seriously? What kind of troll are you? Ohio State scored two garbage-time TDs after the game was basically over. Both teams were playing backup QBs. How does luck play into Ohio State playing bad defense two games in a row, whiffing on tackles against SC and Oregon? COME ON, MAN!

They were Power 5 members when scheduled. Thus, the one-year grace period.

Or go 3-0 and hope SC also goes 3-0 and then defeat UCLA in the final Big Ten conference championship game and score the B1G automatic bid. It won't hurt, but I'm not sure blowout wins over unranked opponents will move the needle.

Teams with a 2027 scheduling problem include Oregon, Indiana, and USC. A game against Oregon State and Washington State next season counts as a Power 4 contest. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-playoff-expansion-indiana-usc-2027-schedules/ For all those who hate a 24-team PO. It's a 16-team PO with eight on-campus play-in games featuring teams that would instead have played in crummy bowl games off-campus, with many of the best players sitting out the exhibition bowl game. Better out-of-conference games will be scheduled. SOS will matter when sorting out the top 8 and the top 16 seeds. The fans of teams that have no blue blood will have a reason to support their team until the end of the season. On the verge of 80 years of age, I can't count the number of times I've been told that postseason expansion will destroy the regular season. It hasn't happened, including in Major League Baseball, where Tony Petitti helped engineer postseason expansion.

Bill Connelly's Post Week 10 Playoff Tiers and Tears - https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50420955/connelly-how-week-10-biggest-games-won