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

There are not many nice things being said about Whit. Perhaps he should quit? On3Maybe Michigan needs to evaluate Kyle Whittingham instead...Kyle Whittingham should know what to do to pull out of this slide. After all, Michigan hired Whittingham last December because Whittingham successfully

More on the end of conference championship games. BTW, if OBD and SC win out and UCLA's only loss is to SC, can the Oregon vs. UCLA championship game be relocated from Indianapolis to Vegas? In Indy, there would be many fans disguised as empty seats. https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/24-team-college-football-playoff-163735829.html

Oregon's a Winner - Ohio State and Michigan are Not - https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/11/08/college-football-winners-losers-week-10-georgia-ohio-state/92673586007/?utm_source=usat-path-to-playoff-nletter76&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sportsgreeting&utm_term=Content%20List%20-%2

Five Reasons Why Blue Should Hand Whit a Pink Slip. Look at the Photo - A $3 million-a-year QB is riding the pine. Hire Jay Johnson? Reason No. 1 - Accomplished Maize n Brew5 major reasons Michigan should fire Kyle WhittinghamAfter another brutal loss, here are 5 major reasons Michigan Football should fire head coach Kyle Whittingham:

The natives in Ann Arbor are at Whit's end.😁 Maize n BrewMichigan Football needs to start planning for a future wi...Kyle Whittingham was only ever going to be a bridge head coach, and the bridge is burning. Michigan Football needs to start planning for a future without him:

On3's Ari Wasserman's review of Week 10 includes questions for Ryan Day. On315 thoughts after Week 10: Weighing how to feel about Rya...A lot happens on college football Saturdays. It’s hard to keep up with everything. So this season, in an attempt to bring everybody up to speed – while

A 24-team playoff beginning next season and through 2031 has been inked. ESPN retains exclusive broadcast rights but will no doubt sublicense some of the early games. The top 8 seeds will have a 1st-round bye. 1st and second-round games will be played on campus. Seeding will be adjusted to prevent regular-season rematches in the first round. Quarter-final and semi-final games will continue to be played in the six bowls in use today. I imagine many of today's bowl games will disappear. This will be the last season that conference championship games, if not played in the final week of the regular season, will be played. The weekend reserved for these games is now reserved for the Army-Navy game. Notre Dame will not have special access to the playoffs. One place is reserved for a G6 team if it is not in the top 24. Hats off to Tony Petitti for weathering the slings and arrows of 24-team playoff naysayers, the entire world of CFB outside the Big Ten not so long ago, and delivering a format that makes sense for the Big Ten conference. On3College Football Playoff expands to 24 teams after new ES...https://youtube.com/live/qw8hsflXBvo?feature=share After months of speculation and discussion, College Football Playoff expansion is officially happening.

When things are going south, you have to fire either the OC or the DC. I don't see this firing as being the least bit scary. I see Whit trying to cover his butt for bringing the highest-paid OC in CFB, $3 million a year, with him to Ann Arbor. Beck tried to turn a decades-long downhill running attack into an RPO brush-blocking scheme, resulting in an epic fail. From preseason ranked to possibly not being bowl eligible. With a multi-million-dollar QB benched? I'm more concerned about playing in East Lansing on Friday night, November 20, with an 8 PM Eastern kickoff. Sparty, after defeating Michigan in Ann Arbor, and I think defeating UW at home this Saturday, will be fired up to take down the Ducks in a close-to-exclusive Friday night broadcast window. Defeat UW and Sparty will be playing for bowl eligibility against Oregon. Michigan has a solid defense; this won't be a walk in the park, but I think OBD is on an upward trend at the perfect time in the season. Can OBD overcome 3 losses? Unfortunately, the next three opponents will not help the strength of schedule or the strength of record. But keep on ballin' while keepin' the faith. (And, gulp, this Saturday, fight on for SC🤬.)

Based on the Week 10-11 AP Poll, your 2027 Playoff field. 24 LSU at No. 9 Tennessee at 1 Georgia 23 New Mexico at 10 Texas Tech at 2 Utah 22 Arizona at 11 Wake Forest at 3 Notre Dame 21 Ohio State at 12 BYU at 4 UCLA 20 South Carolina at 14 Houston at 5 Miami 19 Ole Miss at 13 Kentucky at 6 Indiana 18 OREGON at 16 Iowa at 7 Alabama 17 Boise State at 15 USC at 8 Texas 1st-round game seeding altered to prevent regular-season 1st-round rematches. Meanwhile, Mash Michigan!

Just one reason why a Pac-10 absent the LA schools on Amazon would have been NG.