Jon Joseph

The game's in Autzen. Oregon -6.5.

Will and the Wildcats set a record yesterday. 1st CFB team to win back-to-back OT games by 1 point. How about going 5 WRs wide and having your QB run a QB draw?

Heck of a Win! That game was PHYSICAL! Tomorrow, your Dawgs will deservedly be ranked Numero Uno!

AMEN Charles, AMEN! What is the mood tonight on the Texas, Bama, LSU, Florida, Texas A&M, and Bama boards? Heading into Week 7, the B1G has two undefeated teams: 6-0 Indiana and 5-0 UCLA. Six B1G teams have one loss: Ohio State, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. The SEC has one undefeated team, 6-0 Georgia. Seven SEC Teams have one loss: Alabama, Kentucky, Ole Miss, MS State, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas. Having a big budget does not mean a team will be great. Ask Michigan and Texas A&M fans. For whatever reason(s), a veteran team has been dysfunctional since the opening game. After Dante went down, there was unity and purpose in LA, and a will to win that disappeared during the bye week. A will to win that has been missing this season. Entropy infects every system. Complacency allows chaos to come through the door. Exhibit A is the behemoth IBM that was almost taken down by two college dropouts with a better idea. Faulty evaluations were made in the off-season that have come home to roost. It's terribly disappointing to go from a team ranked 2nd in the preseason to this. But keep on supporting the team and hope that Dan will not allow a disappointing season to morph into the situations at Clemson and Penn State. Back against the wall, do the best to win seven straight. A nasty Nebraska team is headed to Eugene in Week 7, a team that played its guts out against Indiana and is every bit as talented as UCLA, including at QB. Fans of every team in every sport will suffer depression. It's the nature of competition. Teams lose, which is OK; playing without a will to win is inexcusable. HUSK the Huskers!

Have the experienced guys tuned Dan out?

This Cig is hard to put out.

Hurricane weather here. No network TV, and the satellite link is lost. I don't think I'm missing much.

Bob Chesney's Pregame Preaching https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2026/10/08/bob-chesney-ucla-oregon-biggest-test/92140248007/?utm_source=usat-path-to-playoff-nletter76&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=spor

Lane Kiffin? Who Dat?

In this day and age of pay-for-play, having two in-house is a luxury.

We're close to the regular season's halfway point. 😒 For OBD fans, it's been an interesting season so far. Starting 2nd was nice, but then the games came, and with them some unexpected No. 2 moments. Dante took a dangerous hit to his head. Thankfully, this terrific young man is back practicing with the team; a true blessing. And we should also be thankful for an experienced backup QB in today's college football world of NIL and unrestricted free agency. How many programs have a second-string QB with more starts vs. Power 4 opponents than the starting QB? My guess: Zip, Nada, Nudge, Nyet, None. Three B1G teams are off this week: 4-1 No. 28 Wisconsin, where they're Jumping Around! 3-2 Michigan, where they're confused and down. And 1-4 Rutgers, where the Sun never Schiano's and they're abused, not amused, and ready for a serving of Brian Kelly. Let the Games Begin Tonight! Pacific game times. AP Poll rankings, including Others Receiving Votes. BTN = Big Ten Network FRIDAY - No. 20 - 4-1 IOWA +3 at 3-2 WASHINGTON - 6 PM Fox - Washington was ranked in the preseason, but to date, UW's play has been rank. 0-2 in the Big Ten and 0-2 versus the Power 4, including a home loss to the (Gulp!) Golden Gophers. Iowa. How about a long trip and a short week after the euphoria of defeating Michigan on the game's final play in the Big House, then being served a Juicy Jeremiah Smith dish by No. 5 Ohio State. On the way back to the pink locker room, the Buckeyes made sure to give Kirk Ferentz and his Hawkeyes a friendly goodbye wave. This is cruel and unusual scheduling. Handing Iowa the longest Big Ten conference trip possible, the Hawkeyes first trip to Seattle in 63 years, on a short week, and after Iowa played the B1G's two biggest brands. No surprise that Iowa, and not the Huskies, are the underdogs in tonight's game. --- SATURDAY - October 10th No. 7 - 5-0 INDIANA -7.5 at No. 31 5-0 NEBRASKA - 9 AM Fox 21 - The number of games the Hoosiers have won without a loss (the Hoosiers! 🥸) 31 - The number of consecutive games Nebraska has lost against ranked opponents since September 17, 2016, when Mike Riley's Huskers defeated No. 22 Oregon in Lincoln, 35-32 😧. 2-29 - Nebraska coach Mike Ruhle's record against ranked opponents. September 3, 2016, Ruhle's last win against a ranked opponent, when Temple defeated Navy 34-10 in the AAC Championship game. 13 - Undefeated Power 4 teams; one fewer after this game. -7.5 - I don't get it. But I got on it. 🤑 --- No. 30 - 3-1 NORTHWESTERN -35.5 vs. 1-4 BALL STATE - 9:30 AM BTN The game will be dull, but they'll have a ball in the new Ryan Field. If you haven't seen it, tune in; the Field is the real deal, and what will mad scientist Chip Kelly roll out on O? Northwestern visits Austin on Halloween. 🫢 --- 2-3 ILLINOIS -2.5 at 2-3 Michigan State - 12:30 PM FS1 You watch this game? You either Ill(ini), or suffering from the Fitz. 🤪 --- 3-2 Maryland +32.5 at 4-1 No. 5 Ohio State - 1:15 PM BTN Ohio State is a Lock. Locksley's coaching future? Not DMV, but DMW. Will Mr. Smith go over 300 yards? In the first half? However, the Turtles only allowed 54 points to the Bruins. On their home field.🙃 --- No. 37 - 4-1 Minnesota -2.5 at 2-3 Purdue - 5 PM BTN How did BTN get all of these great games? If Purdue wins its second B1G game in the last two years? Bartender! Boilermakers all around! --- No. 19 - 4-1 USC +1.5 at 3-2 Penn State - 4:30 PM NBC Matt Campbell joins Whit and Fitz in the B1G Pantheon of Pain. At least Fitz didn't smell rank at the start of the season. Welcome to the Anxiety Bowl. A White Out game to see which team's 2026 aspirations will be Wiped Out. To date, USC has played college football's 64th most difficult strength of schedule (SOS). After this game, SC's remaining SOS, according to ESPN's FPI, is ranked No. 1 in the nation. SOS indeed! Penn State has played the 59th-ranked SOS. The Nittany Lions' remaining SOS is ranked 67. Pressure is on both, but more on an SC team with road games against No. 28 Wisconsin, No. 7 Indiana, and No. 21 UCLA, and a game in LA against No. 5 Ohio State. Good luck, yuck, yuck. 😁 Lose to Penn State, and at least Linc won't be canned on the tarmac before a 1-hour and 23-minute drive to the Altoona Airport. In Week 5, SC QB Jaden Maiava had his worst game of the season against Washington. The Husky D sacked him once and pressured him on 11 other pass attempts. You can bet Penn State's DC Anton Lynn, who left SC for his alma mater, Penn State, will be bringing the heat, and the losing coach will be feeling the heat on his seat. --- No. 21 - 4-0 UCLA +11.5 at No. 13 - 3-1 OREGON - 12:30 PM CBS NJ Ducks and other Forum Friends have posted the pregame articles for this game on the Forum. So, for once, I'll be brief. 😇 The Bruins have not won in Autzen Stadium since 2004, going 0-8 in Autzen since the 2004 victory. In 2026, the undefeated Bruins have defeated 2-3 G6 San Diego State. The three Power 4 teams UCLA has defeated, Cal, Maryland, and Purdue, are a combined 3-9 against Power 4 competition. Oregon is 3-1, 2-1 against ranked opponents. OBD is odds-on to win this game, but you never know when an upset might be Bruin. --- Below is the whole enchilada of other Week 6 college football games. https://www.espn.com/college-football/schedule/_/week/6/year/2026/seasontype/2/group/5 The marquee games are: No. 2 - 5-0 Georgia +1.5 at No. 6 - 5-0 Alabama - 4:30 PM ABC UGA is 0-7 against Bama in the last seven regular-season games. Georgia's last win in Tuscaloosa came on September 22, 2007, when some named QB Matthew Stafford (?) threw the winning TD pass for the Dawgs in OT. Light rain is expected at kickoff, scheduled for 6:30 PM local time. --- No. 1 - 4-0 Texas -7.5 vs. 2-2 Oklahoma - Dallas -12:30 PM ABC I guess a few fools might tune into this game when the Ducks-Bruins game is interrupted by advertisements? Or too-lengthy reviews? In the Red Rivalry game, Texas is 4-0-1 when ranked No. 1. Blast the Bruins! Roast Bob's Chestnuts!

An update on CFB PO discussions - On3How much Big Ten, SEC programs could gain from College Fo...On Sept. 8, when College Football Playoff officials announced that they would enter a 30-day negotiating window with ESPN over a new expansion model, we

If the PO expands to 24 teams, the B1G will play 10 P4 games - Oregon does not have a P4 opponent scheduled out of conference in 2027 and 2028 On3Tony Petitti commits to improved non-conference schedulin...ROSEMONT, Ill. – Through September, the conversation went on about college football's TV ratings. Average viewership was down, but On3's Andy Staples

With UCLA's schedule to date, I don't believe in the Bruins. https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/article/bob-chesney-has-ucla-believing-again-now-comes-the-real-test-no-13-oregon-140822380.html

HMMMMMM? A locker room on life support? https://www.yardbarker.com/college_football/articles/michigan_te_apologizes_following_leaked_messages_directed_at_coach/s1_127_44395494?utm_source=mb&utm_medium=email&mb_edition=20261007&m

An Insight into the Obvious. Thanks, Coach! On3Urban Meyer on Michigan offense: 'It's a train wreck righ...Former coach Urban Meyer saw some major problems with the Michigan offense after their loss to Minnesota. Have you ever seen a car or train wreck and you

CBS Sports on why Dana followed other experienced CBB coaches into retirement: the roster is weak. https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/dana-altman-retirement-oregon-basketball/?ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0b&ET_CID=589296&ET_RID=52482716

From the Michigan site Maize and Brew - His stats at home are good? Maize n BrewWhy Michigan QB Bryce Underwood’s road game struggles are...A look at why Michigan QB Bryce Underwood’s statistics on the road are concerning.No bowl game? Whit fired? The natives are restless. Maize n Brew3 bold predictions for the rest of the Michigan Football...Here are 3 bold predictions for the rest of the 2026 college football season for the Michigan Wolverines:

As a tight end? Maybe. But how much of the budget would this guy demand? Michigan players and fans are not happy with how OC Jason Beck, who followed Whit from Utah, has changed the O from the smashmouth, downhill O under Harbaugh. Underwood is a team captain; what will the response be if he is 'cut' in favor of Freshman Tommy Carr, Notre Dame QB CJ Carr's younger brother? This would put Tommy under the gun.😁 At Utah, Beck had a legit dual-threat QB in Deven Dampier, who Beck also coached at New Mexico. This O is RPO-oriented and designed for smaller, quicker O-line athletes. The D under former BYU DC Jay Hill has been superb. The word out of Ann Arbor says Michigan has a fractured locker room. With this defense, if Michigan had any kind of offense, it would be 5-0 heading into the Off Week and not 3-2, which could and should be 2-3. Michigan better figure something out before a Week 7 game vs. Penn State, also floundering under an experienced head coach, and Indiana in Week 8. NIL deal not guaranteed? Brilliant!

Game Information - Oregon Ducks On SIHow to Watch Oregon vs. UCLA: Preview, TV Channel, Bettin...After a week off, the No. 13-ranked Oregon Ducks are preparing to face a UCLA team that could be more dangerous than its ranking suggests. The Bruins, led by fi

Not good. Looks like safety Aaron Flowers could miss Saturday's game. https://www.centraloregondaily.com/sports/oregon_ducks/what-were-hearing-on-oregon-injuries-ahead-of-ucla/article_ba75d467-d4fc-5831-b32a-186f5f3eca8d.html

Thank you, David. A line of scrimmage and a 60-minute game for certain. This will be the most talented roster UCLA has faced, by far. I hope the offense can put points on the board early and get UCLA out of its run game. This season, Nico is also part of the Bruins' run game. Perich plays better, or bring in the Jett, Jett Washington. Integrate Jett with the starting D. Inferior safety play will be a problem Saturday and against Nebraska and Northwestern, and it gives OBD no chance to win, with a chance of being embarrassed at Ohio State. We saw enough of Jeremiah Smith blowing past Oregon's DBs his Freshman season in the Rose Bowl. 🤬 Enjoy your day off and Go Ducks!

Big Ten football teams in 2026 are not playing as predicted. Penn State and Michigan are faltering and failing, while teams from the old Big Ten West Division: Iowa, Minnesota, Northwestern, Nebraska, and Wisconsin, are playing better than predicted. It looks like FBS college football (CFB) is inexorably moving to a 24-team playoff. With these thoughts in mind and pondering Grandpa Duck's ideas of the Big Ten returning to Divisions, and with the coast-to-coast travel burdens, would a return to East and West Divisions make sense? With a 24-team playoff neutering the power of the Playoff Committee, do 10 conference games make sense? Open with a G6 opponent at home, then an out-of-conference game against an SEC opponent in an annual B1G versus SEC annual challenge. Games against the SEC would likely be staged over the first four games. Two East vs. West crossover games would be played before starting eight-game Division play. Eastern time zone to Western time zone games would be played before the weather worsens in the Midwest and the East. The B1G Pacific time zone members would meet every season, with the games back-loaded to the end of the season. The West Division would be the Pacific and Central time zones team, with Northwestern in the West and Illinois in the East. The Wildcats vs. the Illini would be a protected cross-conference game played the last week of the season. Oregon's schedule might look like this: Opening four games - San Jose State, at Florida (followed the next season with a game against Florida in Autzen), cross-Division games against Rutgers, and at Michigan. Four Division games in Autzen, four Division games on the road. Four at home with the final three opponents: UCLA, USC, and the final regular-season game against Washington. Men's and Women's basketball would play each Division member home and away, and trips to the Eastern time zone would be limited. This would be the format for all non-revenue sports. WEST: Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Oregon, UCLA, USC, Washington, Wisconsin. EAST: Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Rutgers. CBS Sports post-Week 5 B1G rankings note the improvement of the former Western Division teams. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/big-ten-power-rankings-week-6-old-west-nebraska-northwestern-wisconsin-minnesota/ Of course, what I or anyone else thinks of this idea is meaningless unless media partners agree on the return to Divisions. However, Forum Friends, what do you think?

ESPN - FPI Post-Week 5 Strength of Record Rankings: UCLA 20/ Oregon 23 Strength of Schedule Ranking To Date/ Future SOS: Oregon 21/27 - UCLA 113/ 47 To date, Oregon's SOS is in a different league from the Bruins. Only 25 FBS programs have played easier schedules than UCLA. UCLA's three P4 victories came against Cal, Maryland, and Purdue. UCLA struggled for three quarters against a bad San Diego State team. 3-1 OBD has played three Top-25 teams and a bad FCS team. All of this factors into OBD being an 11.5-point favorite. Vanquish the Bruins!

The Athletic's Stewart Mandel's B1G Tiers - 10/7/26 1 Ohio State, Indiana - 1A Oregon 2 Northwestern, Iowa, UCLA 3 Nebraska, USC, Wisconsin, Minnesota 4 Michigan, Penn State, UW 😁, Purdue Tier Awful - Michigan State, Illinois, Maryland, Rutgers