Jon Joseph

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Spot on. Ohio State has publicly complained about the even revenue distribution. Come 2030, as is the case today in the ACC, I believe Big Ten programs will receive the revenue a team earns in the postseason, and distributions will also be based on the number of people tuning in to watch your games. The ACC received no more money from Miami's CFB PO run than it would have from Notre Dame.

OBD is No. 1! Hopefully, Joel isn't full of Klatt - 🦆👍😍 On3College Football rankings: Joel Klatt reveals post-spring....

In case you missed it, 23-1 long shot Golden Temple came from all the way back to narrowly win the Kentucky Derby. Trainer Cherie DeVaux becomes the first female trainer to win the Derby. Jockey Jose Ortiz and Golden Temple won by a neck over his elder brother, Irad Ortiz, Jr., riding 5-1 co-favorite Renegade. First Derby win for Jose. The full video of the race can be found under a similar post in Other Topics. Definitely OT, but it's a loooong off-season. https://www.cbssports.com/general/news/2026-kentucky-derby-live-updates-race-time-results-odds-horses-highlights/live/?eid=c7d8647c6247db8d08c59fe44bc30380a147aa90b9e33099045cd46ddc6a485b&ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0b&ET_CID=547866&ET_RID=5

Like Curt Cignetti, Bob Chesney won a conference title at JMU, and before that, he won everywhere he coached. The already difficult Big Ten is going to become more difficult with the hire of Whittingham at Michigan, Fitzgerald at Michigan State, and Chesney at UCLA. And Campbell at Penn State may prove to be a better coach than James Franklin. In a recent interview, and without throwing his fellow SEC coaches under the bus, Kirby Smart cited NIL and coaching as two reasons the B1G has improved in football. Both Oregon and UCLA are idle on the Saturday before the Week 6 matchup in Autzen. If UCLA wins its opening game at Cal, the Bruins, with games vs. San Diego State, Purdue, and at Maryland, could be 4-0 and ranked heading into Week 6. Anyone who believes that OBD's 2026 schedule is easy is simply wrong. https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/trojans/football/2026/05/04/bob-chesney-ucla-football-top-5-2027-recruiting-rankings/89910256007/?utm_source=smg-trojanswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGba The only sure win on the schedule is the Week 3 game vs. Portland State. Week 2? Eric Morris is doing the same thing at OK State that Chesney is doing in Westwood. CBS Sports is paying attention - 2026's dozen most difficult schedules - https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/ranking-college-football-toughest-2026-schedules-top-cfp-contenders-after-spring-practices/?ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0b&ET_CID=547866&ET_RID=52482716 It's a Power 2: 7 SEC teams and 5 Big Ten teams.

Well, no one said it would be easy - College football's 10 hardest schedules for 2026

In case you missed it, it was one heck of a Kentucky Derby. Cherie Devaux became the first woman trainer to win the Derby. Jockey Jose Ortiz won his first Derby on the 23-1 longshot Golden Tempo, coming from way back in the pack and narrowly edging out his older brother Irad Ortiz, Jr., who was riding co-favorite Renegade. A thrilling race and well worth the just-over-two-minute watch. SIFrom Last to Legend: Inside Golden Tempo’s Unlikely Kentu...The “lazy” horse stormed from the back in a chaotic stretch run, delivering trainer Cherie DeVaux a historic win and jockey José Ortiz familial bragging rights.

2027, prepare for a B1Gger draft. Quack! Oregon Ducks On SIThe Nine Oregon Ducks On Updated NFL Draft Big BoardThe Oregon Ducks have had 25 players selected in the past three NFL Drafts: eight in 2024, a program record 10 in 2025, and seven in 2026. How many Ducks are p

I don't think Dylan is going anywhere. I certainly understand and respect your POV, but if folks in the spotlight had to respond to everything on unsocial media ... Oregon Ducks On SITransfer Dylan Raiola Makes One Thing Clear About His Off...The Oregon Ducks are still months away from kickoff but inside the quarterback room the focus is already building. Transfer quarterback Dylan Raiola made it cle

Delightful Diamond coverage, thank you. Also, last night in Seattle, both of the UW football split squads lost the Spring game. Fortunately, a veterinarian was in attendance.😁 WOOF!

Some More on Kenyon - Dan again shows why he is The Man - Oregon Ducks On SIKenyon Sadiq’s NFL Draft Call Shows What Sets Oregon's Co...A new video captures the moment tight end Kenyon Sadiq received the call from the New York Jets, with Oregon Ducks football coaches right by his side during the

A Wake-Up Call Bruin in Westwood? Will Chesney be another JMU to the B1G Cig on the loose? YardbarkerBob Chesney and UCLA get huge recruiting win by landing 5...The UCLA Bruins have picked up easily the biggest commitment, so far, of the Bob Chesney era.

Greg Sankey's SEC Ball Bouncing Hanky Panky - The ball never bounces in the SEC's direction, right? Greg, like Georgia, used to be a top football Dawg. UGA's still there, but Greg? The SEC ADs and coaches are restless. Will there be a revolt after this nine-conference game season? On3Greg Sankey defends SEC in debate vs. Big Ten: 'We had th...SEC commissioner Greg Sankey defended the conference in the debate vs. the Big Ten, saying, "we had the ball bounce the wrong way."

Thank you, Smitty 72, for the terrific Ducks draft review. Is Kenyon Sadiq a top IPA trapped in a Bud Lite bottle? SporkedOur Definitive Ranking of the 8 Best IPAs You Can Buy at...Please don’t yell at us, beer nerds.

Kirby Smart on the Big Ten closing in on the SEC. On3Kirby Smart reveals why Big Ten surged past SEC: 'They ha...Georgia coach Kirby Smart was surprisingly candid about why he thinks the Big Ten has surged past the SEC in recent years.

Let's Go B1G! Using the same data I used to examine and compare CBS Sports Brandon Marcello's post-spring top 25 ranking of ten SEC teams (see above), let's look at his top-25 ranking of eight Big Ten teams. No. 2 Ohio State/ No. 3 Oregon/ No. 6 Indiana/ No. 12 USC/ No. 15 Michigan/ No. 18 Iowa/ No. 19 Penn State/ No. 21 Washington Like Marcello, Ken Massey's computer ratings also have eight B1G teams in the top 25. (The number after a team's ranking is the team's national, 1 through 138, strength-of-schedule (SOS) ranking.) No. 1 Ohio State (11)/ No. 2 Indiana (30)/ No. 4 Oregon (25)/ No. 8 Penn State (59)/ No. 12 Michigan (3)/ No. 14 USC (6)/ No. 15 Washington (21)/ No. 16 Iowa (33) Preseason SOS rankings are a product of a given source's preseason rankings. Massey's SOS rankings will change each week as games are played. Whether a game is played at home, at a neutral site, or on the road is factored into Massey's preseason SOS rankings. Not factored in is Oregon being the only B1G team to play eight straight B1G games without a break, and in November, Oregon playing at No. 1 Ohio State, home vs. No. 12 Michigan, at Michigan State, and home vs. No. 15 Washington. Oregon plays a November gauntlet; likely the most difficult in the nation (the Games You Remember are Played in November). Hawaii may travel farther in November than Oregon, but that's it. And Hawaii will not have to travel twice into Jack Frost country. Massey ranks No. 2 Indiana, No. 8 Penn State, and No. 15 Washington significantly higher than the CBS Sports ranking; Massey's other B1G rankings are within range of Marcello's rankings. 24 Iowa State players, including QB Rocco Becht, followed new Penn State head coach Matt Campbell to Penn State. (OT - University Park, Pennsylvania, a/k/a Happy Valley, was recently named the best small college town by USA Today, taking the No. 1 spot away from Oxford, Mississippi.) The Big Ten rolled out the welcome mat for Campbell. Penn State's SOS, No. 59, is the easiest in the conference. Penn State misses Ohio State, Indiana, and Oregon, and plays USC at home, possibly in a White Out. The Nittany Lions have three out-of-conference cupcakes to chomp down in Beaver Stadium. The two toughest games are at No. 12 Michigan and at No. 15 Washington. Massey ranks Illinois, with the 42nd SOS, No. 30. I think Illinois has a better chance of finishing in the top 25 than does No. 16 Iowa. Both teams lost 2025 quality starting QBs. QBs who led Illinois to an upset of Tennessee in Nashville, and 4-loss Iowa to a victory in Orlando over a 10-2 Vanderbilt team led by Heisman runner-up, Diego Pavia. Illinois brought East Carolina QB Katin Houser, who began his career at Michigan State, from the portal. Houser has 19 career starts and has thrown for over 3300 yards. Houser concluded a successful Junior season by leading the G5 American Conference Pirates to an upset bowl victory over the ACC's Pitt Panthers. Iowa stood pat with its QB room. Whoever starts for the Hawkeyes in 2026 will have little to no experience playing B1G-time football. Here's another scheduling quirk that is not factored into the Massey rankings: Illinois is idle the week before Oregon travels to Urbana-Champaign to take on the Illini in venerable Memorial Stadium. The Massey rankings of Oregon's 2026 opponents: No. 54 Boise State (Massey's 2nd highest-ranked G6 team) / at No. 84 Oklahoma State (under-ranked IMO)/ NR Portland State/ at No. 14 USC/ No. 60 UCLA/ No. 39 Nebraska/ at No. 30 Illinois/ No. 51 Northwestern/ at No. 2 Ohio State/ No. 12 Michigan/ at No. 56 Michigan State/ No. 15 Washington. The B1G and the SEC play thrice in 2026 - All games played in Week 2 - September 12th - No. 1 Ohio State at No. 9 Texas (No. 1 Texas vs. No. 2 Ohio State per CBS Sports rankings) / No. 12 Michigan vs. No. 17 Oklahoma/ and No. 53 Mississippi State at No. 49 Minnesota. As a proponent of a 24-team CFB Playoff, please allow me to sign off with what a Massey preseason-ranked field would be. 1. Ohio State vs. 17 Oklahoma at 16 Iowa 2. Indiana vs. 18 Texas A&M at 15 Washington 3. Notre Dame vs. 19 Tennessee at 14 USC 4. Oregon vs. 20 BYU at 12 Michigan 5. Georgia vs. 21 Missouri at 13 Utah [12 Michigan and 13 Utah flip to avoid a not allowed 1st round BYU vs. Utah rematch.] 6. Ole Miss vs. 22 Louisville at 11 Texas Tech 7. Alabama vs. 23 LSU at 10 Miami 8. Penn State vs. 24 James Madison at 9 Texas (24 Iowa State G6 out.) Would these games ruin the regular season? I don't think so. In addition to millions of more dollars for CFB, millions more fans would tune in to the regular season and postseason. Beat Boise!

Week 2. Be prepared for Drew and North Texas West - https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/oklahoma-state-drew-mestemaker-transfer-portal-chase/?ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0b&ET_CID=546702&ET_RID=52482716

Tournament Expansion Winners and Losers - https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/ncaa-tournament-expansion-big-dance-march-madness-bracket-winners-losers/?ftag=SNL-04-10aaa0b&ET_CID=546702&ET_RID=52482716

This transfer would meet the NCAA's definition of an outside-the-portal 'ghost transfer,' meaning that Coach McGuire could be suspended without pay and the program fined up to 30% of its football budget. The NCAA was not happy with Ole Miss coach Pete Golding tampering with the Clemson roster, LSU trying to buy Demond Williams out of his contract with UW, and Miami poaching Darian Menshe from conference member Duke for a payment of four million dollars. $4 million is a significant amount to settle litigation, but IMO, this was a very bad look for Duke. Miami? Already on the outs with Wisconsin and the Big Ten. Why not screw over a program in your own conference? The Canes best beware an ill wind blowing through Miami's Super Conference chances. Why would the Power 2 want to add a small private school without an on-campus stadium in a state where flag-bearer Florida is a P2 member? A school that cares nothing about its competitors. Texas Tech billionaire booster Cody Campbell has called for the Power 4 conferences to collectively negotiate with the media. Why? Because TT is not in the Power 2. For Campbell to approve the Red Raiders going after Raiola would be hypocritical and give the NCAA the perfect opening to insist upon transfers meeting its portal criteria. 30% of the budget might even get Cody to gulp? On the other hand, if Cody wanted to wire $10 million to OBD to be used to pick up a QB from the portal next year? Hmmmmm.

Great post, thank you. Here's some more on one of the biggest upsets in tournament history, Villanova 66, heavily favored Georgetown, led by center Patrick Ewing, 64. April 1, 1985, was April Fool's Day for the Hoyas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_basketball_championship_game#:~:text=Villanova%20defeated%20Georgetown%20by%20a,biggest%20upsets%20in%20tournament%20history.

Posting maestro, NJ Duck, previously posted CBS Sports, Brandon Marcello's 2026 Top 25 post-Spring College Football (CFB) Poll Rankings. Thank you, NJ. I re-post the article to open things up for comment. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-rankings-2026-top-25-post-spring/ My comments on Marcello's ranking follow. More importantly, what are your thoughts on this ranking from a Big Ten broadcast partner site? I'm using the Massey 2026 College Football Rankings as a comparison to Marcello's rankings and for a team's strength-of-schedule (SOS) ranking for all 138 FBS teams. Massey's ratings are one of the more respected and detailed computer rankings available to the public, with none of the arguably biased rankings associated with broadcast entities' rankings, such as ESPN's FPI and SP +. https://masseyratings.com/cf/fbs/ratings Massey ranks Oregon No. 4, one spot below Marcello. Ohio State is No. 1 per Massey, Marcello's No. 1 Texas is ranked 9th by Massey. Marcello ranks 10 SEC teams and eight Big Ten teams in his top 25. The comparison between Marcello's and Massey's rankings of nine SEC teams and eight Big Ten teams, with my comments, for what little they may be worth, includes the Massey SOS rankings: CBS - No. 1 Texas/ 4 Georgia/ 8 Texas A&M/ 9 LSU/ 10 Oklahoma/ 13 Ole Miss/ 14 Alabama/ 16 Tennessee/ 20 Missouri/ 23 Florida Massey - No. 5 Georgia - SOS 26/ 6 Ole Miss - 18/ 7 Alabama - 24/ 9 Texas - 1/ 17/, Oklahoma - 5/ 18, Texas A&M - 19/ No. 19 Tennessee - 23/ 21, Missouri - 20/ 23, LSU - 13/ 34 - Florida - 8 Both rankings are understandably bullish on the SEC. But Massey has Texas, Texas A&M, LSU, Oklahoma, and Florida ranked significantly lower than CBS, with Ole Miss and Alabama ranked significantly higher. CBS - Is this another No. 1 Texas rope-a-dope? Especially with the Longhorns having the most difficult schedule in 2026, per Massey. I agree with Massey that No. 8 A&M, with 10 players drafted by the NFL, and with a more difficult conference schedule than last season, is overranked by CBS. Both No. 10 Oklahoma and No. 9 LSU have more difficult schedules than last season. LSU QB Sam Leavitt and John Mateer were both injured last season. Will Leavitt be an improvement over QB Garrett Nussmeier? Even when healthy, the Sooners' offense under Mateer was not that productive. And will Lane Kiffin be able to assemble the new parts into a greater whole? Florida is ranked by Marcello at No. 23. With the No. 8 SOS and a new coach from the G6 replacing a coach who was hired from the G5? Georgia Tech transfer QB, Aaron Philo, and a new OC, Buster Faulkner, who is also joining the Gators from Georgia Tech, are going to morph Florida into a top 25 team? Hmmmm. I believe Massey's No. 22 Louisville with the 55th SOS should have been ranked by CBS. Both Massey and Marcello have Texas Tech, post QB Sorsby's gaming issues, ranked 11th. Even with questions at QB, with the nation's 69th SOS and a decided B12 roster advantage, I think Texas Tech will finish 11-1 at the worst and with a good chance of going 12-0. Massey has Alabama, a team that could not run the ball last season, and is breaking in a new starting QB, ranked 7th. I think DeBoer's seven-year contract extension was premature. Ole Miss is Massey No. 6. Pete Golding led Ole Miss to a home win over G6 Tulane last season and defeated a Georgia team coming off a lengthy 1st round bye. In the two years of a 12-team playoff, the eight teams coming off a 1st round bye are 1-7; the only win was authored by Indiana coach Curt Cignetti, on the way to a 16-0 season. Superstar QB Trinidad Chambliss, courtesy of some judicial home cooking, is back, but does Golding have the chops to succeed in the SEC? SEC sleeper? South Carolina. But USC(e), with an SOS ranked 17th, has a hard row to hoe. Tomorrow, a look at the Big Ten rankings.

Going to 76 will bring in additional and much-needed revenue. College athletic departments have two Moneyball sports game inventory to market, football and men's basketball. With basketball a distant second to football. This expansion may hurt the NIT, but would the athletes rather dance in the biggest ballroom? I believe so. Consider the gauntlet Oregon men's and women's CBB teams face in the Big Ten, with the difficulty increased by travel demands. On the men's side, an 11th or 12th-place team in the Big Ten would deserve a spot in the tournament. And in CBB, the PO committee focuses on strength-of-schedule. On the football front, Greg Sankey went to the SEC playing nine conference games because he thought Tony Petitti would fold, and 2026 would see a 16-team PO field. On December 26, 2026, let's see where the SEC sits when the PO field is determined. Miami and perhaps another ACC team, if the Canes do not finally win a conference title, will be in the field. The B12 champ is in. The highest-ranked G6 team is in. The B1G and the SEC champs are in. If Miami comes through, that's seven at-large (AL) spots to fill. The Big Ten will take at least two of the AL spots, with a solid shot at a total of four teams in the field, and possibly more, depending on the outcome of the Ohio State at Texas, Oklahoma at Michigan, and Mississippi State at Minnesota games. Three-loss Bama made the field last year because it's Bama. How many 3-loss SEC teams will knock out two-loss teams from other P4 conferences, especially two-loss teams from the Big Ten? I'm happy to see the CBB field expanding, and I hope enough SEC teams suffer three losses and Sankey's constituents, except ESPN, demand a 24-team CFB PO field. Tony Petitti was smart to support CBB expansion, and when it comes to CFB, Tony will soon be the smartest person in the room.

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On 11/14, Whit returns to Eugene, driving a B1G Blue machine https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/04/28/kyle-whittingham-michigan-football-sherrone-moore-scandal/89818622007/?utm_source=usatoday-sports-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=usatbaseline&utm_term=hero&utm

Pro Football Focus Too Early 2027 Mock Draft - Five Ducks Picked in the 1st Round - QUACK! No. 3 Dante Moore, No. 14 Jamari Johnson, No. 24 Matayu Uiaglalei, No. 28 - Pancho Laloulo, No. 29 A'Mauri Washington. Texas also has 5 players picked in the 1st round, but Julian Sayin goes No. 1 - Manning, No. 5. https://www.pff.com/news/draft-way-too-early-2027-nfl-mock-draft?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=insider_scoop&_kx=GVhzUOTwm4KFXGxajXe-_3UQSycVDTUwQ95jZfv6GZOFoavAa8egk