Jon Joseph

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Give me a Fahey five. Then, eat the kid alive. 😈 Oregon Ducks On SIFive Things To Know About Ohio State Freshman Quarterback...Ohio State Buckeyes freshman quarterback Luke Fahey will make his first start at The Horseshoe, in front of more than 100,000 fans, on Saturday against the No.

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Mike, thank you for the enthusiasm! Why not us? Another way to make the field. Finish 7-2 in conference play, with the tie-breaker against 7-2 Ohio State. Oregon already has the tie-breaker against a two-loss USC. Defeat Ohio State, and Indiana and UCLA are Oregon's championship game rubs. UCLA is at Minnesota Saturday. Minnesota is 4-1 at home. The loss was to a healthy Mississippi State team. The Bruins return to LA to play Illinois in Week 11. In Week 12, when Oregon plays at Michigan State on a Friday night, UCLA is also in Michigan, playing in Ann Arbor on Saturday against a solid defense in what is likely to be cold weather. UCLA's passing game stats are putrid. If OBD defeats Ohio State, Michigan, and Michigan State, and UCLA loses two of its next three games, prepare yourself to root for the Trojans in the Week 13 matchup against UCLA in Pasadena. And take care of business against UW. The reward? A championship game matchup against Indiana in Indianapolis. Win, and it's on to the playoffs, perhaps with a 7th or 8th seed and a 1st-round home game? Lose? Does the B1G champ game loser get the committee's Alabama mulligan? Hmmmmm. OK, I like your idea better. The B1Ggest hurdle, besides a PO committee that isn't enamored with the Big Ten, would be blowing out a Michigan team that is 3rd in the nation in total defense and should be traveling to Autzen with a win over Michigan State and a 6-3 record. Your plan also requires the fine young cannibals to keep chomping in the SEC. Fine with me 😍. Miami without Toney winning in South Bend on Saturday would help the cause. Wake Forest losing two more games would also help. I think the B12 has SOS issues and will beat itself up. I hope. I see the G6 representative being the PO 12th seed. If Oregon finishes ranked 11th or higher by the PO committee after starting 23rd, it would be a historic accomplishment. Why not us? At least through part of Saturday afternoon on the Right Coast (the wrong coast for sports viewing), I'm keeping the playoffs faith. Thanks again for the encouragement. It's CFB in November; you never know. Blast Brutus!

2007 Re-Ducks, er, Redux? https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50380000/2007-chaos-2026-season

Week 10 T-25 vs. T-25 showdowns - https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/page/gamedaykickoff110526/week-10-top-games-upsets-preview I think Boise State can stop worrying about UTSA taking the G6 spot. In tonight's Alphabet Soup Bowl: FAU 60 - UTSA 29 (Utterly Trashed and Simply Awful😁 ).

If Miami goes MIA in the final two games, fine. But without one of the best players in CFB, I want Miami to win and tag the Domers with a second loss to go 0-2 vs. the Top-25, and hopefully out of the committee's top-12 from Week 11 through December 6th.

What goes around ... 😁

A Committee of Juan. 😁 The following ranking is as objective as it gets. But you have to use rankings from some source. This ranking uses ESPN's Strength of Record (SOR) and Strength of Schedule (SOS) Rankings through Week 9. I added a team's SOR and SOS rankings and ranked the top-12 teams by the result. The lower the total, the better the ranking. FYI, Oregon's SOR is 28 + 21 SOS = 49. Not in the top-12, but not far off. 1. Kentucky - SOR 2 + SOS 8 = 10 2. Ole Miss - SOR 7 + SOS 4 = 11 3. Alabama - 8 +7 = 15 4. Florida - 15 + 3 = 18 Tied 5 - Ohio State 9 + 10 and Texas 10 + 9 =19 7. Indiana 4 + 31 = 35 No. 8 LSU - 16 + 23 = 39 Tied 9 - Georgia, Miami, USC - 41 No. 12 - Tennessee - 18 + 25 = 43 GIGO? Perhaps. But the above rankings are based on statistics, not whimsy that has Ohio State ranked 8 places below a team it defeated and ranked 5 places above a team it lost to, a USC team that's 7-2 compared to Ohio State's 6-2. At least one thing that is crystal clear from the committee's 1st ranking: Ohio State should have played a G6 team at home instead of playing at Texas. Yet I'm certain that every committee member in the room wants to see better out-of-conference games.

Luck of the Irish. 🤬

I'm happy to post this here instead of in other posts on the same topic. Please move my last two posts from 'CFB Initial Rankings - My Thougths - Yours?' to this post. Thank you. On3Key takeaways from the first 2026 College Football Playof...Only three FBS teams remain unbeaten as we head to November, and two of the three — No. 1 Miami and No. 3 Utah — were rewarded by the selection committee

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Gotta love Cig's thoughts. 😍 Ohio State, ranked eight spots lower than an Indiana team it defeated; ranked nine spots higher than a USC team it lost to. It's only a movie. 🤪 On3Curt Cignetti calls out CFP rankings: 'SEC gets a lot of...Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti called out the College Football Playoff rankings due to their love of the SEC, in his mind anyway. That goes hand in hand

Week 10, the Week we were all waiting for. The week when preseason-ranked No. 2, 8-0 Oregon would play No. 1, 8-0 Ohio State in the Shoe to determine the No. 1 team in the land. But that was yesterday, and yesterday's gone.☹️ However, No. 23 Oregon at No. 12 Ohio State is still a B1G game amongst the best games of the 2026 season. Week 10 sees No. 20 USC and No. 4 Indiana on a bye before SC plays Indiana in Bloomington in Week 11. However, Week 10 delivers B1G CFB Playoff elimination games and coast-to-coast P4 elimination games. Playoff Committee Rankings. FanDuel odds. Pacific time game kickoffs. BTN = Big Ten Network Big Ten Games. Friday the 6th of November - 5-3 Nebraska -4.5 vs. 5-3 Illinois - 5 PM Fox Will the football gods ever allow the Cornhuskers to hold onto a 4th-quarter lead? Finish the deal, and 5-3 Nebraska would be 8-0 or 7-1. Saturday the 7th of November - Michigan 5-3 -13.5 vs. 2-6 Michigan State - 4:30 Peacock Michigan QB Tommy Carr, Week 9's B1G Freshman of the Week, visits Autzen in Week 11, along with some guy who used to win a lot of games in Salt Lake City. --- No. 8 - 8-0 UCLA -5.5 at 5-3 Minnesota - 9 AM Fox With its No. 3 strength-of-record ranking, UCLA ranked No. 8 by the playoff committee is a B1G in your face. Bruins, don't trip in a Gophers hole. --- 4-4 Penn State +1.5 at 5-3 Washington - 12:30 PM FS1 Penn State plays at Seattle for the first time since 1921 in the Weren't We Once Upon a Time Ranked Game. 🙃 --- 2-6 Maryland +6.5 at 3-5 Purdue - 9:30 AM BTN Surprisingly, tickets are still available. 😁 --- 2-6 Rutgers +16.5 at 5-3 Wisconsin - 1:15 PM BTN I don't mean to be Fickel or to Badger a team that's down, but some folks just can't handle success. I hope Bucky enjoyed its moment in the glow of the AP Poll rankings. The good news: With Wisconsin's choke job at Iowa, Notre Dame's B1Ggest win of the season got smaller. --- WEEK 10 B1G PLAYOFF ELIMINATION GAMES - No. 21 Iowa 6-2 +2.5 at No. 26 Northwestern 6-2 - 4:30 PM Fox Will Northwestern bounce back from a close loss on the road at No. 23 Oregon as it did after a closer loss at No. 4 Indiana? Will the Hawkeyes hand the Wildcats the first loss in renovated, state-of-the-art Ryan Field? Does Chip have anything in his bag of tricks that the winningest coach in Big Ten history has not seen before? With a loss, will Iowa stay ranked? With a win, will AP Poll No. 26 Northwestern move into the playoff committee's Top-25? Iowa should not have been tossed from the AP Top 25 with only 2 losses. Two-loss Northwestern with two 'quality losses' should be ranked in the playoff committee's Top-25. In-conference losses in the Big Ten count. In other conferences? --- The B1G Game of the Week - No. 23 Oregon 6-2 +10.5 at No. 12 Ohio State 6-2 - 12:30 PM CBS No. 1 8-0 Ohio State hosts No. 2 8-0 Oregon in a matchup that college football fans have looked forward to since the teams were ranked first and second in the preseason AP Poll. This will be a matchup of the two college quarterbacks expected to be drafted 1st and 2nd in the 2027 NFL Dra ... Darn It! Why did I have to wake up! 🤪 This is still a B1G game, no doubt, but not the biggest game in a Week 10 packed with games that will impact the 2026 playoffs. And Raiola vs. Fahey was not the QB Moore exciting matchup we were anticipating, just Sayin. 😒😧🥸 However, stuff happens! 🤮 Will OBD continue its possible playoff resurrection? Or will it be Brutus that keeps on dreaming about spending January 25th in Las Vegas? Hey, Sportsline - Ohio State 31 - Oregon 18; this prediction is No Fine! 🤬 --- On3's look at Week 10's Playoff - Impact Games - Game times Eastern On3College Football Playoff rankings disputes will be addres...The College Football Playoff Committee released its inaugural rankings on Tuesday evening, leaving many people scratching their heads. It's an annual Truck the Bucks!

The Luck of the Irish. 🤬One of CFB's most dynamic players is out for the Notre Dame game and perhaps the rest of the season. Malachi Toney, please get healthy. The weirdness of the 2026 season never seems to stop. On3Miami WR Malachi Toney undergoing tightrope surgery on in...Miami star wide receiver Malachi Toney's is set to undergo tightrope surgery on his ankle on Thursday, sources tell On3's Brett McMurphy and Pete Nakos.

The PO committee's top 12 includes a team from the Power 4. G6 No. 25, Boise State, would take Ohio State's place in the PO field. Below is an SP+ ranking of the Top 12 and Boise, and a list of SP+ Top 40 teams remaining to be played. SP+ No. 1 - Georgia - at Ole Miss, Missouri, and at South Carolina. No. 2 - Ohio State - Oregon, Northwestern, at Nebraska, and Michigan. The SEC has 10 teams ranked by the committee, but only Ohio State has four Top-40 SP+ on the schedule. No. 3 - Notre Dame - Miami and SMU. If No. 11 PO committee-ranked Notre Dame loses at home this Saturday, it could be out of the playoff. Notre Dame's best win came in the opening game against 5-3 Wisconsin. Perhaps ND should have opened against USC instead of playing BYU in Provo. No. 4 - LSU - Alabama, Texas, at Tennessee. Three tough games before the final game of the season at Arkansas. No. 5 - Miami - at Notre Dame, Duke. Miami's best win was at No. 16 Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons are also ranked No. 16 by SP+. Miami's defense was lit up by FSU's Ashton Daniels and UNC's Billy Edwards. Miami is the PO committee's No. 1 team based mostly on the Eye Test. No. 6 - Indiana - USC, at UW. No team deserves a week off more than Indiana. Nine games played before the chance to rest and heal in Week 10. No. 7 - Texas - at Missouri, at LSU, at Texas A&M. No. 8 - Alabama - at LSU. Win in Baton Rouge on Saturday, and PO committee No. 5 Alabama should finish in the committee's top 4 with a 1st -round bye. With a loss at LSU and remaining games at Vanderbilt, vs. Chattanooga (Choo-Choo!), and Auburn, a 9-3 Bama, except for the fact that the committee has a love affair with the Tide, could miss the 2026 PO. Bama's out-of-conference win over 3-5 FSU should not move the PO committee's rankings needle. But again, it's Alabama. No. 9 - Utah - BYU, at Arizona. Should be one heck of a Holy War this Saturday. The game kicks off at 10 AM local. FYI, PO committee ranked No. 3 Utah has played the 83rd most 'difficult' schedule in CFB; there are 68 Power 4 teams. No. 10 - Texas Tech - at Oklahoma State, at Baylor. Texas Tech has played college football's 68th strength-of-schedule. Why are the Red Raiders ranked 13th by the PO committee? Because of a two-point win over No. 17 Houston in Lubbock? No. 11 - Tennessee - Kentucky, at Texas A&M, LSU. I expect Lane Kiffin will receive a warm welcome. No. 12 - Oregon - at Ohio State, Michigan, UW. I'm keepin' the faith! No. 31 - Boise State - None.

Doctor, enjoy No. 21 South Carolina vs. A&M. Except for Georgia, ranked 2nd by the AP Poll voters and the committee, the other nine SEC teams are collectively ranked 19 places higher by the committee than by the AP voters. The five ranked Big Ten teams are collectively ranked 5 places higher, led by Oregon moving up from AP No. 27 to committee-ranked No. 23. Oregon has three SP+ top-40 teams remaining on the schedule: Ohio State, Michigan, and Washington.

CBSSN - Top-25 Rankings Winners and Losers. The Big Ten is a B1G Loser. https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/cfp-rankings-winners-losers-notre-dame-alabama/

Pause for flaws. Someone, please tell Heather Dinich that Halloween is over. 😁 https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50359655/cfp-rankings-fatal-flaws

1st PO ranking winners and whiners. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/11/03/cfp-rankings-first-winners-losers-college-football-playoff-2026-analysis/92592037007/?utm_source=usatoday-sports-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=usatbaseline&utm_term=Content%20List%20-%20Stacking%20-%20optimized&utm_co

Many are questioning Bama at No. 5. SISI:AM | The Very Weird CFP RankingsAlabama got some extra love from the committee, of course, but that wasn’t the only thing worth grumbling about.

Solar, I'd like to think so, but ... Ranking Ohio State 12th doesn't help. How far will the Buckeyes drop if they lose at home to Oregon? And Michigan, Michigan State, and UW will not be wins over ranked opponents. A 9-3 Oregon is far from a sure thing. The only sure thing would be if chaos somehow sends the in-conference 8-2 Ducks to the championship game, and Oregon wins, securing the Big Ten's automatic bid. I don't think a 3-loss Oregon will be ranked ahead of 2-loss SEC teams ranked above Oregon that suffer a 3rd in-conference loss, and 3-loss South Carolina is currently ranked above Oregon. The committee's love for the SEC is apparent, and not unjustified.

Things we learned, according to ESPN - I think we learned, again, that the process is a farce and CFB needs to go to a 24-team PO field ASAP. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50360739/cfp-playoff-2026-bubble-watch-week-9 Anger Index? Perhaps ESPN should look in the mirror? https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50372396/cfp-2026-anger-index-week-10

Thanks, my thoughts are posted in a separate thread.

The Gurus of Grapevine have spoken. Below is the College Football (CFB) Playoff (PO) Committee's initial Top 25 for the 2026 season. The best news for OBD fans: Oregon is ranked 23rd and would be in a 24-team PO field. (See below.) No. 24 Florida would be knocked out by No. 25 Boise State. In this season's 12-team PO field, No. 12 Ohio State would be knocked out by Boise State. No. 4 Indiana and No. 8 UCLA would be in the 12-team field. SEC teams: No. 2 Georgia, No. 5 Alabama, No. 6 Kentucky, No. 7 Texas, and No. 10 Ole Miss would be in. --- A few thoughts from me, and please post your thoughts. UCLA is 8-0. Utah is 8-0. UCLA is ranked 3rd in Strength of Record (SOR) and 77th in Strength of Schedule (SOS). Utah is ranked 5th in SOR and 83rd in SOS. In the committee's first Top 25, UCLA is ranked 8th. Utah is ranked 3rd. --- October 10, 2026 - 6-2 Tennessee 26, 6-2 Alabama 10. Alabama is ranked 5th. Tennessee is ranked 13th. Alabama can't catch a PO break, right? 🤪 --- Week 1 - Texas defeats Ohio State in Austin 24 to 23. 6-2 Texas is ranked 7th. Texas lost at home to No. 24 Florida and to not ranked Oklahoma in Dallas. Texas's best win: No. 10 Ole Miss in Austin. No. 12 6-2 Ohio State's other loss was on the road against No. 20 USC. Ohio State's best win: No. 4 Indiana in Bloomington. --- No. 4 7-1 Indiana, SOS 31. No. 12 6-2 Ohio State, SOS 10. Committee: Ohio State, you should have played three cupcakes out of conference like your Hoosier friends. That way, you'd be 7-1 with a win over the Hoosiers and, perhaps, ranked higher than today? Ohio State: But we beat Indiana on their home field and ended a 22-game winning streak. Committee: Yeah, but your starting QB is hurt; that's why you are ranked 12th. Ohio State: But Indiana's starting QB is also hurt, and we defeated Indiana! Committee: Indiana's QB being hurt is irrelevant because Indiana has one more win than you do. But please, keep on playing those marquee out-of-conference games. In the long offseason, it gives us something to look forward to. 🤬🤬🤬! ... Thank goodness the PO is expanding to 24 teams. Here's what a 24-team PO field would be. 1st- and 2nd-round games played on campus. No. 1 Miami vs. No. 24 Boise State at No. 9 BYU No. 2 Georgia vs. No. 23 Oregon at No. 10 Ole Miss No. 3 Utah vs. No. 22 Arizona at No. 11 Notre Dame No. 4 Indiana vs. No. 21 South Carolina at No. 12 Ohio State No. 5 Alabama vs. No. 20 USC at No. 13 Tennessee No. 6 Kentucky vs. No. 19 Iowa at No. 14 LSU No. 7 Texas vs. No. 18 Missouri at No. 15 Texas Tech No. 8 UCLA vs. No. 17 Houston at No. 16 Wake Forest --- In 2024 and in 2025, three teams ranked in the committee's initial top 12 did not make the PO field. Straight off the Grapevine, CFB PO committee rankings, where you can find Logic on life support. On3College Football Playoff Top 25: First official 2026 CFP....