Jon Joseph

11-1 - PO - 3 and 0, or 2 and 0 with a PO bye. Champ game in Las Vegas on 1/25/27. With tens of thousands of Oregon fans in Allegiant Stadium. Here's hoping that OBD fans will not want the last game of the season to stay in Vegas. Tough schedule, but a lot of talent on this Oregon team. Please, football gods, allow OBD to have all hands on deck for this season's B1Ggest and PO games. On3Way-Too-Early 2026 All-America football teamWith the 2025 season over, On3 looks towards the 2026 college football season. This week we bring you the Way-Too-Early All-America team.

The Games You Remember are Played in November. I don't know if there will be snow on the ground in Columbus or East Lansing, but OBD has tough sledding in November. Oregon Ducks On SIToughest Three Game Stretch of Oregon Ducks Football Sche...The Oregon Ducks’ 2026 schedule is out, featuring a mix of marquee matchups and highly winnable home games at Autzen Stadium. Under coach Dan Lanning, Oregon ha

Darren, please forgive me for going OT. Smitty, you can debate which conference is better in whatever sport, but there is no debating when it comes to Big Ten wrestling. The Big Ten is on top, and it isn't close. No other conference can take down 😁the B1G. The Big Ten has won 17 NCAA titles in a row, and Penn State, 49-1 in its last 50 dual matches, is the prohibitive favorite to win the 18th straight this season. Penn State sends 6 All-Americans in a row out on the mat. Good luck. If you can do so, watch B1G wrestling expert Shane Sparks when he is interviewed on the B1G Today show by Dave Revsine. Or, catch him when announcing a Big Ten match. Feeling down? Watch and listen to the High On Life Sparks. Enthusiasm personified. Dave Revsine has been with the Big Ten Network since it opened shop in 2007, and there is no one Revsine enjoys interviewing more than Shane Sparks. Rhetorical question: Does Shane look like a wrestler? WIN MagazineShane Sparks more than lives up to his broadcasting name...By Katie Finn For many wrestling fans, the voice and face of wrestling is Shane Sparks. What makes this wrestling broadcaster so good and what makes it so interesting are his enthusiasm and apparent

Thanks, Darren, for once again Perking Up my day. 😁 Sorry, Brother, but Go Pats!

I guess voters looked at the record when Bill had TB and when he didn't? Perhaps the TB Bucs winning a Super Bowl with TB was noted? Folks in Chapel Hill, NC, missed the memo. 🤪

Good point. But the fact that travel is more difficult for other sports does not negate the Big Ten handing Oregon eight games straight without a break, which includes two trips to the Eastern time zone in November. Twice in three seasons, B1G HQ has Oregon as the only Big Ten team playing eight in a row. This is a competitive disadvantage that should not have happened once, let alone twice.

Good take. Thanks for being on the Forum and for all of the great posts. Thanks for the heads up on Northwestern playing 11 games in a row. Good luck, Chip. 😉 I was focused on conference contenders. NW will battle, but it is one of the longest shots to contend for a conference title. In a mega-conference with teams coast to coast, some teams will get the short end of the scheduling stick. Understood. What isn't right is taxing Oregon for the second time in three seasons, with eight B1G games in a row without a break, including a trip to Columbus on 11/7 and to East Lansing on 11/21. Like 2024, Oregon is the only Big Ten team playing eight straight without a break. THIS does not have to and shouldn't happen. It's a competitive disadvantage. Michigan plays seven in a row, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, six straight, Penn State, and UW play 5, and USC, with an OOC opponent still to be named, plays 5. Just to rub it in, Illinois is off the week before Oregon travels East to play the Illini. Mercy!

Here's more on the Ducks twice in three seasons being behind a Big Ten scheduling 8-ball and the demands of traveling twice to the Eastern time zone in November. Autzen ZooOregon's 2026 schedule demands adjustments in planning, p...No one has depth anymore, not like the pre-portal days. Oregon lost 30 players to the NIL chase. Texas Tech lost 31.. Suck it up and play ball! Fine, but being asked to play 8 Big Ten games in a row, again, is over the line.

Thank you, NJ. This is one of the best DucksWire articles I've read. It hits the schedule's high notes and low notes. I am not the only one to notice the game in Stillwater will be against a much-improved team. In his second season at North Texas, Eric Morris took the Mean Green to the AAC champ game. 17 players are following Morris to OK St, including QB Drew Mestermaker, whose 4,379 passing yards were the best in FBS in 2025. OBD better make no misstate in the first three games. 😁 The author noted that the Ducks, as in 2024, play eight games in a row against B1G opponents without a week off. What he failed to add is that Oregon is the only Big Ten team running this gauntlet. In 2024, Oregon was the only FBS team to play eight straight without a break. I'm in the process of determining whether this will be the case in 2026, and I will report back. As the author did note, OBD travels to the Eastern time zone twice in November, Week 10 at Ohio State, and Week 12 at Michigan State. UW had this November travel yo-yo west to east late in the 2025 season; one reason UW lost at Wisconsin. The weather in Columbus on 11/7 should be decent, but 11/21 in East Lansing, Michigan? Thanks again, NJ.

Yes. And this is the reason many SEC teams are dropping future OOC games vs P4 opponents. I don't blame the SEC teams for doing so. Check out Indiana's 2025 consumption of cupcakes, rinse and repeat in 2026. It's plain as can be. You want better OOC games, go with Tony Petitti's automatic qualifier 16-team PO format.

Upon further review and after a double vodka and tonic, in 2026, like 2024, Oregon is the only B1G team playing eight B1G games in a row. Whether OBD is the only P4 team playing eight in a row is under further, further, and perhaps another cocktail's review. That Illinois is off the week before Oregon travels to the Central time zone to play the Illini in front of CFB's largest stadium scoreboard is another B1G slap in the face. I need to look at the ACC, B12, and SEC conferences, but I will not be surprised if OBD is the only P4 CFB team playing 8-straight, possibly nine in a row if Oregon plays in the 2026 B1G champ game. Another preseason B1G title contender, Michigan, plays seven B1G games in a row. Indiana, USC, Iowa, Illinois, and UW play six. Ohio State and Penn State play five. Rob Mullens, where are you? Portland State's on the schedule, and OBD opens with Boise State? What the Hxxx, blast Boise!

You could see this coming from 2136 miles away: the distance between B1G HQ in Chicago and Eugene.

OBD plays at Illinois with the Illini coming off an idle week? With OBD coming off a game against Nebraska. If this is a 9 AM body clock start ... Having Week 5 off and then playing nine games in a row if OBD plays in the B1G champ game is just wrong.

David, I get it. Good point. I have to pursue other schedules, but is there another B1G title contender with a schedule that would have the conference champion game being their ninth game in a row?

Sorry for being crass, but this Idle Week sucks! 🤬 Oregon was the only P4 team in 2024 that had to play eight games in a row against P4 competition, and B1G HQ is doing it to OBD again? WT Fugazi!

An ESPN look at the Senior Bowl - ESPN.com2026 Senior Bowl: Top NFL draft prospects, QBs, predictionsOur NFL draft experts weigh in on what to expect at the Senior Bowl, from picking out position groups to watch to predicting players who could rise.

Thanks for the comment. Indiana has 12 of its 22 starters back, and On3-Rivals ranks the incoming transfer portal class No. 1. Chip bolted for the NFL, and Mark Helfrich took OBD to the most-watched playoff championship game vs. Ohio State. Curt Cignetti and his long-time coaching crew are great at evaluating overlooked talent. WR Sarratt and AA CB Ponds were only offered by JMU. The Hoosiers' LOS holes in 2024 were portal-fixed in 2025. Indiana is in the top 5 odds-on teams to win the 2026 title. I wouldn't make this bet without knowing if QB Hoover comes close to the play of Fernando. But I will and have bet that Indiana will be back in the PO for the third time with Cig as its HC. My betting buddies and I did hit a Champ Game inside straight. We were down with Indiana -5.5 when the champ game odds opened. (Don't ask about our Peach Bowl bets. 🤬)

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Hmmmmmmm? Because Kiffin won a conference championship at FAU? This is it for the hardware Kiffin has brought in. Ole Miss was a lock for the 2024-25 PO before QB Dart threw up late in the season at Florida. Seriously, I get your well-made point. It's the reason Kiffin left Ole Miss for LSU, a program that has won national championships. One of these titles was won by Saint Nick Saban. Les Miles won in a season where no team had fewer than two losses. Ogeron won with QB transfer Joe Burrow, and Joe Brady calling plays for one of the best offenses in the history of the game. (BTW, as Coach O acknowledged, his LSU guys were not playing just for tuition, room, and board.) LSU's 2026 schedule is much more difficult than any schedule Kiffin has faced as an SEC coach. At Ole Miss in Week 3, especially if QB Chambliss can play one more season, I think Pete Golding takes down LSU and takes Ole Miss back to the PO with LSU missing out. (If Pete's not too busy poaching. 😁) Again, solid point, but IMO, scoring millions of big ones had more to do with Seaton's decision than winning the Big One in 2026. Based on his track record, Kiffin may not make it to season three.

Thanks, Charles, for the terrific editing job. Cig is losing many of the players he brought with him from JMU. Will this make a difference in 2026? One prediction of which I am certain, Indiana vs. Ohio State and Indiana at Michigan will draw a huge number of eyeballs. For viewer numbers compared to the SEC, I hope at least one of these games will kick off at 7:30 PM Eastern. And many folks will be watching the battle of the Os, Oregon at Ohio State.

Par for the Lame Kitten course. Kiffin has never been a great recruiter. He buys players from the portal. Trinidad Chambliss was discovered and brought to Ole Miss by Charlie Weiss, Jr. LSU also went large in the portal in 2025 and fired Brian Kelly before the end of the season. This Pink Slip only cost LSU $54 million. In 2026, LSU is on the road for five SEC games: Ole Miss 😁, Kentucky, Auburn, Tennessee, and Arkansas. In 2026's 13-week season, LSU finishes with back-to-back road games. Week 12 at Tennessee and Week 13 at Arkansas. Not the best way to finish a season. The five SEC road games will be a new experience for LSU and the other seven SEC teams doing the same in 2026. Home opener against Clemson. Then, LSU welcomes Texas A&M, Mississippi State, Alabama, and Texas to Baton Rouge. This is a far more difficult SEC schedule than Old Miss played in 2025. Good luck (yuck, yuck.) LSU is paying QB Sam Leavitt a lot of money to transfer in from ASU. Leavitt has a history of being injured. He's a good dual-threat QB, but he has nowhere near the ability and athleticism of Trinidad Chambliss. O-line was LSU's weakest link last season. Seaton's coming in, but will he be a fit and play well with his new teammates? Seaton played well at CU, but the overall line play was Buffalo chips. I look at the schedule, and I can see three or more losses and no invitation to the playoffs. If so, entering year two Kiffin's seat will be scalding hot. The man won a conference championship in the G6 with FAU; that is all he's accomplished.

Senior Bowl - Saturday - 1/31/26 - 2:30 PM Eastern, 11:30 AM Pacific - NFL Network Also beginning tomorrow, 1/27, you can watch practices on the NFL Network Ducks at the Senior Bowl - Long Snapper - Jeffery Basso O-line - Alex Harkey, Emmanuel Pregnon, Isaiah World LB - Bryce Boettcher And many other players from the Big Ten. ENJOY!

Marines in 1966 - 2-year 'time out?' My Forum Friend, I am happy you are alive to witness Oregon's success. On behalf of my brother, a Marine who slogged through rice paddies and the jungle in 1967 and 1968, Semper Fi!

I'm waiting for tomorrow's schedule review to make my prediction. Hate to do it, but I have to agree with the Men of Troy - Notre Dame has done NOTHING to deserve this PO perk. https://trojanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/trojans/football/2026/01/26/new-college-football-playoff-format-notre-dame-advantage/88344740007/?utm_source=smg-trojanswire-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SMGb

Warm up for the B1G Reveal with this Preseason Composite top 25 from On3-Rivals - 8 B1G teams are ranked, and Illinois should also be ranked. On3Way-Too-Early Top 25 Composite: Sports outlets, experts p....