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2025-2026 College Football Champions: D1 CFP: Indiana D1 FCS: Montana State (nearly Illinois State) D2: Ferris State (Michigan) D3: Wisconsin River Falls NAIA: Grand View (Iowa) NJCAA: DuPage (Illinois) Too bad it just means more in the south.

Three straight for the Big Ten

Looked like Cristobal broke his headset complaining about the correctly called delay of game. Now a penalty on Indiana for roughing the passer. There was a hit on Mendoza earlier that should have been called targeting.

False start by the Indiana LT is going to give Miami a shot down 6 with plenty of time left and the clock stopping every first down.

Campbell doesn’t coach scared. And I don’t doubt he’ll replace Petzing if needed. I do wonder if part of the calculus is trying to get a step ahead of the next hottest thing. Ten head jobs were open this year. If you hire a guy like McDaniel or even Scheelhaase or Peetz, you’ll be back in the same spot next year. Petzing is probably a few years away from being a serious head coach contender.

It’s hard to not be disappointed by this not being one of the first 20 names I thought of. But there were worse options out there, including those on the list. Assuming Petzing will call plays and allow Campbell to manage the game, that alone is a big upgrade. I don’t think it’s particularly hard to make the offensive weapons on the Lions look good. It’s more of an indictment on Morton than a credit to Johnson that one succeeded and the other failed. They cast a wide net and we have to trust this is the right guy. Because if it’s not it’s not just Petzing on the hot seat a year from now.

It feels like Ben is on the trajectory of Brian Daboll. Next big thing offensively, but not a great game manager or people person. Daboll went 9-7-1 with a playoff win, then 6-11, then 3-14, then 2-8 and fired. Johnson may not go 3-14 in two years, but I think below 0.500 sounds right for the Bears next season. Now watch the Bills hire Daboll back.

Your Honor, his contract clearly says that he will be coaching for the New York football team, not the New Jersey football team.

I think the biggest downside - like Kingsbury - is that the Lions offense is very different from Buffalo's. Granted, Brady cut his teeth in the NFL as an analyst in New Orleans with Brees at the helm, so it's not like he's a foreigner to Goff's style. Campbell and Brady actually overlapped in 2017 and 2018 with New Orleans. I didn't know that.

Joe Brady deserves an interview with McDermott out in Buffalo.

I hope not. Patriots-Broncos might be a blood bath if Stidham is in over his head. Championship Sunday is the best day of the year for a pure football fan. Two blowouts would be sad.

Is Ben Johnson going to tell his guys that this may have been their only shot?

NFC North hasn't won a playoff game against a non-NFC North opponent since Detroit beat Tampa Bay.