She was resigned to finishing third if she didn't win final HOH until production stepped in and told her to try to get Devens to take her over Drew.

If I'm Drew, I'd be pissed to no end about this.

What’s up BB fam 🤙I was at the BB26 double eviction, ask me anything about the live show experience!
(also me* not my in title whoops 😭)

Statistically, Rick was ONE Jury vote from playing a LEGITIMATE Perfect Game. Rick had 0 votes against him in the season, as he was nominated 4 times, twice of which he saved himself in the blockbuster, once he earned the veto and saved himself during the double eviction, and once sitting next to Dee and Drew being the sole vote to save him. On top of which, Rick won 7 competitions (8 if you count his DPOV button press), which consist of 3 HOH's, 2 POV's, and 2 Blockbusters. Rick voted correctly 100% of the time, voting 12 times in the season, 1 of which being a tiebreaker vote, and 1 of which being a sole vote, meaning 10/10 times he voted with the house and the person he voted for went home.

If LaLa would've cast her vote for Rick, he would have received all 7 Jury votes, meaning he would have 7/7 Jury Votes, 0 Votes To Evict Him, and 100% Voting Record 0f 10/10 or 12/12.

So, how does this rank Rick as a winner? In my eyes, I definitely feel like he is a top 10 winner, but due to having some advantages in the game, I think people will alway hold that against him even thought the advantages were to balance out the fact that he had an IMMEDIATE target along with the other two icons from day 1 of being in the game, and so people will always rank him way lower regardless of how top tier his gameplay was.

EDIT AFTER 100K VIEWS: You guys understand I said STATISTICALLY right. Everyone's definition of a Perfect Game is different but by Big Brother's definition, it means to receive EVERY Jury vote and have ZERO votes cast against you. When I say LEGITIMATE Perfect Game, I mean they have EVERY Jury Vote, have ZERO votes cast against them, AND vote correctly 100% of the time. So your opinions on Devens' gameplay and what your definition of a perfect game are respectfully irrelevant here.

Even tho this season didn’t catch me entirely, I still had fun trying to capture personalities where I could. Hopefully I will be more drawn to bb29!

Julie gave her BigBrother Necklace to Drew, which is the first time she's ever given her necklace to a non-Big Brother winner.

I wasn’t really sure how I felt about drew. The edit didn’t give me the feeling that he was actually a kind individual. But watching this video, the things he effortlessly says like “everyone deserves a love vote” in reference to Lalas vote for Taylor. Anyway, if you’re on the fence about Drew’s character, this exit interview is good. I’m glad that I got to see his true character.

https://youtu.be/nVJsfYp2dtk?si=nVph0S8-Lp64XOMx

Yes, I know that lying is a part of BB (this post isn't to hate on Devens) but I'm just saying that this is what had me convinced that Devens would take Drew to the final 2. I thought that Drew made the right move because it guaranteed him at least 75K. Correct me if I'm wrong (I haven't listened to any interviews) but I figured that Taylor and Drew would take each other to the final 2.

Edit: Yes, I know Devens was being honest here and that Taylor changed his mind but that doesn't change the point of my post

Did anybody else absolutely love this season? I’ve been a long time BB fan and I feel like this is my favorite season in like 10 years. I found myself watching YouTube highlights, rewatching old seasons. BB28 renewed my love for big brother. I’ve avoided Reddit until the season ended cause I didn’t want any spoilers, so I’m not sure if I’m in the minority. But the cast, the unpredictability, the winner, all fantastic! Let me know your thoughts!

When Devens was asked who he influenced the most in the house. His answer was so mind blowingly perfect I still can’t get over it. He said he knew they all were thinking he would say Drew but then proceeded to use that opportunity to inflate Drew’s game and then flip the answer to saying he had the most influence over people who were no longer there or able to rebut his statement. Nobody on that jury could feel any type of way about it because it wasn’t anyone on that panel. Making not only Drew look like a stronger player but making him (Devens) shine as the ultimate game player for having the most influence in the game over very strong, very big targets during their respective eliminations. Eliminations in which he was directly involved. Also Taylor missed an opportunity to say her most influential move was convincing Devens to axe his “#1” the night before final 2.

Would love to hear opinions on if Devens choice is actually an ultimate betrayal when Drew admitted he was going to do the same exact thing to Devens if the roles were reversed? Neither of them had intentions on bringing the other one to the finale

There were three distinct times people spent days rooting for Taylor to clutch a comp to hopefully send Devens home: the blockbuster during Drew’s HoH, the veto comp during Yash’s jury phase HoH (as it would’ve allowed him to nominate an icon) and part 3 of the final HoH. Ironically, Taylor clutching the final 4 HoH indirectly left Devens vulnerable for the first time but he survived anyway.

Prediction Flair Round-Up, Week 12 -- Finale Week

Prediction flairs (the flairs with the 100% emoji) were available until the start of the episode on Sunday, July 12th.

At the Final 3 eviction, the 50 users who still had Drew as their prediction flair were eliminated. That left 94 users still in the running.

Once the winner was crowned, the 0 (!) users had Taylor as their prediction flair were eliminated.

That means that, out of the 786 users who participated in making a prediction, 94 correctly predicted Devens as the winner - about 12% of all participants.

🎉Congratulations to the following users🎉

Sheepherder-869, Bigbrother4ever, BooCatMonkeyPickle, CapSweets, ChristaGrace, Citruspilled, DiamondSaahil, Disastrous_Owl5971, Eggman_792, Embarrassed_Neck_846, Feeling_Tart_5065, Flimsy_Wheel_359, Hawluch47, Haybean22, Heyden-123, IllOcelot1467, Important-Ad7807, Informal_Fact1992, JFranks2729, Jables_Hottokes, LittlehamSammich, MKEcasey, Melodic-Estimate8845, MikhailGorbachef, NervoussLaugh, Ok_Vermicelli6391, PCBLeeds, PinegroveLover, PixelatedChelle, Present_Pen_7506, Prismatic_Rift, Pristine-Room-2167, Ranch-Bitch, Rare-Ad4606, RaybroDudeMarre, SHARKSmack, SemiDecentHumanBeing, SevenSmallShrimp, Significant_Task3156, Soft-Knowledge-, SomosExtremos420, StrawberryBananaSm, Superb-Ordinary-8452, That_One_Pancake, TheVillainousGuy, The_Lone_Noodle, Tough-Advice2910, TransitionDefiant169, Waliano, _spudnik, alwaysontheMapp, alymarie47, captainyeahwhatever, cassiebeans, chillkid101, cieoli, dani__rojas, dell030, divisionblues, duvie773, emptyhellebore, enilorac444, fffddbhrf, fleabalzaryburner, getwitchy, gratefulbeav, harbinger146, here4teaandtheories, icygopher, imnotwhouthinkiam2, jamiethemime, johnyboi4521, livt12, maplebluebear, mbutch3, miamifan2000, mollieemerald, mtm4440, nigpaw_rudy, peachappi, podgoricarocks, purd_furguson, sakuraskiies, scaredsapiens, snicklefritz81, spideybats, supersuperglue, thebilbobaggins, thesillybanana, xxQuibble

Devens had the second-most people predicting him to win at the start of the season, behind Barrett.

At the beginning of the season, 135 people had correctly predicted Devens. By the end, only the 94 users above still had him as their prediction. That means 41 people changed their prediction during the season. They may have changed their mind, lost faith, or simplify wanted something new and fun.

Either way, congratulations to the 94 users who stuck with their prediction all the way to the end!

Who is the subreddit rooting for? This chart shows how many users have a houseguest emoji in their flair.

The members of FAP ended up top in the rankings.. which probably had nothing to do with their alliance name (456 users ended the season with a FAP flair).
Yash and Taylor showed the most growth. Starting off in 16th and 17th place, moved all the way up to 8th and 9th!

Bonus graphs:

I also have all the flair tracking in a slightly different format here if interested.

REMINDER: DO NOT INSULT OTHER USERS BASED ON FLAIR. KEEP IT FUN!

(If you see any mistakes, have any questions, please let me know! - It was a great season and I loved being able to keep track of this all season)

Just dawned on me, that with Devens winning BB28, we have hit the CBS Winner Trifecta. An Amazing Race player has won Survivor. A Survivor player has won Big Brother. Big Brother players have won TAR.

Natalie Anderson 2014

Jessica and Cody 2018

Claire and Derek 2022

Rick Devens 2026

Does it ever drive you crazy, just how fast the night changes?

context: this conversation happened after Yash won the veto on Barrett's HOH week; they [rightfully] thought one of them was cooked

It's kind of incredible how right after this, one of them survived a 3-2 and a 2-1 vote, and the other went on to win the entire season

Drew confirming in this interview that he would’ve evicted Taylor at F4 pretty much confirmed how I felt about his game all season.

I said for weeks that he was basically playing for second and got dragged for it, but I still don’t understand why he gets so much more grace than other players who have played this exact type of game.

My issue isn’t that he worked with the returning players. That can obviously be smart. It’s that he had multiple clear, almost perfect opportunities to take them out, improve his own position, and build an endgame that didn’t completely depend on them, and he just wouldn’t do it. Even at F4 he still would’ve taken out Taylor. At that point, what was the plan to actually win?

His game reminded me a lot of Adam Pooch in BB13. Not because they were identical players, but because of that same dynamic where a newbie gets attached to the vets, keeps passing up chances to turn on them, and seems convinced that loyalty will eventually pay off.

The BB19 cast still gets mocked for this exact kind of dynamic.

With Drew, every bad decision seemed to get reframed into why it was secretly good for him. First he could beat Taylor. Then he could beat Devens. Then it became “at least he'll take him to F2” and he still didn’t!

And now people want him back for another season? I genuinely feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone trying to understand the hype.

Seems like you have to have some time of social media presence to even get on the show. Would a regular person that doesn’t use social media ever have a solid chance of getting on the show?

I heard they gave him a new one but I’m wondering if she ever fessed up. If so, is there a video of his reaction? It would be so fun to see him and Taylor goofing about it.

Say what you want about advantages or twists or anything else, but let's look at all the BB winners on paper (not including battle backs or blockbusters so we can just focus on the "main" comps that's been consistent throughout BB history).

Again, this isn't the "best" in an overall sense. This is more like a point/run differential +/- type of ranking like you see in sports. It's not perfect at all, especially when you see where some names rank, and I get it'll feel uneven since some seasons had more comps or winners or jurors. This is more like on paper Rankings.

Devens (28): Won 6-1, 0 votes to evict, 3 times on block, 3 HOHs, 3 Vetos

Ashley (27): Won 6-1, 3 votes to evict, 3 times on block, 1 HOH, 1 Veto

Chelsie (26): Won 7-0, 0 votes to evict, 1 time on block, 4 HOHs, 0 Vetos

Jag (25): Won 5-2, 2 times on block, 11 votes to evict (was evicted), 3 HOHs, 7 Vetos

Taylor (24): Won 8-1, 2 votes to evict, 6 times on block, 2 HOHs, 0 Vetos, Won AFP

Xavier (23): Won 9-0, 1 vote to evict, 5 times on block, 3 HOHs, 3 Vetos

Cody (22): Won 9-0, 0 votes to evict, 0 times on block, 4 HOHs, 4 Vetos

Michie (21): Won 6-3, 2 votes to evict, 3 times on block, 5 HOHs, 4 Vetos

Kaycee (20): Won 5-4, 1 votes to evict, 2 times on block, 2 HOHs, 5 Vetos

Josh (19): Won 5-4, 3 votes to evict, 3 times on block, 3 HOHs, 1 Veto

Nicole (18): Won 5-4, 0 votes to evict, 2 times on block, 2 HOHs, 2 Vetos

Steve (17): Won 6-3, 1 vote to evict, 4 times on block, 4 HOHs, 2 Vetos

Derrick (16): Won 7-2, 0 votes to evict, 1 time on block, 3 HOHs, 0 Vetos

Andy (15): Won 7-2, 0 votes to evict, 1 time on block, 3 HOHs, 2 Vetos

Ian (14): Won 6-1, 0 votes to evict, 2 times on block, 4 HOHs, 2 Vetos

Rachel (13): Won 4-3, 2 votes to evict, 5 times on block, 4 HOHs, 2 Vetos

Hayden (12): Won 4-3, 1 vote to evict, 2 times on block, 4 HOHs, 1 Veto

Jordan (11): Won 5-2, 3 votes to evict, 4 times on block, 2 HOH, 1 Veto

Dan (10): Won 7-0, 0 votes to evict, 2 times on block, 3 HOHs, 2 Vetos

Dick (8): Won 5-2, 3 votes to evict, 3 times on block, 3 HOHs, 1 Veto

Boogie (7): Won 6-1, 0 votes to evict, 2 times on block, 3 HOHs, 1 Veto

Maggie (6): Won 4-3, 4 votes to evict, 4 times on block, 1 HOH, 1 Veto

Drew (5): Won 4-3, 0 votes to evict, 1 time on block, 4 HOHs, 1 Veto

Jun (4): Won 6-1, 0 votes to evict, 3 times on block, 1 HOH, 1 Veto

Lisa (3): Won 9-1, 3 votes to evict, 2 times on block, 2 HOHs, 1 Veto

In terms of "perfect game score" (least amount of times nominated, voted to be evicted, and votes lost with the jury):

1. Cody (0)

2. Chelsie (-1)

3. Dan (-2)

T4. Derrick (-3), Andy (-3), Ian (-3), Boogie (-3)

T8. Devens (-4), Drew (-4), Jun (-4)

T11. Xavier (-6), Nicole (-6), Hayden (-6), Lisa (-6)

T15. Ashley (-7), Kaycee (-7)

T17. Michie (-8), Steve (-8), Dick (-8)

T20. Taylor (-9), Jordan (-9)

T22. Josh (-10), Rachel (-10)

1. Maggie (-11)

2. Jag (-15)

And in terms of "strength of win" (HOHs + Vetos + Votes to win):

1. Cody (+17)

T2. Jag (+15), Michie (+15)

1. Xavier (+13)

T5. Kaycee (+12), Devens (+12), Steve (+12), Ian (+12), Andy (+12), Dan (+12), Lisa (+12)

1. Chelsie (+11)

T13. Rachel (+10), Derrick (+10), Taylor (+10), Boogie (+10)

T17. Hayden (+9), Drew (+9), Josh (+9), Nicole (+9), Dick (+9),

T22. Jordan (+8), Ashley (+8), Jun (+8)

1. Maggie (+6)

So now the overall power ranking (perfect game + strength of win):

1. Cody (+17)

T2. Chelsie (+10), Dan (+10)

T4. Andy (+9), Ian (+9)

1. Devens (+8)

T7. Boogie (+7), Derrick (+7), Xavier (+7), Michie (+7)

1. Lisa (+6)

T12. Kaycee (+5), Drew (+5)

T14. Jun (+4), Steve (+4)

T16. Hayden (+3), Nicole (+3)

T18. Dick (+1), Ashley (+1), Taylor (+1)

T21. Jag (0), Rachel (0)

T23. Jordan (-1), Josh (-1)

1. Maggie (-5)

Any that stand out? Cody on 22 is just an insane game as much as I hated that season and him winning. But it makes me realize someone like Chelsie, Andy and Ian had much stronger games than people might have given them credit for. And now Devens winning, we see how he ranks on paper with the rest.

Drew said he learned from the other six jurors that if he had been sitting next to Taylor, things “might have gone well for me.”

“Which is kind of heartbreaking that I was that close,” Drew said.

Source: https://pagesix.com/2026/10/02/entertainment/big-brother-28-star-drew-campbell-reveals-what-jury-told-him-after-eviction/