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Traditional powerhouses Ohio State and Notre Dame set to meet in CFP Championship Game
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Traditional powerhouses Ohio State and Notre Dame set to meet in CFP Championship Game
And then there were two.
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Remind me….
What is the name of this website?
DAWGNATION? Correct?
Then why the Osu ND story on this site?
Geez….tone deaf
So, much for playing tough schedules.
I don't care who wins this game…. SEC forever!!!
Call me a sore loser, but I'll see if I can find something/anything else to do that night. On a related note, it's downright embarrassing how the SEC fared in the post-season… eating crow really sux. Go Dawgs!
Two of the most despised college football teams in history. Can they play 20 OTs and both lose?
DMVDawg, I agree. The toughest schedule in the country wore our team slap out and caused many injuries and forced plays that shouldn’t have been made. The two teams playing have played ridiculously easy schedules like clemson did several years ago. Those teams are rested because they didn’t have to play their players but 2-3 quarters in most games. Tough schedules aren’t the way to go. People complain about playing cupcake teams, but those games help our players more than hurt. I know people want to see our team play big name teams, but maybe it can be Wake instead of clemson, Minnesota instead of osu, in other words, the lower tier teams of other conferences.
seeing that headline makes me want to p u k e
Ohio State is going to the championship game by virtue of the fact that they happen to be playing more or less the best at the very end of the season, after putting together a 3-month résumé that otherwise can only be described as "okay." Between that, and the fact that they had to spend tens of millions of dollars bringing in the best players from other teams to even get to this point, Ohio State is - more than any other program - the face of everything that's wrong with the sport right now. And I say this as someone who was born in Ohio and still has a lot of family up there.
Texas had their chance to put them in their place and they choked it away. I suppose it's some consolation that we've been given this wet blanket to throw on the Texas arrogance going forward. But this still leaves a sour taste in my mouth almost rivaling the one after the Sugar Bowl.
Will the fans show up? It was mostly UGA for the game in South Bend and UTK for the game in Columbus. Should be there, they won't have anyone else to sell them to.
Well the media should be happy because the two teams they anoint with the pre-season National Championship every year are playing for it. Here's hoping both of them crash and burn...
Good grief. First some humour:
"The CFP Championship Game will be played in Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, the self-proclaimed College Football Capital." It is not as if the Falcons generally use it this time of year. Drafting more Bulldogs might help.
Now error corrections.
"vertical threat Emeka Egbuka"
Egbuka IS NOT a vertical threat. There's a reason why Egbuka is still in Columbus while 4 other WRs from that 2021 Ohio State team are in the NFL (and then you had Jameson Williams who would have been had he not transferred to Alabama to become a 1st round pick). He's just a good solid WR capable of beating defenses and making plays that will be a 3rd to 4th round draft pick depending on his 40 time and have a solid NFL career. It is just that such players have been in such short supply in Athens under the Kirby Smart regime that we've forgotten what they look like.
"Neither the No. 7-seeded Irish nor the No. 8-seeded Buckeyes would have made the field had last year’s four-team format been applied."
THIS IS NOT TRUE. The Irish were only seeded 7th because they didn't win their conference (because they weren't in a conference to win). Except for FSU last year, the 4 team playoff always took the teams with the best records. So Oregon and Notre Dame would have been guaranteed to get in under the old system. After that? A toss-up. Georgia would have been guaranteed a spot as the clear best of the 2 loss teams. The only question would have been who gets the 4th spot out of Ohio State, Texas, Penn State and Indiana. Answer: Ohio State does because Ryan Day takes the Michigan game far more seriously and beats them by 2 scores instead of running up the middle all day long with only 4 spots available.
a CFP championship game Georgia and Alabama staged a contested — and controversial — classic
It was only controversial in the eyes of UGA fans. While UGA scapegoated the referees for their failure to be UGA fans and have every single judgment call go UGA's way, the truth is that UGA didn't do much on offense after Javon Wims, their leading WR and the only one with the size and ability to make plays on 50/50 balls downfield (meaning the "good but not great" sort i.e. Egbuka that has been rare in Athens in the Kirby Smart era, as Wims was a Richt recruit) got hurt shortly before halftime. UGA fans would ironically go on to claim that injuries to your #1 WR were completely unimportant to winning title games in 2021 and 2022 until - you guessed it - not having healthy Brock Bowers and Ladd McConkey cost UGA the 2023 title.
Conference championships, as it turned out, weren’t as beneficial as many thought.
Only because of the nature of the conference champions. The 2 best teams this year were the Big 10's Ohio State and Oregon. The ACC's best was a wretched Clemson team that lost to the 3 best teams in the SEC and Louisville. The Big 12's best team was Arizona State. The SEC's best team had subpar players at WR and RB, nothing approaching the 2021-22 DL and lost the SEC's best QB - there, I said it - in the title game on the same play call that cost UGA the game against Notre Dame. And the Pac-12 no longer exists. The decision to give high seeds and first round byes to the top 4 conference champions skewed things. Penn State and Texas, for example, got to coast in by playing SMU, Boise, Clemson and Arizona State teams whose best victories were against Iowa State and BYU (both by Arizona State). By contrast poor Tennessee had to play Ohio State on the road and UGA's first game was against a Notre Dame team that is now on a 13 game winning streak.
Going forward we are going to see better champions represent the SEC and (yes) the ACC. But the issues with the Big 12 and Pac-12 aren't going away, plus the ACC is going to stay unreliable until both FSU and Miami both finally get good coaches (Deion Sanders is sitting right there and is from Fort Myers, people, just in case the ACC wants a long term solution for at least one of those schools to keep from collapsing like the Pac-12). The playoffs need to end the special treatment for conference champions - demanded by the Pac-12 and Big 10 - and just seed the teams according to their ranking. It won't solve every problem but it will help.
Hearing that Ohio St has purchased Raylen Wilson.
Sad that our season sort of fell apart on us. Watching the different games I can honestly say that despite our failings if we hadn't lost CB and if the O-line could have performed at least as well as it did in some games this could have been another NC year for us.
Texas hung in there better than I thought they would against Ohio St. WHich tells me we could have beaten them at our best.
Where did you hear that?
Oh do you mean Damon Wilson?
Congrats to both teams. Both teams will earn $20M in total for making it to the finals. However, Ohio State has to share their earnings with the other B1G schools. Notre Dame gets to keep every penny for itself.
Next season they need to re-seed after the 1st round.
Picking the Buckeyes to win it all, and if they don't…..Ryan Day will be run out of Columbus!!
@David1
Outside of Michigan and their other traditional Big 10 rivals, no idea who all these people are that hate Ohio State or why. Like most of college football, UGA fans did have a reason for thinking much of Ohio State one way or the other until their pointing out that losing Marvin Harrison, Jr. impacted the title game put the Buckeyes on the UGA fandom's bad side. Of course, UGA fans' insistence that they were robbed by the 2023 playoff committee because "with a healthy McConkey and Bowers UGA is the best team in the country!" showed that UGA fans always knew that the Buckeyes fans were right.
But yes, college football should have a rooting interest in this game. Long story short, the combination of NIL, the transfer portal and not being in a conference gives Notre Dame a huge advantage that can very easily make them into a permanent powerhouse. You should root for Notre Dame to get run off the field in every big game that matters until they join a conference.
Every Ohio State fan I have spoken to(at least 20) blurted out how they only lost to the Dawgs when we won the Natty is because of a bad call by the refs. They ignore that their team holds so often, they get away with 5 for every one they are penalized…now there. That's part of why some of us hate OSU