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And yet, those losses to easy ACC teams almost kept Miami out of the playoffs.
Don’t know if it will matter much but certainly matters a little, Miami will be playing a home game. No travel, no hotel, home cooking…and a nasty offensive line. I think it’s going to be a better game than many people think…
True, but it’s important to note the 5 UGA portal recruits have the highest average combined rating at 89.6 of any team in the country. That tells me we are recruiting “quality” over “quantity”. Go Dawgs!!!
@Gramster…good god, I hope it's a better game…like the Ole Miss vs Miami game. Mendoza is from Miami, so my bet is he'll have plenty of locals rooting for him as well.
Pulling for the Hoosiers most definitely. If Bains and Misador show up like they did against Ohio State, it probably will be a much closer game.
Indiana is gonna go through this playoff against the #9, #10 and #5 seeded teams. One of those never should have been in the playoffs. Each year there is only 2-3 teams that can really compete for a championship. This year those other 2-3 teams did not play their best games after a month off. Sometimes the ball always bounces your way. Oregon and Ole Miss played 3 quarter tune up games against Tulane and James Madison. I can’t tell you how big of an advantage that is. Ohio State and Texas Tech played their worse games of the year in the playoffs. Georgia’s coaching staff had its worse game of the season against Ole Miss. Georgia matched up against Miami like they did against Texas. Our quick throws and screen game and run defense was a great matchup. Chambliss was the X factor for Ole Miss. He makes a coach/coordinator look like a genius. Now Indiana faces a Miami team that has been beat to a pulp. Sometimes it all lines up and that usually is what it takes.
My Heavens—Mendoza must've sold his soul to the Devil! I've never seen such perfectly "timed" and perfectly "placed" passes from anyone in my life. What a gift he has—and what a fine young man. Some Pro team is gonna have something special for many years to come! This, of course excludes the morons who conduct the draft for our "beloved" Falcons.
Indiana is re-writing the book on running a cfb program. On one hand it’s good for the game overall as the overall playing field will even out. It will no longer be the same players in the post season. Back in our recent natty years I remember starting to think it’s gonna be the same teams year after year, the “haves” vs the “have nots” like in MLB where it’s almost always the big market teams. On the other hand, in just a few years, some usual “have nots” have shown that things can change. No longer will the “haves” be able to say, “we’re the best because we’re bama, uga, tOsu, notre dame” as well as the SEC saying “it just means more”. If the “have nots” can continue this path, I can see the HS stars ratings system fading into the fog. It won’t go away as teams will still need to recruit well, but it will cease to be the teams off-season focal point.
Miami is fortunate. Beck completed passes to wide open guys and ran in for a score that the Ole Miss defense had once again ran itself out of the play. Lacy getting injured. So many things have to go your way. Why the best game of the opening weekend was played at 11am. I don’t know. TAMU at night that’s a tough one Miami. The Ole Miss matchup for Georgia was one that worried me bc we never beat a mobile QB. That win in Athens. I thought maybe we had gotten over that hump. We make them look like a combo of Cunningham and Elway and Young. Notre Dame beat Arkansas like a bass drum in Fayetteville when all the other SEC teams barely beat them. Alabama WTH. Ohio State the 2 seed. Big ten thought it would play out Ohio State vs Indiana. Ole Miss first two games against teams they already played (seems reasonable). Nothing but Frustration, but you got to beat the teams you play. Georgia plays GaTech next year. That’s it for out of conference games. Won’t tell us much bc the SEC is without a doubt gonna be down next year. Too many new and young coaches. Too much movement in this conference.
Big Ten is so happy.
The funny thing to me is if the playoff committee (Big Ten Representatives) had done the right thing and put Georgia at 2 and Ohio State at 3. It probably would have been OhioState vs Indiana for all the Big Ten glory. Most likely Ohio State and Georgia plays in the semifinals and that’s a really tough matchup for this Georgia team. I still say to be the champ beat who is in front of you but this thing is not just about that. It’s about luck and the stars aligning and the Big Ten… Baby… we gonna win that thing with a bunch boys from Ga, Fl, TX. the Carolinas and call ourselves OSU or Indiana or Michigan or PennState or our favorite cousin NotreDame.
You know why Miami beat Ohio State. Perfect matchup. OSU loves intermediate to deep passes. Miami has what amounts to a college version of Micah Parsons on defense. They can match them athlete for athlete too. Really it was like two Florida teams playing. One just calls itself Ohio State. Half their roster was from Fl.
NIL, NIL, blah blah blah. You are prevaricating on the main issue. We should be absolutely embarrassed by the CFP result. What a window we missed by hiring the most inept offensive play caller in America. Myself and several DGD fans are out until Bobo is gone. Not putting ourselves through that insanity. Disappointing Kirby doesn’t have a higher standard for the offensive side of the ball.
UGA wont go back to that. CMR's teams would have been in the playoffs multiple times under the current format and would have certainly been in under in a 16 team playoff.
Cignetti’s mantra of production over potential has gotten a lot of play but what hasn’t been as publicized is what he said about that method: “I made that mistake a lot when I was younger”. It’s impossible to control bias completely but Cignetti has developed more accurate player evaluations — and players capable of doing what they’re taught to do — than other programs. Just look at the ranking of the rosters, Indiana is lowest without a single 5 star.
Hate to say it, but same here. Your quote says it all: "What a window we missed by hiring the most inept offensive play caller in America." This period will be looked at similarly to 1980 - 83, knowing that winning 1 NC was great but we really missed a golden opportunity "window" to add another 1 or 2. These times don't come often and hate to see this greatest of all UGA eras being squandered by Bobo doing what he does year in & year out. Well, maybe in watching the playoffs yet again, our coaches will notice this new thing called the "forward" pass. Yes, you are allowed to throw the ball past the line of scrimmage!!