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……and LSU…and Tennessee…..and Florida…..and the list is growing. Go Dawgs!!!
Much respect for the team, can't say so much for the coach. The team unfortunately lost that game, Ryan Day was still on the sideline screaming at refs about a missed NOT TARGETING call. Might be why the kicker missed, all he could hear was Ryan Day's bickering on the sideline.
"All that separated Ohio State from Georgia in this season’s CFP Peach Bowl Semifinal was a missed field goal in the closing seconds." Come on, man. That's a very particular frame, and one that doesn't capture the reality of the game as a whole. You could say "all that separated OSU from UGA was a single point," which is true, and more indicative of what we all watched, but let's not do that thing where we put the whole game on one play/player. It's dismissive of so, so much.
Yep…..60 minute game, don’t see any mention of our 2 missed FG’s.
It never comes down to one player or play. Best team always wins, team effort.
If Pod had hit the two FGs he missed, the game wouldn't have "come down" to the missed FG at the end. if some other plays had turned out differently, the game would have been different. Right?
“We felt like they were a little bit fat and lazy..." Oops! Bless his heart.
As a Dawg fan for 51 years, I have more empathy for Ronnie Bell. But, I guess his team might take a lesson about not looking past the next opponent.
Yes, if Pod had hit the field goals the final score would have been different, but his two missed field goals did not cost us the game and their missed field goal did cost them the game.
I have never understood the narrative that the game does not come down to one play. Sure, it can and almost in every sport. Every play we made during the game led us to 42 points. Up until their last attempted field goal, every one of their plays had led them to 41 points. So yes, it they make the field goal, that one play would have won them the game and conversely, missing that kick cost them the game. All of the other plays mattered and played a definite part in the game and positioned them to where if they make one more play, they win. They didn't and they lost.
I believe that narrative is a way to keep the outcome from solely resting on one player's shoulders in a loss, but one player and one play can be the difference in winning and losing.
ftworthdawg Posts: 724 ✭✭✭✭ Senior
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take a number behind Bama in the revenge vs Dawgs line.
Well stated Ftworthdawg!!!
TCU beating Michigan wasn’t a surprise to me because on selection Sunday for the playoffs, the first words out of their coach’s mouth was Georgia, not TCU. I’m sure TCU took notice of that and turned it into a big upset. Bring them all on next year! Beat everyone!! Go Dawgs!!
One of the biggest reasons Michigan lost to TCU was because they spent a month thinking about Georgia and taking TCU for granted.
Ohio State had us on the ropes for sure. After Michigan lost, the feeling inside MBS was they we were watching the national championship game.
We were correct.
Ohio St. threw everything they had at us, I'll give them that. Even the coach was more animated on the sideline(evern the announcers made mention of it) than usual. They came in angry and with a chip on their shoulder having been embarrased by MIchigan, "they were soft the critics said" much the same way we were embarrassed by BAMA in the SECC game in 2021. Our players got together after that defeat and got in better shape leading into the Michigan game and we took out our wrath on the Wolverines and that carried over to the NC game.
We hadn't truly been tested like that all season. But we rose to the occasion. SB found his mojo again late, just like in the NC game against BAMA and the rest is history.
HIstory does on occassions repeat itself.
All this forward malice from two losers......yes, losers. OSU lost to Michigan and UGA. TCU beat Michigan...UGA destroyed TCU....enough said.
Call me Nostradamus, but after beating Michigan and Ohio State in consecutive playoffs, I have a preminition that we will be facing off against Penn State in the playoffs next season. That will make it a clean sweep through the Big 10 powers!
Yep! And this why i thought TCU had a real chance to take down Michigan. Michigan was focused on the Dawgs and OSU, and stepped right into the trap game.
We missed a couple ourselves.
That is incredibly myopic view. If Podlesney makes even 1 FG, it changes every play call after it. Every play except the opening kickoff (and with scripting, even that could be argued) is the sum of the plays before it, not a single individual play with no reliance on the plays before it. They lost not because they missed the FG, they lost because every play led them to kick a FG they missed.
Michigan would have been ran through, The Ohio State had us down by 14 in the forth.... 15-0 Back to Back....that is all!