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didn’t he and David Greene play pee wee football together?
Yep, that is my understanding…
Well, IU has clearly claimed pretender status. Nice job committee. IU clearly doesn't deserve to be among either the 12 best nor the 12 most deserving teams. Hint: check out SOS next time.
Wait now, they did beat Florida International, a football powerhouse.
I hadn't thought about it like that. We have had historic trouble scoring from the 1. A baffling inability to come up with decent short yardage scoring plays. With everything on the line what do we do? We call the most-Bobo play possible…a basic dive up the middle against the #1 defense that knows it's coming. This play never works. And with a gimpy QB with one arm handing it off.
Legend!
My good friend used to be one of the team docs for fla during the Meyer years. Indeed, they have an extensive bag of pain-killing goodies to get players back on the field.
All these blowouts prove that there just aren't 12 contenders. There is no reason to believe that Bama or SC would have done any better. Should have capped the bracket at 6 teams with #1 and 2 having a first-round bye week. 12 is just too many. I don't think there is any way they expand the playoffs to 16 after this debacle.
12 team playoff makes no sense based on these results. 4 or 6 looking like the right number.
Need a new committee. You can sense the bias in this one. With fewer teams in the CFP, you need objectivity. Maybe an independent committee with no/limited ties to any schools. An AI bot?
There are no "Cindarella" playoff teams in football. I think the committee was hoping that like basketball, some unheard-of nobody team would make a run and create some good TV drama. College football doesn't work like that. Yes, upsets happen from time to time….but in a playoff setting, I just don't see it ever happening. I fully expect to see BSU and ASU get manhandled next. Seems like there is enough media and fan disappointment right now to make the committee have to rethink future plans. We know they wanted to expand it to 16….but that's just not going to happen now. There will be a lot of pressure to shrink it down to 6-8 teams. Don't know if that will happen since this is all driven by money, but round one was a total failure from the fan's perspective.
After watching Texas, ND and OSU, I have come to realize that Gunner will have to be more than a game manager for us to win the Natty. He will have to be able to push the ball down field enough to loosen up the box. A running game is crucial and we won't be able to just over power any of those teams. If we can't do that we are pretenders.
After this first round of games, it seems we have the toughest bracket now, not the easiest.
they will make him make plays and try to confuse him. The deck is stacked against us for sure with inexperience. It will no doubt be tough. However if the defense can control the game and give the offense short fields and we can play with the lead we can beat anyone. It will be tough to do for 3 games. There can be no 17-0 halftime deficits
I agree with you for the most part.
Round one of the playoffs **** big time. I can't remember a Saturday where games I wanted to watch were all so bad.
I'm not entirely sure South Carolina couldn't have done better than Clemson. Alabama wasn't in either the best or most deserving category but has been both very capable and terrible, so they might have been able to survive round one.
Also, I doubt the money powers that be will reduce the number of teams in the playoffs because they care about money above all else.
It would help "the viewer experience" if all the Cinderella teams would be put in the position of being obvious tune up games, scrimmage games (which Indiana was) instead of giving a couple of them byes. Exactly how to accomplish all that is beyond me unless I'm appointed playoff czar in which case I know exactly how to do it, as do you.
Do they want the best teams or "the most deserving" teams? Answer: Neither. They want the most money.
Last season Georgia was clearly the best team. Alabama was not even particularly deserving. In order to put Alabama in, they had to put Texas in. Thus the best team, Georgia, was wrongly excluded, and one of the most deserving teams, FSU, was excluded, too. The committee twisted itself into pretzels to accomplish that magic. This playoff is almost as bad, but at least they couldn't find any way to put Alabama into the mix; they certainly wanted to, and surely tried, but the Oklahoma loss was too much to overcome.
Follow the money.
Go, Dawgs!
One thing we've learned so far is there are some playoff teams which actually look to be formidable opponents for our Dawgs. So what? We've played formidable opponents over and over throughout the season.
Remember preseason and early in the season when the pundits were touting Georgia as being in another world from any other football team? Turns out that wasn't the case - judging by results on the field of play and the eye test, so far - but I'm not ruling it out for the playoffs.
Nobody's been tested like the Dawgs.
Go, Dawgs!