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They need to just suck it and join a conference, like the Big Ten. I know they're in the ACC for basketball, but they have zero rivalries in the ACC for football and way more history (and geographic relevance) for the Big Ten.
I hope voters blackball them for several seasons to drive the message home. Notre Dame keeps scheduling cupcake routes for themselves as an independent and coasts on their history/name to get into championship contender status. That shit needs to end NOW.
The highest I would ever put them in a 4 team playoff is 5. Expands to 8? 9. Sorry, but ND shouldn't be rewarded for their awful schedule and no conference champ game. ND goes 12-0 and some many people trip all over themselves to put them in, then they get exposed as frauds. Nope. Leave them out.
Urban Meyer looked like he didn't appreciate that lol.Harvin butt smack is still GOAT
That down I could have called for a FG. The last 4th down (where they had Tua try to do a QB draw) I would have called for a pass play. Restore some faith in your QB but I felt like that was a lot to ask of Tua to try to run both those QB draws on 4th down. He is human.
But, then again I'm a drunk UGA/Falcons fan and not a successful OC.
I'm a bit happy right now.
Going to be a solid hour late for work, at minimum, tomorrow. They'll be alright though. 😂
I'm exhausted, but no way I can fall asleep yet.
Going to be a solid hour late for work, at minimum, tomorrow. They'll be alright though. 😂
I'm exhausted, but no way I can fall asleep yet.
I'm saying this as an Michigan fan. Is it time to just separate the power five conferences? The only teams who have an chance at the National title will reside at one of these schools. Tonight's game looks like Semipro football. The top teams in the power five look that way as well.
Yeah Rutgers and Kansas should get a seat for sure. Screw Boise and UCF.
Interesting idea.
Regardless, I think we can all agree that Michigan will continue to have zero chance of winning a national title.
If teams like UCF aren't going to have a shot in hell of getting in then yes there needs to be a G5 and a P5 championship.
It's a laughable premise. UCF would beat Michigan by 2+ tds.
We just need an 8 team playoff. That's all.
We just need an 8 team playoff. That's all.
No. It's time to expand the playoff and drop the NY6 bowls.
This is probably where the biggest expansion resistance is coming from but you don't even have to do that. Select the top 8 the day after conference championship weekend. Play the 4 quarter final games at the home sites of the top 4 seeds the week after conference championship week (aka Army v Navy weekend). Then, after the quarter finals have been played, do all the bowl selections. Teams that lost in the quarter finals will still be eligible for a NY6 bowl while the remaining 4 teams will play at the standard semi finals rotating sites. Get a 10 year contract with the new Raiders stadium in Vegas and host the finals there for the next 10 years.
With this scenario we expand the playoffs, still get high quality matchups in NY6 bowls, and the other 6+ win teams will still go to the other bowls. Everybody wins, so it will never happen.
But what if the Raiders make the playoffs and need the stadium? Oh wait.
But seriously, I'd like to see the bowls played, then 4 teams chosen for the playoffs. You get all of the traditional games back with more meaning than ever and then 3 more games.
Forgive Maryland- they've been a basketball school for so long they're still trying to figure out what a competent football program looks like.
Seriously xD~~
Shocking win, but I'm glad I stayed up to watch.
So are we doing the transitive loss property to justify how good our teams are? If thats the case, Duke lost to Clemson by 29 in Death Valley with half the starting defense out for the season and pretty much no NFL caliber talent on the team. WATCH OUT BAMA!
Whew! What a night last night was. My thoughts:
1.) We've got a bona fide rivalry in college football now. These two teams are now 2-2 in the last 4 years, with two barn burners and a blowout each way. Me likey! Rivalries with championship stakes are must-see TV!
2.) Bama has issues on the back end of their D. Yes, they're young back there, but that group got exposed last night and in the Oklahoma game. Won't show up as much in SEC play against more pedestrian offenses, but they've got to improve back there for their likely playoff opponents going forward.
3.) Trevor Lawrence is good. And he is about to be scary good.
4.) There was no shortage of Bama fans willing and ready to compare stat lines between Tua and Murray after the Orange Bowl, convinced that the wrong guy had won the Heisman, even though Tua faced a junior varsity defense that night. Now, a little over a week later, that we've seen Tua face a comparable defense to the one Murray faced, I wonder if they still feel the same way. Kinda' feel like if Murray had led his team to 16 points and had gotten benched in the 4th, he'd have been roasted alive for it.
1.) We've got a bona fide rivalry in college football now. These two teams are now 2-2 in the last 4 years, with two barn burners and a blowout each way. Me likey! Rivalries with championship stakes are must-see TV!
2.) Bama has issues on the back end of their D. Yes, they're young back there, but that group got exposed last night and in the Oklahoma game. Won't show up as much in SEC play against more pedestrian offenses, but they've got to improve back there for their likely playoff opponents going forward.
3.) Trevor Lawrence is good. And he is about to be scary good.
4.) There was no shortage of Bama fans willing and ready to compare stat lines between Tua and Murray after the Orange Bowl, convinced that the wrong guy had won the Heisman, even though Tua faced a junior varsity defense that night. Now, a little over a week later, that we've seen Tua face a comparable defense to the one Murray faced, I wonder if they still feel the same way. Kinda' feel like if Murray had led his team to 16 points and had gotten benched in the 4th, he'd have been roasted alive for it.
On 2, the issues started in the game before but they were fortunate to win that and the next. But the warning signs were there.
I was definitely 100% wrong about my assessment with how the game would go. Clemson is much, much better than I gave them credit for, and Alabama is obviously still amazing, but there were holes that just didn't show on many radars until you really look back.
What was that podcast a couple of months ago running through the greatest teams of all time that had the 2018 Alabama team in it? I would love to tweet them, even if I know they have probably heard it 1000 times today already. lol!
What was that podcast a couple of months ago running through the greatest teams of all time that had the 2018 Alabama team in it? I would love to tweet them, even if I know they have probably heard it 1000 times today already. lol!
No, it's another year where the media ate into SEC bias and voted BAMA number 1 all year ;)
Texas was ranked like 15, UGA 5. That's a lot of ground to cover.
right? Who exactly did Georgia beat this year to warrant that ranking?
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Nothing better than seeing Alabama get destroyed in a championship. Brought back fond memories of Utah destroying Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl.
Thank you Clemson!
Buahahahahaha
Thank you Clemson!
Buahahahahaha
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I have them as top 20 in my final rankings. What Florida did to them was pretty damn impressive though.
Plus, Kentucky was top 12 caliber this year. Georgia had some good wins, though Texas should be above them yeah.
Regardless, UF is the #7 team in the country and UGA beat them.
I know Texas fans aren't used to being ranked, and have probably forgotten how polls work, but just because you beat a highly-ranked team doesn't mean you are going to leapfrog them.
Correct. It's not Paul Finebaum's fault Texas lost 4 games this year.
I mean, it's obvious the ACC is the best conference this year, haha. Clemson whipped that tail up and down the field. Alabama couldn't even turn in a performance on Syracuse's level (<heheh).
Even Duke and Boston College looked better against Clemson.
Seriously though, Trevor (and that whole team) just kept getting better all year.
Lulz. When a title and don't shit the bed to end a season at some point in living memory before bringing "we elite" smack game.
The fuck are you talking about? Texas fans are the ones talking shit about how they should be top 5 because they beat UGA in a bowl game. Nevermind all those other games they lost, i guess they don't count.
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