Tie game under a minute left starting a drive at your own 15. I’m playing for OT if I’m PSU. Terrible decision to throw that ball that got picked.
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So if OSU wins we’ll have 7 vs 8 out of 12. That’s not very good at picking the seeds.
No. It was just a really dumb decision by Allar to throw that ball where he did.
Glad to see the Irish pull this one out. My cousin's grandson was the kid (#79) who got plugged into the O line when the starting Irish left tackle was injured early in the game. He made a few mistakes, but generally played well for three quarters.
And that would make our two losses to the national champion and the runner-up.
No. They started on 25. Got like 10 yards on 1st play. You're 30 yards from a game winning FG attempt. Was just a terrible decision by the QB.
Seeds were what they were based upon the stupid seeding rules. UGA, Boise St and ASU would have all been seeded lower if not for them. IU should have been 8 seed.
Allar played a terrible game. If he had just played very poorly, PSU wins easily. Just atrocious QB play.
Except the seeds weren't "picked". Do away with the conf champ auto-bids and truly seed them. Heck, if you want my thought, do away with conf championship games altogether and non-playoff bowl games (thank God that Dukes Mayo Bowl was here in Charlotte featuring VA Tech and MN... bet that drew a few thousand of the most rabid college football fans!), go to a 32 team playoff and those neutral sites (or do first round home games to the higher seed, but with sponsors as bowl games) are all bowl games. I think it might help keep players from sitting out if everyone has a shot at a title. And, no portal until the season is done.
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And this nugget on Franklin:
Franklin now 1-18 all-time against AP Top 5, 1-15 at PSU.
Couldn’t happen to a better guy. lol.
Franklin now 1-18 all-time against AP Top 5, 1-15 at PSU.
Couldn’t happen to a better guy. lol.
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You know I never paid much attention to ND before they were put up against IU but I watched Freeman’s press conferences before that game and I really like the guy. He is going to have ND good for a long time up there.
And we played last years National champs and Runner-up this season. But we did not belong in the playoffs lol.
I hate Notre Dame but Marcus Freeman is a heck of a coach. They are lucky Brian Kelly left for LSU. They took a big gamble hiring a young unproven coordinator and it has turned out well.
It was just reported that with the 2 best quality losses of the year IU has been named SEC champion.
I never did decide who I wanted to win last night so I went to bed at the end of the third Q. I didn’t particularly want another PSU/OSU rematch, other than it would be worthy of a feather in the Big Ten’s cap. Now, I want Ohio State to beat Texas so they can beat ND. Under normal circumstances I only like Catholics…excuse me, the Irish when they play Peeyew. (What’s that I smell?)
They need to fix the system so that the 4 teams that win their conference championship are only guaranteed a spot in the playoffs, not the top 4 seeds.
That won't happen. A five round play off starting the first week of December would finish up in the first half of January. Around the same time that Spring semester is starting up. Entering the portal, visiting schools, making a decision, & moving would take two weeks in the best of circumstances. That really hurts academics.
I agree that it is by far the best thing for sports. But if that's how it ends up being done I think we should just make them a minor league sponsored by Universities that want to be involved. Everyone can stop with the charade about actually caring for their academic well-being. Just go straight pro.
They need a new rule to allow players who have signed a LOI to participate in Spring football, even if they are not yet enrolled. That would prevent the need to get into the portal in late Dec to be admitted to school for the Spring semester by early or mid January.
Having bowl teams weakened at the last possible moment by portal entries makes no sense. Awful for the game, the image, and even the product on the field.
