Posted on 01/04/2025 9:36:36 AM PST by zeestephen
Semifinal Schedule: Thursday, January 9, 2025 - #7 Notre Dame vs. #6 Penn State - 7:30 PM (EST) - ESPN ---- Friday, January 10, 2025 - #8 Ohio State vs. #5 Texas - 7:30 PM (EST) - ESPN
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That certainly does look like an argument that it was correct to expand the playoff beyond 4 teams. 12 teams, though, might be a bit of a stretch.
Without the expanded playoffs, one of those top four seeds would have been national champions.
Tired of seeing these same teams repeatedly. Tired of players opting out. Tire of team records being meaningless going into post-season.
There is no continuity any more. Pro bound players don’t play. Portal Players don’t play. You don’t have the same teams during the regular season. It’s not much different from a pickup league.
I don’t think Boise State or AZ State would have been in the playoffs under the old system. It would have been Oregon and ND plus two out of Ohio State, Penn State and GA.
Texas is the weakest of the four, followed by Penn State, Notre Dame with Ohio State the strongest of the bunch. That said, it’s tOSU v Penn State in the all BIG championship.
Texas did not humiliate ASU. Not by a damn sight.
On paper Texas is head and shoulders above Notre Dame- not even close.
The problem is Texas played its best football in October...the bigger problem for the Longhorns is Ohio State is peaking and destroying everyone.
But that’s the issue with Ryan Day- the team underachieves then when his back is to the wall, the play as they should.
Exactly- in fact if it wasn’t for a bad non call, (obvious helmet to helmet targeting the officials did not call) ASU may have beaten Texas.
Double OT not humiliating. Big 12 fan here.
There were two non-calls in that game. On the interception, the Texas receiver Bond was clearly hit helmet to helmet AND the defender launched into him.
Both should have been called.
I suspect the extra layoff hurt the higher seeds. Those teams hadn’t played a game in 3+ weeks, and they came out flat. Guessing that is not a coincidence.
Georgia was also dealing with a new QB. Had this been the old system, the may have been on the outside looking in like FSU.
... they may have been...
Here’s something I’m finding amazing:
1) On the one hand, but for a single field goal, Notre Dame would be undefeated and probably the unanimously #1 ranked team in America, but
2) On the other hand, that loss was to an astonishingly weak opponent.
Ole Miss looked good the other day.
The Refs gave that game to Texas, that was targeting all day long.
Nobody is going to beat Ohio State
There was not crown of helmet contact. The more aggreges non call was when the lineman carried Skattabo over the goal line.
In NCAA football, carrying a player to advance the ball is a foul called "helping the runner". This occurs when an offensive player physically assists the ball carrier in their forward progress by pulling, carrying, or lifting them. The penalty for helping the runner in NCAA football is five yards.
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