I’m a UF Gator Fan, but you have to give it to Miami and Cristobal, IMO, they are the odds-on favorite to win it all.
Really, great lines of scrimmage and playing with the old Miami attitude.
At this point, maybe a team SHOULDN’T hope for a first round bye. Miami looked sharp from the start. TOSU looked sleepy. Losing your OC during the layoff wasn’t good either. Had a bad feeling after the Indiana loss.
Miami did an awesome job. Best of luck to them and CF is better with a strong Miami in the mix.
Buckeyes still have a heck of a future with a redshirt frosh QB coming back and another year with Jeremiah Smith. Not sure if Ryan Day survives to next year according to all of the ranting round these parts. But we’ll see.
What did it pay?
Miami Vs Georgia for the championship...Beck!
Ohio State wasn’t exposed. Ryan Day was exposed. Again. Ohio State came in flat against Indiana in the Big XX championship game. They came in flat against Miami last night and played a terrible first half. They won the second half pretty decisively but they had dug themselves too deep a hole.
This is why Ryan Day was under so much pressure prior to winning the national championship last year. How long will his grace period last?
Miami made some key plays when they had to. Ohio State didn’t. Instead, they looked flat for a half, and it cost them. And then some play calling was questionable. Ohio State had chances to pull it out, but ya gotta do things like pick up blitzes and not take sacks when you’re in scoring position and coming from behind.
This goes back to coaching. It’s not unusual. Should we talk about James Franklin?
I’m an OSU fan and I think the game was lost on the pick-6 early in the game. OSU was getting close to scoring with the score 7-0 at that moment. Instead of 7-7 as expected, it’s 14-0. Justin Sayin’s confidence seemed to melt. With few exceptions, long throws were gone as his line collapsed. He held the ball longer than usual and got sacked more in one game than the entire season. Obviously, I wanted OSU to win, but they did not play well enough to win.
As a late UM fan - my daughter is a freshman - last night’s game was a thrill....classic underdog victory. What a way to ring in the new year.
I was telling another FReeper that after walking away from the NFL for good, college football really filled the void. So much better than the woke, arrogant NFL.
This entire year with Miami has just been amazing... what sports should be and once was. Great bunch of humble guys who really like each other, are grateful to be there and work great together as a team. Scrappy and imperfect, but really rose to nearly every occasion.
They also proved last night they earned the spot over Notre Dame.
once again Ryan Day showed up to a gun fight with a water pistol...
They have football between colleges, now? Who’d a thunk it.
It’s only 8:30 in the morning, how do they have a game done already? CFP better not complain about the ratings.
I wonder what were the betting lines before the game?
I give credit to Cristobal for turning Miami around, but I still give him debit for how he left Oregon.
He took a boosters private jet on a recruiting trip to Florida, giving no indication of interest in the Miami job. Apparently he told no one at Oregon. He accepted the job at Miami, flew home and only then broke the news. It was quite the shock to the players.
Anyways, I’m happy that Miami took dow Ohio State.
Miami made it in because of their market, Texas would have beaten OSU in style.
Georgia will pull their ears off.
My UM son was at the game with his OSU half-brother. Can’t wait to hear from him!
Somebody forgot to tell Sayin he only had 2 seconds in the pocket to do something with the ball.
I would have put TCU’s victory over Michigan above this one. Now Georgia did annihilate TCU in the final.
TCU was less than a 7.5 pt underdog?? I hadn’t realized that.
Never liked Ryan Day.
Can’t say why exactly.
Could be that beard which makes him a appear as a time traveler.
Hiring Kelly as his OC last year got him a title.
Hiring Petrucha as his DC this year didn’t.
Ohio State definitely had the offensive personnel to win another championship, but not the coaching.
SEC/B10 Cartel: “Who let these ACC imposters into OUR playoffs??”
ESPN: “Honestly, guys, we TRIED to put in Notre Dame instead of Miami but you just refused.”
Miami? Or the the athletes currently under contract to play for a team of players whose organization is stationed at a facility under the auspices of a financial group close to Miami, florida?