Posted on 12/31/2022 9:50:33 PM PST by OrangeHoof
No. 3 TCU toppled No. 2 Michigan 51-45 for the biggest upset in College Football Playoff history and one of the most exhilarating semifinal games the format has seen since it made its debut in 2014. The Horned Frogs were eight-point underdogs at kickoff of the 2022 Fiesta Bowl, but the same DNA that helped them overcome more than a handful of second-half deficits during the regular season has the Frogs now sitting 6-1 in one-score games after eliminating the previously undefeated Wolverines.
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41, not 51.
Sheesh...
Bulldogs and Horned Frogs! I feel a song coming on!
two of the best college football games of the year ...
total truth in everything you said ... 100% ...
If I failed, I apologize. I was mostly shocked nobody had posted it before I got there.
BTW, I hate it that every year in the basketball tourney they put either Duke or North Carolina in their home state as a first round game. Nobody else gets favoritism like that. Dean Smith use to cry like a baby if he didn't get to play the first game in his home state.
No problem. Happy New Year.
Just another home game for the SEC in a bowl game.
Pretty sure cities compete for those games and the games are awarded long before they know who will make the playoffs.
Norm Bulaich is happy
GO DAWGS
“biggest upset in CFP history!”
Yes, historical. There has only been playoffs for what, 4 years?
I feel it is unfair that Georgia played the national semi-final as a virtual home game.
Pretty sure cities compete for those games and the games are awarded long before they know who will make the playoffs.
The two semi final games rotate amongst the big six bowl games every year. This just happened to be the Peach Bowl’s year to get 1 and 4. The games are always played back to back on the 31st (except for 2020 when the were on Jan 1st, 2021 to accommodate the Rose Bowl tradition which in the end got moved to Jerry’s house in Arlington Texas.
Interestingly, #9 Georgia played #8 Cincinnati in the 2020 Peach Bowl to the highest rating for a non playoff game.
Also note, more people watched the two semi final games than did the final a week later which was a 52-24 rout of Ohio State by Alabama.
The talent, hard work and dedication of the 4 team’s players, coaches, families, fans…was a joy to observe. That was some serious football. Thank you.
Michigan played very arrogantly..they were def looking ahead to the Championship game....thats falls on coaching...
Championship games are usually anti-climactic. I sense this one will be too.
Technically eight years, since 2014. And beginning in 2024, this will expand to 12 teams and not be such an exclusive club.
Agreed but the assignment of the teams is after the sites are chosen and, if this is a fair tournament, the teams should not have an unfair advantage based on location where it can be avoided and, in this case, it could have.
Why, then, do they make sure to assign an officiating crew who is not from the same conference as either team?
I hate neutral site games. Games should be played at the home stadium of the higher ranked team.
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