College Football Thread

[RoadRage]

50 minutes ago, DoctorP said:

We were waayyy more competitive last night than this. I hope PSU hangs 50

Yep, let's see if Herbstreit trashes them....somehow I doubt it!

[RaceToTheTop]

As much as I dislike Ohio State, I hope they clown stomp Tennessee to shut those SEC ****s up.

[HinnyHoosier]

1 hour ago, DoctorP said:

We were waayyy more competitive last night than this. I hope PSU hangs 50

Nah. I have the under.  Lol

[HinnyHoosier]

1 minute ago, RaceToTheTop said:

As much as I dislike Ohio State, I hope they clown stomp Tennessee to shut those SEC ****s up.

Look at it this way: Suckeyes win and the SEC can indeed shut it.

Tennessee wins and we can see if they plant a flag in the Horseshoe before it becomes a felony. 

[LIHoosier]

5 minutes ago, HinnyHoosier said:

Look at it this way: Suckeyes win and the SEC can indeed shut it.

Tennessee wins and we can see if they plant a flag in the Horseshoe before it becomes a felony. 

They'll be too busy tying Ryan Day to a stake. Hope that hair dye/tar ain't flammable.

[Home Jersey]

On the bright side, nice of SMU to do us a solid and get embarrassed way worse than us.

[gfeltner28]

What an opening drive by Clemson. 

[str8baller]

2 hours ago, LIHoosier said:

They'll be too busy tying Ryan Day to a stake. Hope that hair dye/tar ain't flammable.

Yes they will. Which I will enjoy. 
 

IU was fine. We deserved to be there. Lost to a more talented team on the road. I’d probably prefer to see more sec losses. If ND beats uga and by any margin at all it can be the nail in the coffin of the narrative that IU or any big ten team didn’t belong. The acc is another story.

[8bucks]

After watching today’s games, I feel a little better. Road games are tough. It seems our defense, despite a ton of missed tackles, deserved to be in the playoffs. Our offense had a great year but collectively the offense came up short in the big games.  
 

Halfway there. 

[southsidehoosier]

Clemson getting embarrassed 

[JerryYeagley23]

It feels like if they want these first round playoff games to be good games with potential for occasional upsets, they’re going to have to start playing on neutral sites. 

[go iu bb]

8 minutes ago, JerryYeagley23 said:

It feels like if they want these first round playoff games to be good games with potential for occasional upsets, they’re going to have to start playing on neutral sites. 

True seeding vs guaranteed seeding would help a lot. 

[cthomas]

10 minutes ago, 8bucks said:

After watching today’s games, I feel a little better. Road games are tough. It seems our defense, despite a ton of missed tackles, deserved to be in the playoffs. Our offense had a great year but collectively the offense came up short in the big games.  
 

Halfway there. 

I thought our defense showed up all year and more than held their own. With a similar offense we could have won every game we played. Need to be bigger, stronger, and faster on the offensive side. Especially on the o line.

[IUHoosierJoe]

9 minutes ago, JerryYeagley23 said:

It feels like if they want these first round playoff games to be good games with potential for occasional upsets, they’re going to have to start playing on neutral sites. 

I think seeding them as they are ranked, rather than the artificial bump for conference champions, would help align better matchups.

[JerryYeagley23]

4 minutes ago, IUHoosierJoe said:

I think seeding them as they are ranked, rather than the artificial bump for conference champions, would help align better matchups.

Totally agree. Think that’s the most obvious change, but would take the committee conceding that conference championships don’t mean anything anymore which they probably aren’t ready to do because of the money involved. But I think a SMU/ASU and Boise State/IU game, for the right to play Penn state or Texas, would have been better television and competition than the current setup provided. 

[go iu bb]

Clemson within 7 with over 11 minutes remaining.

Edit: Then gives up a 77 yard TD run. /sigh

[Artie86]

 

Can someone please tell me how getting beat 27-17 is a blowout? I mean, yes, it was 24 points late, but we never quit and ended up getting it to a 10 point loss. I’m so sick of these game announcers keep comparing IU and SMU in the same sentence as “both blowouts”! Yes, SMU was blown out by 28 points, but not IU!

[DChoosier]

The announcers and pundits keep blabbering about games that aren’t close but….HELLO, there were plenty of blowouts when it was just a 4 team playoff.

They keep acting as if such a thing has never happened and that blowouts are proof of a non-existent problem.

[Hoosierfan2017]

3 minutes ago, Artie86 said:

 

Can someone please tell me how getting beat 27-17 is a blowout? I mean, yes, it was 24 points late, but we never quit and ended up getting it to a 10 point loss. I’m so sick of these game announcers keep comparing IU and SMU in the same sentence as “both blowouts”! Yes, SMU was blown out by 28 points, but not IU!

They’re petulant children who are throwing tantrums because their baby Alabama didn’t get into the playoff. Blowouts are absolutely nothing new in the playoffs. But because we aren’t a football brand, our ”blowout” is a referendum on our worthiness  

[DChoosier]

5 minutes ago, Artie86 said:

 

Can someone please tell me how getting beat 27-17 is a blowout? I mean, yes, it was 24 points late, but we never quit and ended up getting it to a 10 point loss. I’m so sick of these game announcers keep comparing IU and SMU in the same sentence as “both blowouts”! Yes, SMU was blown out by 28 points, but not IU!

Technically blown out. No.

Were we really ever in the game after 5 minutes? No.