College Football Thread

[hoopsta007]

13 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

According to the SEC talking heads (about IU and SMU), it looks like Tennessee should not have even been considered for the CFP.

Hey, SEC: STFU.

ESPN needs to.  They are worse than anyone with their shameless propaganda.  The SEC has gamed the system for years in the media and coaches poll ranking teams way too high so every loss is a “good loss”.  

[Demo]

Well that was fun. The upcoming pretzel logic of the SEC press should certainly be entertaining.

And back to hating OSU now. 

[TheWatShot]

Bring on the articles and rage tweets about how Tennessee and SMU didn't deserve to be in the CFP. 

 

Oh wait, they're not Indiana, so it's OK for them to get blown out on a big stage. 

[hoopsta007]

I will add, we will be in a better spot next year as I’d guess we will be in the top 25 to start the year so able to climb quicker.  I know they say the CFP committee isn’t influenced by ratings but they absolutely are.

[DChoosier]

The only favored home team that didn’t blow out their opponent was Texas of the SEC.

TN of SEC got blown out

but, but, but….IU shouldn’t have been in.

I hope ND smokes Georgia.

[go iu bb]

12 hours ago, go iu bb said:

IU will end up at worst with the 2nd closest score in the 1st round. Possibly the closest. I also expect at least 2 more blowouts in the 2nd round. So as negative as the elitists are being right now, I think it'll start to look not so bad. Especially after some time when people look at only the final score.

IU ends up with the closest score of  the 1st round. 2nd closest was the14 point loss by Clemson.

There will be more blowouts next round.

The SEC and their media shills can **** right off.

[RoadRage]

10 hours ago, DChoosier said:

The only favored home team that didn’t blow out their opponent was Texas of the SEC.

TN of SEC got blown out

but, but, but….IU shouldn’t have been in.

I hope ND smokes Georgia.

I wouldn't be surprised if Notre Dame clobbers Georgia....if Notre Dame doesn't lose to Northern Illinois they would be #2, maybe even #1. They have a great defense and a ball control offense that gives that defense plenty of rest. They are going to be a tough out!

[RaceToTheTop]

3 minutes ago, RoadRage said:

I wouldn't be surprised if Notre Dame clobbers Georgia....if Notre Dame doesn't lose to Northern Illinois they would be #2, maybe even #1. They have a great defense and a ball control offense that gives that defense plenty of rest. They are going to be a tough out!

Notre Dame is opening as a 1.5 point favorite against Georgia.

[Alford Bailey]

17 hours ago, JerryYeagley23 said:

These games today have been boring. Committee need to fix the seeding. Ruining bowl season in a lot of ways for this. 

Up to this point I’d rather have the bowls.

[Artie86]

 

What if the first round playoff games are held in the same venue as the conference championship games? It would be determined by the higher seed gets to host that game, then its would be determined where it is played. For example, if IU was the higher seed, the game would have been played at Lucas Oil Stadium. Tickets would be split down the middle and allotted to each respective school. If all tickets are not sold by each school by certain date, they are open to anyone, which could mean more fans for either school. Call me crazy, I was just thinking how things weren’t so unfairly lopsided…. JMO

I do realize that anyway you look at it, someone still has to travel a good bit, just not in their home stadium.

GO IU!

 

[LamarCheeks]

We're still getting roasted. And it's mainly because of the game result. We lost by 10, but let's be honest -- it really wasn't that close. We had a couple late scores to make it 10, which ironically, ended up being the closest tally of the four weekend games. 

But had we lost by 10 in a more competitive manner -- or maybe by 7 or 3 or whatever -- would the fussing still exist? Maybe, but it wouldn't be as loud. 

So that tells me the latest measuring stick is game results. And if that's the case, why does it appear that nobody is calling out Tennessee? They got poleaxed by O$U. Does that mean they didn't belong? And if so, there's no way Alabama belongs -- because UT beat 'Bama when they played. Not to mention their losses to Vandy and Oklahoma. 

SMU isn't even getting hammered as hard as we are. I don't get it. Maybe Cigs' bravado helped lead to such a toxic discourse. I sure as hell can't figure it out. 

[Hovadipo]

8 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

We're still getting roasted. And it's mainly because of the game result. We lost by 10, but let's be honest -- it really wasn't that close. We had a couple late scores to make it 10, which ironically, ended up being the closest tally of the four weekend games. 

But had we lost by 10 in a more competitive manner -- or maybe by 7 or 3 or whatever -- would the fussing still exist? Maybe, but it wouldn't be as loud. 

So that tells me the latest measuring stick is game results. And if that's they case, why does it appear that nobody is calling out Tennessee? They got poleaxed by O$U. Does that mean they didn't belong? And if so, there's no way Alabama belongs -- because UT beat 'Bama when they played. Not to mention their losses to Vandy and Oklahoma. 

SMU isn't even getting hammered as hard as we are. I don't get it. Maybe Cigs' bravado helped lead to such a toxic discourse. I sure as hell can't figure it out. 

It wasn’t as close as 10, but it was also easily the 2nd most competitive game of the 4. I’m kind of over the roasting. It’s just so obvious where it’s coming from and hard to take seriously. 

[go iu bb]

31 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

We're still getting roasted. And it's mainly because of the game result. We lost by 10, but let's be honest -- it really wasn't that close. We had a couple late scores to make it 10, which ironically, ended up being the closest tally of the four weekend games. 

But had we lost by 10 in a more competitive manner -- or maybe by 7 or 3 or whatever -- would the fussing still exist? Maybe, but it wouldn't be as loud. 

So that tells me the latest measuring stick is game results. And if that's the case, why does it appear that nobody is calling out Tennessee? They got poleaxed by O$U. Does that mean they didn't belong? And if so, there's no way Alabama belongs -- because UT beat 'Bama when they played. Not to mention their losses to Vandy and Oklahoma. 

SMU isn't even getting hammered as hard as we are. I don't get it. Maybe Cigs' bravado helped lead to such a toxic discourse. I sure as hell can't figure it out. 

I think CCC's mouth is part of it. Part of it was that it was the 1st game on a Friday night. Part of it is the butthurt by the SEC for Tennessee getting embarrassed. Part of if is elitism and they just see IU's history.

At the end of the day, they all played 60 minutes and it lost by the least amount. It's not like it was against ND's scrubs.

[cthomas]

2 minutes ago, go iu bb said:

I think CCC's mouth is part of it. Part of it was that it was the 1st game on a Friday night. Part of it is the butthurt by the SEC for Tennessee getting embarrassed. Part of if is elitism and they just see IU's history.

At the end of the day, they all played 60 minutes and it lost by the least amount. It's not like it was against ND's scrubs.

OSU called off the dogs with 8 minutes left in the game. Tennessee scored their last touchdown against second and third team players. Because we scored late doesn't negate the fact that we scored. The final score is all anyone will remember years from now. And we weren't down three scores to OSU in the first half. This SEC promotion is just a marketing ploy by ESPN. It's so transparent that even a blind man could see it. The bigger the playoff field, the bigger the discrepancy between the best teams and the rest of the field will be. Nobody complains when a 16th seed plays a1 seed in college basketball. Teams play their way in based on their record. I'm tired of hearing the bs about who belonged and who didn't. If you want in, beat the teams on your schedule. End of rant.

[hoopsta007]

9 minutes ago, cthomas said:

OSU called off the dogs with 8 minutes left in the game. Tennessee scored their last touchdown against second and third team players. Because we scored late doesn't negate the fact that we scored. The final score is all anyone will remember years from now. And we weren't down three scores to OSU in the first half. This SEC promotion is just a marketing ploy by ESPN. It's so transparent that even a blind man could see it. The bigger the playoff field, the bigger the discrepancy between the best teams and the rest of the field will be. Nobody complains when a 16th seed plays a1 seed in college basketball. Teams play their way in based on their record. I'm tired of hearing the bs about who belonged and who didn't. If you want in, beat the teams on your schedule. End of rant.

And they make terrible arguments that “the only two ranked teams IU has played have beat them” as if playing a top 25 team at home is the same as playing a featured game on the road against two top 5 teams. 

[Demo]

https://x.com/SECShorts/status/1871194056388235584
 

Well done

[Stuhoo]

9 minutes ago, Demo said:

https://x.com/SECShorts/status/1871194056388235584
 

Well done

Baltar has the Ryan Day-bad-dye-job beard.

[Demo]

[LamarCheeks]

15 minutes ago, Demo said:

That game just went into OT. 

Nothing like free Bulldong football. 

 

[RaceToTheTop]

21 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

That game just went into OT. 

Nothing like free Bulldong football. 

 

And the Northern Illinois Huskers beat them in OT.