The best teams should play competitive games in a playoff. This totally exposes the joke of a process it is. Other teams should have qualified over TCU.
CFP Championship game thread
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OSU had them on the ropes, and we can hang with OSU. Now we have a 5 star QB, and two 5 star RBs. We might be closer than it seems.
Michigan beats TCU 9 times out of 10. It’s not like TCU blew them out. Michigan lost that game. TCU got lucky. They were exposed tonite.
That’s why I think the 8-team playoff will avoid blowout finals like this. A team like TCU might get lucky once in that format, but only once.
In the finals Bama lost to Clemson by 38 in the 2019 game. OSU lost to Bama by 28 in the 2021 game.
So you think what TCU did to Michigan was luck? 51 points is a shitload of luck.
A team like TCU? I will say again, they beat 5 ranked teams during the regular season. We beat none and got to the Rose Bowl. Yes, tonight they suck. We sucked against Michigan. It happens.
There is never a guaranteed of competitive games at any level, period. The people who want Bama in are star gazers. If on the field doesn't matter (aka let's forget that Bama didn't win their division), why are UGa, Bama, and OSU even playing regular season games? They are always going to pass any looks test. They are always going to have the best rosters.
Thinking back on how many Super Bowls were total trainwrecks. Most of them involved the Bills or Broncos in the late 80s and early 90s getting housed by the Cowboys and 49ers (and a Redskins sighting in there twice). So by some people's opinions here, those teams didn't deserve to be on the big stage because they got housed in the championship game. They probably also believe that Gonzaga didn't deserve to be in the championship game when Baylor ran them off the court. These are the same people that probably just want to go back to the archaic bowl system of pre-1998 and have a bunch of writers and broadcasters decide a champion.
BLOWOUTS HAPPEN IN CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES. IT DOESN'T LESSEN THE ABILITY OR THE SKILL OF THE TEAM THAT GOT SMOKED.
BLOWOUTS HAPPEN IN CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES. IT DOESN'T LESSEN THE ABILITY OR THE SKILL OF THE TEAM THAT GOT SMOKED.
I think that would be a pretty good game, especially I’d the Rose Bowl version of Sean Clifford showed up.
Finally we agree. TCU beat Michigan and OSU lost to them by 22. Clearly TCU and OSU are not in the same class. That said, I am off to bed.
I just looked up those 5 ranked teams. IrishHerb is correct, they were grossly overrated.
Oklahoma finished 6-7.
Kansas finished 6-7.
Ok St finished 7-6.
K State finished 10-4.
Texas finished 8-5.
Not very good. Not really a resume builder.
I loved the outcome of this game and will always root against religious schools like TCU, Notre Dame, BYU, etc when they play on a national stage. I’m glad they got crushed by a large public school.
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Kirby Smart and Georgia always conducts full contact practices. They tackle in practice and hit. I don't believe many teams practice this way anymore, including Penn State. There may be something to that.
You serious, Clark?
Dude, that's his schtick. Between this board and the old board, he probably has over 30,000 posts, and 29,500+ of them involve one of these things: Lattes/scones, jerking off, a sarcastic comment about folks hating various things related to PSU, or a sarcastic comment about people laughing at people/things that are better than them.
How do you not know this?
Because they are unwelcoming for students other than the ones belonging to the religious groups they were founded to educate.
Not true. 15% pf Notre Dame's student body are not Catholic. TCU, in their advances, says they accept people of all faiths or no faith.
Kirby Smart, in his post game, said the toughest thing to combat as a coach is the sense of entitlement. He says he recruits kids who don't take anything for granted and are willing to work hard. Says if the kid is willing to "eat his dinner off the floor"...he'll be special.
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Its an easy decision to hold full contact practices when your 2nd and 3rd team kids are as good as or better than some Teams 1st team.
Yep...and it makes you more game prepared too. It's a concern that Penn State seems to lack physicality.
If 85% are Catholic, it’s a Catholic school. How many non Christians go to TCU? How many non Mormons go to BYU? These are all religious colleges. They are designed to appeal to students of a particular faith, and to therefore exclude those who “don’t belong”.
I don't believe they exclude anyone. I believe you have bias my friend.
They may not exclude anyone per se. I agree with that. But they don’t “welcome” people of other faiths. Duh-If TCU wanted non Christians to attend perhaps they should consider changing their name? That is the difference. That’s my opinion. They are designed to serve a selection of the student population who belong to a particular religion. They have a bias. So therefore I choose to root against them. When I was applying to colleges many years ago, some colleges in the Ivy League had quotas of how many non Christians they would accept. Some colleges like Moravian College in Pa required all students to attend Christian religious class weekly. A lot of colleges were founded by religious organizations and there was a lot of carryover of discrimination in their admissions policies and culture. If you want to attend a religious school fine. Many offer high quality education. But I choose to root against these places because I don’t personally like schools who align themselves with religious affiliations. I was hoping Georgia would score 70 on them.
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Maybe, just maybe there are people to whom religion is an important part of their lives, and they want that in an academic environment too. For some reason, there doesn't seem to be a large market for Wiccan University, or Heathen Agnostic College. Rooting against a school's athletic teams simply because it is religion based is pretty shallow, no?
Do you also root against all-women schools because they don't accept dudes? And do you root against the HBC's because their white enrollment is low?
Sheesh.
Go 3-1 with a loss to TennAlabama was awarded an away SEC schedule that happens to PSU periodically.
10/1 @Arkansas W 49-26
10/15 @ Tenn L 49-52
11/5 @ LSU L 31-32
11/12 @ Miss W 30-24
I wonder how PSU would do with that schedule.
I would say a big step however remember if OSU kicker makes the kick like he should no of this would be discussed.
The worst part of the game was that it was TCU that got stomped and not Michigan.
By the end of the season, those “5” ranked teams became 2 — and one of the two was #25.