I guess....but did you really not see a difference in our pass game against TN than it looked vs. UM when we did try to throw on UM(never mind UM's pass game also couldn't throw downfield)?
Ebuka no slouch either and if he wanted possible Tate could have pulled a Williams and been a star elsewhere.
yeah.
damn, forgot to mention him. absolutely.
Might be true but not really how it does or should work. I mean, in 2015 I'm pretty sure OSU was better than MSU (and maybe everyone in the field for that CFP) but couldn't get it done on field against MSU so didn't get the bid (and shouldn't have).
yes and no. I don't consider the Texas/clem game a blowout. clem was competitive.
Agree and hell, could even make a case was not beneficial to show anything that game. Sure, UM and want to win but despite the "I just want to beat UM" fans the goal is a title.
Only guess is avoid conflict with NFL as much as possible?
2 of the games from last weekend were really lopsided from an advanced metrics standpoint IIRC. FEI ranking I believe has Ohio State as the #1 team and Notre Dame #3.
Agree no doubt makes it tougher....but it's also something coaches were always free to do.
I definitely do not think CCG winners should get all the byes.
But you have to admit taking out the 98-yard runs assumes they would not have gone on a drive that ended in a touch down. Only the time left would have been affected if that were the case. ND did dominate the game.
nope. not at all. something they need to fix after this playoff.
possibly. i admit they looked better.
Don't know about second string, surely a few to avoid injury, but definitely a prevent which allows teams to march down the field but use up time.
I can say “who knows?” because the SEC non-con schedule is abysmal which leads to there in conference SOS. The AP seems bound and determined to keep the SEC on top. LSU’s loss vs USC (now unranked) should have gotten them dropped from the the top 25. But instead USC was given a big jump to 13. Also LSU was back in the top 10 five weeks later because they beat overrated top 10 Ole Miss. That’s the problem. Whenever an overrated SEC team loses the opponent gets a jump because there’s no way journalists could have been that wrong about the SEC.
There's a lot of precognition and time travel assumed in your post. When the schedule was drawn up, USC was an excellent choice as a tough OOC opponent. Schedules are made up years in advance. From the perspective of a scheduler in 2021, USC had been ranked for 6 of the last 7 years. Sure, in hindsight the 2024 season didn't turn out so well for USC, but there's no way the schedulers could have known that when the schedule was made.
I have made this point more times than I can remember. Over the years ND has sometimes been accused of a weak schedule. And yet that schedule has always included Southern Cal, Standford (however last four years not so much), two or three Big Ten, 1 SEC or Big 12, 3 ACC and an additional P4, Navy and a Group 5 team and of course NO FCS (save for 2023) And yet they get the weak schedule asterisk attached when some of those teams are down. The Big Tens (all home and home) have been Michigan, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Ohio State, Purdue and Northwestern, the Big 12s were Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, the ACC rotated.
