Forget the losses for a minute. No team below them has a TRUE ROAD victory against a top 10 opponent. Maybe if P5 schools weren't too busy dodging high quality ooc games, someone else would have their spot.
Well, I'll wait to see how Notre Dame does vs a ranked team in their bowl game and how Cincy handles playing a team like Bama before I go crowning Cincy as anything more than WMU under Fleck or Miami of Ohio with Rothlisberger or UCF, etc..
That would have been a shame as I don't think either Baylor or Okie St deserved to be in the playoffs, although I only saw that game so my opinion is based on too small a sample to mean much. I was hoping Cincy would lose to Houston so no G5 team would ever get into the cfp, but after watching that Houston/Cincy game, I think Cincy really is a good team and deserves a shot, they might surprise us all? Cfb probably needs to be shaken up as UC beating Bama would do.
Dude, I don't object to things you say when what you say makes sense, lol. I'm basically in total agreement with all in this post. I was also surprised by ND's picking Freeman, but the players seem to like him and hiring him could stabilize a situation that is not so bad right now?
But it will unfortunately... If they get blown out, a G5 will never be considered to play for a national championship again. Until expansion at least and that's a maybe even with expansion. Which is bulls*** because it has been mass blowouts in the semis. But that's just the way it is.
But it will unfortunately... If they get blown out, a G5 will never be considered to play for a national championship again. Until expansion at least and that's a maybe even with expansion. Which is bulls*** because it has been mass blowouts in the semis. But that's just the way it is.
Imagine a program having to shoulder the weight of 65 other small programs. Not only the present, but also defending those great Boise State, UCF, TCU, Utah teams that never got the chance from the past.
Its heavy for just a sport. Especially for 18, 19, 20 year old kids. Luckily, they have a coach that's all about focus. If it was humanly possible, they shouldn't even watch TV or listen to the radio until game day. But the sh*t is everywhere.
Just pray for them
I honestly don't believe Cincy will get blown out.
It would have but his first regular season game is at Ohio State next year so that is something.
You mean the way Georgia usually does when they meet up with Bama in a high-profile game? How many times has that worked out?
It should be a fun game, Notre Dame is young this year so they should have a lot of players back.
That's laughable that a Minnesota fan would challenge anybody about playing a quality OOC opponent. The Gophers have played only 3 Power-5 OOC opponents in the last 5 full seasons - all of them perennial cellar-dwellers. The Rebels have faced at least one in each of those seasons, along with a number of games against decent backyard rivals like Memphis. And that's on top of playing Alabama, Auburn, LSU & Texas A&M every season.
