dmr727
macrumors G4
I was very happy with the outcome of course, and it's been fun to watch Manning get better over the course of the season. Hopefully a lot of the guys will follow the example set by Ewers. We'll see!
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2025/2026 NCAA FOOTBALL
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I was very happy with the outcome of course, and it's been fun to watch Manning get better over the course of the season. Hopefully a lot of the guys will follow the example set by Ewers. We'll see!
MBAir2010
macrumors G3
Ohio St had the ball three times that second half, 2 TDs one punt with 6:04 left
then the last possession was an interception so UMiami stoped their last 2 drives, 6 minutes left.
Well I didn’t expect THAT game but we (the Oregon Ducks) shut out Texas Tech this morning! What a show of defense on BOTH teams. I’m so excited that we’re advancing and now I can relax and watch Alabama play Indiana. (I’m rooting for ‘Bama) Roll Tide!
So proud of my Ducks!
So proud of my Ducks!
pachyderm
macrumors G5
dmr727
macrumors G4
If people weren't completely sold on Indiana before, this performance should open some eyes. Holy crap!
pachyderm
macrumors G5
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Some really good games, what seems to be more then a coincidence is occuring as well. Last year all of the teams that had byes lost, this year only one team with the bye won.
I bet Lane Kiffin is kicking himself now, his team that dominated Georgia is being coached by someone else.
Oregon won, but it was a sloppy game, I think it was more due to the fact that Texas Tech had no offense, they just couldn't put anything together - in part due to the Duck's defense but also because they just were horrible.
Nice to see Indiana play so well, and dominate Alabama
I bet Lane Kiffin is kicking himself now, his team that dominated Georgia is being coached by someone else.
Oregon won, but it was a sloppy game, I think it was more due to the fact that Texas Tech had no offense, they just couldn't put anything together - in part due to the Duck's defense but also because they just were horrible.
Nice to see Indiana play so well, and dominate Alabama
MBAir2010
macrumors G3
well I turned off the Indy-Alie game early when Kirk Herbie stated the obvious,
"The Tide is just there playing, but not trying to be better, just playing without any guts!"
he was correct as I was done with "20-sumtins" yesterday so I avoided the later game.
boy can I use a break until next Thursday.
see ya's then!
"The Tide is just there playing, but not trying to be better, just playing without any guts!"
he was correct as I was done with "20-sumtins" yesterday so I avoided the later game.
boy can I use a break until next Thursday.
see ya's then!
pachyderm
macrumors G5
Roll Tide... I had very little faith in this one... They are just that good... Pulling for them to win it outright now. Was sooooo happy to see "The Ohio" go down! LOVED IT!!!!
TheIntruder
macrumors 68020
No disrepect to the participants in the Fiesta Bowl, but if someone were to say that the Peach Bowl will be the true championship game, I wouldn't disagree with them.
THE losers of the Cotton Bowl, and ND can sulk in their shoulda/coulda/woulda fantasies all offseason.
And Coach DeBoer may try to comfort himself, and his team by saying there is a fine line that separated them from greatness, but they played like they were ten feet away from it.
THE losers of the Cotton Bowl, and ND can sulk in their shoulda/coulda/woulda fantasies all offseason.
And Coach DeBoer may try to comfort himself, and his team by saying there is a fine line that separated them from greatness, but they played like they were ten feet away from it.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Here's the issue as I see it
Both Texas 10-3 and Notre Dame 10-2 were excluded in the CFP as James Madison and Tulane were picked in their places. JMU's record 12-1, Tulane 11-2, both winners in their respective conferences.
However their records are such that they largely did not play any teams of high caliber or ranked teams, where as both Texas and ND had.
The results were predictable, where those two teams when faced with quality programs were crushed.
Regarding the cotton bowl, I was quite surprised (and pleased) with Ohio State not showing up for the game. I don't follow that program but I think there were events behind the scenes including the HC taking over play calling did not help them at all.
At the end of day, you're correct with should have/would have/could have but what did happen was that the NCAA put out a really poor showing in the first round of the play offs and caused more focus on what's broken with the playoffs, where some excellent teams were ignored in favor for considerably weaker teams
With that said, people have been calling for the smaller conferences to be included in the playoffs and how unfair it is to ignore them - they're not wrong, but then this is the result.
pachyderm
macrumors G5
Yeah. there is no need for teams like Tulane, or JMU in the big show if we are honest.
TheIntruder
macrumors 68020
I don't think anyone would call the CFP perfect.
It is the product of the schools/conferences/TV networks efforts to reconcile what a competitive* postseason tournament looks like, where everyone gets their piece of the pie, but still obviously driven by, and biased toward, the P4 conferences. It must still try to appear fair, if not magnanimous, and represent a "true" national championship where everyone is represented and given a fair shot to succeed. However unlikely it is for the smaller schools.
The CFP ostensibly represents all of D1FBS CFB, not just the P4 conferences and their best teams, plus the exceptionalist isolationists at the school in South Bend.
American sports entertainment isn't as cutthroat as it is in other places, otherwise we'd have relegation and the crappy teams in our leagues wouldn't have a shot at all.
It is what it is, and everyone knows what the rules are.
* Consider the alternative, the pre-CFP system where individual bowl matchups were based on conference records, but with each game still played in isolation, and the final champion determined by polling, not a game. And worse, with more than one poll, there were different results and years with no consensus as what the final rankings were.
Would that be any better? Now, at least the teams have to play each other to determine the ultimate victor.
Gregg2
macrumors 604
If he is, it doesn't hurt. He's got too many greenbacks in his pockets.
eltoslightfoot
macrumors 68040
I think about this a lot. Were we better off when everyone just played their bowl game and bowl games mattered? The National Championship was nice, but not the point of college football.
Then again, as my wife reminded me, we had a ton of bowl games where people sat out because the game didn't really matter compared to being drafted. This approach of the CFP is probably the best of the bad options.
Probably we need to get to a 64 team league with 4 conferences (SEC, etc.,), and a standard setup like the NFL. Then everyone else goes into another playoff system with another winner. (similar to FCS.) I bet this is what they end up doing eventually. It's a disaster right now in a lot of ways for the smaller schools.
I have said they should be doing this since they started this. Makes way to much sense. WAY to much.
pachyderm
macrumors G5
I actually enjoyed the debate back and forth.
It didn't mean anything to me either way if we had an competition for the "title".
TheIntruder
macrumors 68020
The "Super League" model has been tossed around by people, including former coaches like Chip Kelly, but until the conferences can reconcile their differences, especially the SEC and Big Ten, the path to a larger tournament will be difficult.
And since the CFB postseason is controlled by the conferences, and not the NCAA like in hoops, the effort to include the smaller schools, which are token anyway, are even harder to muster.
The entity that holds the power, but hasn't overtly exerted it, is TV. If ESPN got everyone in the same room and more firmly said, "this is what we want and how the pot will be split, everyone will get their fair share, otherwise, good luck," it might help speed the process along.
Hoops has it easier because the two primary negotiators are CBS and the NCAA, and everyone pretty much accepts, if not respects, the decisions of the selection committee, with less questioning of the system (cough, ND this season). In CFB, there are two alpha conferences, two more that can say "hey, wait…" and the smaller ones that get thrown a bone to try to make it look fair.
But, schools are selfish, and there is no franchise or charter system like in the pros where everyone, even the worst franchises, have some sort of vested assurance, and they all recognize that a strong NFL benefits everybody regardless of their field records.
And you also gotta admit that controversy and turmoil is also part and parcel of CFB.
Ultimately, everyone has their own idea of what CFB is, or should represent, but for most, I'd say money is the key factor, not principle.
This season has shown a program that considers itself to hold the highest standards, literally took its ball and stayed home because it didn't get the benefit of the doubt, then attacked the system, after finding that the sense of privilige that has benefitted it in the past, doesn't always work, particularly in this current era where the objective factors overshadow the subjective more than in the past. It didn't get what it thought it deserved, or thought it was entitled to, threw a fit, and opted to stay home. What kind of example does that set for its students and fans, or the sport in general?
MBAir2010
macrumors G3
im just chiming in stating how "tired and worn out sport-wise" I am of anticipating the Thursday night UMiami game.
these 12 team playoffs are too much as they need to trim this to 6 qualified teams in the future
but that won't happen since money and the other reason money
my bones feel weak just thinking of watching this Thursday's game as I have no idea who the 'Canes are playing
if that actually matters, I know that Georgia lost and Indy-ducky is Friday as I can't pinpoint that opponent.
I guess this is not the sport for me to enjoy anymore?
these 12 team playoffs are too much as they need to trim this to 6 qualified teams in the future
but that won't happen since money and the other reason money
my bones feel weak just thinking of watching this Thursday's game as I have no idea who the 'Canes are playing
if that actually matters, I know that Georgia lost and Indy-ducky is Friday as I can't pinpoint that opponent.
I guess this is not the sport for me to enjoy anymore?