CFP National Championship: Ohio State vs Notre Dame Jan 20 7:30 ESPN

[Firebirdparts]

The absolute worst thing that should happen in that situation with 1st and goal from the 1, is OSU stops you four straight times, but they take over on their own 1 yard line. Calling a toss play is completely asinine.

Well, it's super important to line up in the shotgun 4 times. No national championship would be worth breaking that sacred rule.

 

[Flogballs]

Hometown boy too, Pickerington is a suburb of Columbus, right outside the interstate loop. Be like a kid from Hardin Valley or one of the Blount County schools making a play like that for us.

Kind of... definitely a home town kid but I wouldn't compare a 5* recruit from pickerington to anything around Knoxville.

 

[sami]

Yep.

Everyone had best prepare themselves for eight months of non-stop barking from all the Midwest and East coast media who've had to swallow their pride and their love for their precious northern schools these past twenty years. They've been pissing their pants in anticipation of going to town with their dumbass "THE SEC ERA IS FINISHED" articles and commentary, and now it's finally time to let loose. Big 10 this, Big 10 that, Big 10 leg humping all summer long. Gonna be hell all off-season now, no matter which of those dipwad teams wins the championship. Fresh, lousy hell.

Truth. They set this stupid playoff up with the goal to get at least one Big 10 team into the final with the gift draw to Penn State and OSU at home, and got lucky with Beck's injury. So the Big 10, with 3/4 of the league a mediocre mess, get two titles in a row and the national media can dance on the SEC's grave like they've been dreaming of doing for a decade and a half.

 

[imw8n4u]

If Ohio State wins the National Championship, they had one tough route to it. Played a tough Tennessee team, then the number 1 team in the Country, Oregon and then a very good tough defense team, Texas. Now, another good defensive team in ND! That is how it is supposed to be!

They will have earned it, that's for sure.

 

[Flogballs]

If Ohio State wins the National Championship, they had one tough route to it. Played a tough Tennessee team, then the number 1 team in the Country, Oregon and then a very good tough defense team, Texas. Now, another good defensive team in ND! That is how it is supposed to be!

Ohio state is clearly one of the best teams and basically anyone who emerged from that side of the bracket would say the same. Vols had the toughest route of any team in the playoff

 

[MAD]

Hometown boy too, Pickerington is a suburb of Columbus, right outside the interstate loop. Be like a kid from Hardin Valley or one of the Blount County schools making a play like that for us.

Kind of... definitely a home town kid but I wouldn't compare a 5* recruit from pickerington to anything around Knoxville.

As someone who has lived in both Knoxville and Columbus, it’s exactly the same. Vol in Buckeye Land is correct.

 

[Jaxon_Vol2017]

If Ohio State wins the National Championship, they had one tough route to it. Played a tough Tennessee team, then the number 1 team in the Country, Oregon and then a very good tough defense team, Texas. Now, another good defensive team in ND! That is how it is supposed to be!

They 100% would have earned it.

 

[MAD]

 

[zeppelin128]

I don't think anyone can assert either team will have not earned it:
Notre Dame beat Indiana, Georgia, and PSU
Ohio beat Tennessee, Oregon, and Texas

Good resumes for both. Just need to fix the automatic bye weirdness. Give the top 4 teams a bye, regardless of conference championships, and be done with it.

 

[Flogballs]

As someone who has lived in both Knoxville and Columbus, it’s exactly the same. Vol in Buckeye Land is correct.

Are you andre turrentine

 

[Voltopia]

I don't think anyone can assert either team will have not earned it:
Notre Dame beat Indiana, Georgia, and PSU
Ohio beat Tennessee, Oregon, and Texas

Good resumes for both. Just need to fix the automatic bye weirdness. Give the top 4 teams a bye, regardless of conference championships, and be done with it.

Earned it, but also bought it. Not that it would be any different for most of the top programs. But Ohio State's been on the record all year as being one of the biggest spenders. All those NFL-bound players didn't come cheap.

Sobering to think that 20 million is the floor now. It only goes up from here.

 

[zeppelin128]

Earned it, but also bought it. Not that it would be any different for most of the top programs. But Ohio State's been on the record all year as being one of the biggest spenders. All those NFL-bound players didn't come cheap.

Sobering to think that 20 million is the floor now. It only goes up from here.

Also true. I wonder how much money is flowing around Texas that is "off the books", so to speak. "Rich Texans have more money than God", to quote my father. lol

 

[Flogballs]

Earned it, but also bought it. Not that it would be any different for most of the top programs. But Ohio State's been on the record all year as being one of the biggest spenders. All those NFL-bound players didn't come cheap.

Sobering to think that 20 million is the floor now. It only goes up from here.

What we have today is literally the exact thing the NCAA was established to prevent. Will be interesting to see what the next iteration looks like, but if college administrators are involved it's hard to imagine it won't also be corrupted

 

[Flogballs]

Also true. I wonder how much money is flowing around Texas that is "off the books", so to speak. "Rich Texans have more money than God", to quote my father. lol

it's like the yankees and dodgers

notre dame is the... cubs?

 

[MAD]

 

[MAD]

I didn’t think this was a penalty.

 

[Vol in Buckeye Land]

I didn’t think this was a penalty.

They’ll let you get away with a lot, but when it’s clearly directed at an opposing player they usually call it.

 

[Vol in Buckeye Land]

If Ohio State wins the National Championship, they had one tough route to it. Played a tough Tennessee team, then the number 1 team in the Country, Oregon and then a very good tough defense team, Texas. Now, another good defensive team in ND! That is how it is supposed to be!

I was in the Shoe on December 21st. I told my father-in-law that night that this Ohio State team should win the championship, but I wondered if it would be a one game thing and then they’d go back to underperforming. Honestly glad your boys have continued to bring it; losing to the eventual champs puts a little more positive spin on the end of our season.

 

[MAD]

This is so true, both games were relaxing and fun to watch as a neutral fan.

 

[feathersax]

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Bevo all teared up...gotta save this one. Thanks.

 

[CAVPUT]

They’ll let you get away with a lot, but when it’s clearly directed at an opposing player they usually call it.

Yep. Kid wanted some attention. Well, he got it. Own it and quit whining about it. Better yet act like you've been there, done that instead of acting a fool.

 

[BigALWiLson]

Earned it, but also bought it. Not that it would be any different for most of the top programs. But Ohio State's been on the record all year as being one of the biggest spenders. All those NFL-bound players didn't come cheap.

Sobering to think that 20 million is the floor now. It only goes up from here.

Its all bought and paid for by every team that wins championships. Been that way for a long time this isn't new. Now they just have to pay more and it's common knowledge

 

[easttnbuck]

Earned it, but also bought it. Not that it would be any different for most of the top programs. But Ohio State's been on the record all year as being one of the biggest spenders. All those NFL-bound players didn't come cheap.

Sobering to think that 20 million is the floor now. It only goes up from here.

But Texas spent more than them

This is the world we live in now, no sense in whining about it

 

[sami]

Earned it, but also bought it. Not that it would be any different for most of the top programs. But Ohio State's been on the record all year as being one of the biggest spenders. All those NFL-bound players didn't come cheap.

Sobering to think that 20 million is the floor now. It only goes up from here.

All the people trying to somehow equate the CFP to March Madness got a powerful dose of reality this year, and it will only get worse now that OSU has very clearly established that the key to success is talent, talent, and more talent, be damned the cost.

Any more than eight teams, seeded as they are ranked with no byes and no conference champ auto bids will always be overkill in CFB, and even then it will still come down to 2-3 teams (max) that can actually win the thing. Oh, there might be an upset once every few years - maybe - but generally it's going to be a lot of 3-4 score games leading up to the few teams with a legit shot playing each other.

But as long as networks will be willing to pony up more and more $$$$ this will grow, to 14, then 16, and who knows from there. It isn't about the competition, it's about the networks and conferences (especially the SEC and Big 10) making as much as possible.

Getting more of your teams in is primarily about the payout for conference commissioners, so it will be the fight about the number of auto bids more than a genuine concern about the quality of the event that will dominate the conversations as we move on.

 

[wmcovol]

He and Matthew Mc deserve each other