Ole Miss vs TCU in the Chick Fil A Peach Bowl

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#302
Hacksaw said:
They made the right decision given the information they had to work with. TCU is playing a helluva game today, but they are getting a lot of help from Ole Miss.

Actually, Ole Miss isn't playing too badly on the defensive side of the ball. They've allowed two long scoring drives by an offense that averaged 47 points per game this season. The other scores were short field due to a turnover and the pick-six in the end zone.

But that offense...wow. I think they underestimated TCU's defense. But it's a defense that gave up an average of 20 points per game, including 30 to a 3-win Kansas team. Ole Miss is making them look better than they are, IMO.
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i disagree osu got too much credit for stomping wisky

if you stop melvin gordon which their dline should be able to do you win the quarterback is awful

not to mention the whole 3rd string qb vs trayvon boykin thing
 
#320
#320
TCU would have beaten anyone in the nation with that performance with the exception of Bama. THAT would be a good game. This Bama vs OHS is BS. Bama will roll
 
#321
#321
I was looking at TCU's scheduling setup.

The Big 12 plays a 9-conference game schedule, round robin (everyone plays everyone), in turn allowing only 3 OOC games.

TCU has done a pretty good job scheduling their OOC opponents. While one of those 3 games each year is an FCS opponent like everyone else, they had Minnesota (which turned out to work in their favor this year) in the first year of a home and home, with upcoming home and home games versus Arkansas and Ohio State.

They also are scheduled to play SMU yearly, a traditional rival.

Anyways, possible changes:

A) The NCAA grants the Big 12 a waiver to play a conference championship game with 10 institutions.

(This seems the pretty likely scenario, especially given the NCAA's lack of teeth at the moment. I'll be honest that also - given the Big 12's desire to continue to have all 10 teams play each other round robin - it also comes out kinda...weird. Any championship game would be a rematch of two teams that already played, every time.

Yes, it provides a 13th game...but it opens up plenty of "how much did the first matchup matter" issues, possibly negatively effects SOS, and even leaving open possible "both teams will just play each other again next week.")

B) The second scenario might be for TCU to further adjust its OOC scheduling (in the case the other scenario wasn't passed). They'd begin to schedule 2 power 5 OOC opponents each year as part of their 3 OOC slate, to "make up" (which seems odd to say, considering they're really only playing 1 group of 5 school each year, while most play 2-3).

In short, this would mean TCU would need to open up that 2nd OOC game slot by either (1) becoming the only FBS team to not play a yearly home game against an FCS opponent or (2) buying their way out of their future contracted games with SMU through 2017, their historic traditional rival from the Southwest Conference days that they've played yearly since 1926.
 
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#325
I'm really feeling like TCU got screwed, and proved it tonight.

TCU thumping Ole Miss, who beat Bama, who is #1.

TCU is REALLY gonna be upset if Bama comes out and destroys OSU. And God forbid Baylor lose. Then Texas Christian won't be acting so Christian.

But there's always gonna be a team who gets screwed. Sad part is, I feel like TCU got screwed because a Meyer-Saban matchup was more interesting, and because OSU fans would bring more money than TCU.

A TCU loss to Baylor is worse than a OSU loss to Virginia Tech. Don't see how you justify that one, even with a blowout win to Wisconsin.

Oh well. Looking forward to some AWESOME football today.
 
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