We were the worst team in the playoff, and the coaches approached this game like cowards

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utvolpj said:
Peyton's last college game following the Heisman debacle was prime time. Even more since the opponent was going for the NC. Many of those other losses were the CBS game I can assure you
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Maybe two of those other losses were on CBS. But just being in CBS does not make it as public as this one.

Nebraska Orange Bowl, it has an argument. That’s the only thing you listed in this stratosphere.
 
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whobethis16 said:
The past 2 days show just reiterate how bad the idea of a college playoff is. Only 10 of 24 games before the championship (semis/first round) have been decided by fewer than 17 points. Only 7 of those 24 were single digit.
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Nah, the CFP is a great idea. They just need to tweak how matchups are decided. There will be 16 teams after next season..
 
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BeardedVol said:
We definitely had the hardest draw, but if we'd played PSU, Texas, or ND today with the same level of effort and the same preparation and game plan, the outcome wouldn't have been any different other than a smaller gap in the score in the loss (except with Texas possibly).
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I'm not sure this effort would have beaten Indiana or SMU.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
Beyond dumb would be playing all your DBs 15 yards off the ball on 3rd and 5. Beyond dumb would be kicking a field goal down 21. Beyond dumb would be not putting a returner back deep when a kicker who can barely hit from 40 is kicking from 56.

Beyond dumb would be making excuses for the piss poor performance.
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It’s almost as if the coaches didn’t prepare, what they did prepare was already covered on film from the entire season, and they just didn’t care. Neither did the players.

Looking at it logically, the team didn’t even show up with the exception of Nico. The coaches were awful. You can’t convince me that this team and staff prepared for anything for 3 weeks except promos.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
This is the most public humiliation the program has suffered on the field maybe ever. Every single element of this team, from top to bottom, failed miserably. There is a real problem with Heupel preparing his team for road games and in instances where expectations get raised. And in this year particularly, we looked miserable after every bye week.

All that talk about “fix the playoff, these teams don’t belong, SEC has no peers, everything is rigged for the Big 10” needs to stop. This was the sort of performance that will erase any benefit of the doubt for us going forward and can honestly kill all momentum we have as a program.
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Did you watch the 1997 Orange Bowl?
 
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utvolpj said:
Not really. 1998 Nebraska actually felt worse because our team was much better. 2007 losing by 100-37 combined to UF and a bad Bama team. Dooley to UK, butch and Pruitt with some massive stinkers. We were 3-7 and left for dead when Heupel took over a team with 50 players left and on massive probation.
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We lost to a Kentucky team that had a WR starting at QB with Dooley. Last night wasn’t even in the top five of worst embarrassments.
 
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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
Beyond dumb would be playing all your DBs 15 yards off the ball on 3rd and 5. Beyond dumb would be kicking a field goal down 21. Beyond dumb would be not putting a returner back deep when a kicker who can barely hit from 40 is kicking from 56.

Beyond dumb would be making excuses for the piss poor performance.
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Change your pad.
 
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jasonvol18 said:
Nah, the CFP is a great idea. They just need to tweak how matchups are decided. There will be 16 teams after next season..
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Yes, nothing like having more diluted games to appease the "it's not fair they're in and we aren't" crowd that really think there's going to be a Cinderella team like there is in basketball.
 
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whobethis16 said:
Yes, nothing like having more diluted games to appease the "it's not fair they're in and we aren't" crowd that really think there's going to be a Cinderella team like there is in basketball.
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This x 1000.

If there is one thing this weekend served as a referendum, it is that you can expand this thing to 64 teams if you want, and it will just result in more of these kinds of games. The four team playoff was perfect, and in many of those years had 1-2 teams too many. CFB ain't CBB, and this will never be March Madness, regardless how much hype it gets.

I know they never go backward, as more is always better with the networks and conferences, but they should back this up to eight teams, ranked by a computer system and seeded that way with no auto bids, then play it out. You'll still get a lot of blowouts, but you'll also at least have a shot at a lower seed winning a game now and then.

But as long as the networks are willing to pay, this thing will keep getting bigger. More games like these and people are going to stop tuning in.
 
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