OT: It just means more to the Irish: ND taking out Georgia
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That's disappointing, since ND and Indiana were the ones I said didn't belong in the playoff to begin with. I stand by the Indiana statement.
Interesting that all 4 of the teams who had byes are getting bounced in their first game.
I like this if expansion means having another G5 team in. We don't want this to be the SEC and Big-10 just adding more of their teams.
No selection committee. Top 16 are in. Seed them for the first round, re-seed for the second.
I don't hate that. But if there is no committee, how do you pick the Top 16? The Polls? Isn't that just a (bigger) committee?
I think so. But the CFP committee is only 13 people. That’s too small. You need enough voices to be able to drown out the bias of 1-2 vocal ones.
The old BCS model - compositing the computer rankings with the AP and coaches polls - created a pretty big pool of voters that worked largely in a vacuum. There were obvious problems with both human polls, but we could probably come up with some kind of messy and convoluted process to combine with AI and statistical analysis and create a ranking system and root out the cheaters. If we wanted to.
"Top 16" is too damned subjective. It should be the top two teams from the Power 4 conferences, the top 4 group of 5 (6?) champs and the next four at large teams based on rankings. It will never happen but it should.
And people can f#ck off with the whole "blowouts are a bad thing" bullsh!t. #1 seeds in the NCAA tournament are 154-2 against #16 teams in the NCAA tournament and it took 33 years for it to happen. If blowout wins were a bad thing, we'd reduce the NCAA tournament down to 32 teams and we'd quit inviting teams from crap conferences. Nobody below an 8 seed has ever won the damned thing and likely never will.
And Ole Miss can go suck a dick. They beat a mediocre Duke team that feasted on a bad ACC schedule. SMU probably shouldn't have made it in but Ole Miss wasn't going to win sh!t and shouldn't have choked against Kentucky if they wanted to be in the CFP.
Lane is playing the media game. I thought it was funny. He could not have been more disinterested last night. And correct, all Ole Miss had to do was beat Kentucky, which was a very bad loss.
(Regarding the Duke game: I was surprised to see QB Malik Murphy transferred from Duke to Oregon State. He's raw, but talented.)
FWIW, Lane is my current favorite CFB coach. He picked up a bit of Leach during their time as rival coaches.
Why should he be. You need to toe the line between “every game is an opportunity” and “we expect to be in the playoff, this is a disappointment”.
He does that pretty well I think and to your point with a little bit of leach like flair.
He had his team completely prepared (last night's score would reflect that). I think he enjoys trolling the media a bit. He clearly was doing that in the post-game interview with "well Jaxson might be able to get a waiver to play another year...who knows?"
I was (not) looking forward to another day of defeated coaches bitching about losing, and blaming the refs (sound familiar Cougs?). And the seeding. All the Round 1 visiting teams lost. So?, that's why home field advantage matters. Then all the bye teams lost. Odd, but Waah. "Oh they had too much time off". Not going to do the "time off" research by team, but all the bye teams had conference championship games a week after the non-champs played, so was the relative time off gap all that big? Oh and now the SEC Commissioner is crying that ND (say what) doesn't have enough time (a full week) to prepare for Penn State. And why does the SEC Commissioner give a shit about Penn State and ND? Maybe I will do a recap.
When they had 2 teams, everyone was crying foul. Except the 2. When they went to 4 teams, everyone was crying foul. Except the 4. Then we go to 12, and everyone (well Ole Miss anyway) was crying foul. Now several of the teams that lost so far are crying foul. Ok, let's go to 16 teams. Prepare for more crying.
When they had 2 teams, everyone was crying foul. Except the 2. When they went to 4 teams, everyone was crying foul. Except the 4. Then we go to 12, and everyone (well Ole Miss anyway) was crying foul. Now several of the teams that lost so far are crying foul. Ok, let's go to 16 teams. Prepare for more crying.
Always happy to see the SEC lose, but Notre Dame is an SEC in of themselves. Same with Ohio State. It was nice to see Oregon lose, but Ohio State is NIKE East. I've spent time in Western PA and Ohio. Good Lord, talk about an empire.
what are you talking about? Ohio is just like Rodney Dangerfield- they get no respect. I know because Ryan Day said so.
I know, what a joke of a comment. If you're ever stuck in or around the Buckeye State, make a quick trip to Columbus. Their facilities are bigger and better than 1/2 of the teams in the NFL. The talent they have is ridiculous. I think they have 49 players on active rosters in the NFL. For perspective, a full NFL roster is 53 players.
