OSU & college discussion Football thread

[Hightop77]

They played one team and crapped the bed. I wonder if the committee wanted a ND vs IN game for ratings? Maybe it looked at IN stats and fell for it like those who do for tOSU defensive stats vs cupcakes.

Probably so.  They do in-state matchups like this regularly in the basketball tournament.

3 loss teams should not be in the playoffs. They he SEC is nothing special this year.

I think there are 3 loss teams out there that are better than Indiana.  You really have to take everything into consideration if you want to get the best 12 teams.

Maybe so, but when you lose 3 times you lose that opportunity. Also, the SEC plays 1 less conference game than everyone else. They also sneak in a division 2 game before their end of the year rivalry games.

Well we can disagree.  How does Indiana deserve a playoff spot with literally no quality wins and a blowout loss to the only decent team they played?

[Beastdog]

Why is three losses the magical "you can't qualify for the CFP" golden rule? This is like the first year with TWELVE teams qualifying for the playoffs. 3 losses doesn't seem like too much to me. I bet every single year in the past 2 decades, the list of the top 12 teams in college football included at least one 3 loss team. This year is not an exception.

[Beastdog]

There was not enough consideration this year given to strength of schedule. That's why IU got in over Bama/Ole Miss and why Penn St was given a better seed than an obviously super OHIO STATE team. Enough of the nonsense already!

[zigbee]

They played one team and crapped the bed. I wonder if the committee wanted a ND vs IN game for ratings? Maybe it looked at IN stats and fell for it like those who do for tOSU defensive stats vs cupcakes.

Probably so.  They do in-state matchups like this regularly in the basketball tournament.

3 loss teams should not be in the playoffs. They he SEC is nothing special this year.

I think there are 3 loss teams out there that are better than Indiana.  You really have to take everything into consideration if you want to get the best 12 teams.

Maybe so, but when you lose 3 times you lose that opportunity. Also, the SEC plays 1 less conference game than everyone else. They also sneak in a division 2 game before their end of the year rivalry games.

Great point

Indiana deserved the entry

Alabama blows

Indy played ND pretty tough to lose by 10 on ND turf

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I think Penn St wins

[ScarletHayes]

Got a kick out of S McDonough last night going off on how the B1G only has 2 titles in the last 20-some years, then he remembered OSU won the first playoff in 2014 too, so it's 3 (and of course UM won in 97 as well, just 5 years before our 2002 title).  Which I find to be a hoot, because once a playoff was implemented (more than 2 teams for a change), it sort of blew a hole in his whole point about the B1G being overrated.  I mean seriously, the B1G has been dumped on for a long time now.  Deservedly so in some spans, but to act as if bias never worked against our conference is just a silly take.  Often times B1G teams couldn't get into the top 2.  And the idea that our 2015 team didn't belong in the playoff was a crime.  Of course they made up for it the very next season and put us in when we probably shouldn't have been in, but I digress.

[Dzone1]

Why is three losses the magical "you can't qualify for the CFP" golden rule? This is like the first year with TWELVE teams qualifying for the playoffs. 3 losses doesn't seem like too much to me. I bet every single year in the past 2 decades, the list of the top 12 teams in college football included at least one 3 loss team. This year is not an exception.

And every year there are really only 2-3 teams that belong in a playoff.

[Dzone1]

Probably so.  They do in-state matchups like this regularly in the basketball tournament.

3 loss teams should not be in the playoffs. They he SEC is nothing special this year.

I think there are 3 loss teams out there that are better than Indiana.  You really have to take everything into consideration if you want to get the best 12 teams.

Maybe so, but when you lose 3 times you lose that opportunity. Also, the SEC plays 1 less conference game than everyone else. They also sneak in a division 2 game before their end of the year rivalry games.

Well we can disagree.  How does Indiana deserve a playoff spot with literally no quality wins and a blowout loss to the only decent team they played?

The only team with a truly good record this year is Oregon. The rest of the field has a lot of warts.

[Beastdog]

Probably so.  They do in-state matchups like this regularly in the basketball tournament.

3 loss teams should not be in the playoffs. They he SEC is nothing special this year.

I think there are 3 loss teams out there that are better than Indiana.  You really have to take everything into consideration if you want to get the best 12 teams.

Maybe so, but when you lose 3 times you lose that opportunity. Also, the SEC plays 1 less conference game than everyone else. They also sneak in a division 2 game before their end of the year rivalry games.

Great point

Indiana deserved the entry

Alabama blows

Indy played ND pretty tough to lose by 10 on ND turf

You're off your rocker. They were down 27-3 with 3 mins left. Indiana blows. Bama would beat them by 2+ TDs on a neutral field.

[Hightop77]

SMU QB must have money on this game.

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3 loss teams should not be in the playoffs. They he SEC is nothing special this year.

I think there are 3 loss teams out there that are better than Indiana.  You really have to take everything into consideration if you want to get the best 12 teams.

Maybe so, but when you lose 3 times you lose that opportunity. Also, the SEC plays 1 less conference game than everyone else. They also sneak in a division 2 game before their end of the year rivalry games.

Great point

Indiana deserved the entry

Alabama blows

Indy played ND pretty tough to lose by 10 on ND turf

You're off your rocker. They were down 27-3 with 3 mins left. Indiana blows. Bama would beat them by 2+ TDs on a neutral field.

Bama blows puppy boy

The final score was 10 pts

Howd bama do vs oklahoma?

[lrrps21]

They played one team and crapped the bed. I wonder if the committee wanted a ND vs IN game for ratings? Maybe it looked at IN stats and fell for it like those who do for tOSU defensive stats vs cupcakes.

Probably so.  They do in-state matchups like this regularly in the basketball tournament.

3 loss teams should not be in the playoffs. They he SEC is nothing special this year.

I think there are 3 loss teams out there that are better than Indiana.  You really have to take everything into consideration if you want to get the best 12 teams.

Maybe so, but when you lose 3 times you lose that opportunity. Also, the SEC plays 1 less conference game than everyone else. They also sneak in a division 2 game before their end of the year rivalry games.

How do you explain tOSU playing an HBCU Grambling in 2025?

[Dzone1]

Probably so.  They do in-state matchups like this regularly in the basketball tournament.

3 loss teams should not be in the playoffs. They he SEC is nothing special this year.

I think there are 3 loss teams out there that are better than Indiana.  You really have to take everything into consideration if you want to get the best 12 teams.

Maybe so, but when you lose 3 times you lose that opportunity. Also, the SEC plays 1 less conference game than everyone else. They also sneak in a division 2 game before their end of the year rivalry games.

How do you explain tOSU playing an HBCU Grambling in 2025?

Everyone plays cupcakes. We don’t play them the week before our biggest rivalry game though.

[ScarletHayes]

SMU QB must have money on this game.

You can say that again.  Literally.  

[Hightop77]

SMU QB must have money on this game.

You can say that again.  Literally.  

21 points lost by him already.  Of course against Louisville he looked like Lamar Jackson.