NCAA National Championship Semis Gameday Thread

[ctpatsfan77]

Ohio won 42-35 after almost screwing themselves with poor clock management (throwing a long bomb instead of running the clock out when Bama had just 2 timeouts). Bama got it back with about 1:30 to go but they wasted quite a bit of time as well and all they had time for was 2 hail mary shots to the end-zone. Last one was picked off.

Well, Nate Ebner and Pat Chung will be happy tomorrow. Don'ta Hightower and Bryan Stork . . . not so much.

 

[Archeryaddict12]

Ohio won 42-35 after almost screwing themselves with poor clock management (throwing a long bomb instead of running the clock out when Bama had just 2 timeouts). Bama got it back with about 1:30 to go but they wasted quite a bit of time as well and all they had time for was 2 hail mary shots to the end-zone. Last one was picked off.

Huh, it's hard to win big games every year at these levels

 

[Froob]

#1 & #2 down, two teams that would played for the national championship.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Wow, lot of good running backs today, and Amari Cooper is going to kill it in the NFL.

Also, what a great way to show why a playoff is needed. Urban Meyer did an incredible job with this OSU team.

 

[Mark12]

I think making it a 6 team playoff would make this incredibly more interesting. I feel like TCU got cheated

Maybe have 1 & 2 have byes while 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5 play wild cards.

 

[BradyFTW!]

#1 & #2 down, two teams that would played for the national championship.

Not exactly, Oregon is #2 and was pretty much expected to win. FSU's ranking was pretty controversial in its own right, because they were about as bad as a team can be while going undefeated as defending champs (so still pretty damn good, but probably not one of four best in the country, to be frank). But there was just no way an undefeated defending champion was getting left out, and I'm fine with that.

OSU beating Alabama was a pretty huge upset, especially after Barrett went down just a couple weeks ago. Oregon murdering FSU wasn't a surprise, although they way they did it (5 second half turnovers) was kinda unexpected.

 

[meatface]

I think making it a 6 team playoff would make this incredibly more interesting. I feel like TCU got cheated

Maybe have 1 & 2 have byes while 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5 play wild cards.

I'm willing to bet they will stick with 4 teams for a while, they did just set this up

 

[Huckleberry1]

I'm willing to bet they will stick with 4 teams for a while, they did just set this up

I doubt it, the owners want to expand it to include some European football teams next year.

Most likely a team in London.

 

[BradyFTW!]

I think making it a 6 team playoff would make this incredibly more interesting. I feel like TCU got cheated

Maybe have 1 & 2 have byes while 3 vs 6 and 4 vs 5 play wild cards.

TCU and Baylor both had pretty good claims, but the issue with a 6 team playoff would be a logistical one, I think. As you mentioned, you would pretty much have to have a 3 week playoff with the top two seeds getting byes, so at that point you might as well just make it an 8 team playoff with no byes.

 

[supafly]

Ohio State may not be able to beat BOTH #1 Alabama and #2 Oregon within a 12 day span, but what they've done this year has been nothing short of incredible.

Losing your Heisman trophy candidate QB right before the season and then losing your NEW Heisman trophy candidate QB right before the postseason is amazing, considering that they've been able to plug along with their 3rd string quarterback.

It'd be like losing Brady back in 2008, then seeing Cassel do so well leading them to a great record still, only to have to resort to our 3rd string QB for the most important two games of the year, and somehow see him have success as well. Great team effort.

 

[supafly]

TCU and Baylor both had pretty good claims, but the issue with a 6 team playoff would be a logistical one, I think. You would pretty much have to have a 3 week playoff with the top two seeds getting byes, so at that point you might as well just make it an 8 team playoff with no byes.

TCU and Baylor were screwed due to the fact that their conference doesn't have a real championship game, not to mention the fact that they had some lesser competition.

When the rest of the candidates were having to prepare for and play the best of their conferences, TCU and Baylor were playing teams that were 2-10 that weekend. It really hurt them.

 

[supafly]

I'm willing to bet they will stick with 4 teams for a while, they did just set this up

I know that some won't agree, but I actually feel as though they got things right this year. The ability to have a committee of people who can examine things from different angles, without the burden of "what the computers say" seems to have worked fairly well.

Of course, there's always going to be controversy in determining the last team to get in, but think about it---how many would have had the balls to put unbeaten (yet extremely flawed) Florida State at #3? And they were right about their hunch to boot!

 

[rochrist]

He has been cleared multiple times of the sexual assault

Have you actually read about what the investigations consisted of and how they were handled? If Adolf Hitler played QB for FSU, he'd be cleared of WWII in that town.

 

[BradyFTW!]

TCU and Baylor were screwed due to the fact that their conference doesn't have a real championship game, not to mention the fact that they had some lesser competition.

When the rest of the candidates were having to prepare for and play the best of their conferences, TCU and Baylor were playing teams that were 2-10 that weekend. It really hurt them.

Definitely, although the main argument at the time was that they deserved it over OSU, since OSU without Barrett wasn't a worthy 4 seed. Hard to make that argument after their performance tonight, and FSU was never going to get left out as an undefeated defending champ. I think all four teams that made it deserved to be there. I would like to see the playoff eventually expand to 8 teams, since most years there will be more than 4 teams that deserve to be there, but I doubt that'll happen anytime soon.

 

[supafly]

Definitely, although the main argument at the time was that they deserved it over OSU, since OSU without Barrett wasn't a worthy 4 seed. Hard to make that argument after their performance tonight, and FSU was never going to get left out as an undefeated defending champ. I think all four teams that made it deserved to be there. I would like to see the playoff eventually expand to 8 teams, but I doubt that'll happen anytime soon.

As a Buckeye fan, my concern the night before the selections were made was that the committee had painted themselves into a corner by moving Florida St to #4 the week before.

I felt that if they had just left them at #3, there really wouldn't be that much controversy for Ohio St to make the #4th spot. The worry was that they wouldn't be able to justify moving TCU down from #3 all the way to #5, yet in the end they moved them all the way down to #6.

 

[NSPF]

College football is WEIRD. I had a blast though, since the most random **** happens that you'd never see in the NFL. Winston's fumble was getting close to Butt Fumble quality, then you see plays like OSU punt the ball all of 20 yards from their own 5 yard line, only to have Alabama immediately throw an interception. Classic!

 

[supafly]

Have you actually read about what the investigations consisted of and how they were handled? If Adolf Hitler played QB for FSU, he'd be cleared of WWII in that town.

As you note, there have been about 4-5 instances where Jameis Winston did something crazy stupid and somehow got off.

On a side note, I was re-reading an article from spring 2012 on the subject of weed and the football players who smoke it in the NCAAs (reportedly between 40-60 percent). At the time, former FSU head coach Bobby Bowden went on record in the interview as saying, "if you don't want your players to get caught, don't test them. The solution is easy."

That's a great example of how crooked the entire program is, not that I'm meaning to make this a weed debate. They certainly do things a bit differently down there in Tallahassee.

 

[supafly]

College football is WEIRD. I had a blast though, since the most random **** happens that you'd never see in the NFL. Winston's fumble was getting close to Butt Fumble quality, then you see plays like OSU punt the ball all of 20 yards from their own 5 yard line, only to have Alabama immediately throw an interception. Classic!

Just try wagering on it...

 

[BradyFTW!]

As a Buckeye fan, my concern the night before the selections were made was that the committee had painted themselves into a corner by moving Florida St to #4 the week before.

I felt that if they had just left them at #3, there really wouldn't be that much controversy for Ohio St to make the #4th spot. The worry was that they wouldn't be able to justify moving TCU down from #3 all the way to #5, yet in the end they moved them all the way down to #6.

I don't have a college team--Babson grad, they didn't even have a football program--but I've sorta adopted the Buckeyes for this run. How can you not root for the team that's down to its third QB?

 

[VrabelMayeWin]

GO DUCKS.

Not much else to say from this huge Ducks fan.