2024 College Football Season/Playoff Thread

[I'mWithDan]

Correct, polling doesnt matter till the season is completely over. Thus, you cant say you beat all of these top 5 teams, if those teams didnt finish in the top 5. Otherwise you could end up saying someting stupid like "we beat 13 top 5 ranked teams"

I think more than that, it is a record that is similar to NFL ones, once a 17 game season happened. I'm not sure what it even means until we get 15, 20 years out.

OSU will hold this title for a year, which is a great accomplishment.......then someone else will do it next year. Then someone will reset the record when it goes to 16 teams. Etc, etc.

 

[JMoneyYourHoney]

Does Ohio State beat Texas?

Texas would lay a biblical beat down on this team.

 

[lukecfg]

The thing I always appreciated about Jim Harbaugh was that he never needed to be the hero and he simply was willing to dive the ball 4 straight times in to the A gap to get a yard and shake the other teams’ hand if they could stop it.

Sark wanted to get cute and have everyone pat his back and it blew a chance to extend and possibly win that game. The margin is always razor thin in a lot of these semi final games and Texas just got out coached and out played in the back half of that 4th quarter.

Can't it just be that harbaugh is smarter than Sark, and interpreted the statistics correctly? Dude is a fucking weird asshole, but he's a football savant.

 

[lukecfg]

My brother, we are 6 weeks removed from Day getting death threats and flogged out of town (for being incapable of beating 1 single opponent). You speak like the importance placed on the rivalry is some outside idea, that isn't grounded in the reality of what is happening inside the walls.

Maybe it changes, maybe it doesn't. I am pointing out both sides are arguing the most convenient version of the story for them. If you truly don't care, you do you........but the reason I find the general discourse silly, is it is literally the polar opposite of what was being said prior to the result. It isn't some thing unique to OSU.......that isn't what anyone is saying......but it is certainly cognitive dissonance.

The game is the most important and best rivalry is sport. It is exceptionally meaningful.

My personal criteria for a successful OSU season was always beat Michigan and make a BCS bowl... which in the current era translates to make the CFP quarters. If you lose to Michigan, the only way the season is a success is if you win the natty. Jury is still out, but I love the opportunity we have in front of us.

 

[Chris]

The Columbus Dispatch did a poll pre-season that asked people what was more important…….

Beating Michigan or winning the National Title. 54% said beating Michigan.

Much of this debate (today) is both sides knowing a result can’t be changed. Ohio State has to move on, because the only thing they can accomplish is trying to finish off a national title. Michigan doesn’t have to move on because the result can’t be changed and it went in their favor.

I think Saban is a little misguided in the sense that the Iron Bowl just isn’t The Game. It doesn’t have the same animosity, year round focus and just general dread of waiting another year. Part of that is because so much tends to ride (nationally) on Michigan and OSU’s matchup. 4 straight years the loser did not go to the B1G championship for example. Iron Bowl typically just has not had that type of stakes and certainly not for the sustained period of time the OSU / UM rivalry has.

Saban is 100% misguided but there’s still shreds of merit in there. He acts like The Game means nothing which is asinine. But…

I’ll take winning a natty 100/100 times over beating Michigan. It doesnt mean that I wouldnt rather have both though. Ill add any OSU fans who think beating Michigan > natty is stupid as fuck. Sorry not sorry. The 300 people in that Dispatch poll are stupid as fuck. JMO tho.

 

[daddywags]

As a fan who dates back to the Rex Kern days the Michigan rivalry means less to me now for a number of reasons. And I expect that trend (for me) is going to continue with the implementation of the expanded playoff system.

 

[Chris]

The Game still means a ton to me. Nov 30 had me pissed.

That said the first time OSU plays Mich 2-3 times in a season is when it will probably start to mean way less to me.

 

[bushwick_bill]

Do you want me to do you?

 

[JMoneyYourHoney]

Do you want me to do you?

No thanks, I'm not into that...though if I changed my mind, 3 inches hardly sounds exciting.

 

[bushwick_bill]

 

[bushwick_bill]

No thanks, I'm not into that...though if I changed my mind, 3 inches hardly sounds exciting.

December 21, 2024.

Looking forward to the announcement of Day’s firing in about 34 hours.

 

[JMoneyYourHoney]

December 21, 2024.

 

[Stark]

The Game still means a ton to me. Nov 30 had me pissed.

That said the first time OSU plays Mich 2-3 times in a season is when it will probably start to mean way less to me.

The Game is circled on my calendar every year and I make sure I have that day off work. It's a National Holiday, win or lose.

It's just a shitty in-law riddled Thanksgiving 1 PM dinner when we lose.

They could expand the playoff to 32 teams. Ohio State vs. Michigan a few days after Thanksgiving will never lose the aura for me.

 

[CleveRocks]

I don't mind OSU losing to Michigan with both teams playing to the best of thier abilities. I mind a lot when a team cheats it's way to a win, or a coach doesn't have his team ready and they give it away.. I believe Ohio state is the mot talented team in the playoffs, but they do not rise to the level of play as a team, they are capable of. I think that is within the coaches realm. Specifically, when OSU plays "safe" play calling, they let inferior teams stay in the game, ( Texas for example), and they make a lot of dumbass mistakes when they are not focused.. But when they have the lights on, play aggressively as a team, they will steam roll anybody..

If they play ND like they did Oregon, they will crush the Irish.

 

[CleveRocks]

Not sure where to put this, but Will Howard is a better Quarterback than Ewers.. I have heard e eryone say he is a borderline back up..

I think he will be better than that at a pro level. He is big, and throws zippy and accurate passes. He makes mistakes, particularly under pressure, and throws 50/50 balls when he should thow it out of bounds, but i think that can be coached..

Just putting that out there.