#5 Oregon completely shuts down #4 Texas Tech in the Orange Bowl 23-0. The Ducks defense was completely dominant, and the Red Raiders were so sloppy. False starts, bad passing, etc.
I appreciated how clean the game was. Go Ducks!
Great win for Mighty Oregon! Defense stood up tall. On to the Peach Bowl!
So far, so good.
Hoosiers up by 35 with 10 minutes to go. I did not foresee that happening to Alabama.
I kind of did when Alabama said they were concerned about the weather and Indiana said it wouldn’t affect them at all.
Indiana pulled their starters, this game is clearly over.
38-3, final score. This was Indiana’s first bowl win since the 1991 Copper Bowl.
I so look forward to the Playoff Committee having to publicly eat crow and admit that they make the shit up to please their broadcast masters and actually have NO FUCKING IDEA how to rank college football teams.
/s - in case it wasn’t obvious. They’re already working on excuses to include Alabama next year even if they’re 8–5.
And why not? Didn’t you witness the dominate performance they displayed today?
Indiana’s win over Alabama was the first time in the two-year history of the 12-team College Football Playoff that a higher-seeded team has won a game.
And not many people are sad that Bama just got completely dominated.
That is demonstrably not true, given that James Madison and Tulane lost in the first round this year.
Unless you just mean the top seed.
Good god, I’m an idiot!
I withdraw my comment.
My wife is from WSU, and was quite happy to see Alabama go down with its former Huskies coaches.
Not quite. It was the first time that a team with the round 1 bye won a game. They were 0-4 last year and 0-2 this year until Indiana thrashed 'Bama.
Correct, and that’s what I should have said. @ekedolphin already pointed out the error of my ways.
If you aren’t watching the Georgia/Ole Miss game, you should be.
This is a barn-burner!
That had to be one of the weirder endings to a game that I have ever seen.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game end with a safety in the last seconds of regulation before.
This has been the sweetest set of four results I’ve ever had in college football. Not because who won, but because who lost. Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State and Texas Tech all going down means four of my most obnoxious coworkers are going to be pissed off today when we return to work. Except for the Texas Tech alum, none of the other three attended the schools whose football prowess they crow about (they aren’t remotely smart enough to have gotten in). You’d need to look at their LinkedIn profiles to see that they went to Podunk College, not UGA, OSU or Bama. And no, their kids aren’t going the big name schools either.
The Red Raiders guy wasn’t so bad, I guess. They haven’t been this good for a very long time. I was happy for him at first, but then he just went on and on. Also he’s at least good at the technical aspects of his job.