Utah? Playoff? Hell, No — Alamo!
Having said that I don’t understand all the people saying that Utah were never going to the playoff anyway. If the committee wasn’t going to pick them, why did it have them ranked that highly in the first place? Would have raised a huge stink if they’d won decisively and not gotten in.
Sorry, but what, perzactly, does the coach have to do with scheduling opponents? These college schedules are set up in yore-days, before these coaches are even a glint in daddy’s pantaloons. To blame the coach for playing the wrong opponent is passing ridiculous.
Kind of amazing how nobody’s talking about Clemson. All they do is destroy teams. Haven’t lost a game in 2 years. Trevor Lawrence is arguably one of the elite arms in the country. Speed and power at nearly every position. Great coaching staff. They’re easily the team I worry about most.
Kind of amazing how nobody’s talking about Clemson. All they do is destroy teams. Haven’t lost a game in 2 years. Trevor Lawrence is arguably one of the elite arms in the country. Speed and power at nearly every position. Great coaching staff. They’re easily the team I worry about most.
All I know is that after beating the Utes, when he was asked if he thought the Auburn game was a mistake in retrospect, Cristobal said that Oregon would continue to schedule top non-conference opponents, because they want to play the best and find out how good they are. How much say he actually has is up to his contract and the AD, I guess, but he’s not wrong — they are playing Ohio State in 2020 and 2021, and Georgia in 2022.
Well, for one thing, they aren’t playing many ranked opponents. In fact, the only ranked team they’ve played this year was #23, and that was last night.
They may be the best team ever, but if they don’t follow Oregon’s lead and schedule some tough non-conference games, then I lose respect for them. It’s easy to run up the score on cupcakes, and it’s an advantage during the playoffs to have played weaker teams that don’t hit as hard, so you have less (fewer) injuries.
I think he’s smart to do that. In general terms I’d back a team that lost a close game to a team like Auburn’s before I’d back one that went unbeaten while playing nothing but a bunch of cupcakes.
My prediction for later: 1) LSU, 2) Ohio State, 3) Clemson, 4) Oklahoma.
As I was saying…
I was surprised that Georgia played that badly. Something else that I noted was that Georgia receivers were able to get open early. They just didn’t make plays, but they were open. LSU’s coverage did make adjustments, and I was impressed with Aranda’s play calling as the game evolved. But the difference between Clemson and Georgia is that Clemson’s receivers might make those catches that Georgia’s receivers whiffed on, which would potentially change the complexion of the game.
All of that cautiousness and hedging aside, I like LSU’s chances against anyone if their defense is prepared. The opponents will have more offensive firepower than Georgia, but LSU has proven they can win shootouts, too.
Seems Missouri is hiring a guy who has only been a head coach one year to be their head coach and his one year was at Sun Belt school App State
Bumped to add:
**Go Navy! **
So a decidedly mediocre team (Washington’s) from a decidedly mediocre conference (the Pac-12) wiped the floor with the Mountain West Conference’s champion last night, eh? What do all of you “Group of 5” fans have to say about that?
I expect LSU’s team to REAM Oklahoma’s (even more so, now, with so many Sooners declared OUT for that contest) but Ohio State vs. Clemson should be interesting. The football team from THE Ohio State University has faced, by FAR, the tougher competition this year, but on the other hand Clemson’s coach and team have been through these battles before while the same can’t really be said of Ohio State’s team. I expect that one to be a real knock-down, drag-out affair.
I don’t think Boise St was very motivated in that game , they were really hoping to get a Cotton bowl bid but their loss to BYU meant Memphis was ranked higher and got the Cotton bid.
For most games BSU have done very well vs. power 5 teams and won quite a few of those games including 2 Fiesta bowl wins. Quite a few power 5 teams have no major bowl wins like the Fiesta.
A ha! That’s been my exact argument about their opponents all these years when people want to bring up all of their “impressive” non-conference or bowl wins. So now when BSU gets REAMED by a so-so team from another conference “level of motivation” is now “a thing” whereas when THEY win those games it’s merely an “excuse” that’s used by the teams they beat?
I’ve been watching college football for nearly 60 years, and the single most entertaining play I’ve seen was of course the Cal-Stanford band-on-the-field play.
But the most entertaining* game* I’ve seen was the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, when BSU beat favored Oklahoma.
I had a feeling all season that Pac-12 football simply wasn’t very good. USC’s clunker against Iowa tonight certainly doesn’t do anything to dispel that notion.
The Best ACC officials missed that Passed Interference penalty??? Holy Toledo!
Barring that, Joe Burreaux showing why he was the Heisman Winner. At 6’4" he will be highly coveted in the draft,
Hope the Clemson-tOSU game is closer.
Go Clemson.