Two top 10 teams and the SEC champ. Cool Only other team that has to deal with anything close to that is Ohio State. I’d say you can maybe say Oregon got fucked, but they still got a bye
If all conference were equal, I'd agree with you. But playing in a bad conference shouldn't be rewarded with a 3 or 4 seed.
Yes, there have been a lot of good QB performances over the years. There have also been a bunch of bad QB games. Especially in this round. Leonard was fine. Allar was terrible. Watching a CFB game where the QB play isn't great isn't new and doesn't take away from the fact that both of those teams are pretty good and played a really fun game.
lol at Indiana being a top 10 team. You don't really think they are one of the 10 best teams in the country.
They had a better resume before that game too. Penn State had just one decent win (Illinois). Ohio State had two top 10 wins. Ohio Stye had the better loss too.
They were one of the 12 most deserving teams. I am sick of hearing this best argument from teams that lost multiple bad games. The best teams don’t go 9-3 while playing scrubs out of conferences.
Let’s revisionist history this thing! Hit me with some hypothetical SEC winning matchups, double. I’m so, so, so close.
ND was 5th in the final rankings iirc. Doesn't bother me if ND gets a bye, the whole conference champ thing is dumb when 2 of the conferences are infinitely harder than the others. Just rank the teams and build a tournament.
both of these posts are correct. he didn't (seemingly) directly lose this game but it's yet another loss on a big stage that continues to dominate everything surrounding the opinion most have on him as a coach at a blueblood.
Indiana could’ve lost to a couple of the 6-6 teams they played. But they didn’t, they beat the teams they should have.
They were 3rd in the normal rankings and probably would have been 3rd in the CFP rankings had the Committee not changed their criteria based on the new format.
Getting aggressive with Allar at the end when we were clearly unable to stop their run game in an overtime situation is an all-time pants shitting by Franklin.
could you imagine being in March and people arguing that one of the final four teams had an easy path because the seeding was off. who fucking cares
Indiana was picked next to last in the B1G. Of course they aren’t going to get a gauntlet, but out of Oregon, Penn St, Michigan and OSU they got 2 and handled their schedule. It just makes me laugh when people pretend they love Cinderella unless they take their spot.
It's not revisionist at all, people said when they got in. IU was not a good team and it showed when they played anyone with a pulse. Why are you bringing up the SEC?
Because you need to fill out the top 10 if IU isn’t included, Mr Herbstreit. Who should be in over them?
people forget the only SEC team left is one of our castoffs who almost lost to one of the teams we gave a handout to.
Oregon got fucked. Losers lament, I get it, but every CFB voice was saying it when the bracket came out. Could’ve lost to Ohio State by 74 in the Semis instead of the Quarters, but what a bad seeding system in year one.
Because they see their grasp of college football slipping through their fingers now that everyone can pay players. Its incredibly transparent
that team with an actual QB is coasting to a title and would have thrashed OSU in the regular season.
Does the national champion still have to win every game? “I care about who the true #4 team in the country really is!” -Fat fucking redacted.
If it were up to me, we would’ve stayed at 2 with the BCS, or 4 with the CFP, or expand to 6 at most…in that order. Not our fault you all wanted to change shit and we won 3 games against quality opponents.
They were. They were demonstrably better than band bama this year even though ba is a way better program.
Oregon OSU PSU ND Texas Miami Ole Miss USCe Clemson Tennessee I'd take any to bear Indiana this year. Indiana was consistent in beating bad teams. Yay.