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We have the highest ceiling of any team in the playoffs with a floor that is right around our #5 seed/rank. Get your popcorn out, because we'll have to watch the games to see who and what shows up.

That's impressive that it's a B1G sweep this year, and we've played 2 of the best this season already.

Since everyone is hellbent on not getting to the final playoffs solution all at once, you have to embrace the process (started with the BCS Championship game decades ago) to get where this need to go. We're still in the process, it's just where we are at. So many people in positions of authority lacking vision and weighed down with too many conflicts of interest from the status quo, so we're gonna do this the hard way until the bitter last needed change. Last year was Oregon's turn to be shafted, this year is ND's turn and so on and so forth. Trust the process, lol it will still get us there eventually!

Ducks supposedly monitor every athletes wear to keep them below certain thresholds, so it wouldn't be too big of a leap to dial down those thresholds in the future. We do see a lot of practice injuries contact and non contact. Also there certainly are different seasons to be breaking down and to be peaking. The fact bye weeks are so needed during the season tells me in season you could get by with a lot more walkthrough practices and be fine. Out of season you need to be maximizing your breakdown and recovery consistently.

The most bizarre numbers for him are a 22 ft long jump and 45' triple jump. I'm sure he didn't exactly practice then much, but dang I hit those numbers with 12 second 100 meter speed in college. Running 10.15 you could get 22ft with a small hop. What matter is his football speed and high pointing balls which he is excellent at. 6'3 is a fantastic height. And if you look at his running form on you tube for his 100 meter dash his form is horrible. Lots of indication his elite speed and athletic ability is still very raw. He's got a lot of upside with proper training that Oregon can give him. Despite the physical development setback of being on a mission for 2 years he still comes in as a freshman and he's still in that 15 year window age 15-30 where his natural strength should continue to improve with or without training, meaning his ceiling in college is actually higher than if he hadn't gone on the mission, it's just shortening his presumed profession career. This kid is going to be a dual sport monster. I'd love to see teams have to guard sub 10.4 speed at every WR position with rocket arm QBs for the next few years.

Just because Mario plays with his food doesn't mean he can't get his stuff together and win big games. He did that many times for Oregon. Miami will be dangerous in the playoffs.

G6 should be a different division between FBS and FCS. No more conference championships. Playoff field should be top 16 with no byes and no AQs. Natty should be played in a Bowl on New Year's day.

I thought this thread was just about this year. I don't see BT being the starter for the whole year in 2026 or beyond. Dante Moore is coming back. Even if it's not 100% confirmed, he's not going to play for the dumpster fire Raiders, he's coming back to get better, because he knows better than any he isn't at the level he needs to be to get thrown to the wolves in the NFL on a bad program.

If Novasad was not healthy during the Wisconsin game, that is the only valid argument for him actually being ahead of Thomas, and even that is iffy because Thomas came in first for mop up duty in other games too. Brock can play winning football for us as Lanning says. He can't make some of those game winning throws Moore can, but maybe he could make some better decisions at times too that makes the drop off not as significant. Thomas is a bit more of baller than Moore if we are being honest.

Don't forget the 3 hour time zone change for JMU. They won't be used to that.

This was always the Goldilocks scenario. I'm so glad it's actually happening! I'm not going to sweat injuries. We've had more players injured on bye weeks in practice than in games. It's going to be a lot of fun for the fans in the stands at Autzen.

Yeah they get in as the 5th highest seeded conf champ. I just don't understand the seeding part of it. If they are the lowest ranked seed, then we play them.

So do we get Miami, Tulane, JMU, Notre Dame or Bama?

Wow, Duke wins!

Haha they tie it up! What massive screw up on Duke's last offensive series to give them so much time to march down the field against a loose defense

Duke trying to give Virginia a chance. Two free timeouts. 94 yards, two timeouts remaining and 1:44, touchdown needed to tie.

Well, our only loss of the year is to the 1st ranked team. We're gonna be #5 as the first 4 play a little Chinese fire drill. Duke is winning so who we play is unclear.

It's funny that both coaches played conservative in some ways. Ohio State is fine with losing by 3 points, and their fans can continue to claim that they beat themselves (still undefeated!), and the Ohio State kicker picks up his check from Vegas. Everybody wins.

It's really interesting how the top 5 teams in the country have had struggles with scoring in the red zone as their biggest vice.

If Bama can't score they aren't getting in the playoffs. How badly they lose by will effect the committee. Heck I just saw a shot of the committee in lounge chairs watching this entire game. That seems stupid, like they are going to give each other the worst case of recency bias. I hope that's just for show. I'm glad we aren't playing today. People want the bye week in the playoffs so there are less injuries, but what do you call this? The top 4 teams are playing today and we're on a bye. So even though we play an extra game in the playoffs it'll be the same amount of games the top 4 play, except our playoff game will be home, not a neutral sight, and not with committee prying eyes; and it'll have us hot and ready for the next game against the top 4. Life is good.

This BYU OL is completely in over their head. Now they are playing desperate football because of it. This could get out of hand fast.

Well the official and the network worked very hard to ignore an obvious push off by the WR on the touchdown throw. After NTU/Tulane last night I'm highly sus there are some big thumbs on the scale for these playoff play-in games.

It's odd: Texas Tech's reward for winning would be likely playing a warmed up Oregon after being off themselves for a few weeks. BYU gets a playoff spot if they win and are left out if they lose, so they have everything to play for. The TTU head coach is probably wondering how he can lose this game without getting punished too bad for it. If he pulls the starters after halftime nobody knows how the committee would handle that.

I dunno. B1G has Indiana and Oregon now alongside Ohio State and Michigan. USC is on the rise, and who's to say Rutgers or some other B1G bottom dweller doesn't discover their long lost billionaire alumnus that can make them relevant for a playoff run in a hurry like Texas Tech.

I'm non plussed by Drew. It's like your best friend that every chick would die to be their girlfriend and instead he picks a girl that leaves a lot to be desired. You could have anybody! Why them? I hope to be proven wrong with Drew being successful, but I'm not feeling great about this.