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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.

They are trying to scare the other players on the team away from doing something similar. It makes sense strategically if you ignore the fact you have to replace 100% of the players every 4 years and the new players will be too scared to sign. These types of NIL deals are DIRTY! The agents are just as dirty for not refusing to accept this condition in the contract that could ruin the life of a player he is representing. He's a minor and his family could lose their home, be bankrupted or other bad stuff. This is a PR disaster for Georgia. Who could have thought this is a good idea could only be wealthy NIL donors that have gotten rich by screwing over other people, it's how they roll in their backroom dealing and will be shocked at the backlash that comes of this.

I still think this is a reactionary hire by the AD. I mean he couldn't figure out to hire this guy even a week ago to salvage some of the class? Matt's good like the row the boat man at Minnesota. They will be competitive in the B1G, nothing more.

Wow, I'm going to stop watching this game. Everything that can go wrong for North Texas has gone wrong, BUT the referees have given Tulane 14 points straight up on blown calls that a blind man could see. They need to all be investigated. This is a big enough game to have some very large bets in Vegas. I really hope we get to play Tulane and smash the crap out of the team that didn't deserve to be there.

From the article above: His brother Peyton Bair is the reigning NCAA decathlon champion. After competing at Mississippi State the first three years, Peyton will join Gatlin at Oregon this year. What the Duck?! First I've heard the reigning national decathlon champion is coming to Oregon. Also, Gatlin should run track. 10.15 as a junior in HS? He should able to take few tenths off at UO,, which will put him on the podium at the B1G Championship.

I always find it ironic that people trash their competitors that beat them. If we suck so bad, what does that make you loser?

Thanks, I wasn't able to watch. It was to be expected. He's been committed there forever. I don't blame Oregon for trying. Now get back to coaching the team to win some playoff games!

Nogiating is an art form made significantly more complex when 19 year olds are the seller. In this situation I do think he was caught off guard with Hartline leaving who was the reason for Ohio State becoming WR U. He wisely took a step back, then his agent didn't let the crisis go to waste. Now we get to see if Day and company were able to address the loss of services of Hartline to his satisfaction.

How fun, an encore! Get you popcorn and enjoy the show, literally. Based on the info in the article, I'd say 95% chance he still ends up at Ohio State with a sweetened pot. He and his agent played the hand they were dealt well.

"We Are!" no longer classy. It's been a whole generation of low integrity at that school. I don't respect them anymore, and they deserve every failure they seize.

During the Lanning era, rust has been way more consequential to performance than injuries.

The 5th seed is a million times better than the 4th seed for us. If we get the 4th seed bye, it will be 4 weeks without a game (one more week than last year) going against a team that had a nice warm up game the week before in a game with a 2-3 touchdown spread playing at home.

The non B1G and SEC teams don't have to worry about losing a play-in and having to rely on getting one of 3 at large berths. This is why 24 is the better answer than 16 once you move to play-in games.

Dan Lanning's recruiting angle: Multi sport athletes! 14 of those 20 signed are multi sport athletes. That's no coincidence. It's VALUE! You can get a multi sport athlete that is a 3 star or lower like say Justin Herbert or Bryce Boecher, with a really high ceiling. Most dual sport athletes are underdeveloped by virtue of not focusing on their football skills year round, so their stats and skills lag those that have the year round focus that are 4 and 5 stars close to their ceiling. So these lower rated athletes are like wow an Oregon offer! They aren't necessarily getting offers from other big time programs which improves our success rate in getting them to sign. Multisport athletes probably have a different mindset that they play sports to enjoy them moreso than the one track mind of I have to compromise everything else to make it in this one sport and be the absolute best. I think that those people are probably more appreciative, better teammates, and build better relationships which is part of Dan Lanning's culture. It's a very shrewd angle to approach recruiting, or if you want to grab life by the dodgeballs: "It's a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if it pays off.".