January 2Jan 2 Author Moderator Has there ever been a fumble that wasn't untimely? Georgia just fumbled, recovered by Notre Dame.
January 2Jan 2 Moderator After seeing 3 1/2 quarter final games, it’s looking to me like a Penn St vs Ohio St championship.
January 2Jan 2 On 1/2/2025 at 5:53 PM, JabbaNoBargain said: Georgia losing will get the playoff format changed quickly. How would that matter? Plus, it’s not over just yet
January 2Jan 2 If the mighty SEC gets 1 team in the final 4 they won’t be happy and they’re pretty much in charge of CFB. IMO, ND is a horrible draw for a first game for the SEC champ. Second worst draw of the tournament.
January 2Jan 2 Moderator Combined halftime score for all four playoff games this weekend is 81-21 in favor of the non-bye teams.
January 2Jan 2 On 1/2/2025 at 6:08 PM, JabbaNoBargain said: If the mighty SEC gets 1 team in the final 4 they won’t be happy and they’re pretty much in charge of CFB. IMO, ND is a horrible draw for a first game for the SEC champ. Second worst draw of the tournament. Not nearly as bad as Oregon’s draw though. Oregon got screwed in the wash. UGA should be able to handle ND, but we are killing ourselves. No disrespect to ND, they are beating our butts at the moment.
January 2Jan 2 Going into this game I thought ND was going to beat Georgia, I just refused to say anything because of the amount of dislike I have for ND. If they do hold on and win they will likely be ranked too high for the next 10-15 years...again.
January 2Jan 2 Author Moderator Georgia takes over with a stop on ND 4th &1. Georgia false start on 4th & 2, turns into a punt. Delay of game on ND, 4th & 2 again. Pass rush gets to Stockton, pass comes up short.
January 3Jan 3 Another higher seed going down to a team with playoff momentum = Not playing for a month is not a good reward for winning a conference championship.
January 3Jan 3 Moderator Gotta kick the FG right there. After watching Dilly pass on two easy FG’s yesterday, an easy 3 points is never a bad idea.
January 3Jan 3 Moderator Notre Dame. Georgia Tech's starting QB out. Georgia starting QB out. I hope Penn State stomps ND but it looks like any bad luck went away after getting ill vs No. Ill.
January 3Jan 3 An OSU vs PSU title game is beginning to take shape. Some solice in that we beat them both.
January 3Jan 3 Moderator On 1/2/2025 at 7:20 PM, Chas Man said: An OSU vs PSU title game is beginning to take shape. Some solice in that we beat them both. We can always just claim a national championship like Bama and Washington used to do in the 60’s and 70’s.
January 3Jan 3 On 1/2/2025 at 3:09 PM, DrJacksPlaidPants said: Combined halftime score for all four playoff games this weekend is 81-21 in favor of the non-bye teams. I posted it yesterday only to have it denied multiple times but having to wait 3 full weeks to play your next game is too dang long. All 4 of the top 4 seeded teams got curb stomped in the first half by a team that got to play a week and a half ago. Non of the 4 were game ready at kickoff.
January 3Jan 3 On 1/2/2025 at 7:53 PM, Charles Fischer said: Holding the Dawgs to ten points? Whew! Yeah, I’m surprised!!! Oh well, I’m not sure who I’m pulling for now? Penn State????
January 3Jan 3 Moderator On 1/2/2025 at 7:37 PM, 30Duck said: Okay, I want a All B1G Final. Go, Nitts, Go Buckeyes! This would = B1G $$$!
January 3Jan 3 Author Moderator On 1/2/2025 at 6:33 PM, Jon Joseph said: This would = B1G $$$! That, and I think they're the best teams.
January 3Jan 3 ND concerns me more than anyone left in the field. That defense played fast and violent. They have won by an average of about 28 points since their loss to NIU. Do not underestimate the Irish this year!
January 3Jan 3 On 1/2/2025 at 3:43 PM, Gotcha said: Going into this game I thought ND was going to beat Georgia, I just refused to say anything because of the amount of dislike I have for ND. If they do hold on and win they will likely be ranked too high for the next 10-15 years...again. Yep. Sigh.
January 3Jan 3 Moderator On 1/2/2025 at 9:59 PM, BuckDuck said: ND concerns me more than anyone left in the field. That defense played fast and violent. They have won by an average of about 28 points since their loss to NIU. Do not underestimate the Irish this year! Their offense isn’t very explosive. Their defense creates a lot of points for them. They lead college football with 148 points off of turnovers. They did give up 35 to the only decent passing team they played all year (USuC). They should be pushovers if they beat PSU. My guess is you would beat them 38-14 or something close to that.
January 3Jan 3 @DrJacksPlaidPants I agree. ND offense does not have a ton of explosiveness. QB play is adequate and efficient. Not game changing like Gabriel or Ward. WR rooms isn’t the greatest but they have a good O-Line and RB. If they can keep it close their defense can be a game changer. Force a lot of TOs. Play mistake free football (or as few as possible) and OSU wins but let them stick around and anything could happen. Penn State and ND is a fun matchup. They are very similar teams in my opinion. Serviceable offenses and great defenses and special teams. I foresee a low scoring slug fest in that matchup.
January 3Jan 3 On 1/2/2025 at 5:04 PM, Chas Man said: Another higher seed going down to a team with playoff momentum = Not playing for a month is not a good reward for winning a conference championship. They all have things in common: poor line play, which requires a lot of timing element and assignment which always get better over the season. Turning it on at game speed is easier said than done after a long time off. Ball security and dropped passes, In practice the DB and LB aren't trying to level you and pound you into the ground and that's something that takes a few hits to get back into the game. Killer instinct or lack there of, from the body language of the teams you could tell that the team that won last week had much more confidence.
January 3Jan 3 Moderator Irish open -1.5 vs. Penn State in the Orange Bowl. Notre Dame vs. Penn State odds: 2025 Orange Bowl spread, preview for College Football Playoff semifinal game - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The Fighting Irish and Nittany Lions will meet with a spot in the national championship game on the line If PSU's Abdul Carter cannot play I'm writing 2025 off as the year the Irish got super lucky. 😒
January 3Jan 3 Moderator Will Coach Franklin Come Up B1G in a B1G Game? More than a championship berth at stake for James Franklin, Marcus Freeman in Miami WWW.YARDBARKER.COM Seventy-eight years after Penn State's football team refused to play segregated Miami, history returns to South Florida. COME ON NITS!
January 3Jan 3 Having slept on this Dawg loss, I awoke feeling exactly the same way I did after the Ducks' roasting by OSU--supremely disappointed. If there are two teams in college football that I can say I detest and whom are typically badly overrated, they are OSU and Notre Dame. So to have my two favorite teams spanked by these guys was hard to take. But it happened and these two teams are certainly not overrated THIS year. But the sky is hardly falling for either Oregon or Georgia. Georgia has a fair about of rebuilding to do, probably needing a new OC, an upgrade in wide receivers, and possibly a new offensive line coach. I'll be watching carefully from afar, but I'd be shocked if Georgia can do enough to stem the losses they will have off-season (to the NFL and the portal) to be rated among the top 5 teams next pre-season. Oregon is probably in better shape than Georgia is to kick off next year, although it is unknown at this point who is going to be taking snaps under enter--always a big deal. The Ducks have been very fortunate to have two transfers the quality of Bo Nix and Dillon Gabriel over the past 3 years an that good fortune will not last forever. At this point I am crossing my fingers that things work out for both teams. I've said before on this forum that I kinda doubted that this Georgia team had what it would take to win the natty. I wasn't sure Oregon did either but I was more confident that they did than I was for the Dawgs. So in that sense, what happened in the Rose Bowl was a bigger surprise than the results of the Sugar Bowl. But there is no other way to slice it, disappointment reigns supreme this morning in the Nevada Dawghouse.
January 3Jan 3 Sorry the Dawgs lost. As I mentioned before the game, from afar, it really seemed as though Georgia missed its playmakers (TE and WR). Not sure who Georgia loses and has coming in but a complete offensive rebuild might not be necessary. Your defense will always keep you in games.
January 4Jan 4 Dawgs have recruited some excellent receivers in the 25 class and get even richer on defense with three 5 star defensive front guys who will play some in 2025. Kirby has no problem attracting defenders given how many of his charges are drafted fairly highly by the NFL, especially on the defensive line. But help was, and still is, needed on offense. The tight end room is set for the next three years, but I am looking for the addition of a meaningful contributor at XWR from the portal and possibly another portal receiver as well. Fingers crossed.
January 4Jan 4 Moderator On 1/4/2025 at 1:16 AM, Nevada Dawg said: Dawgs have recruited some excellent receivers in the 25 class and get even richer on defense with three 5 star defensive front guys who will play some in 2025. Kirby has no problem attracting defenders given how many of his charges are drafted fairly highly by the NFL, especially on the defensive line. But help was, and still is, needed on offense. The tight end room is set for the next three years, but I am looking for the addition of a meaningful contributor at XWR from the portal and possibly another portal receiver as well. Fingers crossed. A not kind to Kirby review of the Sugar Bowl. IMO, trying to equate Kirby with Lincoln Riley is laughable. Kirby Smart isn’t as bad as Lincoln Riley, but he blew the Sugar Bowl TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM In the 12-team playoff era, a number of coaches have gotten noticeably worse. It’s not just Lincoln Riley, though the USC coach has been horrible in recent years. I'm not ready to join in with the SEC is no longer in a league of its own crowd. I am ready to say this was an off-year, no doubt. Much of this is self-inflicted by the schedules handed to some of the conference's top teams: Georgia, Bama, Florida, and Oklahoma. Especially when compared to Texas, Tennessee, Mizzou, and Ole Miss. I am still puzzled over the SEC handing out the same schedule in 2025. How does it serve the conference to do this? How many teams in the nation could have played Georgia's schedule plus a rematch with Texas and not lost two games? How many teams would defeat this Notre Dame team with a backup QB? Texas could win it all. But if not, I don't see two years without a championship erasing the success in the BCS and 4-team playoff.
January 4Jan 4 Author Moderator On 1/4/2025 at 8:49 AM, Jon Joseph said: A not kind to Kirby review of the Sugar Bowl. IMO, trying to equate Kirby with Lincoln Riley is laughable. Who knew TrojansWire was funny? Nobody. On 1/4/2025 at 8:49 AM, Jon Joseph said: I'm not ready to join in with the SEC is no longer in a league of its own crowd. I am ready to say this was an off-year, no doubt Hmm, Saban saw the writing on the wall. He's having fun on ESPN, but DeBoer would still be at Washington and Saban would still be at Alabama, if he didn't sense the Portal, NIL being the equalizer. As far as SEC-B1G, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Michigan, USC will be right there with Georgia, Alabama, Texas...Ole Miss, SC for the foreseeable future.
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