Ohio State, Alabama and Ohio State have all been vanquished. Miami is the only former champion left standing. Indiana looks like the class of the remaining teams, but this feels like anybody’s tournament.

I think we stand the best chance of the remaining teams to take down Indiana. If we don't do it I think they win it all.

I really don't want to live in a reality where Indiana does a two year rebuild with a coach and gets a championship and we have been building for a couple decades and still in pursuit.

So... Lanning and Co get it done!

Kind of strange year if you ask me.

Oregon seems like the boring team nobody is talking about. Indiana is the favorite. Miami snuck into the playoffs as the 10 seed and knocked off two higher ranked teams. Ole Miss has the whole Kiffin storyand they just upset UGA. Oregon just beat teams they were supposed to beat and the pundits will unanimously pick Indiana to beat them.

1 hour ago, David Marsh said:

really don't want to live in a reality where Indiana does a two year rebuild with a coach and gets a championship and we have been building for a couple decades and still in pursuit.

lol…they seem to be defying gravity. You expect them to take a hard fall, and they keep kicking the crud out of everyone.

8 minutes ago, Drake said:

lol…they seem to be defying gravity. You expect them to take a hard fall, and they keep kicking the crud out of everyone.

and I kinda feel like they are going to pull it off right now.

But then again I felt like Oregon was going to completely embarrass themselves today in the Orange Bowl but we didn't so who knows.

1 hour ago, DrJacksPlaidPants said:

Ohio State, Alabama and Ohio State have all been vanquished. Miami is the only former champion left standing. Indiana looks like the class of the remaining teams, but this feels like anybody’s tournament.

For those of us who can remember 2002, when OBD was royally screwed, and before, the Canes are blue-blooded. Hats off to the Canes and Mario for being the lowest-seeded team to win a PO game.

Can the Canes D shut down a better O than O-H-I-O's in the Fiesta Bowl? The pressure will be on Miami, a team battling to play a champ game on its home field.

Ole Miss is playing loose and with LSU's money in the effort to kick the Kiff out of Lane.

I feel bad for our Georgia friends, but the love poured out on UGA for beating Bama in a rematch was pure recency and brand bias for anyone who could recall the previous game vs Georgia Tech and/or noted Bama's season-long inability to run the football.

Cig just keeps on burying brand-name teams. A team without a Blue Chip Roster is looking to break the Blue Chip ceiling and is odds-on to do so.

HOSE THE HOOSIERS!

I wish Georgia won their game but in all honesty, I'm kinda digging the "March Madness" vibe that's starting to form with this extended playoff.

10 hours ago, David Marsh said:

I think we stand the best chance of the remaining teams to take down Indiana. If we don't do it I think they win it all.

It pains me to say it, but I think Miami is the kryptonite to Indiana. I think Miami has the right mix of monster players and scheme to thwart the Hoosiers.

Over the years I always marveled at how much bigger tosu players looked compared to their opponents. That changed when they played Miami. The Miami players along the trenches are HUGE.

That’s not to say Oregon can’t beat Indiana as well, I just think Miami is a matchup nightmare for Indiana.

Here’s hoping Ole Miss keeps their Cinderella run going and knocks off Miami.

And that the Ducks can solve the Indiana riddle.

At this point when IU and OBD's face off next week, they will both be facing the best team they have played against all season. Again!

I give the Hoosiers a slight edge because of their consistency all season in all 3 phases. However, if IU plays like they did against PSU then they will lose to the Ducks.

As long as OBD's plays crisp, clean and brutal! Follow the coaches game plan and move onto the Natty......

This will be a great game!

If they reranked the teams then IU would still be #1 and the Ducks #2. This is gonna be special.

Go Ducks!

I think the term "blueblood" is just a warm blanket for a program like Nebraska. The B1G has two teams left in the CFP. It isn't Ohio State, Michigan, or Penn State. It's the second to worst program in winning percentage, and a former Pac Twelve school, in it's second ever season in the league.

The SEC has one program remaining, and it's not Georgia, Alabama, Florida, LSU, or Tennessee. It's a program with the second smallest stadium in the league, located in a city you associate with a more prominent university in the UK. Hotty totty, it's the program you relate with the movie "The Blind Side", it's Ole Miss.

This is the first year in the CFP era, that you won't have at least one of Alabama, Georgia, or Ohio State in the F4. We're eleven years into it.

14 hours ago, kirklandduck said:

I wish Georgia won their game but in all honesty, I'm kinda digging the "March Madness" vibe that's starting to form with this extended playoff.

The turmoil is exhausting. However, a wide-open CFB marketplace can lead to Indiana and Oregon in the Final 4 instead of Ohio State and Michigan, Ole Miss instead of Georgia and Alabama, and Miami instead of Notre Dame. 😁

This Final 4 is what an expanded PO was supposed to do, keep the fans of teams outside the traditional blue bloods engaged.

Fewer folks watch on TV, that's ESPN's problem.

PUT OUT THAT CIG!

4 minutes ago, Jon Joseph said:

The turmoil is exhausting. However, a wide-open CFB marketplace can lead to Indiana and Oregon in the Final 4 instead of Ohio State and Michigan, Ole Miss instead of Georgia and Alabama, and Miami instead of Notre Dame. 😁

This Final 4 is what an expanded PO was supposed to do, keep the fans of teams outside the traditional blue bloods engaged.

Fewer folks watch on TV, that's ESPN's problem.

PUT OUT THAT CIG!

To stretch that even further, even though a lot of people denigrate the choice to allow access for G6 teams to get into the playoff I actually don't mind it. Every now and then there will be a very high performing mid-conference team like BSU last season or UCF (when Scott Frost ran it the first time) where those teams realistically could upset a P4 team in the first round and maybe even in a quarterfinal. That kind of stuff keeps the playoff interesting for me.

51 minutes ago, GatOrlando said:

I think the term "blueblood" is just a warm blanket for a program like Nebraska. The B1G has two teams left in the CFP. It isn't Ohio State, Michigan, or Penn State. It's the second to worst program in winning percentage, and a former Pac Twelve school, in it's second ever season in the league.

The SEC has one program remaining, and it's not Georgia, Alabama, Florida, LSU, or Tennessee. It's a program with the second smallest stadium in the league, located in a city you associate with a more prominent university in the UK. Hotty totty, it's the program you relate with the movie "The Blind Side", it's Ole Miss.

This is the first year in the CFP era, that you won't have at least one of Alabama, Georgia, or Ohio State in the F4. We're eleven years into it.

I feel like the label "blue blood" should be stripped from a program if they haven't won a national championship in 20+ years...no college player on a roster would remember or even be alive in that era (not to mention anyone still working in those respective programs in that span).