2025 College Football Playoffs

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BleedBlueGold said:
I'm not sure there needs to be a new thread for 2025 in the rearview, but I do have some thoughts:

There is a small part of me that feels like ND is cursed. The sheer amount of things that ND needed to go their way this year, but didn't, is astounding. In this "game of inches," ND fell short in ways that seemed to have cosmic interference. Feel free to add to this list. This is just off the top of my head.
  • Miami needed an insane one-handed TD grab by Daniels, a flukey INT, and a last minute FG to beat ND. All season long, Miami was known for shooting themselves in the foot, yet in this game, they played almost flawless. (For comparison, Indiana needed a Miami missed FG, a blocked Punt for a TD, and a Beck INT to win that game last night. Miami provided them with all.)
  • A&M needed a botched XP from ND, a gigantic missed holding call, and one of ND's worst defensive efforts on the entire season to win this game by one point.
  • Fast forward and towards the middle-to-end of the season there is not one single upset that benefits ND. Not one.
  • The ACC royally screws up their own conference tie-breaker and has Duke vs UVA in the CCG instead of UVA vs Miami.
  • And then Duke proceeds to win that F'ing game, rendering the Bama/UGA and BYU/TexTech games meaningless because...
  • The CFP committee screws ND in unprecedented fashion by keeping a bad Alabama team in and dropping ND to keep from leaving the ACC out. Reasons were completely fabricated.
It's not that one or two of these things happened in a vacuum. That'd just be chalked up to what we call "college football." It's the fact that ALL of these things absolutely NEEDED TO HAPPEN in order to keep ND out of the playoffs.....and somehow, some way, that's exactly what happened.
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irish4ever said:
IMO, 3 things prevented the Irish from playing for a natty this year ...
1) The ESPN-led CFP committee's fucked-up snub of course (gotta protect the SEC)
2) Al Golden being hired by the Bengals (D definitely wouldn't have started the season that slow if it wasn't for a new DC to get acclimated to)
3) The fumbled snap/missed extra-point demise near the game against A&M (also #2 comes into play here as A&M wouldn't have scored 40+ on a Golden led D).
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That's true but most of those were not chance occurrences, but things we were poorly prepared for.

First example, see Miami's brilliant catch at the end of the first half. Xavier Watts probably stops that, and might just have run it 100 yards the other way.
 
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jerseyborn1971 said:
The painting of IU as these scrappy underdogs who have overcome everything and worked together to develop 3 stars over the years into a national champion is pathetic. They were the first to figure out how to most effectively utilize one of the highest NIL budgets in the country. The irony is they get the benefit of the doubt because of the name on the jersey. If Florida did it, the story would be how UF bought their way back to the national title.
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This team is in no way as talented as the teams they clobbered this year. Stop with the 'they bought a title'. They bought a roster that could compete. They werent Ohio State from last year. NOBODY outside of Indiana thought Fernando was going to do this.

No coach in the top 10 would have traded their roster for Indianas. Not one team in the SEC would have.

'They had an old roster'. You mean like BYU and Utah every single year?

Good grief. Some of you are freaking determined to burn down Indianas house to make Notre Dames lack of winning a title since 1988 look better. ND had their shot last year and once again, couldn't beat Ohio State. Indiana did this year. You have to take advantage of your shot.

I love both teams, by the way.
 
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Sea Turtle said:
This team is in no way as talented as the teams they clobbered this year. Stop with the 'they bought a title'. They bought a roster that could compete. They werent Ohio State from last year. NOBODY outside of Indiana thought Fernando was going to do this.

No coach in the top 10 would have traded their roster for Indianas. Not one team in the SEC would have.

'They had an old roster'. You mean like BYU and Utah every single year?

Good grief. Some of you are freaking determined to burn down Indianas house to make Notre Dames lack of winning a title since 1988 look better. ND had their shot last year and once again, couldn't beat Ohio State. Indiana did this year. You have to take advantage of your shot.

I love both teams, by the way.
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jerseyborn1971 said:
The painting of IU as these scrappy underdogs who have overcome everything and worked together to develop 3 stars over the years into a national champion is pathetic. They were the first to figure out how to most effectively utilize one of the highest NIL budgets in the country. The irony is they get the benefit of the doubt because of the name on the jersey. If Florida did it, the story would be how UF bought their way back to the national title.
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Their budget was reportedly around $20 million. I'd be surprised if they were in the top 15 of the country and would put probably put them behind all the SEC teams, OSU, Miami, Oregon and Texas Tech of the playoff teams. Mendoza was not the most expensive QB on the market and they didn't portal any of other expensive positions.
 
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ab2cmiller said:
I can’t believe it took 4+ years for me to finally figure out why Carson Beck looked so familiar.

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IRISHDODGER said:
I think I read where 4 of his 6 career losses ended w/ him throwing a pick.
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I was chatting about the game at work. I mentioned that there was a reason he was a 6th year guy that transferred from UGA and hadn't declared for the NFL.
 
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Do we think he would seriously consider it?



Might be a more favorable option than this...

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Beck's mansion situation seems like a Cribs episode where the recording artist is living in a home owned by the record company. He can't be so dumb as to buy a $5m house with a $3m NIL deal.
 
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NDWarrior said:
Do we think he would seriously consider it?
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It doesn't seem like a lot of these guys are in a hurry to become adults and or go pro. I have zero doubt in my mind he'd consider it.

Cam Ward got a $32M signing bonus in last year's draft. Also something to consider.
 
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NorthDakota said:
I am guessing an alum provided the home for him to use OR he is renting it.

For those in real estate, could he even get financing on this thing? That stuff is pretty foreign to me.
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He can absolutely get a $5M house, earmark $1M of his NIL earnings towards the DP. He can get an alum to setup the financing for the remaining principle and have it paid by his NFL bonus/earnings. Milroe got $1M signing bonus in the 3rd round, and a ~$6M contract. Tons of private lenders who are super fans could arrange this pretty easily.
 
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TorontoGold said:
He can absolutely get a $5M house, earmark $1M of his NIL earnings towards the DP. He can get an alum to setup the financing for the remaining principle and have it paid by his NFL bonus/earnings. Milroe got $1M signing bonus in the 3rd round, and a ~$6M contract. Tons of private lenders who are super fans could arrange this pretty easily.
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That's helpful.

Wasn't sure how this would work with his unpredictable (to put it mildly) income stream.
 
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