2024 College Football Playoffs

IrishLax

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Georgia is a much tougher potential second round matchup than Boise State or ASU.
Georgia -- without Beck, who was killing them -- is probably the most talented team in the country. Boise State, ASU, Clemson, SMU were the four teams that are a "tier below" ... two of them getting byes is nutty. Major flaw in the system.
 

NDMatt91

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Are any of you afraid of any of these teams?
I don't think any of these teams are great. It's a pretty weak year. 2018 Clemson, 2019 LSU, 2020 Bama, and 2022 UGA would smoke every single one of these teams without breaking a sweat. With that being said, I'm not overlooking Indiana, and a potential 2nd round game with UGA scares me because they're going to stack the box and we'll likely have trouble blocking them up front.
 

TracyGraham

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It was a conference Championship game in which they lost by 1 score to the #1 team in the country. Both of their losses were to top 8 CFP teams and they don't have a NIU or NIU-equivalent loss.
Man I dont think you get it. If they win, they get a huge leg up of a 3 game path to the championship. It's not like they played the game with no potential reward. If you get a positive for winning, there should be repercussions for losing. There was zero repercussion.
 

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Pretty much this. They set the seeds to avoid conference rematches and the result is that we get a boring first round game and a much harder overall path than two bad teams that lost their CCGs.
IU then we need to beat a weakened UGA.
That leaves us Penn St or Boise to make the championship game.

I'll take it!
 

IrishTusker

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It was a conference Championship game in which they lost by 1 score to the #1 team in the country. Both of their losses were to top 8 CFP teams and they don't have a NIU or NIU-equivalent loss.
PSU is really good at losing to top teams? Okay...

The "good loss" argument shouldn't matter that much. Who did they beat?
 

IrishLax

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The worst part about this is that there are going to be TONS of Indiana fans at this game... we always have the trope "it's their Super Bowl" but in this case it literally is their biggest CFB game ever and it's a short drive.
 

thekid33

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Let's go fuck shit up.

Shake down the thunder.

(Also, might be time to join a league, but let's focus on that another day).
 

thekid33

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The worst part about this is that there are going to be TONS of Indiana fans at this game... we always have the trope "it's their Super Bowl" but in this case it literally is their biggest CFB game ever and it's a short drive.
If an ND can sells their tickets to an Indiana fan they deserve a painful death. Let's please not let them take the stadium over.
 
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