2025 College Football Playoffs

[Dale]

Mendoza taking some shots. Been hit at least 5 times already + a hold

Miami can’t tackle for shit tho so far

 

[Dale]

Loghan Thomas should watch that Lightfoot play on repeat

They just triple teamed the DT because the TE handled Lightfoot on his own in the run game. That’s why Thomas is unplayable

 

[Irishnuke]

Yeah that should have been a personal foul.

 

[Blazers46]

Mendoza taking some shots. Been hit at least 3 times already + a hold

Miami can’t tackle for shit tho so far

Will interesting to see how he handles it. He can’t be feeling comfortable like he has in most of his games. Could be a very low scoring game.

 

[IRISHDODGER]

I can't really "cheer" for either team. I don't generally hate Miami, I'm too young to have lived through "Catholics Vs. Convicts," but I don't like Carson Beck, at all. I don't care for Cignetti, don't care about Indiana in general, and I like Fernando Mendoza. Either way, I don't care. I also don't live in Indiana and don't have to live around Hoosier bandwagoners who would talk a lot of shit. Just let it be entertaining.

Same here. Miami is definitely more annoying. I did grow up during Catholics VS Convicts & as a kid I saw it as “Good Guys (ND) vs Bad Guys (U)”. Especially after Johnson kept running up the score in Faust’s last game. Then you had Lou getting ND to contender status and it was on. Miami & their fans are easily the biggest combo of front runners in CFB. The team isn’t as bad as the 80s when they embraced the outlaw/thug reputation. Then when some ND students countered w/ a tshirt celebrating the rivalry, they cried “racism”. Fast forward to the new age of social media and their fans have come out of the woodwork this year. I’ve never noticed them in the past decade but now it’s like they‘ve been here the whole time. Always want their cake & eat it too w/ zero blowback.

 

[Bane]

IU is right now operating at a higher level than Miami. Miami was lucky to hold them to 3. I'm also not a fan of the DB dropping a pick and then getting up and doing the Macarena.

 

[Irishnuke]

Seriously, how the fuck do the refs not see that hit on Mendoza?

 

[irishjim]

Seriously, how the fuck do the refs not see that hit on Mendoza?

Carry out a fake and that’s what happens.

 

[Dale]

Beck doesn’t look like he’s gonna compete a pass further than 4 yards rn

 

[Bane]

Carry out a fake and that’s what happens.

You can't have forceable helmet to helmet contact. That was targeting, regardless of "carrying out a fake."

 

[ShamrockOnHelmet]

Man, IU just looks smaller and slower, but also somehow vastly superior than Miami. It’s the damndest thing.

 

[Riddickulous]

Man, IU just looks smaller and slower, but also somehow vastly superior than Miami. It’s the damndest thing.

At the end of the day Miami is still coached by Mario Cristobal

 

[thekid33]

I can't bring myself to watch a second of this game. But, I hope both teams have fun and then an honest to God hurricane destroys everyone in the stadium (after MF is safe, of course).

 

[NDPhilly]

IU’s undersized DL vs Miami’s OL is Miami’s biggest advantage imo. Why are they throwing 3 straight passes.

 

[IRISHDODGER]

At the end of the day Miami is still coached by Mario Cristobal

We’ve been saying the same thing about both Cristobal & Beck all season. It only showed up in their two losses. Now they’re playing for the whole ball of wax. Got ‘em this far.

 

[Bluto]

IU’s undersized DL vs Miami’s OL is Miami’s biggest advantage imo. Why are they throwing 3 straight passes.

I just don’t see Beck picking apart the Indiana zone defense. So far Miamis receivers don’t look like they’re very good at seeing and sitting down in the holes in the zone d as well.

 

[Irishokie]

Man, IU just looks smaller and slower, but also somehow vastly superior than Miami. It’s the damndest thing.

Deer antler spray

 

[Bluto]

Micheal Irvin looked uncharacteristically calm during the coming flip.

That was disappointing.

 

[CTIDANDREW]

If there is anything this college football playoff has taught me (in relation to ND) is that we allowed two completely average college QB’s in Carson Beck and Marcell Reed to play almost flawless football against us.
Beck 200+ yards 90 QBR
Reed almost 400+ total yards, and 85 QBR

This defense was way too good for that to have happened, and it’s going to eat at me for the rest of my time on this earth, and think about this 2025 ND season.

 

[notredomer23]

Toney is the slowest quickest player ever. It’s uncanny how slow he is to go with elite quickness

 

[Bane]

IU’s undersized DL vs Miami’s OL is Miami’s biggest advantage imo. Why are they throwing 3 straight passes.

I don't know, they're not getting any push at all. If they can't win those kinds of trench battles on third and short they have zero shot.

 

[Blazers46]

If there is anything this college football playoff has taught me (in relation to ND) is that we allowed two completely average college QB’s in Carson Beck and Marcell Reed to play almost flawless football against us.
Beck 200+ yards 90 QBR
Reed almost 400+ total yards, and 85 QBR

This defense was way too good for that to have happened, and it’s going to eat at me for the rest of my time on this earth, and think about this 2025 ND season.

Knowing that and the fact that ND is top 9 in every poll except the CFP feels criminal.

 

[NDPhilly]

I just don’t get how IU’s front 7 is so good. They are undersized and not super athletic. Michigan-esque sign stealing seems somewhat reasonable imo.

 

[Bluto]

Miami’s offense is getting whipped.

 

[IrishTusker]

If there is anything this college football playoff has taught me (in relation to ND) is that we allowed two completely average college QB’s in Carson Beck and Marcell Reed to play almost flawless football against us.
Beck 200+ yards 90 QBR
Reed almost 400+ total yards, and 85 QBR

This defense was way too good for that to have happened, and it’s going to eat at me for the rest of my time on this earth, and think about this 2025 ND season.

It was a set of coaching mistakes. It is what it is. If Golden had stayed, it wouldn't have happened. Still shouldn't have happened, of course.

 

[irishff1014]

Let’s go canes get it together

 

[Dale]

That’s not PI

 

[Crazy Balki]

Man, if I wasn't sure who I was rooting for going into this game, Miami made that decision a lot easier.

Absolutely dirty on that hit on Mendoza.

 

[ShamrockOnHelmet]

I just don’t get how IU’s front 7 is so good. They are undersized and not super athletic. Michigan-esque sign stealing seems somewhat reasonable imo.

Even if you know the plays, you still have to do it on the field.

 

[irishff1014]

That was a bull shit call