That long running play by Judkins was exactly the type of play Chip Kelly ran regularly at Oregon. If you didn't already know, he is Ohio State's OC.
This game is a huge mismatch where Ohio State could name the score. There is nothing Marcus Freeman can do because Ohio State has a huge advantage in skill players and their linemen are just as good or better than Notre Dame's. It's too bad ND lucked out and beat Penn State because PSU probably would have kept things interesting for at least 3 quarters.
1Q was fun. That last fake punt is one of the dumbest things i've ever seen. Just go for it with your real offense. You have to go for it, everyone knows you have to go for it...
Wait, I was told that I was trolling when I said Ohio State and Penn State is the Natty game everyone and their brother wanted. The Natty game that would bring the bigger ratings and be the better game. "This guy is right a lot and it's really annoying"
ok I’ll bite. Why would the better game be against the team that lost to both Notre Dame and Ohio State?
Well little surprise in that Ohio State is beating the holy f!uck out of Notre Dame. Thank you God… On another note, I wish Kirk Herbstreit would not be allowed to call Ohio State games considering he played there.
Not sure what you could do to fix the seeding, other than: 1 - no guarantees for the conference champs (seeds based on final ranking) 2 - four highest-ranking conference champs get in no lower than 8 (not top-4, guaranteed home game)
that would have moved up the UT OSU matchup to the 2nd round and would have setup an OSU vs. Oregon/PennSt natty. Not that much different than this year but still the better way to go.
Conference champs should always get in, but agreed that it should be based on rankings. Teams like Boise State and Arizona State should not have had byes. I also think all games before the semifinals should be played on-campus. To my point above, it's dumb that Boise and ASU's fans didn't get to celebrate them with a home game the way that first-round teams did. This is all obviously a money grab, but it's crazy to expect fans to be able to travel week-to-week for these games. Ohio State fans had to plan three rounds of travel (Pasadena, Arlington, Atlanta) in short succession. The Rose Bowl should be the national championship game every year.
Was there really a problem with seeding? #1 and #2 got dominated, but everyone would have agreed they should have been the top 2 seeds. #4 lost in OT to #5. #9-#12 all lost as they should have - no rearranging would or should have helped those teams. The only case anyone could make was Boise, but big deal - #1 and #2 got blown out too, so it doesn't necessarily indicate they didn't belong. They lost to the #5 team in the country in a game filled with their own mistakes. At the end of the day, no one would have put an Ohio State team that didn't play in its conference title game or ND higher than they were - they went out and beat the top two seeds and earned their way into the championship. Seems to me the playoff worked exactly as it should have.
Pretty sure ASU and BSU fans preferred the bye. National championships and playoffs have never been home games - don't see any reason that needs to start now.
Read in Tom Rinaldi’s voice: College football 2024. We started in Ireland and finished with the Irish losing. We witnessed the curse of Florida State after a fan who promised to eat **** if the Noles lost disappeared. But an Ohio State fan did not let us down. She promised to show her kitty if the Buckeyes won a national championship and in its hairy O-H-I-O glory we were not let down. Thank you to Elon for allowing such depravity on X as we say farewell to another season of a promise broken and a promise kept.
So just to be clear, you think it's dumb that something that's never happened before and no one thought was important still doesn't happen in the future, and instead, it would be smart to expand on the 4 home games that were horribly boring blowouts.
No, I am saying that I would prefer the first two rounds be played on campus. The scores of this year's home blowouts have no bearing on whether or not it's a good idea. I think it would've been nice to have fans in Boise and Tempe see their teams host a playoff game (like Texas, Penn State, Ohio State and Notre Dame did) instead of having to travel 900 and 1,800 miles respectively. I think this makes even more sense once you take ASU's neutral site championship game in Arlington into account. What I was poking fun at was the idea that this setup is somehow sacrosanct ("National championships and playoffs have never been home games") because, prior t0 2024, there was no precedent for hosting playoff games on campus. Now that we've broken that seal, I'm suggesting that it could be improved upon. FWIW I never liked the 12-team playoff and will probably dislike the 16-team version. Six teams always felt perfect to me. But, just like the NBA's 7-game first-round series, once the revenue genie is out of the bottle, nobody is going to reduce the scope of a postseason tournament.
