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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

I feel like the 5th best SEC/B1G team is way better than the best Mountain West team and don't care to see the MWC team get ass pounded in a tournament just to be "fair" to little guys.

Domer tears are sweet stuff but the 12 team field would be better with them and one more major team in it than this JMU, Tulane nonsense.
The Domers want to get in under their own rules: 1. Independent 2. Semi-conferenced 3. No sharing NBC or playoff money with other schools who helped you get there. 4. Play games in every section of the country to help with recruiting. There's no doubt they'd be in the play offs if they had played in the ACC CCG, but they think they're above that. In short, fuck 'em.
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Ohio State vs. #13 Illinois, Tuesday Dec. 9, 730pm EST, Peacock

Think the B1G is pretty top heavy this year....scUM (unfortunately) Purdue, Sparty, Illinois...after that is anybody guess....Nebraska is ranked but they got Wisconsin tonight and us Saturday, we'll find out how legit they are.

Thought the Buckeyes were tough, Thornton gets cooking like he was last night you could pull a surprise...good luck the rest of the way, hope this is still a Quad 1 win come March
Thornton is good and fairly consistent. The rest of the team had a high variance.
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HC Ryan Day (B1G Coach of Year, B1G Champion, National Champion)

The risk in football is when the other team has the ball.

The only way you suppress that risk is to have the ball yourself longer.

You cannot do that by playing up tempo. You do it by possessing the ball longer AND efficiently using that time to score.

Empty trips is the issue, not tempo.
We lost the turnover battle failed 4th downs and missed FGs are turnover. Win the turnover battle and you win the game.
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HC Ryan Day (B1G Coach of Year, B1G Champion, National Champion)

The risk in football is when the other team has the ball.

The only way you suppress that risk is to have the ball yourself longer.

You cannot do that by playing up tempo. You do it by possessing the ball longer AND efficiently using that time to score.

Empty trips is the issue, not tempo.
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HC Ryan Day (B1G Coach of Year, B1G Champion, National Champion)

Coach just needs to go balls-to-the-wall. Unleash the Kraken. The players have played less than 2 games with snap count. Fucking prove this is the correct way to win it all. (Should have unleashed it last week). We shall see.
That’s what we need to do to repeat. I get playing slow in regular season games but in big games I think you’re really asking for it by playing the way we play.

When you have a lights out defense the last thing you want to do is get into a game where only one touchdown given up can win the game. Our defense as good as they are has had 3 shut outs and even gave up a touchdown vs teams like Ohio on a fluke play. The offense has got to pick it up to get to 21 points in these next 3 games if we’re lucky enough to win them.

Force teams to have to execute vs this buckeye defense. Maybe they’ll make a mistake, maybe they’ll go for it when they shouldn’t and give up terrible field position?

The last thing you do with an offense ranking 44th in red zone offense is try to keep producing 7-12 minute drives. Go up tempo, be explosive, and score quick. If we don’t score then who cares you’ll get the ball back anyway for another swing.

I don’t understand the “we keep our defense off the field”. Even if they are on the field who freaking cares they’re the best unit of any offense or defense in college football.

If we continue to play this slow style of football then we’ll be in a dog fight vs UGA in the 4th quarter and that’s asking for it. Like Ryan says, leave no doubt. We arent going to do that when we play the way we do on offense.

Let’s go, pick up the pace and light it up.
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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

The other thing I see happening on this path to optimize profits is that the teams’ connections to their respective universities could become so attenuated that students/alumni lose their emotional attachment to the team. Not sure what effect that ultimately has on this new professional football league, but I think it’s a pretty fundamental change.

How many millions of passionate fans follow OSU and were never students?
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