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2024 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

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LordJeffBuck said:
Also, Penn State is due for a 2016-style luck-a-thon against us. Would've hated to see it happen in the title game.
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Rematches are okay if my team wins the second one. But they're bullshit if my team won the first one and loses the second one. I didn't want to see Ohio State have a rematch with Penn State, since we already won the first game. But the rematch against Oregon was fine.

I looked at it this way: if Ohio State beats Texas, I'd rather lose to Notre Dame than lose to Penn State. And I don't care between beating Notre Dame and beating Penn State - no difference, to me. And if Ohio State loses to Texas, I'd probably root for Penn State or Notre Dame over Texas. So no different to me there, either.

And, to LJB's point, I keep thinking James Franklin is the reason they've only won one game against Ohio State since 2014. A competent coach should have 2-3 more wins in there. At least 2017 and 2018 should have been for Penn State, and maybe 2024, too. One of these games, the blind squirrel is going to find his nut and Franklin will beat Ohio State, again. It's bad enough if that's in October or November. We don't need or want it to be in a playoff or championship game.
 
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Zander42 said:
I've seen people talking about the timeout with 14 seconds left. I think that was a good call. It guaranteed that PSU would get the ball back and ND could not do a walk off FG. All are low % for a win, but I have to think that finishing with the ball on offense is better odds than icing a decent kicker on a 42 yarder.
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Agreed - I think it was a good call to use those time outs there. Sure, it gave Notre Dame about 3-4 more yards on the subsequent plays, and that may have made a difference, but I like that he wanted his team to end the game with the ball (which they used to throw backward out of bounds - not on Franklin, though).
 
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Zurp said:
Agreed - I think it was a good call to use those time outs there. Sure, it gave Notre Dame about 3-4 more yards on the subsequent plays, and that may have made a difference, but I like that he wanted his team to end the game with the ball (which they used to throw backward out of bounds - not on Franklin, though).
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Backwards and out of bounds wasn't the worst result of their passing game last night
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
Also, Penn State is due for a 2016-style luck-a-thon against us. Would've hated to see it happen in the title game.
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Additionally, and to Zurp's point, I hate playing teams twice when you won the first time....

And, I hate to say it this way, because it's very weird that I can't find another way to say it, but our coaches are in a pretty good head space at the moment, and we don't need them to have a reason to start overthinking shit, like "we can't do what we did last time, let's dream think up some crap other than throw it to Smith!"

All that said, Penn State was the more physical and talented group last night, Marcus Tressel balled them, just opened the offense up barely enough there in the 3rd and 4th to get it done. I mean, we don't get many turnovers and don't rely on that, and ND does give up negative plays, which are a bit more our bread and butter.

Let's get that thing done tonight so it matters.
 
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