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2024 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

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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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