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2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

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RuGettinIt said:
I’ll give Cignetti credit for taking advantage of the new NIL Wild West. He brought in coaches /guys he had coached at his old program and sprinkled in experienced older players. Kudos.

Spare me the culture BS though. This is a bought and paid for run. Which, apparently is what CFB has become based on the current NIL/ Transfer Portal trajectory. It has nothing to do with culture anymore.

Can he sustain it over multiple years, we’ll see.
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Why can't other teams buy it? It's not like Indiana is a whale in the NIL era. Texas spent nearly twice as much.
 
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Back after about a three-week hiatus. Indiana is no doubt, by far, the best team in the country. If you would've told me just before the beginning of the 2024 season that Indiana would by 25-2 and being leading by 28 points at halftime in the CFP semi-finals less than a year and a half away, I would've reported you to the cops for serious drug abuse.
 
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DaveyBoy said:
I really think this is the difference between what Cignetti brings in vs what Day does. Day seems content to play to win by A decent margin. Cig wants to destroy every opponent every quarter of every game. It’s a mentality that leads to true dominant excellence. Day showed some of that last year in his NC run. This year Day lost that edge A bit. I hope we see that evil Ryan Day like we see the evil Cig.
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100%. You can tell Day doesn’t care as much about points and would rather win by ~7-10, but there’s no upper limit to Cignetti’s will to score. It’s a dominance mindset that some coaches don’t understand.

The first time I realized this was when he was getting pantsed by OSU and ND last year and waited to go hurry up in the last few minutes to get as many garbage points in as possible.
 
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lvbuckeye said:
Why can't other teams buy it? It's not like Indiana is a whale in the NIL era. Texas spent nearly twice as much.
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It’s strange to say this, but I think we’re dealing with a much different era now with the NIL and the whole shebang. These 5 stars get smoke blown and have high demands, while these other guys are coming in with a blue collar mentality and giant chips on their shoulders. They just want to shine.

Might be time to decide to start watching more film rolls than the * next to a guy’s name.

That’s a broad generalization, but I do think there’s more to show and prove by the ugly ducklings these days, as is being shown tonight by this squad.
 
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