2025 College Football Playoffs Discussion (12 Team Format)

[SEREbuckeye]

 

[Jaxbuck]

34 points with 260 yards of offense for Bama. Way to give the game away, Sooners.

Sooners won the last game with a similar flip in yards. Luck evened out.

 

[Zem]

I’m with @Mike80 on the next game. Indiana by 2 plus tuddies against Bama. Their D sucks shaft and aside from Proctor, their O Line blows too. Their run game will be nonexistent.

Don't know, IU will probably look different without #8 (forget his name), who injured himself out of the playoffs while high-fiving fans after the CCG. He might have been their best defensive player.

 

[Mike80]

Never bet on Oklahoma in a playoff.

 

[1926Buckeyes]

“We played like shit down the stretch and they tried to write us off, but we weren’t the shittiest team tonight!!”

 

[Zem]

Sustained karma from planting the flag.

 

[Jaxbuck]

IU has zero flight time at this altitude.

They are ripe for a complete bed shatting.

 

[Telekinesis]

Bama wasn’t the hard-to-kill team, they just didn’t completely mess themselves throughout the final 3 quarters.

Bama might get a few big plays on Indiana, but I can’t imagine their duct tape OL giving Ty nearly enough time to do much outside of that.

I wouldn’t be upset watching Indiana completely obliterate them. I don’t see that happening, but I’d enjoy it.

 

[Zem]

Mateer throwing > 15 yards is like a hail Mary. Portal QB's who could stand living in Norman must be licking their chops.

 

[Buckeyebred97]

IU defense needs to bring pressure whether that’s the d line or bring some LB’s but if they can they can disrupt Bama offense. Offensively some quick hitting plays and control the tempo of the game. I didn’t see much from Bama d line until 2nd half of the game. If Mendoza can take off a couple or few runs to gain yards I think they’ll be fine.

 

[buckeyemania11]

The announcers commenting that the kicker is "one of the best" almost surely follows with said best kicker missing

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

 

[Romanowski]

Agree with a lot of the sentiments, especially the rare air IU finds itself in. IU’s D is more than solid and their O is pretty good. I think they put up a bunch of points. They might give up some points too, but Alabama’s run game is putrid and their D was suspect until Oklahoma decided to fling their poop all over the place.

It’ll be a good game imo. Curious what the board’s thoughts are on “who do we want to win.” I’m slightly torn to be honest. Part of me wants to see Alabama go down in flames, yet there is another part of me that wants to see Cignetti get humbled. I’d prefer the rematch, but it’s an interesting dichotomy.

 

[buckeyemania11]

Knowing how these things tend to go IU will fall flat on their face and lose by multiple scores

 

[Mike80]

Mateer throwing > 15 yards is like a hail Mary. Portal QB's who could stand living in Norman must be licking their chops.

The NC State QB would probably do well there if he transfers. Dude looked pretty good today - much better than Mateer.