so for those that wasted their valuable time by watching this garbage, were there actually a lot of people in the stands? or did espn cleverly rarely show the crowd so you cannot see the empty seats?
Game Thread: CFP Playoff Game #1: #10 Indiana @ #7 Notre Dame (12/20 ABC 7p CT)
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Looked packed to me. They said it was a sellout with tickets going over $1,000 between the 20’s.
Like I alluded to earlier… the pick of SMU might have sunk CFB in year one of this iteration of the playoff, and it might have an immediate effect going forward. Because right now CFB’s 2nd biggest playoff matchup is going against a major NFL matchup in December. If I were to guess, Steelers vs Ravens competing for the AFC North championship in December is going to sink Texas vs Clemson 3 to 1 in viewership. So that leaves SMU vs PSU and Ohio State vs Tennessee to save a pretty bad lineup of 1st round games. Having Alabama in the playoffs today might have forced the NFL to flex the Steelers Ravens game to a different time slot to compete with the lesser game.
Agreed - that stadium was packed, and the ND fans seemed to make a difference. Typical home field advantage.
The PSU game goes up against the Texans vs Chiefs. That game will also dominate the ratings.
I forgot about that one. I just remembered it was the Chiefs and somebody.
I also remember Josh Pate getting giddy about the prospect of CFB playoffs going against an NFL Saturday. He wanted it to force the NFL to allow CFB to move championships from Monday. But I’m like “Y’all are going against the best rivalry in the NFL and one of the must see national teams and think it’s going to make the NFL sweat?” Unless Alabama, Michigan,LSU, or Oklahoma are the teams then the NFL has nothing to worry
Yeah, I know which games I will be watching.
Indiana got in on record alone and if you dared to bring up their weak schedule, you would be label as a SEC homer, Indiana would’ve barely been bowl eligible with Alabama’s schedule. They were closer to Army than Oregon, Texas, Ohio State, UGA, etc and should’ve been treated as such.
In this new super conference era, some teams will have weaker schedules than others and you’d think that the committee would’ve taken that into account with Indiana but they seem to be clueless, yeah they dominated the tomato cans but they got dominated by the only two good teams they played.
In this new super conference era, some teams will have weaker schedules than others and you’d think that the committee would’ve taken that into account with Indiana but they seem to be clueless, yeah they dominated the tomato cans but they got dominated by the only two good teams they played.
I hope future committee members realize how absolutely retarded the 2024 iteration was. Maybe this will promote some change moving forward. Ideally, I don’t want the committee to exist at all, but that’s a pipe dream.
It was @ ND and both schools are under 100 miles apart. That one was going to sell.
The best part was the announcers…
Quote…”Well this game was a dud and it’s going to make people start asking if Indiana belonged.”
Then went on how the B1G was top heavy and IU played nobody…pretty much the same folks that were loving on Coach Google Me a week ago…
It is a joke and it won’t get better until they admit it…Pride is tough to swallow…
Indiana…c’mon…
I have to agree with most of this, except maybe the sentence after the first paragraph:
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Indiana's loss to Notre Dame proves that College Football expansion was a mistake
There will be fans of Alabama, South Carolina, Ole Miss, and even Miami, beating their chests and pounding their keyboards and shouting to everyone who will lis
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I can't wait to listen to Booger MacFarlands stupid response to this game. Because as y'all know he was on board with "what's your record" argument.
Notre Dame appears to have a pretty good defense
I agree with this statement:I have to agree with most of this, except maybe the sentence after the first paragraph:
Indiana's loss to Notre Dame proves that College Football expansion was a mistake
There will be fans of Alabama, South Carolina, Ole Miss, and even Miami, beating their chests and pounding their keyboards and shouting to everyone who will lis
I think buy-in from all teams pushed it to the 12-team number and getting automatic berths from conference champions. An 8-team playoff with automatic conference spots might still bump out a team or two that should be in it.
He is a mute button waiting to happen for me. He is a complete idiot whose arguments are infantile.
I was pointing out the fact that Oklahoma only lost to good teams before they beat Alabama (wasn't expecting that though). Oklahoma actually has a very highly rated team in terms of recruits, they're loaded with talent, obviously underachieving and not especially well coached. Having said that, they were the #3 team in the Big 12 last year and without Texas there, they'd have had a good chance of winning the Big 12 this year had they stayed.
A lot of people want to pretend all power conference games are equal (the Big 12 isn't even a power conference anymore and the SEC isn't either, they're a super conference), while pretending all power conferences games have some magical property to them over non-power conference games.
Army with one loss? #22 team. Indiana with 1 loss? #8 team. SMU with 2 losses last year? #22 team. SMU with 2 losses this year? #10. I don't think they even want to know how to evaluate a team on the merits.
They won't look at SoS, they don't care about the actual quality of opponents, just power conference yes or no, then wins and losses. I guess that's what happens when you get someone to stop covering dog shows and the WNBA long enough to be on the committee.
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