Game Thread: CFP Playoff Game #1: #10 Indiana @ #7 Notre Dame (12/20 ABC 7p CT)

[selmaborntidefan]

One thing about it. If ND’s chance in future games depends on a FG, they are in trouble.

Known truth since 1966.

 

[Krymsonman]

Agreed - that stadium was packed, and the ND fans seemed to make a difference. Typical home field advantage.

Notre Dame's sort of like BAMA. If you have a big game, no matter when, the fans are going to show up.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

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?

Yes, there were.

Of course....you had two teams from the same state, one a long-time national brand and draw....and the stadium is one of those legendary cathedrals of sport hosting the first-ever something.

That was the one thing about the game that was actually pretty cool, the crowd.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

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

bamahammer.com

Alabama did not belong in a 4-team playoff.
Alabama did not belong in an 8-team playoff.

But one can make the case for Alabama for a 12-team playoff, the problem being so many other cases can be made for so many other teams - and it all depends upon WHICH CRITERION gets the focus. My biggest beef wasn't even who got selected (I'm sorry, I just can't muster a bunch of fervor for our team this past year given the losses); my issue was this sudden made up rule of, "they aren't going to punish teams for losing conference title games."

So we've gone - in just ten years - from "a focus on conference championships" to "we aren't going to punish teams that don't win it." EITHER ONE is a defensible position but BOTH AT THE SAME TIME are not.

Since conference consolidation began with the SWC and Big 8 morphing into the Big 12, there has never - not "really" - been a single year that had more than 3 viable teams. The so-called "playoff" was (as krazy has noted time and again) always about the THIRD TEAM that was left out because a one-game championship might exclude a team whose sole point against them is "well, they started the year unranked." There has been PRESS COVERAGE pretending that Utah, Boise State, and TCU had legit claims pre-conference, but no actual fan was ever fooled by this nonsense, only Tim Brandos and other shills who have fantasies of "The Bad News Bears of College Football" being a real thing.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Notre Dame's sort of like BAMA. If you have a big game, no matter when, the fans are going to show up.

yeah, they're still a draw.

Haven't won anything since the Reagan Presidency, but they're still a draw.

 

[TopBamaBloke]

Proud to say I didn’t watch this game. I watched some of the first half of the 1966 game vs auburn on YouTube instead. It was fun to watch Snake connect with CRP for a long TD pass! The commercials were fun to watch too (Winston tastes good like a cigarette should LOL).

Is anyone else watching the FCS, division 2 or division 3 playoffs? Watching John’s-Hopkins play Mt. Union right now, and I think these playoff games are the most underrated sporting events in the country. Go Blue Jays! Win this for Charm City!

 

[B1GTide]

Proud to say I didn’t watch this game. I watched some of the first half of the 1966 game vs auburn on YouTube instead. It was fun to watch Snake connect with CRP for a long TD pass! The commercials were fun to watch too (Winston tastes good like a cigarette should LOL).

Is anyone else watching the FCS, division 2 or division 3 playoffs? Watching John’s-Hopkins play Mt. Union right now, and I think these playoff games are the most underrated sporting events in the country. Go Blue Jays! Win this for Charm City!

So, the 12 team CFP is not worth watching, but the even bigger college football playoff among what amounts to high schools teams is awesome?

 

[Power Eye]

It is strange to see so many people come on a playoff game thread to make the statement that they aren’t or didn’t watch the game. Haven’t checked the SMU/Penn St thread yet, but I’m sure it’s gold.

 

[BamaBoySince89]

 

[Carollovestide]

I wasn’t sure who it was but now I know. Booger talking about how he didn’t care how SMU look they were just having a bad day and they deserve to be in the playoffs. Well, we could make that argument too. We were having a bad day booger. I can’t stand the man personally.