Playoff Observation (OL Strategy & Play -- no teasers)

[NoNC4Tubs]

Disagree. A bye does two things. 100% guaranteed to make the second round, and extra time to rest/recover from a long season.

Yet, every one of them lost that next game...

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

Yeah it's difficult to win when your QB puts the FB at risk 20 times in a season.

11 INTs 9 Fumbles (6 Fumbles Lost)

I think he had like 3 Pick Sixes

Just a disaster at QB

Also, he was tipping the plays...

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

OSU went to a different level when they got to the playoffs. They are the most complete team in this first year of the new era of college football. I watched the game last night because I like to watch good competitive games. Basically, OSU vs Texas was the championship game as far as I’m concerned. The only way ND beats OSU is if OSU beats itself. That being said, I’m not a fan of the new era college football (I’ll save you my rant on that). I do, however, congratulate OSU on the win and have a lot of respect for what I heard from their players after the game.

Two starters came from us, two from Ole Miss and no doubt several others...

tOSU was built using players poached from other programs.

 

[editder]

I agree. If this had been Bama playing Ohio State tonight, we would have witnessed one of those Honk if you sacked Milroe moments. Our OL is too big and slow for teams like OSU.

Yet they can’t line up and put people on their back either. Otherwise, we would at least have a semblance of a power running game.

 

[TideMan09]

All I know is both ND & Ohio St played more like Alabama than Alabama did this last year..

We need our strong running game back at Alabama..

 

[editder]

Bama with Will Howard makes it to the semis at least

Bama with Moe Howard would have been a vast improvement.

 

[editder]

The refs all year have been for the burnt orange. Now the whole college football world has no clue what targeting is because they didn’t want ASU to have a chance for a walk off FG.

Refs have historically loved themselves some Texas and some ND.

 

[editder]

Two starters came from us, two from Ole Miss and no doubt several others...

tOSU was built using players poached from other programs.

Unabashedly, at that.

 

[Tide&True]

Two starters came from us, two from Ole Miss and no doubt several others...

tOSU was built using players poached from other programs.

In my original post I alluded to a rant. What you mention is just one of the things I would include in my dislike about the latest version of college football

 

[The Ols]

Two starters came from us, two from Ole Miss and no doubt several others...

tOSU was built using players poached from other programs.

We haven’t been innocent here either. Whether it be the NIL era or the transfer era we’ve always been active…Coker…Jamo…etc…

 

[B1GTide]

Yet, every one of them lost that next game...

Three of the teams had no chance, 2 because they didn't belong and GA didn't have a QB. They would have knocked out in the first round without the bye. Oregon was the outlier, and lost because OSU was on a mission.

 

[Krymsonman]

Boise State, SMU, and Arizona State never had a chance to make it to the finals. You could make a case if Texas and tOSU had been on different sides of the brackets, tOSU would likely be playing Texas rather than Notre Dame. I am glad the season is nearly over so we can look forward to spring football.

Yeah, the system of giving lower ranked teams a bye just because they won a weak conference has got to change. Top 4 ranked teams should get the bye's, whether they are conference champs or not. Penn State only got to the semi-finals because they had a cake walk on the way in.

 

[Krymsonman]

Is Riley Leonard from Alabama? Did CNS not recruit him?

Leonard was a 3* out of Fairhope. Went to Duke and was the qb there from 2021-23. Played in 7 games for Duke in 2023, then in November said he was going in the portal. Signed with Notre Dame after that, so this is his senior year. He wasn't highly recruited out of high school. I think Nebraska, Tulane, and Syracuse were his biggest pursuers.

 

[Krymsonman]

6 of Notre Dame's starters this year were transfers. Those players did not come for free.

And now they just got $20,000,000 to go buy some more.

 

[AlexanderFan]

in many cases I think there is a link between the two, but the fact that DeBoer is starting to take a hammer to Saban’s big body offensive line I think there was still alot of blame on them as well. I think a defensive line like ND and Ohio State would live in our backfield even if we had a different quarterback.

Line, both sides, evaluation, development, and execution have been sorely lacking the last five years.

 

[AlexanderFan]

Yet, every one of them lost that next game...

How entertaining do you think those games would’ve been if you swapped places? The teams that had byes had chances to rest and gameplan, and still lost.

Imagine what the games would’ve looked like if the winners of the first round games were the ones with the byes and the byes had to play a game then a quick turnaround.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

And now they just got $20,000,000 to go buy some more.

Was that $20M for the Sugar Bowl and then another $20M for the Cotton Bowl?

 

[The Ols]

Was that $20M for the Sugar Bowl and then another $20M for the Cotton Bowl?

Throw that on top of whatever they get from NBC for their independent contract and they’ll be in the mix for a bit…they really need to be affiliated w/a conference.

 

[CrimsonBloodn62]

Line, both sides, evaluation, development, and execution have been sorely lacking the last five years.

The Bama standard has changed from winning championships to being more worried about their personal brand and NIL money than doing what it takes to win championships now.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

Throw that on top of whatever they get from NBC for their independent contract and they’ll be in the mix for a bit…they really need to be affiliated w/a conference.

Notre Dame says "Why?"....