CFP 2024-2025

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Dec 20, 2024 9:14 pm

I didn't even realize the first game was tonight.

ND up 24 on Indiana with only 3 minutes left.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 10:15 am

Brent Brennan school of coaching.

https://awfulannouncing.com/college-foo ... ation.html

For a coach who likes to talk the talk, Curt Cignetti sure didn’t walk the walk.

Clichés aside, everything that got Indiana to South Bend disappeared the second Cignetti saw his breath. The aggressiveness that saw the first-year head coach earn Coach of the Year honors and turn one of the worst football programs in the country into a playoff contender was nowhere to be found.

The final score, 27-17, was closer than the game indicated. Cignetti’s offense never made it a game, which is seemingly why he elected to break the surrender index in the fourth quarter of the first game in the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff.

4th-and-11. Midfield. Down 17. Fourth quarter. Over 10 minutes to play.

And Cignetti punted.

He punted like he was coaching a late-season NFL team looking to secure better draft positioning, except there was no tomorrow for his bunch. And yet, he felt like his team’s defense was also going to be his team’s best source of offense.

dirtbags · Post by **dirtbags** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 1:01 pm

this might already have been mentioned in some other thread, but asu has 11 players skipping the playoffs to transfer-out in favor of more lucrative NIL deals elsewhere. penn state's QB2 transferred before today's game. i know football players have long history of sitting out bowl games to up their NFL stock, but come on, it's the mf'n playoffs. hard to tell if this is happening with other playoff teams, since many of them are the deep-pocketed programs poaching kids, but it still makes it tough to take the CFP seriously when stuff like this is happening.

dillingham said it best: "it's funny how, when you keep winning, it gets more expensive to win. It's amazing how that happens. And the more we win, the more people are going to offer our players"

also probably a clear sign that college sports are in a bad place when i'm sympathetic to asu's coaches

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/20/nx-s1-52 ... -the-sport

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 1:12 pm

Maybe they should have just kept it at 4… or 8

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 1:26 pm

A) I doubt all 11 are transferring out for more NIL money. More than likely at least some of them are looking to be a starter or to start over.

B) It’s not about the timing of the Playoff but the timing around applying for and gaining entry to a school. That has to happen between semesters. Anyone making it seem like these kids are abandoning their teams during the playoff just because they suddenly got a better offer is being disingenuous.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 1:47 pm

Let’s face it, if the NCAA had any brains they would adjust the schedule for after the playoffs. Finish the playoffs January 1 and open the portal 1/2

TV wants yo drag the season out as long as possible. If a kid isn’t playing, hard to blame them for jumping in

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 1:58 pm

Alieberman wrote: Sat Dec 21, 2024 1:12 pm Maybe they should have just kept it at 4… or 8

The margin of victory so far is the same as it was last year.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 6:18 pm

OSU looks weird in red pants.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 8:52 pm

Hey CFP selection committee: Good job, good effort!

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat Dec 21, 2024 11:56 pm

Lot of Ohio State fans are mad because this means Ryan Day isn’t getting fired.

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Sun Dec 22, 2024 4:17 pm

I hope that Herbie that said Indiana’s performance is proof the selection committee got it wrong and shouldn’t have included them had some “analysis” of the committee’s work for SMU and Tennessee too.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:26 am

2 plays for Texas to score. Going to be a long day for ASU

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:33 am

ASU is getting destroyed

Fishclamps · Post by **Fishclamps** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:43 am

Lol they look like shit. Unbelievable to give up 2 TDs in 2 total offensive snaps

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:49 am

That's a shame

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 12:13 pm

Asu only down 17 - 3. They will need to figure out how to get in the end zone though to make this a game

Fishclamps · Post by **Fishclamps** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 12:14 pm

The only ASU players making any plays are former Texas players

AZCatGirl · Post by **AZCatGirl** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 12:28 pm

Sugar Bowl postponed until tomorrow.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 12:40 pm

Asu going for another fg and it's blocked

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 12:44 pm

Horns Up! Forks Down!

tgrumpy2 · Post by **tgrumpy2** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 12:50 pm

Fishclamps wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:43 am Lol they look like shit. Unbelievable to give up 2 TDs in 2 total offensive snaps

I think ASwho did well to get as far as they did and kudos to them for winning the conference but I never considered them to be national champion material. I think ASU caught a lightning bolt and they were going to ride it til it hit the ground. It may have hit the ground.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 1:32 pm

tgrumpy2 wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2025 12:50 pm
Fishclamps wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:43 am Lol they look like shit. Unbelievable to give up 2 TDs in 2 total offensive snaps

I think ASwho did well to get as far as they did and kudos to them for winning the conference but I never considered them to be national champion material. I think ASU caught a lightning bolt and they were going to ride it til it hit the ground. It may have hit the ground.

They can still win if they can get in the end zone

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 1:57 pm

Well that probably does it. Big yardage plays killed asu and the fact asu couldn't score a td in the red zone

AZCatGirl · Post by **AZCatGirl** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:08 pm

84Cat wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2025 1:57 pm Well that probably does it. Big yardage plays killed asu and the fact asu couldn't score a td in the red zone

Not over yet...

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:13 pm

Shouldn't that be targeting?

Wow, no call

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:15 pm

Texas is couging it

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:22 pm

Unbelievable

Texas with a complete collapse

Int and bad penalties

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:43 pm

These refs are not going to call targeting today

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:43 pm

Not targeting????

Total bullshit call!!!

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:44 pm

pc in NM wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:43 pm Not targeting????

Total bullshit call!!!

It's consistent with the no call on asu. Both should have been called

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:47 pm

The Texas player seemed to kinda laugh when they announced no targeting.

AZCatGirl · Post by **AZCatGirl** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:49 pm

Yay OT...

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:50 pm

Oh my god. 2 missed fgs by Texas

Going to ot

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:50 pm

I confess, I hate the 'Horns more than I hate the Scummies...

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:51 pm

pc in NM wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:50 pm I confess, I hate the 'Horns more than I hate the Scummies...

Straight to jail.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:53 pm

I have family that went to both and hate them both equally. Can they both lose?

ASU has all the momentum though

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:57 pm

4th and 1

Do you go?

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:58 pm

SCCats wrote: Wed Jan 01, 2025 2:57 pm 4th and 1

Do you go?

Gotta go. The "old college try"!!

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 3:04 pm

Asu's qb is a great scrambler and skataboo is a beast

AZCatGirl · Post by **AZCatGirl** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 3:16 pm

Woo! Thank you Texas!

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 3:16 pm

Wow, what a game

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 3:17 pm

Thank you sweet baby Jesus

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 3:24 pm

No one's happier than the Texas kicker

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 3:28 pm

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 3:37 pm

F Oregon

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 4:29 pm

Does Oregon know they have a game today? Lots of sad Duck fans walking around here in Portland.

Uncle Phil is running out of time.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 4:31 pm

Just a pathetic showing from the ducks

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 4:37 pm

This is a shit sandwich for Oregon.

Love it.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 4:54 pm

On the 4 touchdown plays for tOSU, the shortest one was 42 yards. How is that even possible?

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Wed Jan 01, 2025 5:00 pm

Oregon needs a tail end event.

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