Bear Down Wildcats

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

ND up 24 on Indiana with only 3 minutes left.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

OSU looks weird in red pants.

Hey CFP selection committee: Good job, good effort!

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

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.

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

ASU is getting destroyed

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

That's a shame

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

The only ASU players making any plays are former Texas players

Sugar Bowl postponed until tomorrow.

Asu going for another fg and it's blocked

Horns Up! Forks Down!

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.

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

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

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...

Shouldn't that be targeting?

Wow, no call

Texas is couging it

Unbelievable

Texas with a complete collapse

Int and bad penalties

These refs are not going to call targeting today

Not targeting????

Total bullshit call!!!

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

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

Yay OT...

Oh my god. 2 missed fgs by Texas

Going to ot

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

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.

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

ASU has all the momentum though

4th and 1

Do you go?

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

Do you go?

Gotta go. The "old college try"!!

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

Woo! Thank you Texas!

Wow, what a game

Thank you sweet baby Jesus

No one's happier than the Texas kicker

F Oregon

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.

Just a pathetic showing from the ducks

This is a shit sandwich for Oregon.

Love it.

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

Oregon needs a tail end event.