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Can't see this idiot Beck being able to beat Oregon's defense, and definitely not Indiana's.

Gonna need a defensive TD like they got against Ohio St.
 
That should’ve been a run play. Miami got lucky that Beck had enough to run that it himself.
 
Simpleton said:
Bain has been good, he's been consistently winning rushing off the edge but the QB is getting the ball out very fast, got clearly held once but the refs seem to generally be swallowing their whistles.

Mesidor has been quiet, had a nice play or two against the run but that was it.
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That's what I saw as well. Bain was destroying his guy but none of that matters when the ball is coming out so quick. A quick pass is always going to beat a DE.
 
Cowboysrock55 said:
That's what I saw as well. Bain was destroying his guy but none of that matters when the ball is coming out so quick. A quick pass is always going to beat a DE.
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There's a reason Miami dropped about 4 easy picks and a lot of it was the ball was coming out fast against tight coverage.
 
Simpleton said:
Can't see this idiot Beck being able to beat Oregon's defense, and definitely not Indiana's.

Gonna need a defensive TD like they got against Ohio St.
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Yeah I think Miami's defense could give Indiana trouble but I think Miami's offense would really struggle with Indiana as well. Probably similar with Oregon. Although with Mendoza and a really well designed Indiana offense they are hard to stop even if you play them perfectly.
 
Simpleton said:
There's a reason Miami dropped about 4 easy picks and a lot of it was the ball was coming out fast against tight coverage.
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Yeah Ole Miss was stepping back with one read and throwing the ball. Makes the corners jobs easy when they know that ball has to come out right away. Allows corners to play really aggressive.
 
So the 10 seed being in the NC. This is sort of the reason for the expanded playoffs. Bunch of 1 and 2 loss major conference teams. Not much to really separate them. So throw them all in a tourney and see how it turns out. Miami has really earned their place in this game.
 
Cowboysrock55 said:
So the 10 seed being in the NC. This is sort of the reason for the expanded playoffs. Bunch of 1 and 2 loss major conference teams. Not much to really separate them. So throw them all in a tourney and see how it turns out. Miami has really earned their place in this game.
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They need to make it 16 if for no other reason than to get rid of the bye.

It's supposedly a benefit but 7 of the 8 teams with byes lost these past two years, the only team who won was Indiana.

Make it 16, no more byes (fix the fallacy of the bye being a benefit), and get a few more teams in the mix. This playoff would've been significantly better if you threw Notre Dame, Texas, Vanderbilt and BYU in, theoretically matched up against the top 4 seeds in the first round.

It basically makes the regualr season even more pointless, which I know the NCAA or whoever hates, but this is the bed they've made so lay in it.
 
Simpleton said:
They need to make it 16 if for no other reason than to get rid of the bye.

It's supposedly a benefit but 7 of the 8 teams with byes lost these past two years, the only team who won was Indiana.

Make it 16, no more byes (fix the fallacy of the bye being a benefit), and get a few more teams in the mix. This playoff would've been significantly better if you threw Notre Dame, Texas, Vanderbilt and BYU in, theoretically matched up against the top 4 seeds in the first round.

It basically makes the regualr season even more pointless, which I know the NCAA or whoever hates, but this is the bed they've made so lay in it.
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I would be game for this. Sure you'll get a few more first round blow outs. But who really cares that much? The college football season is littered with blowouts. The other college bowl games have plenty of blowouts. Or they have teams just not playing in bowl games. You'd also get fewer draft picks sitting out the final game of the year for their team.

And I agree, the bye week isn't working out the way they thought. In theory one less game makes it easier on a team but this isn't the NFL.
 
The dumbest thing is how the lower seeds get to host a game, have all that excitement at their home stadium, make all that money, etc., while the higher seeds don't get any of that. Look how much better off Texas Tech would have been with a cupcake win at Lubbock rather than losing their first game at a neutral site. They were basically penalized for being a higher seed.

They're still contracted to the old traditional bowls, though, and those old fogeys with the Rose Bowl are the worst culprit. When that deal is over, hopefully they can fix things.
 
Chocolate Lab said:
The dumbest thing is how the lower seeds get to host a game, have all that excitement at their home stadium, make all that money, etc., while the higher seeds don't get any of that. Look how much better off Texas Tech would have been with a cupcake win at Lubbock rather than losing their first game at a neutral site. They were basically penalized for being a higher seed.

They're still contracted to the old traditional bowls, though, and those old fogeys with the Rose Bowl are the worst culprit. When that deal is over, hopefully they can fix things.
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I will give the Oregon HC credit. He did come out and publicly state that the game should have been in Lubbock.


That would have been a crazy atmosphere and one that would have included myself.
 
Simpleton said:
They need to make it 16 if for no other reason than to get rid of the bye.

It's supposedly a benefit but 7 of the 8 teams with byes lost these past two years, the only team who won was Indiana.

Make it 16, no more byes (fix the fallacy of the bye being a benefit), and get a few more teams in the mix. This playoff would've been significantly better if you threw Notre Dame, Texas, Vanderbilt and BYU in, theoretically matched up against the top 4 seeds in the first round.

It basically makes the regualr season even more pointless, which I know the NCAA or whoever hates, but this is the bed they've made so lay in it.
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Exactly.

And I think the argument that the regular season becomes meaningless is specious to begin with.

The crowd that says that basically wants the regular season to be everything or close to it, like it was back in the old days. But it definitely shouldn't be that.

What the playoffs do is balance the importance between the regular season and postseason. The regular season separates the playoff teams from everybody else. The playoffs determine the championship. That's the way it should be.

People made the same arguments in baseball. But the expanded playoffs makes everything way better. More teams involved, more excitement.

Obviously there needs to be a cutoff so that there's still meaning in the regular season. But 8 wasn't it, and I don't think 12 is either. 16 feels right.

Even with 12 you still have programs complaining like Notre Dame that they should have been in, and honestly they have a point (although they were big babies about it).
 
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Chocolate Lab said:
The dumbest thing is how the lower seeds get to host a game, have all that excitement at their home stadium, make all that money, etc., while the higher seeds don't get any of that. Look how much better off Texas Tech would have been with a cupcake win at Lubbock rather than losing their first game at a neutral site. They were basically penalized for being a higher seed.

They're still contracted to the old traditional bowls, though, and those old fogeys with the Rose Bowl are the worst culprit. When that deal is over, hopefully they can fix things.
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This i disagree with. I think they should maintain the bowl traditions. I have no problem with these games on neutral sites. Especially since seeding is still so subjective anyway.
 
Genghis Khan said:
The crowd that says that basically wants the regular season to be everything or close to it, like it was back in the old days. But it definitely shouldn't be that
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Yeah it should never be that. Its how we always end up with the same schools in the National Championship. If Ohio State or Alabama or Georgia only has one or two losses they will always get put in that game. It didn't really value the regular season the way the claimed it did. It devalued the regular season for the majority of teams once they lost a game.
 


I am not sure I want my franchise QB having the diet of a five year old.
 
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