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I found it really fun to watch the Miami players huddled around the sideline heaters last week, while the UW players were huddled around each other and their coaches.

You can have your arbitrary 'letdown' goalposts, and I can have mine.    Every one of those examples i posted are games where the 'letdown' candidate was really expected to be somewhere else and were reminded of it by the press.   The fact that some of the losses  didn't occur in either the first weekend of December, or precisely at the end of the regular season, doesn't make it any less visceral.    There were/are weeks and weeks between CCGs or final reg season games and bowls as it is.  

I found it really fun to watch the Miami players huddled around the sideline heaters last week, while the UW players were huddled around each other and their coaches.

This was so predictable. How stupid are some people? Who thought this through?


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Prices for tickets for Monday night's championship in Santa Clara have been plummeting the past few days. Factors include the College Football Playoff final being located thousands of miles away from the two campuses, possible fatigue for fan bases of teams that have become annual participants in the playoff, and a game site in an expensive market lacking college football die-hards.


"It's sort of a perfect storm of factors at play this year," said Jesse Lawrence, the founder of TicketIQ, a secondary ticket market. "It's a big ask for fans to come, and that's why we're seeing the prices the way they are."


Tickets for the championship game are now available for just $135 on the secondary market, according to TicketIQ, less than half of what the price was before the semifinals and well below the face-value price of $475.


StubHub had even cheaper tickets available Wednesday night, with seats priced at $115 -- less than double the cost of a parking pass on the ticket-resale site.

This is why I don’t want to hear about talk of expanding the playoffs above eight and also why even if they go to eight the QF and SF rounds should be played at the home of the highest ranked team.  All these extra neutral site games are a huge burden on fans and they shouldn’t be expected to pack all of these stadiums.

I think the 2 semi's they have now should be played on home sites. Fans only have so much money to throw around. If I'm a Bama fan, am I supposed to cough up coin to go to Atlanta and then two other places on short notice? F that. I'd take the money from just one of those trips and buy an 85 inch.

I'm thinking the boys out at Levi Stadium better unpack all those seat tarps from the PAC 12 championship game. Maybe they can even borrow some from the Raiders.