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Topic: #7 Notre Dame 27, #6 Penn State 24 Postgame

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Re: Orange: #6 Penn State (13-2) vs. #7 Notre Dame (13-1)
« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2025, 06:55:46 PM »
he started well
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Re: Orange: #6 Penn State (13-2) vs. #7 Notre Dame (13-1)
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2025, 08:46:34 AM »
This was a mystery UGA team all season, to me.  They stopped Texas' running game cold, and UMass ran all over the same defense.  Carson Beck had a great first year and often looked lost in his second year.  The OL was seasoned and deep but couldn't seem to generate much of a running attack.  Their WR dropped a record number of passes.

They had a LB who won the LB national award (Butkus) and several others who had been excellent in years past.

Just a weird team, to me, but some of the above is due to losing Bowers.  Bowers caught a lot of balls that were a bit off target than most TEs wouldn't, and McConkey was a great route runner with sure hands.  I think those two players made up much of he difference.
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Re: Orange: #6 Penn State (13-2) vs. #7 Notre Dame (13-1)
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2025, 02:32:51 PM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on January 03, 2025, 04:43:58 PM
Winning the games you are supposed to win is a highly under-appreciated accomplishment.  Ryan Day similarly, hadn't lost to an unranked team until Michigan this year. 

People say it is easy but if it was easy, everyone would do it:
  • Ask #11 Alabama how easy it is to beat unranked teams.  They missed the CFP because they lost not once but twice to unranked teams. 
  • Ask #13 Miami how easy it is to beat unranked teams.  They missed the CFP because they lost to unranked Syracuse. 
  • Ask #14 Ole Miss how easy it is to beat unranked teams.  They missed the CFP because they lost not once by twice to unranked teams. 
  • Ask LSU how easy it is to beat unranked teams.  They lost to one (Florida) and another that was ranked when the game was played but finished unranked (USC).  LSU would be in the CFP if they had won those. 
  • Ask aTm how easy it is to beat unranked teams.  They missed the CFP because they lost not once but twice to unranked teams. 


So you're saying the SEC is really deep?
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Re: Orange: #6 Penn State (13-2) vs. #7 Notre Dame (13-1)
« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2025, 06:22:41 AM »
Not a good take there.
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Re: Orange: #6 Penn State (13-2) vs. #7 Notre Dame (13-1)
« Reply #18 on: January 06, 2025, 07:38:01 AM »
I think Notre Dame wins this easily.  The Irish defense is quite good.  

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Re: Orange: #6 Penn State (13-2) vs. #7 Notre Dame (13-1)
« Reply #19 on: January 06, 2025, 07:38:48 AM »
The SEC spin cycle has been cranked up to turbo this postseason. Bucha carnival barkers.
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Re: Orange: #6 Penn State (13-2) vs. #7 Notre Dame (13-1)
« Reply #20 on: January 06, 2025, 09:14:47 AM »
Quote from: Temp430 on January 06, 2025, 07:38:01 AM
I think Notre Dame wins this easily.  The Irish defense is quite good. 

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Penn State    10
I don't think it will be easy but I'm takin the Irish
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Re: Orange: #6 Penn State (13-2) vs. #7 Notre Dame (13-1)
« Reply #21 on: January 06, 2025, 10:42:53 AM »
I’m quite biased, but our defense is also quite good (especially if Carter can play). 

Penn State 28
Notre Dame 24 
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Re: Orange: #6 Penn State (13-2) vs. #7 Notre Dame (13-1)
« Reply #22 on: January 06, 2025, 10:49:52 AM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on January 06, 2025, 07:38:48 AM
The SEC spin cycle has been cranked up to turbo this postseason. Bucha carnival barkers.
I don't disagree in spirit, because the SEC is always spinning something, but curious what specifically you're referencing?  Because there are a lot of spin options available...
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Re: Orange: #6 Penn State (13-2) vs. #7 Notre Dame (13-1)
« Reply #23 on: January 06, 2025, 11:11:06 AM »
This is odd for me.  Ordinarily, I'd root against Notre Dame unless they were playing the Taliban (even then it would be difficult) but I REALLY don't like rematches especially when my team won the first game.  I just think it is tough to beat a team twice so if Ohio State manages to beat Texas in Dallas (a big "if"), I'd rather they face Notre Dame in Atlanta than a rematch with Penn State.  OTOH, if my Buckeyes lose in Dallas then I would strongly prefer Notre Dame to lose this game.  

I guess I'll just be a disinterested observer.  
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Re: Orange: #6 Penn State (13-2) vs. #7 Notre Dame (13-1)
« Reply #24 on: January 06, 2025, 12:06:06 PM »
I think Penn State is a solidly good team, but not a spectacularly good team. A notch below OSU and Oregon, as we've seen. I'm sticking with my low-scoring prediction, but I think PSU needs some turnovers to win this game. A bunch of 18-22 year olds could very well commit some turnovers. In its loss to NIU, ND threw two INTs and missed two field goals. That's the recipe for a PSU win. Not that PSU is the same as NIU, but ND isn't going to light up the scoreboard, not against PSU's defense.

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Re: Orange: #6 Penn State (13-2) vs. #7 Notre Dame (13-1)
« Reply #25 on: January 06, 2025, 12:12:32 PM »
Notre Dame is the perfect matchup for Penn State. Notre Dame is a one dimensional team that can't throw the football. Penn State literally could not have had an easier road to a Natty appearance....SMU, Boise State, and now Notre Dame. 

As long as Penn State doesn't give up a big special teams play TD (unlike Georgia) and as long as Drew Allar does not turn it over- Penn State wins going away. Take care of the football on offense and don't give up a special teams score and Notre Dame will have serious trouble driving the length of the field to score points. 

The great equalizer in this game however is James Franklin. He'll find someway or somehow to fuck it all up. It's just what he does.
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Re: Orange: #6 Penn State (13-2) vs. #7 Notre Dame (13-1)
« Reply #26 on: January 06, 2025, 12:28:26 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on January 03, 2025, 05:32:42 PM
Yeah, I've always hated the "well they have trouble beating top-10 teams!" as a criticism of a program.

MOST schools have trouble beating top-10 teams. That's because top-10 teams are usually pretty effin' good!

The correct criticism, imo, is not "He can't beat Top 10" teams since as pointed out, most teams aren't favored against a top 10 team.  Rather, it's why isn't PSU a legit top 10 team more often?  In other words, why can't Franklin field a team that is not a consistent dog to top teams? 

I give him credit for beating who he's supposed to and only losing to who he's supposed to, but it's still a fair knock to argue his list of People I Should Lose To should be, on the whole, shorter, across time. 
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Re: Orange: #6 Penn State (13-2) vs. #7 Notre Dame (13-1)
« Reply #27 on: January 06, 2025, 05:01:48 PM »
Quote from: slugsrbad on January 06, 2025, 10:42:53 AM
I’m quite biased, but our defense is also quite good (especially if Carter can play).

Penn State 28
Notre Dame 24
I think it'll be something like that.

I'd actually go

Penn State- 20
Notre Dame - 17
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