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Topic: OT Tourney (1st Round) - 2014 vs. 2015
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ELA · « **on:** July 06, 2020, 02:53:09 PM »

2014		2015
Ohio State	NATIONAL CHAMPION	Alabama
#4 Ohio State 42, #2 Oregon 20	NATIONAL TITLE GAME	#2 Alabama 45, #1 Clemson 40
Ohio State	BIG TEN CHAMPION	Michigan State
#2 Oregon 59, #3 Florida State 20	ROSE BOWL	#6 Stanford 45, #5 Iowa 16
Marcus Mariota	HEISMAN WINNER	Derrick Henry

#1 PROGRESSION
2014

Preseason: Florida State
October 11: #3 Mississippi State 38, #2 Auburn 23 (#3 Mississippi State jumped to #1)
November 15: #4 Alabama 25, #1 Mississippi State 20 (#2 Florida State jumped to #1)
November 29: #2 Alabama 55, #15 Auburn 44 (#2 Alabama jumped to #1)
January 12: #4 Ohio State 42, #2 Oregon 20 (#4 Ohio State jumped to #1)

2015

Preseason: Ohio State
November 7: #3 Clemson 23, #17 Florida State 13 (#3 Clemson jumped to #1)
January 11: #2 Alabama 45, #1 Clemson 40 (#2 Alabama jumped to #1)

OTHER NOTES
2014

NCAA overturned final two years of Penn State's probation, effective immediately
October 4 marked the first time five AP Top 8 teams lost in the same weekend
Wisconsin's Melvin Gordon set the NCAA rushing record against Nebraska, which was broken by Samaje Perine 6 days later
UAB dropped football, but later re-instated it in 2017
Ohio State won the first ever College Football Playoff

2015

Auburn needed a last minute touchdown, and then an overtime score, against Jacksonville State, to avoid being the second Top 10 team ever to lose to an FCS tem
Miami beat Duke on a game ending kick return that included 4 laterals, however the ACC subsequently said the officials made 4 errors, any of which should have nullified the return
Removed rule going forward that conferences must have 12 teams to have a conference championship game
Mark Richt was fired
Steve Spurrier and Frank Beamer retired

MaximumSam · « **Reply #1 on:** July 06, 2020, 03:03:48 PM »

I mean it's obvious 2014 is the objectively superior choice

ELA · « **Reply #2 on:** July 06, 2020, 05:17:23 PM »

2015 was bad for my health.

Opened with a jihad game in Kalamazzo at WMU on a Friday night. Place was nuts.

Then needed an overthrow to a wide open man on 3rd down, followed by a 4th down stop to hold on against Oregon

Led CMU by just 7 with 8 minutes left

Scored 3 straight TDs to open up 21-0 on Purdue, but never found the end zone again, held on 24-21

Scored with 43 seconds left to beat Rutgers 31-24

"Trouble with the Snap!" win over Michigan

Scored 3 TDs in 3 minutes in the final 4 minutes against Indiana, to make a 5 point lead look like a blowout

Lost at Nebraska on the questionable non-call on the WR running out of bounds

Matt Geiger FG to win in Columbus

LJ Scott last minute TD to beat Iowa.

We went 12-2, but legitimately 10 games were still in doubt with 5 minutes left. Really just easy wins over Air Force, Maryland and Penn State; and the blowout loss to Alabama weren't. So I voted 2014.

OrangeAfroMan · « **Reply #3 on:** July 06, 2020, 05:23:51 PM »

2014 for me, just for a good, but flawed FSU team get pantsed like that by Oregon and (correctly) disrespected by the voters before that.

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