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Topic: Where is the Froth?

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FearlessF

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Re: Where is the Froth?
« Reply #84 on: January 11, 2021, 01:34:36 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on January 11, 2021, 12:17:56 PM
Notre Dame is an interesting team I think in most years, good enough to post a gaudy record, and then they get thumped in a bowl/PO game.

It has to grind on their fans some.
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Re: Where is the Froth?
« Reply #85 on: January 11, 2021, 05:15:19 PM »
UGA fans of course feel "slighted" by not closing the deal when they have a good team, but at least they have not been blown out in CFP games.  Yet.

They were for one half.

I wonder how much of this lingers in the minds of committee members.
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Re: Where is the Froth?
« Reply #86 on: January 12, 2021, 12:20:50 AM »
So...wonder if A&M will receive any votes for #2?  Not that it’s any consolation but we do have a pecking order in cfb. We were kept out of the CFP because we lost to Alabama 52-24, same as tonight’s tilt. Oh well, I think if we had got in it probably would have been the same result vs Bama. 

I wonder if Clemson just had a bad game or what?  OSu looked overmatched by halftime. 
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Re: Where is the Froth?
« Reply #87 on: January 12, 2021, 09:59:30 AM »
I think, at their best, tOSU can put up a fight against Alabama. They're good enough.
Justin Fields was injured in the previous game. That definitely wasn't tOSU's best. The injury was obviously a huge concern, and the Buckeyes played to protect him. Without that dynamic dimension, all they could do was try hard.

Alabama's offense is an NFL rookie camp. I'm excited to see what Sark can make out of the parts at Texas next season, but it's clear that the 'bama roster is something special that the Horns don't have (yet, I hope).
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Re: Where is the Froth?
« Reply #88 on: January 12, 2021, 12:01:48 PM »
OSU was missing a few players out with COVID

most notably, 2 D-linemen

may have helped in the trenches vs the run and also with pressure vs the pass game

but even with a full 2 deep, Bama would have been the stronger team imo 
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Re: Where is the Froth?
« Reply #89 on: January 12, 2021, 12:55:42 PM »
Injuries are just part of the game, and so is COVID.  I did hear that OSU was wanting to postpone the game due to COVID and there was a lot of pressure against that.  2020 is in the books, here's looking forward to 2021.  
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Re: Where is the Froth?
« Reply #90 on: January 12, 2021, 04:02:15 PM »
I didn't hear that OSU wanted to postpone the game.

I understand the pressure to play the game on schedule, but why not wait a week if more starters would be available?

Saban and the SEC didn't want the full challenge?

ESPN has something important to broadcast next Monday Night?
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Re: Where is the Froth?
« Reply #91 on: January 12, 2021, 04:37:12 PM »
The CFP is made entirely for TV.

The nc game is already so far beyond the bowls that it's hurting the ratings-- I'm not kidding when I tell you that I completely forgot the game was on last night and didn't watch it.  I was making dinner for the kids, then we watched a few episodes of The Mandalorian, and then someone texted me in a group text about the ass-beating that Alabama was laying down on Ohio State, and then and only then did I remember there was a game.  I didn't bother to turn it on, though.

That problem would be even worse if they delayed it another week.

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Re: Where is the Froth?
« Reply #92 on: January 12, 2021, 04:39:44 PM »
hah, if a Big 12 team would have been playing you probably remember

Sooners or Cyclones
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Re: Where is the Froth?
« Reply #93 on: January 12, 2021, 04:48:59 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on January 12, 2021, 04:39:44 PM
hah, if a Big 12 team would have been playing you probably remember

Sooners or Cyclones
Maybe.

But that's precisely my point-- the TV network needs to bring in the unaffiliated fan.  The further that date shifts past the bowl games and New Year's, the less likely it becomes that people with no real rooting interest are going to tune in.

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« Reply #94 on: January 12, 2021, 04:51:05 PM »
Besides, COVID wasn't an excuse for delaying a game during the B1G's regular season, so why should it be in the post-season?  Exact same rules were applied in the post-season, which makes sense.
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« Reply #95 on: January 12, 2021, 05:13:11 PM »
no delays, games were simply cancelled 
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Re: Where is the Froth?
« Reply #96 on: January 12, 2021, 05:28:58 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on January 12, 2021, 05:13:11 PM
no delays, games were simply cancelled
Exactly.  I suppose Ohio State could have asked to cancel the game...
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Re: Where is the Froth?
« Reply #97 on: January 12, 2021, 09:11:30 PM »
Stinkin' playoff!  :(
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