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The Power Four => Big Ten => Topic started by: medinabuckeye1 on August 23, 2025, 01:22:46 PM
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Are we doing this?
Saw this, it made me laugh:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/15Derx1UFb/
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Cyclones and Wildcats tied up in Dublin Ireland. We should each have a Guiness.
This game is more important than you think.
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I'm taking the red car out at halftime to find a Guinness or a Harp or something Irish
maybe a redhead!
entertaining first half of football
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How many Dublins are there in the USA?
There's one in Ohio, Texas and California at the very least.
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(https://i.imgur.com/9BGx7EJ.png)
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Dublin-Bonanza Precinct
Nebraska
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Cyclones and Wildcats tied up in Dublin Ireland. We should each have a Guiness.
This game is more important than you think.
Is it?
IMHO this game may be important as to which B12 team will be the conference's representative to be a sacrificial lamb in the CFP. But neither of these teams is going to win the NC.
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(https://i.imgur.com/9BGx7EJ.png)
That's awesome.
That reminds me of a similar nugget of geographic trivia, which is that Alaska is bigger than Texas.
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/77/68/aa/7768aa7ed5a2ce3832152b4a44305160--anchorage-alaska-my-wife.jpg)
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Is it?
IMHO this game may be important as to which B12 team will be the conference's representative to be a sacrificial lamb in the CFP. But neither of these teams is going to win the NC.
hah, you say that now
probably said the same thing last season while Michigan was beating Ohio St.
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Clones snatch the lead 14-7
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tie game! in the 4th
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Defensive battle has turned into some offensive fireworks. Feels good to have this sport back.
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Dublin-Bonanza Precinct
Nebraska
Outside of CFB, do you prefer Ames Iowa or Manhattan Kansas?
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Manhattan is also the home of the Big Red One (US Army’s 1st Infantry Division). It’s generally not the favorite posting in the Army. I know nothing about Ames.
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Fun 17-14 game getting further into the 4th quarter.
Anyone notice Iowa State get charge with a TO under a brand new rule stipulating that if a defensive player goes down with an injury after the ball is spotted for the next down, then the defense is charged with a time out?
A welcome rule making it more difficult to fake injuries.
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Sorry to steal Max's thunder and name it
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Fun 17-14 game getting further into the 4th quarter.
Anyone notice Iowa State get charge with a TO under a brand new rule stipulating that if a defensive player goes down with an injury after the ball is spotted for the next down, then the defense is charged with a time out?
A welcome rule making it more difficult to fake injuries.
That feels like a good compromise.
I've always been on board with some sort of medium. Running to the line and standing there for 30 seconds while you get the playcall just to prevent subs has been horrible for the sport. I would say once the center is over the ball, the play clock drops to 10. But if the center isn't over the ball, the defense can substitute. You want to go fast? Let's go fast. You want to hurry up and wait? Go F yourself
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hah, you say that now
probably said the same thing last season while Michigan was beating Ohio St.
UM and OSU have starz. ISU & KSU do not.
A lack of starz might be fine in one game to get an upset. Not three (or 4) consecutive CFP games.
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I'm taking the red car out at halftime to find a Guinness or a Harp or something Irish
maybe a redhead!
Oh BeGosh and Begorrah,might have to settle for a Red Dog,Redhook or Red Stripe instead
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(https://i.imgur.com/z454ltV.png)
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Nubbz is just in time to ring the Campbell.
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Outside of CFB, do you prefer Ames Iowa or Manhattan Kansas?
tough call, I've had some great times in both cities
Ames is closer and I go there much more often
coin toss - depends on what's on tap
I would possibly retire to Manhattan, not in Ames.
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Oh BeGosh and Begorrah,might have to settle for a Red Dog,Redhook or Red Stripe instead
nah, maybe a glass of Jameson!
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Nubbz is just in time to ring the Campbell.
Might make it 2 straight this year,hope Iowa has a punter ;D
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Is it?
IMHO this game may be important as to which B12 team will be the conference's representative to be a sacrificial lamb in the CFP. But neither of these teams is going to win the NC.
Fair point but this game is reasonably likely to determine who goes to the B12CG so it matters for CFP entrance.
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tough call, I've had some great times in both cities
Ames is closer and I go there much more often
coin toss - depends on what's on tap
I would possibly retire to Manhattan, not in Ames.
I thought it was established that Kansas is the hottest/coldest state in the US?
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I didn't know UNLV was playing week 0, it would have been a cheap way to check out the new Raiders stadium.
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I didn't know UNLV was playing week 0, it would have been a cheap way to check out the new Raiders stadium.
That's how Vegas gets ya
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I didn't know UNLV was playing week 0, it would have been a cheap way to check out the new Raiders stadium.
Alex Orji is UNLV starting QB apparently.
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I didn't know UNLV was playing week 0, it would have been a cheap way to check out the new Raiders stadium.
BTW the in-laws that we just visited in San Antonio are considering leaving TX as they now have no family there (their son--my BIL--and his family just moved back to Huntington Beach).
One of the areas they're looking at is St George, as they want to avoid the cost and taxes of CA, even though all their kids live within ~25 mi of each other now.
Should that happen, I'll probably be out in your neck of the woods on occasion. If so, we should grab a beer...
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I'm on the Tour Championship instead of CFB. After today, pro golf basically goes into hibernation b/c they can't compete with football. But I'll take golf over Week 0 games between teams I don't care about.
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I'm on the Tour Championship instead of CFB. After today, pro golf basically goes into hibernation b/c they can't compete with football. But I'll take golf over Week 0 games between teams I don't care about.
Ryder Cup
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Ryder Cup
Good point. So there's one more golf weekend to think about...
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I'm on the Tour Championship instead of CFB. After today, pro golf basically goes into hibernation b/c they can't compete with football. But I'll take golf over Week 0 games between teams I don't care about.
Same.
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nah, maybe a glass of Jameson!
A glass of Jameson sounds like something a 21 year old orders at Applebees, and the 19 year old waitress doesn't know how to ring it up
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Good point. So there's one more golf weekend to think about...
Ryder Cup is the best weekend of golf. It just sucks that we can never win there for coffee golf.
The Tour Championship is so close to being right, and they just keep screwing with the wrong parts
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BTW the in-laws that we just visited in San Antonio are considering leaving TX as they now have no family there (their son--my BIL--and his family just moved back to Huntington Beach).
One of the areas they're looking at is St George, as they want to avoid the cost and taxes of CA, even though all their kids live within ~25 mi of each other now.
Should that happen, I'll probably be out in your neck of the woods on occasion. If so, we should grab a beer...
Nice, we have a few good breweries popping up.
You'll want to bring the Jeep.
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Might make it 2 straight this year,hope Iowa has a punter ;D
my neighbors are gonna be so pissed when the Huskers have a better/more fun punter than the Hawks
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I thought it was established that Kansas is the hottest/coldest state in the US?
well, those poor F ers have never been to the great white north
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I didn't know UNLV was playing week 0, it would have been a cheap way to check out the new Raiders stadium.
if yer into checkin out no fun league stadiums
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A glass of Jameson sounds like something a 21 year old orders at Applebees, and the 19 year old waitress doesn't know how to ring it up
well, I don't usually stop by Applebees. And I don't usually order Jameson unless I'm in an Irish pub.
More of a Johnnie Walker fan
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Hawaii is up on Stanford in the 2nd half
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Hawaii is up on Stanford in the 2nd half
Did the Hawaii coach play QB for them about 20 years ago?
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Hawaii got charged a timeout because their OL went down after the ball was spotted. Hilarious how stupid this rule is. Big guys get cramps. Hawaii got charged a tineout because their own OL cramped up.
There were so many better wats to fix this
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Nobody should ever go play on the islands
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make derned sure you hit the turf before the ball is spotted
announcer in Ireland said they could use replay to determine the timing
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Nobody should ever go play on the islands
Nehlen took WVU over there his first season in 1980. He said Tom Osborne told him “Don, you better be about 2 touchdowns better than them to have a chance to win the game.”
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Nehlen took WVU over there his first season in 1980. He said Tom Osborne told him “Don, you better be about 2 touchdowns better than them to have a chance to win the game.”
Barry Alvarez was there with Iowa, when he was an assistant coach under Fry.
He said that he could hear the officials on the Iowa sideline awarding Hawaii a fumble that Iowa clearly recovered.
One official said, "OUR BALL!".
Not sure why Barry put them on the Wisconsin schedule a few times, but I enjoyed one of the trips.
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1982
Huskers’ late charge averts island upset
For three quarters, the 46,876 on hand at Aloha Stadium — including some 8,000 Nebraskans — could hardly believe what they were seeing. Heavy underdog Hawaii had built a 10-0 halftime lead, was still in command, 16-7, entering the final period, and Nebraska was showing no signs of rallying to prevent the college football season’s biggest upset.
However, the nation’s most potent offense took advantage of defense-created opportunities early in the fourth quarter, exploded for 30 points in a little over 10 minutes, and the Huskers kept their fleeting national-title hopes alive with a 37-16 win that was anything but a romp.
Despite the struggle, though, NU rolled up 479 yards on the ground, led by senior Roger Craig’s 127 and Mike Rozier’s 111, the latter wrapping up an NU record season (1,689 yards).
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(https://i.imgur.com/qEzRbyx.jpeg)
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https://twitter.com/ChesterBait76/status/1958948952637632915
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He's a Sikh?
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Did the Hawaii coach play QB for them about 20 years ago?
Yes, and finished with the most career passing yards ever.
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https://twitter.com/On3sports/status/1959634137427431902 (https://twitter.com/On3sports/status/1959634137427431902)
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He's a Sikh?
nah. now he's a ragin' louisiana cajun....i heard the totally not fake accent myself at his introductory LSU appearance at that basketball game.
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Did the Hawaii coach play QB for them about 20 years ago?
Yup.
They brought him back because they needed some spark and attention for a program that is in a bad spot
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Yes, and finished with the most career passing yards ever.
Yup.
They brought him back because they needed some spark and attention for a program that is in a bad spot
Thank you both. When they mentioned his name I thought I remembered him throwing for about a gazillion yards for the Rainbow Warriors.
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Barry Alvarez was there with Iowa, when he was an assistant coach under Fry.
He said that he could hear the officials on the Iowa sideline awarding Hawaii a fumble that Iowa clearly recovered.
One official said, "OUR BALL!".
Not sure why Barry put them on the Wisconsin schedule a few times, but I enjoyed one of the trips.
Despite the official bias, they are a good team to schedule financially because the road game at Hawaii doesn't count against your 12 so you get an extra.
Since Ohio State famously travels REALLY well, I'd ask them for a 3:2 if I were tOSU's AD. I'd schedule all games for Thursday of week 0 with the five games over seven years:
- At Hawaii
- Skip
- Columbus
- Columbus
- Columbus
- Skip
- At Hawaii
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Thank you both. When they mentioned his name I thought I remembered him throwing for about a gazillion yards for the Rainbow Warriors.
I think that was during the brief time they were just the Warriors, and their colors were dark green and darker green, and they played like every Friday night
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Despite the official bias, they are a good team to schedule financially because the road game at Hawaii doesn't count against your 12 so you get an extra.
Since Ohio State famously travels REALLY well, I'd ask them for a 3:2 if I were tOSU's AD. I'd schedule all games for Thursday of week 0 with the five games over seven years:
- At Hawaii
- Skip
- Columbus
- Columbus
- Columbus
- Skip
- At Hawaii
MSU did a H-H back when they were good, and MSU had JLS. MSU destroyed them at home, and lost like 49-42 on the island, and got called for like 250 yards of penalties
EDIT: Looked it up. MSU played there in 2004, and put up over 600 yards of offense, including over 400 in the first half, but lost 41-38, but had two 75+ TDs called back for penalties. I remember the kick return TD that would have given MSU a 45-41 lead, the announcers couldn't even find a block, let alone the phantom block in the back. A much worse MSU team beat them 42-13 in the 2005 season opener. I actually met gatorama at that game
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https://twitter.com/On3sports/status/1959634137427431902 (https://twitter.com/On3sports/status/1959634137427431902)
Saw that. That’s wild.
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Nobody has ever gotten into a fight with a family member outside an Irish sporting event. What a national embarrassment
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Loved watching end of Hawaii game yesterday. It was all I could, but those late games where you see all that sun is always nice.
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Congrats to Tommy Fleetwood, your 2025 Tour Champion, who just won his first ever tournament.
Every time you think you are bad at your job, just remember the PGA pays millions of dollars to constantly screw up
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The very worst peewee league football game is still better than the very best golf tournament, whatever that might be, which I would have no idea about because golf sucks.
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Anyway I caught some of Farmageddon on Saturday and enjoyed it. It's good to have college football back.
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Congrats to Tommy Fleetwood, your 2025 Tour Champion, who just won his first ever tournament.
Every time you think you are bad at your job, just remember the PGA pays millions of dollars to constantly screw up
That rubs me the wrong way. It's like an 8 seed winning the NCAABB "national championship".
One win all season - and his only PGA tour win in 150+ tries on tour, and he's the "champion"?
Yeah, OK. I'm a "champion" too.
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Only one tournament determines your season-long champion, despite the results of all of the other tournaments? That seems dumb.
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It is.
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That rubs me the wrong way. It's like an 8 seed winning the NCAABB "national championship".
One win all season - and his only PGA tour win in 150+ tries on tour, and he's the "champion"?
Yeah, OK. I'm a "champion" too.
It's a playoff. He was in the top 70 after the Wyndham, so he got into the FedEx. He was top 50 after that, so he got into the BMW. He was top 30 after that, so he got into the Tour Championship.
And then he outplayed everyone in that tournament.
And it's not like he was some nobody "8 seed". He finished T3 and T4 in the two previous playoff events. IIRC, he came into the Tour Championship #3 in the standings.
It's more akin to a 2 seed that narrowly missed winning their conference regular season championship and was eliminated on the final day of the conference tournament. Came up just short a few times, but did it right when it truly mattered.
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If you say so! It's not my sport, so I don't actually care how they determine a champion.
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It is.
Not as dumb as the old system, where this week Scheffler would have been crowned the champion despite NOT shooting the lowest score in the tournament.
Scheffler did get $10M for winning the season long points race before the playoff, and another $5M for being #1 in points after the BMW. So... I'm not crying for him.
And I'm pretty sure if you asked Scottie, he'd say Fleetwood 100% earned it.
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Fleetwood finished 5th in total points - and nowhere near the top dog (nobody was even close).
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Fleetwood finished 5th in total points - and nowhere near the top dog (nobody was even close).
Yeah, and the 18-0 NE Patriots had a much more impressive season than the NY Giants.
But they didn't win when it mattered.
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My point is calling him the "tour champion" really does a disservice to those who finished ahead of him in points. "Tour Champion" to me should be a season's accomplishment - not winning one tournament (ever).
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My point is calling him the "tour champion" really does a disservice to those who finished ahead of him in points. "Tour Champion" to me should be a season's accomplishment - not winning one tournament (ever).
Well Scottie got 15M reminders of his season-long accomplishments (on top of everything else he earned).
I'd prefer they go back to the OLD old system--two trophies. One for the FedEx Cup (season long) and another for the Tour Championship (one tournament).
But I'm glad they got rid of the starting strokes thing. That was worse than the OLD old system, and worse than the current system.
And hey, Scottie did still get to be the "Champion Golfer Of The Year".
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Agree on the strokes thing. That was silly - like why even have this event?
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Is it?
IMHO this game may be important as to which B12 team will be the conference's representative to be a sacrificial lamb in the CFP. But neither of these teams is going to win the NC.
I was thinking some more about this and I want to revise my answer.
I still agree that there is basically zero chance that ISU/KSU are going to win 3-4 straight CFP games to win the NC but . . .
These teams ARE good enough to pull off an upset that definitely could impact the NC. Consider this example:
Lets say that the Texas / Ohio State game is a close game similar to either last year's tOSU/Oregon game at Oregon or last year's TX/tOSU game. Ie, the kind of game where the loser has good reason to feel that they *COULD* have won. Then lets say that the winner ends up as the #1 seed and the loser ends up as the #4 seed. As the #1 seed, TX/tOSU will play the #5/12 winner in the quarterfinal and as the #4 seed, TX/tOSU will play the #8/9 winner in the quarterfinal. It isn't unrealistic to think that ISU (winner in Dublin) could be the #5 seed and KSU (loser in Dublin) could be the #8 or #9 seed. So lets say that ISU and KSU win their opening round games. Thus, the quarterfinals on that side of the bracket are:
- #1/4 TX vs #5 Iowa State or #8 Kansas State in the Sugar Bowl (I'm assuming location here)
- #1/4 Ohio State vs #5 Iowa Stater or #8 Kansas State in the Rose Bowl (same).
Realistically, the whole college football world is going to be focused on the impending 'clash of titans' between Ohio State and Texas. After a great CFP semi-final in 2024 then another great game in Columbus in late August, TX/tOSU III would be highly anticipated even before it becomes official and therein lies the problem. ISU/KSU aren't at TX/tOSU's level but they ARE close enough that if the Longhorns and Buckeyes go into the Sugar and Rose Bowls focused on each other and NOT on the team on the opposite sideline, the possibility of one or both getting upset is very real.
If you don't think so, just look at last year's TX/ASU CFP Quarter-final. The Sun Devils didn't pull off the win but they get to OT with the mighty Longhorns.
That would impact the NC race. If one of TX/tOSU got upset then the other would get a relatively lightweight match-up in their semi-final which may well help them in the NCG against say Georgia or Penn State. Alternatively, if BOTH Texas and Ohio State managed to get upset in their quarter-final games then the opposite semi-final essentially becomes the NC.
So I agree with you in the sense that I find it more-or-less impossible for ISU/KSU to win the NC but I still think the game in Dublin may end up impacting the NC race because it is entirely possible that it will determine B12CG admission and admission there could lead to a CFP berth that could lead to an upset of an actual contender.
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All of that, plus... why does a game need to be important to the NC title race, in order to be interesting enough to watch in August?
Many of the people on this board complain about the idea that the sole focus of college football is now the national championship, but aren't we just contributing to that problem when we express that type of feeling?
I didn't watch all of Farmageddon because I had a lot of other stuff going on, but what part I did stop to watch, was enjoyable. It was a competitive game between a couple of evenly matched teams. I don't know, and didn't stop to care, whether or not either one of them was going to play for the NC eventually.
Just my $0.02.
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So I agree with you in the sense that I find it more-or-less impossible for ISU/KSU to win the NC but I still think the game in Dublin may end up impacting the NC race because it is entirely possible that it will determine B12CG admission and admission there could lead to a CFP berth that could lead to an upset of an actual contender.
Eh. Nope.
The game in Dublin doesn't impact the NC race. The winner of the game in Dublin is more likely to get a SHOT to impact the NC race. But from the standpoint of the NC race, nobody gives a rat's ass whether the team that gets an upset in an early round of the CFP is ISU or KSU. They're interchangeable from the standpoint of football fans outside either direct fan base (and maybe Iowa or Kansas fans as their rivals--i.e. the only thing that IU's CFP berth did for me was make me want to see IU fail, not succeed).
The fact that one of them might upset an NC contender doesn't make the Dublin game any more meaningful.
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All of that, plus... why does a game need to be important to the NC title race, in order to be interesting enough to watch in August?
Many of the people on this board complain about the idea that the sole focus of college football is now the national championship, but aren't we just contributing to that problem when we express that type of feeling?
I didn't watch all of Farmageddon because I had a lot of other stuff going on, but what part I did stop to watch, was enjoyable. It was a competitive game between a couple of evenly matched teams. I don't know, and didn't stop to care, whether or not either one of them was going to play for the NC eventually.
Just my $0.02.
Agree 100%. I wasn't saying that the game MUST be important to the NC race to be worth watching.
I'd have watched the game if I wasn't watching golf. And I don't care about the NC race at all.
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being that the teams are very similar on offense and defense, I think it's true.
If one team was a better matchup or tougher match up for the CFP opponent it might matter