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Title: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: medinabuckeye1 on December 24, 2025, 11:13:51 AM
Both teams are coming off of very low scoring games with each team scoring just 10 points their last time out.  Miami beat aTm 10-3 in the CFP first round while Ohio State lost 13-10 to Indiana in the B1GCG.  So now they face each other with tOSU -9.5 and an O/U of 42.5.  FWIW, Vegas is thus predicting something like a 26-16 or 26-17 Ohio State win.  

Series history:
Ohio State leads the series 3-2 and won by far the biggest game in the series.  Ohio State won the 2003 Fiesta Bowl aka 2002 BCSNCG 31-24 in 2OT.  None of the other games involved NC contenders:


Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: Cincydawg on December 24, 2025, 03:43:51 PM
I think if OSU can apply pressure on Beck consistently, he'll rattle and they win rather easily.
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on December 24, 2025, 03:46:47 PM
I don't know how to predict anything involving OSU, as their most recent outing was so different than the rest of their season.  Except for their defense, which was still obscene in a good way.

If Miami can't score, they can't win.
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: Cincydawg on December 24, 2025, 04:03:25 PM
My GUESS is they win easily, something like 27-10, a never in doubt kind of game.

I find the Indy-Bama game more intriguing.
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: FearlessF on December 24, 2025, 05:49:51 PM
Indy might shutout the Tide
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: Gigem on December 24, 2025, 10:28:29 PM
My GUESS is they win easily, something like 27-10, a never in doubt kind of game.

I find the Indy-Bama game more intriguing.
Agree. Ohio St wins easily. 
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on December 25, 2025, 11:11:48 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiuY9p7HKyo&t=10s
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: Honestbuckeye on December 25, 2025, 01:27:39 PM
Agree. Ohio St wins easily.
Not so fast my friend.  
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: Cincydawg on December 25, 2025, 02:06:19 PM
Indy might shutout the Tide
They might, or hold them to 10 or less, which is about the same thing.  I suspect we'd all agree that overall Bama has a clear talent edge, which might not mean much, so did OSU.

Bama's major major weakness is inability to run the ball, which in CFB of course is a terrible weakness to have.  Will they figure that out against a stout run D?  Seems unlikely.
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: FearlessF on December 25, 2025, 04:19:05 PM
I think the talent is pretty good at Indiana - coach seems to have an eye for talent, coaches it up and spends wisely in the portal
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: 847badgerfan on December 26, 2025, 07:20:46 AM
I think the talent is pretty good at Indiana - coach seems to have an eye for talent, coaches it up and spends wisely in the portal
Cignetti is a different dood.

I saw an interview and when he evaluates transfers, he looks for production over STARZ.

Smart man.
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: FearlessF on December 26, 2025, 09:53:32 AM
the Buckeyes didn't appear to have much better talent - especially in the trenches
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: medinabuckeye1 on December 31, 2025, 07:18:22 PM
22:00 until go time
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: Gigem on December 31, 2025, 11:23:03 PM
Agree. Ohio St wins easily.
Well, looks like Miami was a lot better than I gave them credit for. Not sure how to feel about it, I was a little peeved we only scored 3, but proud we held them to 10 total points. 

So far this season, Miami beat ND, aTm, and Ohio State. They should be a top contender for the final. 
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: 847badgerfan on January 01, 2026, 07:54:26 AM
fMiami.
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: FearlessF on January 01, 2026, 08:16:28 AM
agreed
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: Temp430 on January 01, 2026, 08:21:26 AM
Was Conner Stallions on Miami’s sideline?
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: Cincydawg on January 01, 2026, 08:32:48 AM
My GUESS is they win easily, something like 27-10, a never in doubt kind of game.

I find the Indy-Bama game more intriguing.
Close except one thing.
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: FearlessF on January 01, 2026, 08:48:32 AM
Was Conner Stallions on Miami’s sideline?
probably, he would fit right in with those ass clowns
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: Brutus Buckeye on January 01, 2026, 09:10:43 AM
We know he wasn't on the Wolverines sideline. 
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: MrNubbz on January 01, 2026, 09:24:43 AM
Well, looks like Miami was a lot better than I gave them credit for. Not sure how to feel about it, I was a little peeved we only scored 3, but proud we held them to 10 total points.

So far this season, Miami beat ND, aTm, and Ohio State. They should be a top contender for the final.
Cristobal has taken plenty flak for his foibles,but his recipe thus far is solid - Trenches, defense, $$$ to acquire talent, very good coordinators. 
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: Cincydawg on January 01, 2026, 02:27:11 PM
When is a bye a bad thing?
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: Riffraft on January 01, 2026, 03:14:09 PM
When is a bye a bad thing?
Look like 0-6 at this moment 
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: utee94 on January 01, 2026, 03:24:47 PM
Byes were always dumb AF.  Even number of teams, powers of 2.

So easy, even a...


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Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: MrNubbz on January 01, 2026, 04:35:33 PM
We know he wasn't on the Wolverines sideline.
shots fired
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: OrangeAfroMan on January 01, 2026, 05:17:22 PM
How an 8-team CFP was bypassed is beyond me.  The only thing I can think of is that the decision-makers are NFLcentric.  

As you all know, I abhor the inability/unwillingness for the masses to differentiate college and NFL football, basically in any and every situation.

If they're the same, college is an inferior product, plain and simple.
Differentiated, college is far better.  

Why the college decision-makers are willfully working towards an inferior product is stone cold fuck nuts.
Title: Re: Cotton Bowl CFP Quarter-Final:#2 Ohio State (12-1) vs #10 Miami (11-2)
Post by: MrNubbz on January 01, 2026, 05:40:23 PM
Well for starters NCAA & the Networks never put it to the Highest Authority - US