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  1. There are several national championships I find questionable. There are a few I find highly questionable. BYU's national championship being towards the top of the list. They still count. The President, Congress, the Supreme Court, the United Nations, the alien race from the nearest settled star could all come together to poo poo Texas winning a national championship this year as not being all that impressive and I will give no fucks whatsoever. There's no asterisk for this shit. Why anyone would waste a second thinking about it is beyond me. Now, retrospective national championships granted by obscure publications reading through box scores can fuck right off. Those are the ridiculous ones.
  2. Georgia could have really used Vince Young on that 4th and 5 there.
  3. Kinda. People have different coping mechanisms. I can respect that. I was traumatized yesterday, too. Especially since our history is full of such clutch field goals. I'm not actually used to the opposite, and we got a double dose, along with a heartfelt successful icing from our head coach.
  4. I have a certain amount of respect for an insufferable fan base. I like to think we're one.
  5. Penn State was offered the spot first. Joe Paterno refused. It was only then they reached out to Notre Dame. All of Joe's whining over the years how the POTUS decided the national championship, and Royal's only reply was, "I never understood why he didn't choose to decide it on the field."
  6. I have no problem with allowing them into the playoffs. But pretending like Arizona State and Boise State had a resume that validated a #3 and #4 seed requires an incredible suspension of disbelief. It's the DEI of college football. I also didn't really have an issue with SMU being allowed in over other teams. The committee was trying not to penalize teams for results in conference championship games, and I can respect that. It's a bummer to be punished for what should be incentivized. It makes no sense to create a system where teams would be better off not making it to the championship game. The biggest issue was Ohio State losing to Michigan. If that doesn't happen we don't have Ohio State as an absurd #8 seed when they're clearly the most talented team in college football this year, with a payroll to match it. The other thing was Texas losing to Georgia. We had our opportunities, but we fucked up. The combination resulted in this crappy bracket. But watching this game and the Penn State/Boise State matchup reminds me of my thoughts when I first saw it come out.
  7. "So coach, what do you think it will take for Texas to win the national championship this year?" "Well, first Notre Dame has to lose."
  8. A couple of people were commenting on how come we don't have a quarterback who can hit a receiver in stride the way Stockton did once. Then people commented on how come we don't have a field goal kicker who can make field goals the way Georgia and Notre Dame can. Meanwhile I'm watching this abortion of a football game thinking why in the world would we want to emulate either of these two teams? The way the bracket lined up with Texas, Ohio State and Oregon all on one side of the bracket was absurd. Especially with Beck out. They have these dumb rules in place to throw a bone to the practically irrelevant Big 12 and ACC, plus a guaranteed Group of 5 entry, so I guess it is what it is. But at least one of those 3 teams should have been on the other side. I feel like Oregon got especially screwed as the #1 overall seed, being given the "opportunity" to face Ohio State in their opening round game. In any case, I'm not impressed at all with either of these two teams. I don't know what to think about Penn State. I spent the whole game watching them against Boise State wondering why they didn't just run the fucking ball. I feel like Franklin is simply waiting for a quality opponent to completely fold his tent like he always does. Watching this game, though, it makes me think that won't be until the national championship.
  9. I wish we had this Georgia quarterback who hits his receivers in stride.
  10. He thought he was in overtime.
  11. I've never seen a head coach have his field goal kickers be more clutch at the end of games than Mack Brown. Not a big fan of his, but he had some magical super power shit going on in regards to that specific aspect. Sarkisian appears to be channeling more Bobby Bowden right now.
  12. It's weird to think of Notre Dame as the plucky underdogs, so I refuse to do so. But they really haven't had a clear talent advantage in big time postseason games since the 1980s.
  13. You're such a nuggetable nelly.
  14. You keep making comments like this. Are you watching this game thinking you wish we looked more like Notre Dame or Georgia here?
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