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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)


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#4 just feels very hollow, I guess when we suck again we will look back and say at least we were in the middle of it. Right now all this means very little knowing we had our chances after a turnover instead we go 4 and out and at the 1 yard line. Sark's play calling in those two situations was deserving of our loss.

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47 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:

#4 just feels very hollow, I guess when we suck again we will look back and say at least we were in the middle of it. Right now all this means very little knowing we had our chances after a turnover instead we go 4 and out and at the 1 yard line. Sark's play calling in those two situations was deserving of our loss.

Being a championship-or-despair cfb fan feels so weird. Especially when you cheer for a team that's won 4 championships in the modern era. You've gotta enjoy the ride.

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46 minutes ago, DanTheHorn said:

#4 just feels very hollow, I guess when we suck again we will look back and say at least we were in the middle of it. Right now all this means very little knowing we had our chances after a turnover instead we go 4 and out and at the 1 yard line. Sark's play calling in those two situations was deserving of our loss.

1 - That was NOT a "4 and out". You are using that term completely wrong.

2 - If you can't take any enjoyment from a seaon with a Top 4 finish, you should probably invest your time and energy somewhere else other than being a college football fan.

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19 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

Not to be a bucket of cold water here, but a 21-21 game with 2 minutes left is a recipe for losing 24-21.

After Howard turned it over?  Yeah I agree.

15 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

Also a team that lost 1 game was the B10 conference champion and beat the national champion earlier in the season.  I can see it.

I'd have them #2

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7 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

1 - That was NOT a "4 and out". You are using that term completely wrong.

2 - If you can't take any enjoyment from a seaon with a Top 4 finish, you should probably invest your time and energy somewhere else other than being a college football fan.

Unless I remember it wrong since I have not watched the game after watching at the stadium we had a pass for a first down after the turn over than ran it on first and second down even though we had sucked at the running it on first down and then failed on third and punted it away. So yes without setting up context the term is completely wrong so am I right that we ran 4 plays before having to punt it away?

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5 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Idk how anyone could watch that playoffs unfold and not honestly have Texas at 2. I can see #3 at worst. Oregon got fucking annihilated. 

There's more than one game in a season no matter how important espn tells you that game is

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5 minutes ago, WBT said:

There's more than one game in a season no matter how important espn tells you that game is

This isn't the BCS, brother - it was played out on the field and Oregon was not one of the final 4 teams in the end. Ohio State, ND, Texas/PSU

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5 minutes ago, WBT said:

There's more than one game in a season no matter how important espn tells you that game is

Okay, then why is ND ahead of us? They lost to NIU and looked non competitive against OSU. Our losses were closer and to better teams. I know the answer already, but I am pointing out the hypocrisy. 

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Ohio State won the national title. Notre Dame finished runner-up. Us and PSU finished T3rd or both made the "Final Four"

College basketball hasn't cared about the AP-Poll in a long, long time. AP ranking doesn't get you into the playoff.

Oregon can put their "Finished 3rd in the AP*" banner wherever they want.

*may or may not have gotten bludgeoned in the CFP quarterfinal

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1 hour ago, WBT said:

After Howard turned it over?  Yeah I agree.

that would have been great, but no way Bert Auburn hits a GW FG. Putting our hopes on Stone, his first ever FG attempt this season being in that situation? Also not a guaranteed win.

I think there was a real chance the Buckeyes could move the ball enough to get a good look at a GW FG.

I can't complain about the huge Helm and Golden receptions or the multiple DPIs that set us up at the 1 yard line, but we definitely left more time on the clock than I would have preferred.

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1 hour ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Okay, then why is ND ahead of us? They lost to NIU and looked non competitive against OSU. Our losses were closer and to better teams. I know the answer already, but I am pointing out the hypocrisy. 

ND had one fewer loss and also kept it closer against OSU than we did.

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43 minutes ago, oldhorn2 said:

not to add fuel to the fire, but what about this dumb assed little bit....:Oregon Ducks 'Recognized' as National Champions Despite Ohio State’s Victory Over Notre Dame

Terrific article.  UO is ranked #1 in one of six rankings . . . so?  The other five kinda matter, don't they?

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In reality, everyone knows that Ohio State won the championship in 2025, and history will forever recognize the Buckeyes as the victors of the firs 12-team College Football Playoff. While the Ducks may technically go down in the record books as the "champion" according to one of six active "major selectors" in college football, nobody in Eugene will be celebrating this outcome as if the Ducks actually won the championship. 

 

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1 minute ago, WBT said:

ND had one fewer loss and also kept it closer against OSU than we did.

This is one of those situations where the game was not as close as the score would indicate, while Texas's game against Ohio State was a situation where the game was closer than the score indicated. I'll give Freeman credit for not letting them fold when they were down by 24.

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16 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Terrific article.  UO is ranked #1 in one of six rankings . . . so?  The other five kinda matter, don't they?

 

Is there a wall at Autzen to put this on? 

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2 hours ago, DanTheHorn said:

#4 just feels very hollow, I guess when we suck again we will look back and say at least we were in the middle of it. Right now all this means very little knowing we had our chances after a turnover instead we go 4 and out and at the 1 yard line. Sark's play calling in those two situations was deserving of our loss.

I think this is ridiculous. Did we win a championship? No. We didn't win the SEC and we didn't win the National Championship. So nothing goes on the wall or whatever, though I guess we got a Citrus Bowl Trophy for whatever that is worth.

But still finishing in the top 5 is a really good season. Sure I would rather finish first than fourth. But this whole "if you're not first you're last" shit is idiotic. And yeah we should milk back to back top five finishes for recruiting purposes and propaganda purposes. To do otherwise would be stupid and counter-productive.

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35 minutes ago, Redneck Mutha said:

I got no issues with Oregon ahead of us. 3 better wins (Boise, OSU, Penn St), 2 fewer losses, conference champs.

3, 4, IDMAS.

We were better when it mattered. They got shellacked by a team that just rolled everyone but Texas. I'm not handing the Ducks wins over Clemson and ASU, either. 

Ohio State lost 2 games in the regular season. No one isn't voting them first after the CFP.

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3 hours ago, ztejas said:

Ohio State won the national title. Notre Dame finished runner-up. Us and PSU finished T3rd or both made the "Final Four"

 

I've always thought that in the absence of a third place game, both teams who lost the semi-finals should finished tied for 3rd.  You can quibble about X lost by this much and Y lost by fewer points, so Y should be higher, but in the end, there's no "on the field" way to settle who is 3rd and who is 4th.

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