Indiana at Notre Dame Round 1 Playoffs

[Alien Octopus 644]

10 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Okay and ND beat them by 14.

Talking about their yardage total.

6 of those overtimes added 15 yards to that total so... congrats?

Yes congrats to UGA. Hey you still think we should not talk so rough about Ewers because he may not come back to play for Texas? 

[CurlyDumps 4625]

8 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Texas will be 20 point favorites against ASU. 

I will be shocked if we lose to Arizona State (assuming we get there). 

 

 

An online book released hypothetical 2nd round lines, it was 15.

[dcar00 14929]

McElroy talking about how dominant Georgia has been.  dude, they barely beat Kentucky, crushed by Ole Miss, 2 OT games to end the season.

[C-Man 27769]

Different scheme.

Without Beck, I could see it. Wouldn’t guarantee it, though.

 

Ouch.

[Rickylovesweed 15344]

12 minutes ago, CurlyDumps said:

An online book released hypothetical 2nd round lines, it was 15.

I'm not a believer in Arizona's State's D at all. 

They've only played 2 offenses in the top 30 of OFEI (Kansas and UCF). They gave up 406 yards and 32 points to UCF. They gave up 411 yards and 31 points to Kansas. 

ASU's D and special teams are complete ass. That's a dream matchup for our offense. 

[C-Man 27769]

Indiana is a JV team. Boise and Arizona State are in the same zip code.
Tonight was watered down. The quarters are going to be even worse in two of the games.  Boise and Arizona State have no business being in a real playoff. 
There should be 8 teams, that's it. TV and idiocy will take us beyond 12 games.  

12 is fine. You silence the have-nots by giving them berths and they lose 90% of the time but you gave them their shot. I’d like to see it go to 16 but no more than that.

[Pig Bellmont 8884]

4 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

I'm not a believer in Arizona's State's D at all. 

They've only played 2 offenses in the top 30 of OFEI (Kansas and UCF). They gave up 406 yards and 32 points to UCF. They gave up 411 yards and 31 points to Kansas. 

ASU's D and special teams are complete ass. That's a dream matchup for our offense. 

We’re still built to beat BigXII teams

[mdmost 43906]

34 minutes ago, C-Man said:

12 is fine. You silence the have-nots by giving them berths and they lose 90% of the time but you gave them their shot. I’d like to see it go to 16 but no more than that.

This is really no different than NFL wild card games. Sometimes those go the same blowout way with a team that barely got in or played in a shitty division traveling on the road. Last season the Texans beat the Browns 45-14 and Tampa Bay won 32-9 over Philly. Most of the time, the home team wins. You also will have at least one home team lose tomorrow. 12-5 Cowboys were upset by the 9-8  Packers last year in Arlington  I just pray it's not us who loses tomorrow but someone is most likely going to that's hosting.

The real wild card will be the next round since the higher ranked team won't have any advantage except the bye. They don't even get to play at home except teams in closer proximity like Georgia and Oregon. Arizona State doesn't even get the benefit of playing locally (Fiesta Bowl). 

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[immamac 44257]

I am here to eat crow. 

Indiana is fucking bad. Hope and optimism is completely misplaced there. 

 

[Fudge Nuggets 19420]

1 hour ago, Thatguy said:

Yeah, normally SEC teams don't fall out of the ranking for losing to highly ranked SEC teams. But we weren't supposed to be good in the SEC so the narrative was the teams we were beating had to be trash. You can thank Texas for killing the SEC bias.

Texas was preseason Top 10.  How much better were we supposed to be?

[westexhorn 2162]

G5 Indiana got dog walked

[Funk Doctor Spock 13196]

I had to turn it off because it was just becoming boring. I'm not a believer in ND, but I didn't think IU were going to beat them. After what I saw against tOSU, I lost faith in them. Good for them for making the playoffs. Something aggy can't claim. 

IU won 11 games. I can't even remember the last time that happened? Was it when they had Antwaan Randle El?

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 3558]

One of the most boring “big” games ever. I can’t imagine ratings were great.

[ztejas 44132]

5 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

One of the most boring “big” games ever. I can’t imagine ratings were great.

I'm guessing the ratings were phenomenal and as a 2nd your ass was watching weren't you?

[PittsburghTiger 6335]

10 minutes ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

I had to turn it off because it was just becoming boring. I'm not a believer in ND, but I didn't think IU were going to beat them. After what I saw against tOSU, I lost faith in them. Good for them for making the playoffs. Something aggy can't claim. 

IU won 11 games. I can't even remember the last time that happened? Was it when they had Antwaan Randle El?

You’d have to go all the way back to never for an 11-win season. In 124 seasons of Indiana Football I believe this is the first season they ever reached 10 wins.

[C-Man 27769]

44 minutes ago, Funk Doctor Spock said:

I had to turn it off because it was just becoming boring. I'm not a believer in ND, but I didn't think IU were going to beat them. After what I saw against tOSU, I lost faith in them. Good for them for making the playoffs. Something aggy can't claim. 

IU won 11 games. I can't even remember the last time that happened? Was it when they had Antwaan Randle El?

Man, Randle El was electric in college. If he’d gone anywhere with a pulse, he would’ve won everything.

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 3558]

45 minutes ago, ztejas said:

I'm guessing the ratings were phenomenal and as a 2nd your ass was watching weren't you?

I turned it off in the 1st half…so yeah I guess so

[Captain Lurker 12]

Cignetti looks like a forlorn Dan Aykroyd.

[Funk Doctor Spock 13196]

1 hour ago, C-Man said:

Man, Randle El was electric in college. If he’d gone anywhere with a pulse, he would’ve won everything.

Yeah, that dude was amazing.  Imagine if he played today. Dude would probably be at tOSU or another blue blood with the portal. Guy was incredible. 

[Funk Doctor Spock 13196]

2 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

You’d have to go all the way back to never for an 11-win season. In 124 seasons of Indiana Football I believe this is the first season they ever reached 10 wins.

Holy crap. Cigarette is actually a magician. Losses to two blue bloods with an 11-win season is nothing to snore at. If he had legit talent, imagine what he could do with it. 

[Thatguy 9318]

4 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Texas was preseason Top 10.  How much better were we supposed to be?

What I mean is we weren't supposed to be SEC ready. What happened to OU is what was supposed to happen to us by all he pundits. "Texas will be middle of the pack in the SEC". So when we came out pimp slapping them they had no choice but to say "Oh yeah but (insert random SEC team) isn't really that good. Wait til the play(insert random SEC team)". So everyone we played got downgraded worse than they used to because "If they lost to Texas who shouldn't be good in the SEC they must not be that good". The consensus is the SEC is a little down. Before we got here Ole Miss or Bama get in.

[notre dame joe 203]

IU was a victim of playoff greed.  This team's natural course was something like the Citrus Bowl where the Hoosiers might have caught an apathetic SEC team and end their story book season on a win.  But this way they had to play someone out of their league and they can't walk away feeling happy.