Who's going to win, going win, going to win?
Alabama is the heaviest favorite in the history of the college football playoffs and conventional wisdom is suggesting that Clemson will face Alabama in the finals. I hold out little hope for Notre Dame, as I just don't believe that they are elite in the same fashioned as the other teams. Ohio State is more of an enigma. They haven't had the same amount of practice or games or anything. But they most certainly have the talent to play with Clemson. Both quarterbacks in the second game have only one loss in their entire careers. One of them will leave with two.
Watching today's bowl games, I am once again struck by officiating in bowl games seemingly favoring SEC and other big conference teams. I just watched the second series of second half in the Georgia Cincinnati game. Saw a Cincinnati interception overturned on a questionable pass interference call, a questionable spot on a third and one that gave Georgia first down, and then they allowed the Georgia QB to stay in the game after loosing his helmet after a second down sack (lose your helmet and you must sit out a play is the rule in college football). Ended up converting on a third and 17 (something that would not have likely happened with the back up QB). All's well that ends well as the Bulldogs managed to fumble a couple of plays later.
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Stetson Bennett came on for the play after Daniels lost his helmet and the interference was a mugging
I just dislike the black jersey
at my house we're preparing for the complete and utter destruction of ND by 'Bama.
again.
:-(
I hate Saban but I hate ND more, roll tide roll
FL needs to turn in their SEC card and what the fuck was a 3-7 Miss State doing in a bowl game
Go DAWGS
i despise Brian Kelly. he's an epic FAIL every time it matters most.
Stetson Bennett came on for the play after Daniels lost his helmet and the interference was a mugging
Did the switch jerseys? Because number 18 with a Daniels on his back threw the third and 16 completion that allowed them to go for it on 4th?
Btw... Cincinnati deserved to lose that game based on the extremely odd decision not to run on 3rd and 2 with 1:30 left in the game and Georgia out of time outs. They could have run the clock down to well under a minute and Georgia would have had no time to get down the field to kick that 50 yard plus field goal...
Which btw... was clutch!
I will totally admit I was distracted but they did comment, Bennett the starter for the first 5 games and #13 had come in
I’m was getting a 4 bone prime rib ready for smoking
Roll Tide.
Notice the Three Socialists of CHT don't discuss football.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore?gameId=401256108
Bennett was 1 for 1 with a 12 yard pass on his only play of the game
I swear it was Daniels on that play. The announcers even made a reference to it. But whatever... Cincinnati was in some ways better than I expected and worse.
Two bonehead plays sealed their fate. The decision to throw on third and two, and that targeting call on their all conference offensive lineman. I really am not a fan of the idea of ejecting players for targeting (when it's such a subjective deal). Perhaps if they did it twice I could understand.
Number 51 came in for that guy... and had three false starts... a couple in really critical times.
The targeting was BS and I dislike the automatic ejection as well. Cincinnati did the AAU conference proud, we won but I’m not real happy about it
51 and 21 penalties killed them.
How many times did 21 jump offsides?
We got at least 3 first downs off him
ugly, watch the ball. Damn .
The problem is that bending at the waist and bringing your chin down is not only what is taught, it is literally human nature whenever you brace for contact. Whether that is in football or going in for a wrestling takedown. He was literally standing almost uptight when he hit the guy.
Targeting is also a deal where referees are making an assumption regarding intent. He is aiming at the head or whatnot.
DeVonte Smith is a stud!
The problem is that bending at the waist and bringing your chin down is not only what is taught, it is literally human nature whenever you brace for contact. Whether that is in football or going in for a wrestling takedown. He was literally standing almost uptight when he hit the guy.
Exactly it’s instinct and you can’t coach that out. I’m glad many programs are going to rugby tackles to get the head out of the way.
I was always taught to put my head between the ball carrier and the end zone which causes so many head injuries
Cheek to cheek
Alabama is kicking Notre Dame's ass.
If I had been born with any athletic skills, at my height and slender body I might have been able to play. Wide receiver?; but I was too slow
A guy i went to high school, played for the Dallas Cowboys as a defensive lineman, from 69 to 78?
He was 6'7" I will find his name.
He played center on the basketball team, they won the state championship in 69!
John Owen Dutton (born February 6, 1951) is a former football defensive lineman in the National Football League for the Baltimore Colts and Dallas Cowboys. ... raised in Rapid City, South Dakota,
I was 6'3" he made me feel like a baby!
He's the only former player
I knew
Hate to break it to you Rog, anyone over 6’ in the 60s and 70s was a lineman regardless of their weight or athleticism
I was playing varsity in ‘76 at split end at 5’9” 150 people weren’t as big back then. I could catch anything and had speed, it also helped our high school had just split from 2 others so we had 2 seniors and 3 juniors on the squad. Friday night varsity Saturday afternoon on JV was brutal
I saw this last year!
I am once again struck by officiating in bowl games seemingly favoring SEC and other big conference teams.
Our center was 6’2” 220 and went to Bama on a scholarship that’s a 100 lbs under them now.
He said when Bear came to recruit him, he patted his mom on the leg and told her, He’ll be in church every Sunday.
At 18 I was 6'3" 185 lbs. Too skinny to play lineman. . Maybe.
The gym teachers told me to try out. I didn't agree
Dutton would stand by the bucket and nobody else could keep up because he was fast too!
In the gym class scarey
My freshman year was George Rogers senior season at Duluth, I was playing safety when he fucking trucked the living hell out of me. At Monday’s skull session when they were playing the films the coaches kept rewinding and showing where he stepped square on my chest and kept running
He was huge!
Ohio state is surprising powerful
Trevor Lawrence is overrated.
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I had a wedding at 6:00 CST so I watched the Ohio State Clemson game on tape delay. That was sort of how last year's game would have went had Ohio State been able to score TD rather than FG in the red zone. They were just the better team (last year and this year) and it showed on both sides of the ball.
Now you got to feel silly if you were Dabo Swinny who ranked Ohio State as the number 11th team in the nation. If you were looking to create bulletin board material for the other team, that was the way to do it. More to the point, they not only were "good enough" to possibly beat your team (as he stated) but the real question is whether his team was good enough to have beaten Ohio State regardless of how good they played.
Trevor Lawrence is overrated.
He threw for 400 yards and two TDs against one the best Defenses in the country. Oh, and he ran for another. I don't think the issue was Trevor Lawrence. I think the issue is that once Ohio State figured out how to stop them on the edges, Clemson didn't have a running game.
254 yards rushing for Ohio State. 44 yards rushing for Clemson.
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