CFP Championship Game Thread

[Boom_70]

And so it begins. Cardale Jones has fast become the most compelling story so far. Good
story by Pete Thammel. Hard not to route for the guy.
http://www.si.com/college-football/2014/12/22/cardale-jones-ohio-state-buckeyes

 

[Songbird]

His body language and movement, and arm, remind me of Randall Cunningham.

 

[MileHigh]

Great matchup. Should be played in Pasadena. Same schools met in the first tournament title game ... in basketball. Oregon won that one, 46-33.

 

[Boom_70]

His body language and movement, and arm, remind me of Randall Cunningham.

Yes - Cunningham or poor-man's Cam Newton or Terrell Pryor in an offensive system ideally suited for him.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

I thought yesterday was the best college football day in maybe 20+ years.

I'll be curious if the success of the four-team playoff makes them go to eight teams anytime soon.

 

[Boom_70]

I thought yesterday was the best college football day in maybe 20+ years.

I'll be curious if the success of the four-team playoff makes them go to eight teams anytime soon.

I would use the analogy of martini's and woman's breasts- 2 is just right 3 is too many.
In case of College Football playoff 4 is just right, 8 is too many.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

The debate between four and eight is a tough one. I sort of feel that with eight teams, there'd be no legitimate gripe that a deserving team was left out. It would also give undeserving teams a shot at the national title. This season, I would argue that TCU and Baylor deserved a shot, but Michigan State and Mississippi State did not.

Maybe too few is better than too many.

 

[poindexter]

This was a great day.

More isn't always better.

 

[Boom_70]

This was a great day.

More isn't always better.

Agree. Baylor / Michigan St was a nice little bonus - an amouz-bouche
to the big meal that followed.

A fine example of the adage that you don't want to show up an opponent.
Coaches are made fun of when their teams are way up and they are still
being hardasses. Now you see why. Having that 400 lb guard score
a TD woke up the sleeping giant. It was just rubbing it in at that point.

 

[Steak Snabler]

If Ohio State wins, the Buckeyes will have beaten the 3 Heisman finalists in consecutive games.

I like Oregon on paper, but Ohio State should have a huge edge in terms of coaching. That's not a knock on Helfrich necessarily, but Urban is just that good.

Right now, I'd go Oregon 47, Ohio State 37.

Should be a fun game regardless.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

I went from Auburn-Wisconsin to the end of the Baylor-Michigan State to the ones that mattered. Just a ****ing awesome day of football. It was the way I remember New Years Day being when I was a kid.

 

[Boom_70]

I went from Auburn-Wisconsin to the end of the Baylor-Michigan State to the ones that mattered. Just a ****ing awesome day of football. It was the way I remember New Years Day being when I was a kid.

Me too. I was always sad when The Orange Bowl ended. Meant my holiday was over and time to go to bed and wake up for school the next day.
Now it's not over yet. Love it

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

Yeah, my favorite all-time day of college football was when Oklahoma beat Penn State in the Orange Bowl in 1986. Every single big game that day had national title implications. Yesterday wasn't quite that good, but it was close.

 

[Steak Snabler]

This is actually better than the old days in a way, since you don't have meaningful games (most notably the Orange and Sugar Bowls) airing simultaneously.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Jan. 1, 1979 was also a pretty good day

Cotton Bowl: Notre Dame's crazy comeback win over Houston

Rose Bowl: Charles White's phantom TD vs. Michigan (not Ohio State)

Orange Bowl: Oklahoma vs. Nebraska rematch

Sugar Bowl: Alabama's goal line stand vs. No. 1 Penn State

 

[Boom_70]

Jan. 1, 1979 was also a pretty good day

Cotton Bowl: Notre Dame's crazy comeback win over Houston

Rose Bowl: Charles White's phantom TD vs. Ohio State

Orange Bowl: Oklahoma vs. Nebraska rematch

Sugar Bowl: Alabama's goal line stand vs. No. 1 Penn State

Yup that was a good one.
Joe Montana to Kris Haines
and Barry Krause nailing Mike Guman at goal line to seal game for 'bama.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/...rause+mike+guman&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

This is actually better than the old days in a way, since you don't have meaningful games (most notably the Orange and Sugar Bowls) airing simultaneously.

We used to stack the TVs. This was before Picture in Picture.

 

[Boom_70]

The 1985 "Wagons on The Field " Always tickled me. Oka / Washington when
Oka got a delay of game penalty for their wagon being on field

at around 32 min mark

 

[outofplace]

The debate between four and eight is a tough one. I sort of feel that with eight teams, there'd be no legitimate gripe that a deserving team was left out. It would also give undeserving teams a shot at the national title. This season, I would argue that TCU and Baylor deserved a shot, but Michigan State and Mississippi State did not.

Maybe too few is better than too many.

This relies on the benefit of hindsight, but I'm not sure you can say Baylor deserves a shot and Michigan State does not when Michigan State beat Baylor.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

This relies on the benefit of hindsight, but I'm not sure you can say Baylor deserves a shot and Michigan State does not when Michigan State beat Baylor.

Right. I was going off what we knew going into the bowl games. Baylor and TCU had one loss, Michigan State and Mississippi State had two.

As we know from the NCAA tournament, it doesn't matter if you're taking two teams, four teams or 68, someone is going to feel like they got screwed.