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I mean the play calling more than the results. I agree they don’t look good.

3-0 Florida State at the half. Championship caliber defense!! 😅

I mean they also don’t look good for what that’s worth. 😂

I think the offense is intentionally vanilla to some extent. Iowa’s offense is anemic. Ten points is probably enough.

Florida State takes a 3-0 lead.

Louisville and Florida State scoreless after about 20 minutes. CFP committee has never been rooting so hard for a team to lose.

Ok great return yes yes. How do you not score on that? Cut it in kid!!!

I thought that was Jawaan Taylor at RT for a second

I didn’t get it. I don’t know what Iowa’s longest drive of the season is, but I doubt it’s 90+ yards. Punt and get the ball back at like midfield.

Kick it here. Iowa will struggle to score 3 in this game.

Offense staying out on 4th and 7 is questionable. But it worked.

They punt bombs, they don't throw them.

I don't think it's the only thing that matters, but I do think that the committee tipped their hand that it matters by putting Texas at 7 and Bama at 8 this week.

How? Alabama over Texas is the only way I could see it, and there would be riots in Austin for that. Understandably too.

I think it completely eliminates OSU, but that probably already happened with the Texas win. Michigan, UW, UGA, Bama, Texas, and FSU are all ranked ahead of them as I see it.

If Florida State and Michigan win, I would expect the SEC to get shut out, for better or worse. I would also expect to play Florida State as the #1 seed. If Florida State loses and Michigan wins, I would expect to play Alabama in the first round. Probably less than ideal, but they’re a beatable team.

The presumptive #1 Michigan Wolverines

Why aren’t they taking knees here?

Bama is probably one first down away

Bama up 10. Feels like they’ve had opportunities to give a kill shot and are keeping UGA in it

Two years ago, yes. I think it would be a competitive playoff game.

Bama takes the lead. I don't know if I have ever wanted Alabama to win as much as I do now.

For as much as the committee claims that their job is to name the four best teams, I think it's disingenuous to not acknowledge that part of their job is political. While I think a survey of college football fans as to who's better between a 13-0 FSU and a 12-1 Texas would be overwhelmingly Texas, I still don't think the committee even seriously entertains the thought of leaving a 13-0 ACC Champion out of the playoff. When UCF goes 13-0 and claims some fraudulent National Championship, it's cute. When Florida State does it, it's an asterisk. The original BCS was derived to prevent having undefeated Nebraska and Michigan from both claiming a 1997 National Championship. Then it was expanded to four to prevent the 2003 USC/LSU debacle, and to prevent 2004 Auburn, 2008 Utah, or 2010 TCU from decrying that they didn't get their shot despite being undefeated (even though the latter two were Mountain West at the time). With four teams now, the CFP is just lucky there was never a year where all five conferences had their champion finish 13-0. I don't see how they can open the door to Florida State winning the Fiesta Bowl over Tulane or the Cotton Bowl over Missouri and finishing 14-0... You're right back to 1997 with that, even if the polls don't split.

What an ass. “Don’t look at this year, or at the fact we got embarrassed out of conference, just look at our past success and put us in anyway!” At the same time, he’s standing up for his conference instead of picking sides among his member schools’ quarrels, so good on him I suppose.

Texas is probably very thankful to be seeing Okie State instead of a rematch against Oklahoma.