Play-Off Game: #8 Ohio State vs #1 Oregon -- Rose Bowl -- 1/1/2025 at 5 PM [ESPN]

I get it, but three of those five wins are against playoff teams and two of those three will be in the semis. Also the Idaho and Boise games were weeks 1 and 2, Oregon seemed to gel after that. Every sign said Oregon was as good as the top teams but not necessarily a cut above.

I think they just wan into an absolute buzzsaw today. This version of the OSU where Will Howard is accurate and making good decisions is the best team in the country IMO. I don't think Texas stands much of a chance next week.

 

Outside of Texas choking for a couple quarters, all of these games have been awful.

 

Can't stand ahia state, but at this point anyone but uga.

 

So much for all knowing Oz who seeded these teams. Maybe they need to have committee made up of people who know and understand college football and know the teams and their statistics.

 

Yes, it's only marginally better than listening to Kirby try to be unbiased in such a huge OSU game. Usually I like Kirby, but with OSU games he is insufferable, imho. He tries to be uber unbiased, but you can hear it in his voice.

ESPN has no business putting him on OSU games, especially big games.

 

I see Texas as a 10-point dog after what I've seen out of OSU since the UM fiasco. Texas better play a lot better than they did today to have any chance at all next week.

 

The ESPN 2 guys seemed to be all drunk with a bunch of inside jokes that they kept repeating and were never funny. It was really, really bad.

 

I haven't watched it before. Who's on the crew? I saw something about Pat MacAfee and figured I'll pass.

 

OSU is only a 6 pt favorite in ESPN Bet right now. I'd hammer any line under a TD ASAP and probably lay up to 10 pts if I had to.

 

Ohio State has the most expensive payroll in college football and the last 2 games they have played like it. How they lost to Michigan is a true mystery. I don't think Texas can stay with them and they will be the favorites in the national title game over whoever they play. I just want Notre Dame to knock out Georgia.

 

They 100 percent tanked it to avoid playing in their title game.

 

Nah, I don't think that's true.

 

Tanking to your rival that you've lost to a bunch of times in a row is a good recipe to find yourself in the bread-line.

 

Wow what an image!

 

Nice! Its not quite as stealthy as its made out to be, though....I can see it perfectly!

 

I have to give the OSU fans credit they sure show up and support the team no matter where they play.

 

I'd like to see that over Joke Shambles --- with the bomb bays open.

 

Win a title and all is forgiven.

By tanking and skipping the title game they got an extra week off anyway.

 

Ohio State insisted on trying to run between the tackles on Michigan and that shit was not working. Great OC Work right there.

 

When playing Miami, naturally.

BTW, look at the linear distance from the top row of that stadium. A to-scale side-by-side with The Swamp would be interesting to see. My rough estimate has the top row on the sides at about 90 yards away from the sideline, and at the 50, first row is 25 yards from the field. Damn! Need binos to read the numbers.