I legitimately feel like you guys could beat either one of these teams. I’m not seeing anything special from them. Oklahoma has basically given this game away after dominating early. Just completely mediocre on both sides to me. Alabama can’t run the ball and Mateer is terrible.
Unfortunately we won’t get an opportunity to show we could beat them. Good luck to Tech against probably Oregon. I hope they take them to the woodshed.
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did not watch the game. hope everyone tunes out. The only games I am watching are games against the SEC/Big 10. So TTU, Tulane, Miami etc. TTU, win it all.
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Shhhhh @thawk might hear you and be offended because of how wrong he has been
You guys could beat Miami and A&M too. I’m not impressed so far.
They’re both good defenses but I agree. I’m hoping Miami beats them so there’s only one SEC team in round 3. because the cfp set it up so the SEC had the best chance to go as far as they can in the playoffs.
I can’t believe it’s 0 to 0 for Miami and Texas A&M. I feel bad for Miami’s kicker that wind has gotten him twice
Pretty bad offense too though.
Yes, BYU would beat either team, not even close.
Glad Miami is putting down the cur SEC dog
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I was kind of hoping A&M made the title game to lose to us. I literally couldn’t devise a more perfect scenario for my dream season. Texas sits at home while “little brothers” play each other and then we also get to beat what I still consider our biggest rival. I mean nothing would be more perfect then the tears of all the Aggies and Horns throughout the state of Texas.
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Tulane’s offense looks good enough to score, but their defense looks like it’s going to just fall apart all day
Ole Miss defense is not very good but neither is Tulane’s. Even on the INT it was more just a bad pass than it was good coverage. The guy was open Retzlaff just missed him and threw it right to the CB.
This might get interesting if Ole Miss’ RB and QB are out in the second half.
Edit: They weren’t out and this was far from interesting.
The most boring day of college football in my life. The committee has to be so proud of themselves for the teams they chose to play. @thawk (said with the most sarcasm in the world) there’s no way we could have beat any of these teams, they were amazing.
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JMU doesn’t belong on the same field as Oregon and neither did Tulane. They need to remove these teams from getting a bid. There aren’t any changes that could be made to college football that will ever allow these teams to compete with the talent gap between G5 teams and the Power 4. The only problem with that argument is the SEC and Big 10 use it to keep out BYU and Utah from the playoffs this year as well.
I disagree. While on paper JMU and Tulane would never have a prayer, high seeded underdogs is what makes sports exciting (see: March Madness). Upsets do happen, when lightning is in a bottle and things align on a given day. Both of them earned the chance (slight as it was), by winning their conferences.
BYU did not win its conference and was not competitive in either of its losses to Texas Tech, so it forfeited any claim that it belonged there as the sacrificial lamb instead of JMU or Tulane (in my opinion).
I strongly disagree with getting rid of access for G5 teams in the playoff.
In basketball I agree but not in football. It’s just too many total players and depth needed in football for those teams to really have a legitimate shot.
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Are you saying the G5 conference and P4 conferences are identical in strength, size, speed, depth and talent? LOL!!! Time to end this nonsense and not keep BYU and Notre Dame out for Tulane and JW or whatever. BYU and Notre Dame would have given Ole Miss and Oregon a real game. Supposed to be the “Best”. 12. Not the best 10 and then bride maids.
No, I am not saying the G5 are equal in strength. I have no problem giving access to all conferences, even if that means some better teams from other conferences won’t make it.
The logical extension of your argument is the same thing the Big 10 and SEC want: basically all teams from their conferences, except for the bad bottom feeders are in. This would be at the expense of the Big12, which would only get their conference champ in to make room for the Illinois and Vanderbilts of the world. Sankey & co: “Are you saying the Big12 is equal in strength to the SEC and Big10?”
I look at it the same way I look at the the NCAA tournament. Auto bids from obscure conference champs make it interesting. Sometimes there are upsets. When a team with a losing record wins a conference tournament, they take a spot from a “better and more deserving” mid-range team from a power conference. It is zero sum, and there are limited and finite available slots.
I loved Duke with a bad record winning the ACC title game. Even if that meant we wouldn’t get an at large bid (which we weren’t going to ever be considered for, anyway).
NIL and the transfer portal, along with “less deserving conference” access (which allows Tulane and JMU in as a high seed) could provide even more parity. Players who would ride pine and be warehoused in power conferences can go where they will play, making it more possible over time that a Tulane or a James Madison could pull off a first round upset.