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So when can we expect the trophy for the trophy case?5$ wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2025 3:26 pm They won the CFP and Oregon won the regular season. Co-champs according to the selectors.
If you want to maintain any sense of meaning to the regular season, the playoff system should not have allowed Ohio State into a playoff.nogerO wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2025 4:36 pm If the playoffs were done right, Oregon and Ohio State wouldn't have met until the championship game. They really need to fix how this BS "System" of theirs SUCKS! I know they will change it and it will be interesting to plug the teams from this year into the new system and see what might have been. Still pissed.
Agree completely. In this format going undefeated, winning the CCG hurt Oregon, losing to Oregon and Michigan helped Ohio State. The same situation will exist next season, where seeds 5-9 have an advantageous road to the championship compared to 5-9. The idea of more fans being interested longer, and a L not eliminating a team early, has backfired.Wins/losses in the regular season should matter, but they don't under this system. It's lame from a fan perspective.
It really wasn't "The Committee's" fault, the format was constructed by the commissioners who insisted on the Top 4 seeds and automatic byes, forcing Rece Davis to explain every week that the rankings don't represent the seeding. That's what created the ridiculous 3 week wait for No.1 Oregon and an opening game against No.8 Ohio State. Probably won't change next season, but will be different in '26, probably with 14 teams.OregonFan4Life wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2025 1:52 pm The good thing is ratings are going to drop and these stupid committees will be 100% to blame (though they’ll find someone else to blame like they always do) which hopefully forces real and good change.
The people that came up with the seeding was also a “committee”, the other problem with college football is there are multiple committee. I should’ve clarified but I jokingly say “committee” because like I said, there are too many committees. But yes, the playoff committee technically did their job but they could’ve also been smarter about it, they used such weird criteria like not dropping teams who lost in their conference champ game when they could’ve dropped Penn State below Ohio State. They had the opportunity to be “smart” with how they used their criteria and chose to create rankings that created a very flawed bracket.Merganzer wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2025 2:32 pmIt really wasn't "The Committee's" fault, the format was constructed by the commissioners who insisted on the Top 4 seeds and automatic byes, forcing Rece Davis to explain every week that the rankings don't represent the seeding. That's what created the ridiculous 3 week wait for No.1 Oregon and an opening game against No.8 Ohio State. Probably won't change next season, but will be different in '26, probably with 14 teams.OregonFan4Life wrote: Mon Jan 27, 2025 1:52 pm The good thing is ratings are going to drop and these stupid committees will be 100% to blame (though they’ll find someone else to blame like they always do) which hopefully forces real and good change.
As a person, I love Zach. He and his family are as good as they come. But his writing is terrible. He's a professional fan (awesome career!) but it has virtually no journalistic qualities.lmduck wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 11:48 am tOSU is very unlikely to come after Stein.
They are not going to risk loosing Hartline. Here is what is being said on Buckeyes Wire which is the same as Ducks Wire:
'While rumors are swirling that the coordinator positions will likely be internal hires, the offensive line coach will likely come from outside the program.'
Sorry to say this but Zachary Neel is quickly turning into someone who just puts out clickbait.
Totally agree STU.StevensTechU wrote:As a person, I love Zach. He and his family are as good as they come. But his writing is terrible. He's a professional fan (awesome career!) but it has virtually no journalistic qualities.lmduck wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 11:48 am tOSU is very unlikely to come after Stein.
They are not going to risk loosing Hartline. Here is what is being said on Buckeyes Wire which is the same as Ducks Wire:
'While rumors are swirling that the coordinator positions will likely be internal hires, the offensive line coach will likely come from outside the program.'
Sorry to say this but Zachary Neel is quickly turning into someone who just puts out clickbait.
You could have said all these things about mops early on as wellStevensTechU wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 11:54 amAs a person, I love Zach. He and his family are as good as they come. But his writing is terrible. He's a professional fan (awesome career!) but it has virtually no journalistic qualities.lmduck wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 11:48 am tOSU is very unlikely to come after Stein.
They are not going to risk loosing Hartline. Here is what is being said on Buckeyes Wire which is the same as Ducks Wire:
'While rumors are swirling that the coordinator positions will likely be internal hires, the offensive line coach will likely come from outside the program.'
Sorry to say this but Zachary Neel is quickly turning into someone who just puts out clickbait.