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Brian Fantana

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  1. 1 hour ago, satyanash said:

    TCU actually beat Michigan to set up this game though. The lopsided nature of the final reflects more poorly on Michigan if anything.

    No one would be castigating JMU and the G5 for getting slaughtered by Georgia in the final, because it means they would have gone through Oregon, Texas Tech and Alabama/Indiana to get there.

    I hate defending TCU but this is always the dumbest shit that gets brought up. That Georgia team was all time great and TCU absolutely just shriveled in the moment. It's not like TCU got an easy path to get there, they had to beat the undefeated Big 10 champs to make it to that game. 

    Everyone was just a tier below Georgia at least that year.

  2. 20 hours ago, South Austin said:

    Yeah, I also really want to go, and need to get my act together soon because my daughter is a sophomore, so I have one, maybe two football seasons left (she might graduate a year early) to take in a father-daughter UO game in Eugene.

    We had a home and home with Oregon but the game in Eugene got canceled for a number of reasons. I believe they're still intending to round out the home and home by 2029 or 2030, I hope I can make it up there.

    18 hours ago, Pancho said:

     

     

    My conspiracy theory is they are trying to show they can compete with the big boys and are trying to get an SEC invite if the SEC and Big break off. 

    It's not really a conspiracy theory. Obviously, above all they just want to compete and win but we'd be foolish not to try and put ourselves in a strong bargaining position when re-alignment inevitably happens again. Anyone with the means and motivation would be doing the same.

  3. 23 hours ago, South Austin said:

    If my daughter wasn’t at Oregon, I’d be rooting for Tech. Here’s a view from her seat in the press box working the James Madison game.

    IMG_4814.jpeg

    That's dope. I remember my days working in the Tech press box. We had a great time and that was long before they built all the cool stuff.

  4. 1 hour ago, JBJ said:

    These are all good points.  I'm not gonna go back and forth because I don't really feel strongly either way, and I don't think we've seen either team play enough quality football to really make these sort of minute judgments.  The few things I'm confident in are (1) all 4 units are able to beat up on bad teams, and (2) Oregon is a good offense that has faded against good defenses (feels like they've been this way for a decade).

    My model favors Tech pretty decently and it's 4-0 SU and 4-0 ATS thus far....so you've got that going for you.

    Yeah I'm not really trying to argue it's just fun to think about how this thing will play out. It's one of those strength on strength games which is always fun.

  5. 3 minutes ago, JBJ said:

    It's all relative, right?  You can say Maiava went 25-43 for 303 against Oregon but what a lot of people would consider a top 10 QB and is not exactly comparable to Maalik going 25-44 and 281 against Tech. 

    So, no, they've held up against good competition and dominated bad competition.

    Whew lord is that a disingenuous reading of the Tech/Oregon State game. They had <100 yards at halftime and and barely over 100 yards passing at the end of the 3rd quarter when we pulled everyone after we got up 38-0. They had a few garbage time drives for Maalik to pad his stats against the scrubs. 

    One thing that gives me pause is how they got manhandled in the trenches at home by Indiana, a team with a talent index far lower than theirs. The final 30-20 score wasn't really indicative of how badly they got beaten at the LOS in that game. I get how good and well coached Indiana is and I'm not saying Tech is as good as Indiana, but both play a very similar style of football.

    Oregon needs to be able to run the ball efficiently for their offense to function well and no one has been able to run the ball on Tech this year, including Utah, who has multiple first round draft picks on their offensive line and is absolutely comparable or even superior to Oregon from a running game perspective. Regardless, it'll be at very least the 2nd best O-line we've faced all season and the most talented on paper.

    Also, Oregon hasn't been great against the run despite not really playing against a good rushing offense all season outside of Indiana. That kind of manifested itself again in this game where that little bitty RB from JMU was hitting the edge pretty regularly and having a good day even while they were getting beat down in the first half. Tech's running backs can do exactly what that kid was doing except they're both bigger, faster, and stronger. 

    5 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

    As for Tech, both Tech and Oregon are top 10 total defenses and top 10 offenses. They have one common opponent in Okie State.  Oregon beat them 69-3, Tech won 42-0. Oregon got 631 yards and allowed 211. Tech got 370 and allowed 182. 

    Two common opponents.

  6. 29 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

    Fucking dumbass thread. Problem isn't the playoff. It's the teams these morons pick. And the inclusion of the minor league teams.

    Which are dictated, again, by the rules that everyone agreed to. For the 10000th time, the anger at the committee is misplaced. They are placing teams based on those rules.

  7. 52 minutes ago, Zeus said:

    Everyone keeps saying G5

    but there’s a bunch of shitty teams in all the conferences (mostly ACC and big12)

    New playoff should be 6 SEC, 6 big10, 4 from ACC and Big12

    small conferences are their own division and get their own playoffs

    Your posts are shit from a butt

  8. 3 hours ago, VABuckeye said:

    16 just leads to more blowouts.  It’s already watered down.  Let’s be honest.  Year in, year out there are about six teams maybe that can win it and it’s usually the same names.  Like it or not. 

    I'm sorry, but who fucking cares? There are always fucking blowouts. In every sports. Everywhere. All over the world. At every level.

    The CFP national title game has been played 11 times so far and 5-7 of them, depending on your definition, have been fucking blowouts. It's goddamn football, blowouts happen, no matter how "good" the two teams are on the field.

    We don't assign a champion based on who "should" win, or who has the most talent on a piece of paper, that's the whole fucking point of a playoff. There's a reason no other sport in the god damn world runs a condensed, super special snowflake format like college football does. People with this mentality just want to be handed a trophy without having to play the games.

  9. 6 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    My two biggest concerns about Tech are the O-line and Morton. If they hold up, Tech will win.

    It's this. Tech defense will do its job. Morton has played really well when at least close to fully healthy this year and this is as good as it's gonna get for him.

  10. 1 minute ago, Richter said:

    Maybe they’re better than… I guess however mediocre to bad they’ve been lately?
     

    But I’ll say it.  Texas would pants Tech.  Go ahead and load up Brian Fontana’s moronic response.  I’m not scared..

    Why you trying to take a dude's pants off 

  11. 2 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

    Lol shut the fuck up bitch. Your little pissant flyover school hasnt done shit (no top 10 finishes EVER) and their claim to fame is beating BYU twice in a bullshit P4 conference. Fuck outta here. Frauds. 

    Read my post again and stop being a pussy. It's not trash talk. Y'all played a shitty game, lost to a shitty team, and yet that clearly was not indicative of how good your team was. Idk how some of you motherfuckers claim to be UT graduates and yet are just clearly functionally illiterate.

  12. Just now, horn009 said:

    Tech lost to Arizona State. They’ll get exposed by Oregon for the frauds they are. 

    You lost to a team that finished with 4 wins on the season. With your starting QB, I might add, which is a luxury we didn't have. Do you think that's a good indicator of how your team was playing at the end of the season or how good your defense actually was?

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