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Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:40 pm to Zap Rowsdower
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Is this not what practice is for? Also this isn’t the first game of the season in September after not playing since January. It’s been less than a month. Get the frick outta here with this shite.
Horrible take
Absolutely horrible.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:43 pm to slinger1317
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Horrible take Absolutely horrible.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:44 pm to Zap Rowsdower
Lmfao
Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:47 pm to bisonduck
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This format is shitty
Everyone wanted playoffs.
The NFL playoffs have byes. Everyone got exactly what they wanted. People should live with the stupid shite that they got that is college football now.
A pointless regular season. There is no real school relationship anymore. It is just a minor league football league with constant movement of players. College football is dead.
Posted on 12/31/25 at 10:48 pm to bisonduck
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Look at the box scores
ASU should gave blown out Texas based on box scores.
The people bitching about the current format must also bitch about March Madness. They just want chalk brackets.
This post was edited on 12/31/25 at 10:54 pm
Posted on 12/31/25 at 11:36 pm to bisonduck
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OSU’s LOS played worlds better in the 2nd half
Until they started getting called for holding
Posted on 12/31/25 at 11:37 pm to genro
Using the bye as an excuse is extremely Beta
Posted on 1/1/26 at 12:35 am to magildachunks
Oh god
Posted on 1/1/26 at 8:42 am to bisonduck
I can see and understand that excuse in baseball, but not in football. That's a lame fricking excuse for football.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 9:08 am to Tbone2
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So why do the pros kill to get it ?
A two week bye and and 4 week bye aren’t the same.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 9:10 am to Crowknowsbest
quote:Also, in college, the other college team inherently gets multiple byes as well due to the ridiculous sheduling
two week bye and and 4 week bye aren’t the same.
So their is no advantage at all
Posted on 1/1/26 at 9:13 am to bisonduck
In fairness, Ohio St seemed to start their BYE before halftime of the Big10 championship game and resumed it in the 4th Qt against Miami.
Maybe some of it was simply that Ohio St struggled mightily against the three good defenses they played all season.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 9:18 am to bisonduck
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The bye is ridiculous
I mean, I get that the Top 4 are currently 0-5 in the 12 team playoff, but this argument is dumb. Does every team coming off a bye during the regular season lose? It's not like the bye is a foreign concept to college football. Sure, it's not exactly the same since one is only 2 weeks between games, but nobody made this claim when all 4 teams had the entire month of December off. Nobody said it when the two teams in the BCSCG had a month off.
Yeah, 0-5 is insane and you wouldn't expect that to be the case, but the real question is "why". Why are these teams consistently losing so far when they've had weeks to prepare? This isn't like Miami having to solely focus on TAMU and then only having 11 days (which is more than typical for CFB) to prepare for OSU.
OSU had an entire month to study both teams. They had an entire month to be ready. And they just got beat.
Sure, there's something to be said for momentum. But at some point, you have to start looking at the preparation being put in and question that.
This may be a moot point if Indiana, Tech, and UGA win today, though.
This post was edited on 1/1/26 at 9:20 am
Posted on 1/1/26 at 9:19 am to bisonduck
I mean you can’t dispute the numbers but why is this the first time a bye is considered a liability?
Posted on 1/1/26 at 9:22 am to Cowboyfan89
quote:how are y’all comparing 1 week off to 3?
Does every team coming off a bye during the regular season lose?
Posted on 1/1/26 at 9:23 am to Volvagia
quote:BECAUSE ITS 26 DAYS OFF AND NOT 13
mean you can’t dispute the numbers but why is this the first time a bye is considered a liability?
I’m being kind here, do yall really not see how that is different?
Posted on 1/1/26 at 9:43 am to lsupride87
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how are y’all comparing 1 week off to 3?
How are people ignoring that this isn't a new concept with the playoff or the national championship for that matter?
Last year was not the first year that teams had 3+ weeks between the end of the regular season and a playoff/national championship game. But amazingly, no one argued that that length of time was the reason for someone "being slow" or losing a game.
That 0-5 stat is also somewhat misleading.
Take Notre Dame/Georgia last year. That game was 6-3 until late in the first half. UGA actually scored first, but that wasn't until 3 minutes into the 2nd quarter.
Texas was actually the #5 team in the country and easily the better team against #12 Arizona State, but because they weren't a conference champion, didn't get the bye.
Likewise, Penn State was #4 in the final rankings, but because they weren't a conference champion, didn't get a Top 4 seed. They were arguably a better team than Boise.
Ohio State/Oregon is the only decent argument for the bye favoring the team that played in the first round.
I mean really, think about this for a second--two of those 4 losses last year were by teams that were only Top 4 seeds by virtue of a conference title. If that rule was in effect this year, your Top 4 would have been UGA, Indiana, Texas Tech, and TULANE.
This post was edited on 1/1/26 at 9:46 am
Posted on 1/1/26 at 10:10 am to lsupride87
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I’m being kind here, do yall really not see how that is different?
The point is not that there is a difference of days. Is what suddenly changed for the effects to be so profound?
It’s not like it was common for teams to be uncharacteristically sloppy for a bowl match up compared to prior performance.
Hell, there are examples of it being best of season performances.
I’ll submit the reason for the record isn’t primarily the bye. It’s why they got the bye. Players feel like they are the anointed and take victory for granted. “2 vs 10? Pffffft we only barely lost to number 1!”
So when they go to bowl game practices, they don’t work to chip off the rust like they used to. And come out flat.
Posted on 1/1/26 at 12:18 pm to Cowboyfan89
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How are people ignoring that this isn't a new concept with the playoff or the national championship for that matter?
It is new that one team has a much longer layoff period than their opponent.
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