THE Ohio State University was defending a national championship and spent most of this year looking invulnerable at #1, a place they held from week two through week fifteen.
Many people felt that Miami shouldn’t have been in the tournament at all. They didn’t even qualify to play in the championship game in their own conference, and came into this game as 9.5 point underdogs.
None of that matters now.
Miami has made the final four by knocking off an SEC team and a Big Ten team. They have made it to that point with little offense. They scored only ten against A&M in round one, with 278 yards from scrimmage. Their offense scored only 17 against Ohio State in round two, and they again failed to reach 300 yards from scrimmage.
But, oh, that defense!
They gave a Heisman finalist QB the worst day of his sporting career. They sacked him five times and picked him off twice, including a pick-six. The Hurricanes caused the worst performance by an elite quarterback since 1998, when the Farrelly Brothers cast Brett Favre in There’s Something About Mary.
Weird trivia:
The top four seeds are 1-7 in the new format.
Last year, the top four seeds, coming off their first-round byes, all lost in the New Year’s Eve/Day round. Then the two best remaining teams, seeds 5 and 6, lost in the next round. Then the next best remaining team, seed 7, lost in the championship, leaving the eighth seed as the national champion.
This year, the 2, 3 and 4 seeds all lost. Only Indiana prevailed.
Next up: Indiana vs Oregon; Mississippi vs Miami
Yep, The U! #3 reminded me of Warren Sapp. Getting ready for ‘Bama to take out Indiana now.
Oregon blanked Texas Tech, so teams with byes are now 0-6 over the past two years.
That will end later as Indiana and Georgia will win.
1-6 as of now.
Alabama was utterly slaughtered by Indiana. The Tide didn’t look like they could beat Alcorn.
Nobody really wanted Alabama in the playoff, did they? Indiana vs Notre Dame probably would have been a better game, and would have continued a great regional rivalry. That said, I don’t think the Irish would have won, so … different route, same destination.
Indiana plays Oregon next, so the Big Ten will have a finalist. (I assume it will be Indiana, based on their previous meeting.)
The SEC is really sucking wind. A&M scored 3, Alabama scored 3. And Ole Miss wasn’t really tested, since they played fuckin’ Tulane, which probably couldn’t win the high school championship in Texas.
1-7 after Ole Miss knocked off UGa. There is now a 100% chance that the SEC and B1G commissioners will expand the Playoff to 16 teams, eliminating the 1st round byes. Go Hoosiers!
but beat rival Ga in rematch. Watch last 6 sec of game longest 6 sec in a football game.
It seems that perhaps a four weeks is too much time off.
Nothing wrong if you are good you don’t have a problem ex Indiana 38 -3 over Committee poster child.
Forgot Alabama loser