Is your backside getting warm again, Ryan Day?
Teams getting the bye are now 0-5.
I am not saying you are wrong. I just don’t follow what you mean by bye teams are 0-5. Georgia, Indiana, Ohio State, and Texas Tech were/are the bye teams. Only Ohio State is gone. Maybe you are I are looking at two different things.
I ‘ll bet Husker fans wish they had a coach that won as much as Ryan Day does to put on the hot seat. Yesterday the Huskers looked pretty good about the first eight or ten minutes. Other than that they were badly outclassed.
John Papenhagen
**nolan**List Manager
Is your backside getting warm again, Ryan Day?
Teams getting the bye are now 0-5.
Last year all four bye teams lost, this year OSU lost, so the bye teams are 0-5 in the playoffs between last year and this.
#5 Oregon is leading #4 Texas Tech 3-0 at the end of the first quarter.
OK, I didn’t realize you were going back to last year.
John Papenhagen
**nolan**List Manager
Last year all four bye teams lost, this year OSU lost, so the bye teams are 0-5 in the playoffs between last year and this.
#5 Oregon is leading #4 Texas Tech 3-0 at the end of the first quarter.
I expected the 5-4 game to be close, but #5 Oregon totally dominated #4 Texas Tech, so now the bye teams are 0-6 between last year and this.
Can Indiana break the pattern against Alabama?
It’s worth asking whether there is too much time between the end of the regular season and the playoff for teams with byes. Then again, we only have two years for a sample size.
Personally, I’d expand it to 16 teams and ditch the bye. I think that’s probably inevitable.
Back in Osborne’s days, the Huskers would not get any time odd and would be practicing or working out right after their last regular season game.
John Killmar
Well, Indiana put my theory to bed! Bama should not have been in the playoffs.
While I agree that Alabama shouldn’t have been in the playoffs, Notre Dame probably wouldn’t have beaten Indiana today, either.
Teams are limited in the number of practices they can have after the regular season ends, probably more so than in Osborne’s days, and that seems to affect many of them. The WSJ had a story on Indiana a few weeks ago, their practices aren’t heavy on work in pads, more on the mental preparation for the game.
Indiana is playing nearly perfect football. No other team left has the talent and confidence IU has. Georgia may (or may not) win their game tonight but I don’t see anyone who could’ve beaten IU today. Ugh.
Scott Buffington
The other team in the semifinals with an attitude is Miami, and Miami-Indiana could be the championship game.
I’m still rooting for Indiana to win the whole thing because they’re not a traditional elite team–yet.
The bye teams are now 1-7 over two years of playoffs. Indiana is the sole winner and I assume they’re now the favorite to win the NC this season, giving the Big Ten 3 wins in a row.