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(01-17-2023 12:49 PM)bearcatmark Wrote:  

(01-17-2023 12:44 PM)Cat-Man Wrote:  

(01-17-2023 11:11 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  I think people overuse the term "embarrassed". TCU made the college football playoff finals. They did it by only losing once in the second-best conference by computer rankings. They did it by beating one of the two unbeaten teams going into the playoff (a team that beat the other semi-final loser on its home field).

Sure, the Championship was disastrously bad, but a loss is a loss. They lost to the best team. Nobody is going to care how a year from now.

We all know how good Vegas is at setting lines. If you lose by more than double digits over the spread, it was an embarrassing loss.

They were playing football when all but one team was eliminated. They beat the only unbeaten besides Georgia (who beat the other semi-final loser). Please make me "embarrassed" like that one day.

Sorry. I just don't buy this. It undoubtedly sucked in the moment, but it was far more incredible they were there, than it was that they got their ass kicked by the best team in the finals.

Good summation sir. Ohio State has been walloped by several SEC teams in NY6 bowls and/or the CFP and I really don't hear the "E" word in reference to the Buckeyes.

I give Georgia all the credit--they were a machine in the championship game and played to perfection. Were they less than sharp much of that game against OSU or were the Buckeyes really that good? It's all just conjecture but we saw what MI did to OSU in Columbus and what TCU did to MI. TCU earned national runner-up and no one can take that away.