National Championship poll
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Think Washington wins because their coach has experience winning national championships at a lower division. He knows the formula. He knows what it takes.
But I am pulling for Michigan. Why? Harbaugh tried to be helpfull and encouraging to Marcus Lattimore after Marcus tried to make the NFL after his bad knee injury playing for us. And he had very nice things to say about ML when we were about to play Michigan in a bowl.
But I am pulling for Michigan. Why? Harbaugh tried to be helpfull and encouraging to Marcus Lattimore after Marcus tried to make the NFL after his bad knee injury playing for us. And he had very nice things to say about ML when we were about to play Michigan in a bowl.
Same sentiment.
Either way I'm just hoping to watch a good game.
College football screwed the pooch years ago by getting forced into having the title game on a Monday night. Unless we're in the game, I'm not staying up until after 11 pm to watch the game.
Title game on a school/work night with kick not until nearly 8 pm is the dumbest thing ever.
Title game on a school/work night with kick not until nearly 8 pm is the dumbest thing ever.
I was just telling my wife this morning (like she cared at all) that the CFB championship game was going to be tonight. I told her it was between Washington and Texas...... I feel that's fairly telling of my interest level. 
I will watch at least some, and I'll be pulling against Michigan (cheaters, as noted above).
I will watch at least some, and I'll be pulling against Michigan (cheaters, as noted above).
I was just telling my wife this morning (like she cared at all) that the CFB championship game was going to be tonight. I told her it was between Washington and Texas...... I feel that's fairly telling of my interest level.
I will watch at least some, and I'll be pulling against Michigan (cheaters, as noted above).
I know I'm in the minority here, but I still don't get what was fundamentally wrong with with Michigan seemingly did in their manner of stealing signs.
Well, my first choice would have been Bama, since their success is what led to the CFP in the first place.
Second choice would have been UGA, just to tick people off that the SEC won it again.
As it is, UM is the last traditional power left standing.
I'd like to see Washington win but I think Michigan is going to be too physical for them. I don't think Washington can stop the Michigan run game for four quarters and I don't think Penix can carry the team by himself. Michigan's front 7 on D will shut down Washington's run game entirely.
I hate Michigan almost as much as I hate Ohio State or Notre Dame.
I hate Michigan almost as much as I hate Ohio State or Notre Dame.
I have a vested interest in the Huskies, as I have family in Kirkland WA who are UW grads so I'm pulling for them to win the National Championship. I don't think I've ever met anyone who went to UM nor I have I been to Ann Arbor...Been to UW's campus many times. Love the Montlake and University areas of Seattle a LOT... GO Huskies!!!!
2 of my favorite movies were made in Seattle. So, while I have a slight lean for UM, I won't mind at all to see Washington win (and I think they will).
Washington isn't most West Coast teams. They have a top ten NFL draft qb, three NFL WRs and an offensive line that won the award for best offensive line. If Washington loses it will be their defense that lets them down.
their QB got battered....their receivers didnt do much of anything ....and their O-Line got pushed around....SEC defenses wins championships
I think UGA would have beaten them head-to-head, but that's hypothetical. Would have been an epic game I imagine.
New CFP format only increases the odds that you'll end up with inferior teams in the final game.
I'm not understanding this theory. UGA lost to Bama, who then lost to Michigan, so how does UGA come back around to beat UM.
Would Old Dominion have beaten UGA? UGA lost to Bama who lost to Texas who lost to OU who lost to Kansas who lost to Oklahoma State who lost to S. Alabama who lost to Louisiana who lost to ODU.
We lost to Florida who lost to Kentucky but then we beat Kentucky.
and round and round we go.
This still does not explain how UGA would have beat Michigan.
I don't think hypotheticals are useful. Michigan is king for now and that is indisputable. They kept digging until they got it done. It took them 26 years, but that's why the Big Boys are the Big Boys. All this crap about sign-stealing is reduced to a mere sidenote. They went out there and kicked @$$ because they had the best team.
It doesn't have to. UGA could not even make the playoffs so the argument is moot, and so far you are the only one to propose this line of argument.
Michigan proved on the field they are the best team this year. Anything to counter that argument is at best conjecture.
Not to quibble, but if you go back to my post to which you are referring, I said "I think UGA would have beaten them head-to-head, but that's hypothetical," I clearly qualified it as a hypothetical which was my opinion.
If UM and UGA played and I had to bet $500 on it, It'd put it on UGA.
Is that to say UM didn't earn the title this year? Of course not. They clearly did. I am still free to think UGA would have beaten them, just as I am to think UGA would have beating ODU.
You're arguing against an argument I didn't make.
Since we are going for clarification, then I will refer back to my original post #28 where I clearly qualified that I was "not understanding this theory" that you had.
I never stated it as a theory. I stated that it was my opinion. Theories and opinions are very, very different things.
He doesn’t understand that. He said it’s hard to make an argument against Georgia being the best team. How anyone can arrive at that reasoning logically is dumbfounding.
He’s trying to say Georgia was the best team. Who the hell can anyone arrive at that when they didn’t make the playoff. I guess the gamecocks were the second best team in the country.