Penn State - SMU. It’s official.
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Sorry, I was going with the true origin, not the version that Guido invented.
Just not a fan of the contrived version of it.
Early predictions seem to indicate a strong majority win against SMU, a slight majority win against Boise, and then a crushing defeat to whoever wins between Georgia/Notre Dame. If we beat SMU, we are going to fight the darling of the tournament in Boise. Lot of folks calling the Domers to the championship game, somewhat surprised given the SEC chants. I don't see any reason why we can't win the first two games based on recruiting and depth alone, and then have a puncher's chance against ND/UGA.
Yeah, but we are clearly a better team this year than Michigan is. OSU blew that game, gave Michigan the W.
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the venom that is spewing toward us due to the brackets is insane. they are blaming the committee for setting this up, but the committee just ranks the teams. the brackets were set before the rankings. what they are really saying is that SMU and Boise do not belong - others are better. they do not think we deserve to be in #4 position and Childers said this morning we don't belong in the playoff at all.
if we lose to either one, we will be crucified. yet both teams are good teams so anything is possible.
Penn State would not have been selected for a 4-team playoff this year. It would have been Oregon, UGA, and Texas. The choice for the 4th team would have been ND or tOSU. We would have gotten another NY6 bowl, but no playoff.
you can see the impact of losing some of our players at DT and be worn down in some other areas. I would love to have the team we started training camp with.
Two questions.
1) Who is spewing venom?
2) Who said we don't belong in the playoffs?
Answer to both is the same:
Who gives a $h!t
There is no reason to believe that we wouldn't have been 4th regardless. Then again, everyone was convinced that the committee is biased and was going to put Alabama in, or drop us behind Notre Dame and/or Ohio St. In the end, then did just as I would have expected...and likely would have done the same thing if it was 4 teams.
You keep saying that if we had played Michigan this year we would have lost, because we always lose to Michigan. Put some brainwork into it. Indiana almost always loses to Michigan but beat them this year.
If you watched the other 11 Michigan games, you’d feel much differently.
It would have been Oregon and then a wrestling match for two loss Georgia/Texas/PennState. If it fell in the order we have today, the playoffs would have been TWO rematches between 1) Oregon vs 4) Penn State, and 2) Georgia vs 3) Texas
The only reason the old system would drop Penn State from the final 4 is because they would strongly prefer the ratings of Oregon vs NotreDame to a Oregon vs PennState rematch.
Penn State had a better resume than NotreDame this year. And OSU's loss to Michigan sunk them from consideration when they missed the championship game.
If they had the teams but didn’t love the matchups, it would have been much easier to put us at 3 and avoid the rematches.
Definitely easier, but not as much fun as screwing over Penn State
Nice post from a bunch of Methodists.
Franklin has been pretty even with Michigan when they aren’t cheating. And he’s consistently good against teams where we are favored. We would have beaten Michigan this year; I’m disappointed we didn’t play them.
Looks like the sisters have integrated. They’re now accepting brunettes.Bigger pics:
Just took a visit over to their site and an abundance of those references there by knuckledraggers. Let’s whoop their Pony a**** & send them back to Texas broken for the holidays.
Sending them back to Texas alone is punishment enough.
Penn State History Lesson: 'We Are' Chant
As SMU comes to town, let's revisit how the school played a part in coining one of the most iconic phrases in college sports.
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And Onwardstate jumps in on the fabricated version of the cheer.
Penn State History Lesson: 'We Are' Chant
As SMU comes to town, let's revisit how the school played a part in coining one of the most iconic phrases in college sports.
And Onwardstate jumps in on the fabricated version of the cheer.
It doesn’t matter. We Aren’t anymore.
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