Sugar Bowl: Alabama - Kansas St. game thread

BiochemPSU

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I was thinking the opposite. A playoff can’t come soon enough for me. I want to let the teams decide it on the field.

Now we have a committee that just excludes teams the minute they have 2 losses and rewards teams with good records even if based on soft schedules.

TCU lost to this K St team in the big 12 championship but were given a playoff spot anyway over this Alabama team simply based on record.

Now 35-10 Alabama in the 3rd.
Makes sense. I don't think on average #12 through #7 have a realistic prayer in hell to run the table against #1 through #6 though, unless there are seeding shenanigans that take place.
 

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Michigan should blow them out. The Big12 is overrated.
I’m really beginning to think you’re right.

Is TCU way overrated? They lose but get a gift invitation to the playoff anyway. K St gets rewarded for beating a supposedly great TCU team and jumps up in the polls (including over Penn St?) to #9 and gets a Sugar Bowl invite. K St is clearly overmatched today.

Maybe reality is TCU (and the Big 12) just isn’t very good? Maybe TCU should have been knocked out? We’ll see in a few hours.
 
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K State should have kicked the filed goal and the 3 points right before half, now they are getting rolled.
 
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These athletes on Bama are just unbelievable. Every time I watch them play a whole game I feel like they are just in another league.
I guess you didn't watch them play Tennessee (loss), LSU (loss), Texas (one play away from a loss), or aTm (one play away from another loss).
 
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If K State could have played Bama a week after the CCG, you might get a different story.

With 30 days prep time, naw.
 

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Makes sense. I don't think on average #12 through #7 have a realistic prayer in hell to run the table against #1 through #6 though, unless there are seeding shenanigans that take place.
I agree there seems to be significant separation between the top handful of teams and everyone else. They’d certainly be big favorites in a playoff format but upsets do happen. I’d just rather it was decided on the field rather than by some committee.
 

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I guess you didn't watch them play Tennessee (loss), LSU (loss), Texas (one play away from a loss), or aTm (one play away from another loss).
I meant (and said) players. At every position they look bigger, faster and more athletic. I am aware they have been beaten.
 

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Makes sense. I don't think on average #12 through #7 have a realistic prayer in hell to run the table against #1 through #6 though, unless there are seeding shenanigans that take place.
More or less. In any given year there are usually 1-2 teams that are head-and-shoulders better than the rest and they can be discerned by "the eye test" (so long as the eyes aren't Hebstreit's or attached to that blob of protoplasm resident in his cranium). The debate typically is over #4 and sometimes #3. Can 3 or 4 win it all? Sure, but over time not very often.
 

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Oh really?.....how is the SEC doing this bowl season? Not exactly showing they are the best conference from top to bottom like ESPN would have us believe.
 

Psu00

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The SEC is 2-4 in bowls IIRC, soon to be 3-5 if these 2 games hold up.
 

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Big 12 is hot garbage. After this game, the conference is going to have a 1-6 record in the bowls this year. Only win was T Tech over Ole Miss.
 
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Great example of a coach trying to hard to create something and not Understanding there are 4 quarters. This game would be closer right now if ksu coach didn’t press so much to make things happen. Now the size and strength of Bama and big score will force ksu to pass only and then Bama will run over them.
 
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Nits74

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These athletes on Bama are just unbelievable. Every time I watch them play a whole game I feel like they are just in another league.
They may well be the best team in the country at this point. I'm sure Georgia is glad they didn't have to deal with them in the CFP. That said, I think OSU has a good shot at winning tonight.
 
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PSUFBFAN

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BAMA again not into a non-CFP game

Kansas State wants to play and Bama cares less as usual.
Bryce Young, #1 or #2 pick in upcoming NFL draft:

15 for 21 for 321 yards and 5 tds in his last game with his teammates in the Sugar Bowl.

He'll probably always look back on today and regret he didn't sit out and start to prepare for the draft 😉
 

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Bryce Young, #1 or #2 pick in upcoming NFL draft:

15 for 21 for 321 yards and 5 tds in his last game with his teammates in the Sugar Bowl.

He'll probably always look back on today and regret he didn't sit out and start to prepare for the draft 😉
Pretty sure the K-State defense will.
 

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Did Bama have any opt outs? Probably wouldn’t have mattered - the Big XII is a joke.
 

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Bryce Young, #1 or #2 pick in upcoming NFL draft:

15 for 21 for 321 yards and 5 tds in his last game with his teammates in the Sugar Bowl.

He'll probably always look back on today and regret he didn't sit out and start to prepare for the draft 😉
When discussing opt outs to prepare for the combine , Saban said something like, what does the combine show ? You can do drills . A football game shows you got game . Play the game if you want to impress the NFL.
 

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It will be interesting to see if he takes a swipe at the playoff committee.
Saban's success has instilled a sense of entitlement. But truth of the matter is that until today Bama had not beaten a top 10 team this season. You still have to do it on the field.
 
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The basic criteria was that the committee was to pick the best teams. They don’t do that. They have artificial criteria that they developed that don’t select the best teams. The “no team with 2 losses“ is a vestige of what they did to PSU, and they double down on that crap now as if it’s gospel. It’s phony. 12 teams can‘t come soon enough. Let K-State or TCU play in the SEC or the Big. Good luck winning 8 games. Same for the crap about USC. Weak conference. I’m supposed to believe they went from middling to playoff caliber in a year because media says so in the name of fake inclusivity. It’s all crap.
 

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Bryce Young, #1 or #2 pick in upcoming NFL draft:

15 for 21 for 321 yards and 5 tds in his last game with his teammates in the Sugar Bowl.

He'll probably always look back on today and regret he didn't sit out and start to prepare for the draft 😉

Depends on who is picking. I'd take Young over Levis and Stroud, but none of them feel like Lawrence.

I'd probably take Anderson. Disruptive edge guys are safer than #1 QBs.
 
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It will be interesting to see if he takes a swipe at the playoff committee.
He should. His team is playoff caliber but got screwed by the “no team with 2 losses” rule put in place to screw PSU and doubled down on every year. If you play a tough schedule and lose 2, you’re better than a team in a weak conference who played a weak schedule.
 
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More or less. In any given year there are usually 1-2 teams that are head-and-shoulders better than the rest and they can be discerned by "the eye test" (so long as the eyes aren't Hebstreit's or attached to that blob of protoplasm resident in his cranium). The debate typically is over #4 and sometimes #3. Can 3 or 4 win it all? Sure, but over time not very often.
I agree. But the true seeding this year should have had #2 Michigan playing #3 OSU. I understand the committee not wanting a rematch of OSU-Michigan in the semifinal, but that is how it should have gone. Hopefully, Georgia and Michigan will meet in the final, as they looked to be the clear #1 vs #2 teams this year.
 

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Saban's success has instilled a sense of entitlement. But truth of the matter us that until today Bama had not beaten a top 10 team this season. You still have to do it on the field.
Neither did Ohio State or TCU unless you want to count their first meeting with current #9 K St (when they were ranked #17).
 
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