The weekend that was at Message Board Geniuses – Championship Weekend edition

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Frankly, Championship Weekend wasn’t chaotic other than the impact of the World’s Smallest Outdoor Cocktail Party on the make-up of the final 12. Indiana, Miami and James Madison ended up as the big winners while one team that was at home not playing clearly ended up as the biggest loser. The message boards didn’t disappoint as a result.

Let’s start this week in Jerry World where the Cougar faithful still have a delusion they are playoff worthy after being smoked twice by Texas Tech.

BYU lost worse on Saturday afternoon than they did in Lubbock earlier in the season. -4 turnover margin and a total of 200 yards of total offense? They’re lucky the beatdown wasn’t worse. To then turn around and say you’re more deserving/qualified than Notre Dame and Miami just says you truly are a message board genius.

For the other side of the coin, Texas Tech has played no one. Yesterday was the most I’ve seen of them. They looked like TCU in 2022. I’m calling it now Oregon is going to manhandle them in Miami.

Let’s move on up to South Bend to check on the crybabies of Notre Dame.

I don’t know if Notre Dame should have gotten selected or not. Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive expressed my thoughts on this:

They lost the 2 games they played against teams that ended up in the playoff. They didn’t have a 13th “data point” this weekend to remove all doubt by winning a conference title. These geniuses predicted it:

Notre Dame flips off the rest of college football because they didn’t get an at-large spot they believe they are entitled to. They decide to give up the 15 bowl practices and end their season rather than finish the season.

I lost a bunch of respect Marcus Freeman earned from this Dawg fan from his defense at Cincinnati and his job last year in New Orleans. I can’t imagine Kirby pulling a stunt like this.

Let’s jump over to Indianapolis to check the temperature of the most obnoxious fans in sports, the Ohio State Buckeyes.

The Buckeyes get beaten by Indiana to break a 30 game winning streak, and the Buckeyes fall all the way to #2. That fan base has a love/hate relationship with the Just for Men spokescoach. I watched a little of the game last night and saw enough to know neither team scares me if we show up with bad intentions in a semifinal or in the final.

I’m sure this genius will talk about this Ohio State as the best team of all time if they happen to win it all.

Let’s finish this week’s trip in the ATL where the Dawgs vanquish Alabama in a situation that hasn’t been kind in the past.

F-bum is likely to be golden later today if geniuses like this call in. I saw so much Bammer bravado on X in the run-up to the game. Any Bammer who would rather lose to Auburn to fire a coach ain’t a Bama fan at all.

Another Bammer whiner is probably now talking about they are going to take Indiana out.

Maybe someone needs to tell this guy that Alabama has scored a total of 7 points in the last 6 quarters against the Georgia defense. I don’t think they want any part of a 3rd time around with us. If we saw them in Miami in the championship game, my prediction for the Bammers would be pain

Seeing the Bammers this broken makes this Dawg smile. Now we need to go to Tuscaloosa next year and drive a stake through the heart of the Bama program.

Let’s stop off to check in on the nerds of North Avenue after the Dawgs sucked the souls out of Alabama:

The Jacketasses can only live vicariously through the programs that are our equal. I hope we have 3 more chances to suck the life out of every one of Dr. Pimple Popper’s clients in West Midtown as we go on this playoff run.

Let’s take some lessons from the Cleveland Indians over the next month:

What did you see this weekend? Let us know in the comments.

52 thoughts on “The weekend that was at Message Board Geniuses – Championship Weekend edition”

    • Thank you! My text group has been sharing that non-stop since last Thursday! #GoDawgs

      p.s. Elon gave us our G back for #GoDawgs.

  2. I have a different take about Notre Dame declining a bowl bid.
    There is near universal condemnation of the ESPN Invitational selection process but no fans can do anything about it. Notre Dame, whether folkslove or hate it, wields a lot of influence in college sports. If Joe consumer doesn’t like the way his lawyer changes his matters then Joe Consumer withholds his next business.
    This is the “bitch about the playoff committee ” season. ND is actually doing something.
    I will guara-damn-tee Greg Snakey threatened to do worse if Alabama hadn’t gotten in.

    • If you value the 15 bowl practices plus the reward for the players, the coach should want those. It feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

      The Power 4 commissioners and ESPN went above and beyond to accommodate Notre Dame’s desires to get the playoff structure currently in place. ND never complained about the committee before yesterday. If ESPN had their preference, ND would have a guaranteed spot if they won 9 or 10 games. I don’t imagine Bob Iger and Disney brass were happy with the result that left out the Irish.

      If ND wants to complain, they should be pointing the finger at the Big 10 because Jim Delany insisted on the committee before agreeing to the 4-team playoff.

      YMMV.

      • You know, it seems like teams don’t. I guess with NIL/Transfer scheme teams change so much it’s no longer valued. I guess sending out the Seniors with one more win doesn’t matter, but we’ve heard that A LOT out of Kirby the last few years. Also, why wouldn’t you get more tape for your players? Has NFL scouting got so dialed in, it doesn’t matter? Or, if NBC carries all your games for you is that enough? Player Development must not be a priority.

  3. Notre Dame is allowed toooo much power. I 2026, they are guaranteed a spot if they are in the top 12. WHY, because Sankey & others will not step up to lead.
    Love the message board edition. Thanks for putting it together.
    By the way, the #3 seed for us is more favorable than #2, in my opinion.

        • I went to the tweet’s individual paste and copied the url then pasted it here. Got the result above. Then tried X’s embed feature and it let me copy some code it said would work. Got some sort of security problem message here.

          No biggie. Thanks.

        • It’s an issue on X’s end. The API was changed when it went from Twitter to X and has been broken ever since. It’s a little work but, you can screenshot a tweet, you’ll have to upload it to an image site on the internet, copy the link, ensure the last 3 characters on the end of the link are either jpg or gif or png. Paste it here and it will show:

  6. I think the decision to skip the bowl game was made by the Pharisees, not Freeman.

      • Ahh, righteous indignation. So pure. So easy.
        Also: “I think this situation absolutely calls for a really futile stupid gesture on somebody’s part!”

  7. The Tech BleedGoldNWhite21 comment was a bit harsh. It proves that they care more about us than their own team. However, in keeping with the season, and semi-quoting Mr Scrooge, “then you had better get on with it and decrease the surplus population”.

    • “It proves that they care more about us than their own team.”

      They should – We Run This State, Conference and soon to be Nation, again! #GoDawgs

  8. Nobody should care about teams that can barely even make it in the top ten or the ones who whine that they should have. In a saner world, we’re talking about some very interesting bowl matchups involving teams like Ole Miss, Oregon, Notre Dame, Miami, etc…but we’re not going through this farce of pretending like they deserve to play for a national title.

    When they expand it again we’re gonna waste our time whining about even shittier teams getting screwed, when in fact it will be they who screwed themselves by losing games that mattered.

    Since the BCS was implemented, there are only two teams who have event had a truly legitimate complaint: 2004 Auburn and 2023 Florida State. Everyone else failed to take care of business at some point.

    • Hell, people still complain about #69 in March Madness.

      There is an eventual bubble where there is not incremental value to expansion. You’re right, whoever is 17, 18 or 19 in the expanded again format is going to bitch and whine for no apparent reason.

      • Yeah, this led to the exact increased crying we expected. Gonna laugh when ND is #13 next season. Same with Vandy, they want 16 spots, they’d probably be #17. Congrats! Your demands gave the Committee the blueprint to operate to screw with everyone next season.

        THEY WANT NON FANS WATCHING! ESPN can’t bully Fox but they can NBC. Miami got in, so figure there will be a reality show for CB reuniting with the Cavinder Twin, or the other one, or both, or a Bachelor vs Bachelorette Road Show.

        ESPN wants all the people that never watch College Football to tune in and pull for James Madison. They want all the people that never saw a game tuning in to HATE OSU and the Dawgs for being great. Bob Kazamakis said it best: “There’s something about an underdog that gets suckers and fools to tune in for no damn reason.” Unless they lose eyeballs they ain’t changing – just look at the GameDay show.

        Sorry, I’ll have a Baconator biscuit and small coffee, please

      • Unfortunately, the WWL is going to be looking for program content, so the move to 24 or more is right around the corner. I would love for Sankey to grow a set and just say we good, we are playing our championship and crowning our own champion for CFB.

    • This is exactly why we’ll get a 16-team invitational next year. Mickey wants it anyway and this provides the kayfabe pressure they’ll cite for why expansion is necessary.

  9. Had an “MBG Live” moment about 7:45 Saturday night on Northside Avenue when a Bammer in front of us told his companion, “most Georgia fans didn’t even go to Georgia”, which I thought was particularly amusing since my understanding is that most of the students at Alabama aren’t even Alabamians!

  10. Notre Karen.

    I’m using “Deborah” from now on.

    The committee’s process is such a futile mess and embodies everything that is wrong with the leadership of college football. No clear unity. No clear rules. No process. No transparency. A massive failure of adults who always ignore their prime objective…it’s for the children. Why are JMU and Tulane in? What purpose will it serve? How does that square with the goal of selecting an overall champion in a ridiculously uneven environment? It just boggles the mind how incredibly and collectively stupid they all are.

    • I love Josh Pate’s take on this (discussed on his show yesterday). This is the system we have, but why can’t there be an equivalent Group of 5 playoff? The structure of the sport tells us that there are 130 schools in FBS and all should have a chance to win a title. The reality is that CFB is the Power 4 (still should be 5, but that’s an argument for another day) plus ND and the Group of 5/6. The Group of 5 could have a marketable product (maybe to replace a portion of the bowl structure) that some network would have an interest. Those conferences could split a nice pot of money that would keep their programs solvent.

      Just my 2¢.

      • Totally agree. TNT, Netflix, Prime…somebody would pay for that programming. Great reward for the kids playing. But Go5 college presidents got their skirts ruffled over the mone…errrr…inclusion in yet another example of the pettiness and shortsightedness of the leadership in our colleges and universities. I’m sure we’re not far from some lawsuit breaking up this entire mess. Might even be getting filed this morning by Notre Dame, BYU, Duke, the ACC or Diego Parva.

  11. I think BYU could be right that they are more qualified than ND or Miami – which is not to say that any of those three are qualified or deserving. I did not have an elf on the shelf monitoring the discussions of the committee, but it would not surprise if there was a feeling that someone from the ACC should get in somewhere which left BYU out. So, ND or Da U? I can imagine they were all 6,7 about what to do and then they realized that between the two, only Miami was a full member of the ACC so that was the reason they went that way. Pick a conference, ND. If you have to have 12 teams that makes as much sense as anything to me. But I also think 12 is too many. I sure hope the Nerd posters are right about 3 of 5.

    • Forcing Miami in was definitely a nod to not shafting the ACC – the Committee (TM) and ESPN should just be honest about what they’re doing…..

      • As I said earlier, I doubt the Disney brass was happy to see the result with ND out. I don’t know if ESPN puts its thumb on the selection (we would see real evidence to that if it was happening).

        The way the committee did this was a bad look at the last possible moment.

        Once again, I agree with Josh Pate. The Tuesday shows with the rankings (and their release throughout the season) poison the water. If there were 1 show to release the bracket and the committee only met on championship weekend, the noise we get in the system would likely go away.

        Even Herbie is now saying they don’t need the snapshot CFP rankings throughout the last 6 weeks of the season.

        • I heard him say that yesterday (or maybe Saturday) as well, and if you looked hard enough, you could see the shadows from all the producers and directors rapidly waiving their hands around behind the cameras…..

        • The committee screwed up the entire Miami rankings from their first week. They hoped someone else would take care of their mistake as normally happens. Notre Dame was ranked too high all season. Only because of who they are. No other two loss team would have stayed as high as they did. In the end the committee was forced to either correct their mistake or screw the SEC or the ACC.

  12. I wrote this on another post, but it will probably get buried, so re-posting here, regarding everyone saying our draw at the #3 seed is better than ODU’s draw at the #2 seed:

    I’ve seen this sentiment all over twitter and social media, and I just don’t see it, I totally disagree. Hear me out:

    1. I think Ole Miss would have beaten both Miami and TAMA at the end of the season handily. TAMU looked bad the last few games, and the only reason they had a good record was because they played no-one in the SEC that had a winning record in the SEC until they played Texas, and got handled; and

    2. Even if you think TAMU and Miami are tougher teams than Ole Miss, that means TAMU and Miami have to play a tough team and get beat up against a tough team the week before playing the quarterfinal game. On the other hand, Ole Miss gets a warm up scrimmage against a cupcake before their quarterfinal game. So, TAMU/Miami are going to be way worse off health wise coming off a battle against a tough team as opposed to an Ole Miss team who got a nice little warm up game before they play us. Plus it’s very difficult to beat a good team twice (I’m talking about UGA vs. OM; does not apply to OM vs. Tulane).

    We should be ranked #2 and playing the beat up winner of the slobberknocker between TAMU/Miami, which are not as good of teams as Ole Miss anyway, as opposed to #3 and playing a well rested with a tune up game Ole Miss.

    Total BS how it worked out. But beat the opponent in front of you I guess, have to beat good teams to win it all at some point.

    • One other thing, the winner of #2/TAMU/Miami gets an extra day of rest before playing the fiesta bowl against #3/OM/Tulane.

    • I agree with your thoughts. Ole Miss was a tough game. I think they have their OC for this? Wonder how much it affects the offense without Kiffen.

  13. I agree with the Gumper.
    I think Alabama should have lost too Auburn too.

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