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First look at the Cotton Bowl

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Is this the meteor game of the quarterfinals?

Wednesday night the CFP kicks into high gear as the #2 Ohio State Buckeyes and the #10 Miami Hurricanes meet in Dallas for the privilege of moving on to Glendale and the Fiesta Bowl. Neither team won their respective conference. Miami didn’t even play for their championship because of some crazy, convoluted tiebreaker. Ohio State let Indiana off the hook in Indianapolis because they screwed up a QB sneak, missed a chip shot FG, and didn’t feed the beast Jeremiah Smith. Let’s get to the first look.

Series record: The overall series is tied at 2 with Miami holding a 1 game streak in the series

Last meeting: In 2011, the Canes beat the Buckeyes 24-6 in Miami. The Miami defense holds Ohio State to 209 yards while gaining 363 yards including 240 on the ground. 2 1st half interceptions prevent the game from getting out of hand early. Here is anOSU’s passing line:

That’s Blutarsky-esque.

Gambling degenerate facts: Caesar’s has Ohio State as a 9.5 point favorite with a -360 on the money line and a point total of 42.0.

How should a refugee watch this game: Of course, refugees should be interested in this game. If the Dawgs win on Thursday night, we’ll face the winner in Arizona for a chance to play for a national championship. Ohio State’s offense has struggled to score points against the 2 teams who could match them with a total of 24 points against Texas and Indiana. Is the Ohio State everyone thought would run roughshod through college football going to show up as it did last year? Can Carson Beck play a clean game for 60 minutes against a defense similar to the ones he saw in practice in Athens?

Interesting statistic: 2.87 and 2.83 (rushing yards allowed per attempt)

Both teams have NFL quality front 7s and are extremely difficult to run on. The team that finds some semblance of a running game probably wins. The Buckeyes gave up 166 yards to Texas, 100 to Michigan, and 118 to Indiana. Miami gave up 93 to Notre Dame and 89 to Texas A&M while Louisville gained 119 in their win over the Canes. The troubling stat here for Miami was the 194 given up to Virginia Tech.

Early outlook: The previous section shows my key to the game. Miami’s path to victory means taking some pressure off Carson Beck to win the game with his arm and to use the running game to stay out of 3rd and medium to long. On defense, it means getting Sayin into uncomfortable situations that force him to make plays. Ohio State has shown they can win when they lose the rushing battle (see the Texas game), but they also lost the ground game to Indiana. On defense, the best way to force Beck into mistakes is keep the Canes behind the chains.

I like the team that has the best player on the field, and that’s Ohio State with Smith. Will the Just for Men spokescoach force feed him the ball now that it’s win or go home time? I would, but the Ohio State defense is the reason I like them.

Final Score: Ohio State 24, Miami 17

What do you think? Let us know in the comments.

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.

Them’s fightin’ words

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In the SEC, it just means more … that has a line. Dolly Parton is one of those lines. I hate Tennessee with a white hot passion, but Dolly is untouchable. The ladies in my household consider her a national treasure.

Fans like this guy are exactly why I call Ohio State fans toxic. They suck.

If this guy pulled this garbage in Knoxville, that jackass would get his ass kicked up and down Cumberland Avenue.

I would like for this guy to run into the Dolly Parton from this.

Sorry, I had to vent about this, and it doesn’t make me feel any less good about the way Bobby Hill and Tooth Nation got taken behind the Horseshoe on Saturday night.

Who are the sacred cows to you when you think about Georgia or our rivals? Who is untouchable in the modern roasting world? Let us know in the comments.

I guess they solved all of Ohio’s problems

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I really thought this was fake news at first.

From On3:

How about don’t lose at home to Michigan?

AnOSU fans everywhere should be embarrassed by this proposal.

Next thing we know, the Ohio legislature is going to tell the Ohio state law enforcement apparatus to arrest Javon Bullard the next time he plays in Cleveland or Cincinnati.

Bunch of whiners.

Comment, Refugees.