GASabresIUFan

No, but one can hope.

Kid is talented, but not talented enough to add him to the mix. Try to trade for Adonai Mitchell this off-season and draft 2 WRs in the draft.

He was a pain in the behind at GA, Bama and now the pros. Talk about Red Flags.

I was driving back to Atlanta from the Big 10 championship game when I texted to a group text of my friends in Atl from Buffalo to get the Bills going with the Bills with trailing 28-18. Within minutes of the text the Bills scored 21 points to lead 39-28. The guys texted me back, you asked you received. Talk about a great football weekend IU 13 OSU 10 UGA 28 Bama 7 Bills 39 Cinn 34.

Like all things there is politics. It wouldn’t be politic to have 50% of all FBS teams to be ineligible for the Championship. I honestly have no problem with JMU or Tulane in the playoff. They were the best teams in their part of college football. As IU fans, we realize how good JMU’s players have been in recent years. (Cignetti brought many of his JMU players to Indiana). People are under the wrong impression that the goal of the CFP is to get the top 12 teams in college football. It’s really the top 8 and plus 4 teams to expand opportunity. The only way to get a top 8 or 16 best on best tournament is to get ND in a conference and create a new top end end division of college football. Essentially Division 1, Division 1A and Division 1B.

I don’t have any real complaints of who the CFP selected, except their lack of transparency regarding ND vs Bama vs Miami I personally don’t think Bama or ND or Miami earned their playoff berths, but since only two slots were open because of the 5 conference champs rule, I thought Bama, with multiple CFP final ranking top 25 wins and Miami with their Head to Head win over ND “deserved” the slot over ND. That said, the CFP ranking of ND ahead of Miami for weeks despite them both have the same record for a month was stupid. My biggest complaint was how was OSU ranked ahead of GA in the final poll? Both had the same record. GA won their championship game and had more quality wins. I’m also unsure how Oregon was ranked ahead of TexAM and Ole Miss. Oregon’s best win was over USC. The Aggies beat ND and Ole Miss Oklahoma. I’d have ranked them Ole Miss 5, Texas AM 6 and Oregon 7. I also think the CFP ranked the teams a little bit for matchups. Bama stayed 9 after getting killed by GA because the CFP wanted a Bama vs Okla rematch. Go Sooners! Overall I think the CFP rankings are pretty straight forward. If you are a Power 4 conference team and go undefeated or have only one loss, you’re in the playoffs. If you have 2 losses, you are on the bubble. It’s really that simple. At that point head to head comes in and maybe other factors such as strength of schedule. A third regular season loss is pretty much an eliminator. Back to ND for a second. They played two teams in the playoff and lost to them both. BYU played one playoff team all season and got killed by them twice. Vandy played two bubble teams, Bama and Texas and lost to both. Utah played one CFP team and one bubble team and lost to both. IMHO Texas is the hardest one of the bubble teams, except 3 losses should be an eliminator. They beat CFP teams Oklahoma, Texas AM and bubble team Vandy, but lost to OSU, GA and a terrible Florida team. If they had beat Florida they’d be the 8th seed. To me Bama is comparable to Texas. They beat CFP team GA, and bubble Vandy, but got killed by GA when it counted, lost to Okla and lost to terrible FSU. To me they also should have been eliminated from the playoffs, except they skate because only 2 of their losses were in the regular season and one was out of conference.

Did they? ND lost to Miami and their best win was against Navy. Not exactly a great resume.

It was. Being there is a lifetime memory

If I’m the Bills, I’m drafting Sarratt

Here we are 1. IU - only undefeated team 2. UGA - SEC champ who just demolished the team that beat them in Bama. They also have more quality wins than OSU. 3. OSU - lost to former No. 2 IU. No shame and they only drop a couple of slots. 4. Texas Tech - Their only loss was when their starting QB sat out a game.. 5-7 Miss, Oregon, Texas AM in some order. 8. Oklahoma 9. ND/Miami/Bama 10. ND/Miami/Bama 11. Tulane 12. JMU Now the debate - Miami beat ND, but lost to two mediocre teams. ND’s two losses are to TexAM and Miami, but the won 10 straight with a couple of decent wins. Bama’ has the best wins of the 3 including UGA, and Vandy, but lost to FSU, got demolished in the SEC Championship and has 3 losses now. I’d eliminate all 3 as none are worthy. Does head to head mean anything? Does playing a hard schedule mean anything? Dies playing for a losing a Conference title game mean anything even if you get dominated? IMHO ND should be out because they lost to Miami and played a nothing schedule.

I have to say the Bucks fans were graceful in defeat. They were sad, but were calculating that they’d still get a buy. It was such a well played hard hitting struggle between the two best defenses in college football. IU’s offense had better balance and that was probably the difference.

I was in Indy for the game. The crowd and the game was electric. The fans went crazy as the clocked ticked to zero. I can’t wipe the smile off my face. I managed to catch some of the UGA demolition of Bama at a hotel bar near Lucas Oil field. What an incredible sports day. Hopefully the Bills tomorrow make it 3 for 3. When I was a student, tonight was something I never believed would or could happen. Thx Cig! The OSU fans took the loss with a great deal of grace and kindness. Also thanks to everyone for their kind words about my Hoosiers. FYI first Big 10 outright champion for IU since 1945. First undefeated regular season. 1st appearance and win in the Big 10 championship game. First time to be ranked No. 1 in AP poll history. Best news for me is that my teams, IU and UGA can’t meet until the final if both make it.

G-d I hope so.

To many hot wings. We are going to have to hit on a few early draft picks

I’d bring back Poyer for depth and mentoring on a cheap deal. Shaq has earned a new contract. The punter has been fine and he sounds like a Buffaloian Bosa has been solid, but I’m not sure we can fit him under the cap.

I heading to the Big 10 championship game. 1st 12-0 season for the Hoosiers and first Big 10 Championship. Can’t wait.

What about Poyer?

The 33 jersey was not an error. It’s a Colt Anderson jersey. He played for us two years from 2016-2017. Depth DB. The jersey was probably in a box in the basement of Highmark of merchandise the Bills store couldn’t sell so they gave it to the producers to use in the movie.

Just keep winning and the playoff seeding will take care of itself.

Could it be that the towel just disintegrated from the tears of having not won in the playoffs in nearly a decade or because the towel was 50 years old? Just asking.

I just watched the video and I’m sorry but there a lot of tells that she isn’t being truthful. 1. She didn’t see them take it. All she said is that they walked by. 2. She is not visibly upset. She seems more interested in her hair and earrings and having a good story for her tiktok viewers in order to gain sympathy for herself. If a Bills fan took the towel return it, but odds favor she lost it on her own.

G-d I hope not. That means we are handing him the ball way too much and he’ll be done by playoff time. IMHO, I’d like to see him used more in the passing game. His ability to make tackler’s miss is a huge asset. Lineup Davis or Johnson in the backfield and split Cook out to give defenses a look they haven’t seen and won’t know how to defend. From this lineup you can run, throws screens to Cook or Johnson/Davis or slide Cook underneath on a slot etc…. GA did this with Cook and it drove teams mad.

Sure why not pick up another old and failed WR. We have done that a nearly every position this season. Granted most are ex-Bills. The list includes Phillips, Lawson, Poker, D Jackson, Tre White, and G Davis. Hell, we've even brought back Spector. Where is AJ Klein or Dean Marlow when you need them? The DOA crew also includes Cooks, Moore, Prator, Hardman, Mathis, and multiple punters.

Who were the young guys re-signed this past offseason? Rousseau, Benford, Bernard, and Cook. Cook was the one many people here didn’t think should happen. Now it looks like the best deal of the 4 with Benford right there as well. Are there any Cook haters left?

One game at a time. Beat Cin next week with their real QB and receivers and then go from there.