The Big Ten should be embarrassed. ...

[orangenauburn]

Agree- be an interesting day to see how Iowa, Ohio State, Michigan and Northwestern do.

Yup

The ACC didn't exactly light up the bowl world this year

 

[Madbiker]

Clemson is being treated as an underdog because all the media cares about is historical pedigree. Talking about embarrassment, has an ACC team other than Clemson won a bowl game? I don't think so. Thank you Clemson.

 

[MSOrange]

Well here's one aspect of yesterday that's been overlooked that I think should be discussed - you're all probably wondering how does Nick Saban dance? Uhh... here's you answer..

 

[Crusty]

Clemson is being treated as an underdog because all the media cares about is historical pedigree. Talking about embarrassment, has an ACC team other than Clemson won a bowl game? I don't think so. Thank you Clemson.

Duke and VT also won.

 

[anomander]

How many teams would you like to see? I'm personally a fan of eight -- I think anymore than that would water down the sacred college football regular season.

IMO 8 is a perfect number. You get all 5 P5 champions and then 3 at-large picks, 1 hopefully being a G5 school. Hopefully this is eventually where they land. CFB is good enough where the top 8 teams will all be worthy of playing for a title. Anywhere past 10 and it starts to get watered down. 4 teams is too few. tOSU, ND, Baylor or TCU, Stanford, and someone like Houston could all have been excellent contenders for the title if given a chance if they made an 8 team tourney.

 

[longislandcuse]

Lousiville smacked down A&M as well.

The ACC didn't light it up but didn't do bad either. FSU was embarrassing but those NY6 Bowl Games with a P5 teams vs a non P5 team are set up for upsets.

Clemson is all that matters though. They did the conference proud yesterday and can make a statement for the conference against Bama.

 

[PeteCalvin]

It kind of reminds me of how SU does vs a QB that can't move and one that is mobile. Bama's D front is light years ahead but their corners depend on that pressure and if Watson moves well he could hit wr's all over the place. It's an interesting matchup and that said Oklahoma would have given Bama some problems...a heck of a lot more than the slow plodding Spartans offense.

Which is why the committee swapped Oklahoma and Michigan St. in the final rankings. Clemson should have been playing Sparty, but the $$$ were with a potential Bama - Sooners final. You know money and attendance had ALOT to do with that flip-flop. Plus, they didn't want Oklahoma playing Bama so close to home. The Sooners got screwed and Bama got a free pass to the final.

 

[Crusty]

Which is why the committee swapped Oklahoma and Michigan St. in the final rankings. Clemson should have been playing Sparty, but the $$$ were with a potential Bama - Sooners final. You know money and attendance had ALOT to do with that flip-flop. Plus, they didn't want Oklahoma playing Bama so close to home. The Sooners got screwed and Bama got a free pass to the final.

I knew it. Another conspiracy!

 

[HtownOrange]

The B1G should be embarrassed with Iowa State, down 5 TDs with only 22 minutes played in the game. The #5 team being blanked by the Cardinal! The Grand Daddy of bowl games is the Grand spanking of the B1G 10!

 

[Eric15]

You know money and attendance had ALOT to do with that flip-flop.

Attendance? Aren't all these games going to be sell-outs regardless of who the matchups are?

We aren't talking about Syracuse football here -- these folks actually care.

 

[upperdeck]

the last stanford td is an illegal play..

 

[Millhouse]

38-0 vs a bama team thats one dimensional with an average qb. Cook has been overrated for 2 years m yes , OSU made for a better final 4 opponent. That said way to go Clemson!

Pro style!!

 

[DeGrozz]

This is what happens when conferences are so unbalanced -- a good, but no where near great, team like Iowa can make a New Year's bowl game by eeking out wins against mediocre teams while avoiding Mich, PSU, OSU, and MSU -- until the B1G CG.

 

[SUFaninNJ]

The B1G should be embarrassed with Iowa State, down 5 TDs with only 22 minutes played in the game. The #5 team being blanked by the Cardinal! The Grand Daddy of bowl games is the Grand spanking of the B1G 10!

You do realize Iowa State plays in the Big 12, right?

 

[Briancuse]

the last stanford td is an illegal play..

How was is it illegal?

 

[PeteCalvin]

I knew it. Another conspiracy!

So who was the more deserving team for the 3 seed? Sparty or the Sooners? I think the Sooners, by far.

 

[Crusty]

So who was the more deserving team for the 3 seed? Sparty or the Sooners? I think the Sooners, by far.

I don't think the World Series is fixed for 7 games and I don't believe the committee thinks about money or favors anybody.

 

[Ish88888]

Pro style!!

True millhouse, when bama plays a so called "power"team, one of the few left; they woodshed them. Its the spread teams like OSU, Auburn, and Oregon that gives Saban fits. Saban wants to play ball in the box m not spread out. MSU is slow and i think Cook is highly overrated, Happy new year.

 

[HtownOrange]

You do realize Iowa State plays in the Big 12, right?

Yup. My mistake. The Big 12 must be embarrassed. Or, I simply stated Iowa State when it was Iowa, in which case the B1G must still be embarrassed.

 

[kirbivore]

They never were in danger of losing that game.

Swofford made sure of that

 

[upperdeck]

How was is it illegal?

actually in 2 ways.. one he downed the ball, secondly they removed the fumble ruski play so that you cant place the ball down since its a deceptive play. you have to fumble it now. same rule applies here, by pretending to down the ball and contacting the ground it should be blown dead.. for the play to be legal it needs to be dropped.

 

[Crusty]

Swofford made sure of that

How does Swofford actually do that?

 

[orange79]

How does Swofford actually do that?

Ninjas never reveal their secrets

 

[Millhouse]

True millhouse, when bama plays a so called "power"team, one of the few left; they woodshed them. Its the spread teams like OSU, Auburn, and Oregon that gives Saban fits. Saban wants to play ball in the box m not spread out. MSU is slow and i think Cook is highly overrated, Happy new year.

When a pro style team gets taken to the woodshed the meatheads shrug. But when a fancy pants modern team losses to them, " aha soft gimmick doesn't work against the big boys "

 

[HtownOrange]

actually in 2 ways.. one he downed the ball, secondly they removed the fumble ruski play so that you cant place the ball down since its a deceptive play. you have to fumble it now. same rule applies here, by pretending to down the ball and contacting the ground it should be blown dead.. for the play to be legal it needs to be dropped.

Not to stir controversy but the analysts had a rules expert on air and he stated that the ball was not fumbleruskied, that the QB had control of the ball and that the QB never was down (no knee, elbow, back on the ground). Thus, the play was legal as the QB only pretended to fumble; trick play? Yes; deceptive? Legal? Yes.

I am no rules expert, just passing along what I heard in the game. I will defer to someone that knows the rules better than me.