We obviously have had some amazing teams going back decades, but the way this team has been casually stomping other good teams is startling. Wisconsin had seemingly had Nebraska kryptonite for most of the last decade, but not this year.
We obviously have had some amazing teams going back decades, but the way this team has been casually stomping other good teams is startling. Wisconsin had seemingly had Nebraska kryptonite for most of the last decade, but not this year.
My favorite model was the BCS. It had issues. And a few years we got some pretty terrible outcomes. But most years, I’d argue we all know who the two most deserving teams are (eliminating the G5 teams from discussion). The 12 team playoff will likely be better than the 4 team. The 4 team was dumb.
Disagree. No one outside of Nebraska really gives a sh1t about volleyball. I'd trade 100 National Championships in volleyball for a meaningless bowl game for the football team any day. Fortunately, I don't have to. It's cool that our volleyball team is good. But it's embarrassing that the volleyball team is the best program we have.
They did the same thing against Ohio State and got stuffed on 4th down (unless it was Hutmacher, but either way, one of the big DL lined up at fullback before DH got here.)
I concede that more games matter but there are also a lot more games that don’t matter. Big time upsets used to be great and fun for the casual viewer as the consequences of a bad loss could cost you the season. Big time regular season match ups used to be a de facto playoff game. Now bama loses to Oklahoma and vandy, Notre dame loses to NIU and Oregon beats Ohio state. And guess what? None of those games may end up mattering. I fully agree there are pluses and minuses. I’m not fully against an expanded playoff as I used to be. But I don’t think 3 loss teams should get at large bids and be forgiven some of these losses they have.
