College Football 2017-18

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TCU Ball , two minutes , still up 2 points . Stanford will have to start burning timeouts .

 

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Great game today with Northwestern - Kentucky as expected .

 

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Ohio State easily beats a season long over ranked california team. Same school has an over ranked basketball team .

 

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Couple of good games going on now , Louisville - Miss St and Iowa St - Memphis .

 

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Wisconsin wins as expected . Big 10 is just better than any other conf top to bottom . It has become what the SEC used to be . Pac 10 probably finishes with one bowl win as expected .

 

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Got to watch a dozen and a half bowl games decided by 10 points or less

 

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Wisconsin wins as expected . Big 10 is just better than any other conf top to bottom . It has become what the SEC used to be . Pac 10 probably finishes with one bowl win as expected .

Pac12 sent 9 teams to bowl games. Eight lost. only Utah was able to win. Record for a Power 5 conference.

https://www.si.com/college-football/2017/12/30/pac-12-worst-ever-bowl-season-power-5-conference

The previous record was set in 2008 when Big Ten teams went 1-6. That year Minnesota, Northwestern, Penn State, Ohio State, Wisconsin and Michigan State all suffered losses in their bowl games while Iowa was the only team to walk away victorious.

This year the Pac-12 saw Oregon, UCLA, Arizona, Stanford, Washington State, Arizona State, USC and Washington all lose and the Utes be the only team to pick up a win. Stanford, Washington State, USC and Washington were all ranked in the top 20 in the final College Football Playoff rankings and fell to other ranked opponents.

The Pac-12 was outscored by a combined 87 points in the nine games with Washington State's 25-point loss to Michigan State being the most lopsided of the defeats. Stanford and Arizona lost by two and three points respectively and Arizona State, UCLA and USC lost by 21, 18 and 17 points respectively.

 

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Peach Bowl could be a good one .

 

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Pac12 sent 9 teams to bowl games. Eight lost. only Utah was able to win. Record for a Power 5 conference.

https://www.si.com/college-football/2017/12/30/pac-12-worst-ever-bowl-season-power-5-conference

Yes , four of them were not competitive , the others were . Great job by Utah .

 

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Halftime at the Peach Bowl . Undefeated University of Central Florida 13 Auburn 6 .

 

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Undefeated University of Central Florida 27 Auburn 20 , 11 1/2 minutes to play . Auburn stayed in the game with a 73 yard kickoff return at the start of the third .

 

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Auburn , three and out , punting for fifth time , just under 11 to play .

 

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Looks like poor ol' Oyarde did the right thing taking the Undefeated team to cover the spread . Auburn trails by 14 with 6 minutes to play .

 

[Zippyjuan]

Michigan turnovers lead to loss to South Carolina in the Outback Bowl. Unlike the Pac 12, the Big 10 won seven of eight of their bowl games with Michigan being the only loss (the Pac 12 lost eight of their nine). Michigan did lead by 16 points in the game at one point.

 

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Notre Dame wins as expected . Undefeated Central Florida wins , beating the team that knocked off Alabama and Georgia. Intercepting Auburn twice , sacking six times , holding them under 100 yards rushing . game was closer because Auburn special teams made two big plays and UCF kicker just flat out missed another easy FG for about a 13 point swing. Keeping Auburn from losing by 20 or more.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Looks like poor ol' Oyarde did the right thing taking the Undefeated team to cover the spread . Auburn trails by 14 with 6 minutes to play .

Auburn making it interesting. Within seven points and down to about the 20 yardline again with 33 seconds left. Could tie it up!

Pass intercepted in the endzone to preserve the victory! What a Cinderella story this team was. Completely winless and struggling just two years ago and now a perfect season the other way!

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/ucf-knights/os-sp-ucf-peach-bowl-mike-bianchi-0101-story.html

One of the great love affairs in college football history comes to an end Monday when an amazing group of players and an incredible staff of coaches come together for one final game as the unbeaten 12th-ranked UCF Knights take on No. 7 Auburn in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.

The torrid love affair started two years ago when Frost and his staff took over a winless and grinless team with a broken spirit and bereft of hope. Longtime former coach George O’Leary’s final season turned into such a mess that O’Leary retired early and left the wayward team to a group of bickering assistants who were pointing fingers and fighting among themselves. The result was an 0-12 season and a locker room that was fractured and dysfunctional.

“We were a team that didn’t care about each other,” Griffin remembers. “It wasn’t a team at all; it was a bunch of different groups and a bunch of different individuals who were worried about themselves. And it wasn’t just the players who were divided; it was the coaches and the players and everybody.”

Coach is now moving on to Nebraska next season.

The game is important for many reasons — past, present and future. A UCF victory would make this team the first one in school history to finish unbeaten. It would also serve notice to the College Football Playoff Committee, which snubbed the Knights for much of this season and ranked multiple two- and three-loss Power 5 teams ahead of them. If the Knights beat SEC powerhouse Auburn, it would catapult them into the playoff conversation heading into next season.

The magnitude of the game and the dedication to the players is why Frost insisted on coaching this team in a bowl game even though he accepted the Nebraska job a month ago. There were some naysayers who believed Frost wouldn’t be fully committed to coaching UCF while also trying to recruit for Nebraska. They thought he would just be a figurehead coach, showing up at UCF practices periodically whenever convenient while offensive coordinator Troy Walters ran the team on a day-to-day basis.

Frost quickly dispelled that notion on the first day of bowl practice when, even though he was battling the flu, he held a news conference, ran UCF’s practice, jumped on a private jet, flew to California on a Nebraska recruiting visit, flew overnight back to Orlando, landed at 6 a.m. and ran UCF’s second practice … while vomiting on the sideline.

“Our whole staff’s No. 1 priority has been and always will be the players we’re coaching,” says Frost, who didn’t miss a single bowl practice. “That’s why we’re in this business. We feel the right thing to do is to be 100 percent committed and dialed in to helping these young guys win this bowl game.”

One last game.

One last flame.

One more chance.

One more dance.

“It’s going to be hard to say goodbye,” Griffin says.

It always is when the love is so strong and the ties are so binding.

One team, one family.

One last time.

Final University of Central Florida 34- University of Auburn 27.

 

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UCF are NCAA Football champions .

 

[Zippyjuan]

UCF are NCAA Football champions .

They weren't even Top Ten in the final poll (ranked #12 despite being the only undefeated team in the country- AP did have them #10). Beating Auburn shows they were legit.

Unfortunately small schools usually don't have the financial resources to keep people around when they do achieve success like this.

 

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They weren't even Top Ten in the final poll (ranked #12 despite being the only undefeated team in the country- AP did have them #10). Beating Auburn shows they were legit.

Unfortunately small schools usually don't have the financial resources to keep people around when they do achieve success like this.

In the Final poll they should be top 3 , but as far as I am concerned they are winners . They should never have been ranked behind 3 loss SEC and Pac 12 teams as they were because it was obvious they were better.

 

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Once Oklahoma wins and if Clemson does , I see no reason UCF does not leap over everyone else other than those two at least .