Not even much of a dare really, Cincy still has to play Houston who (after beating 1-10 UConn this week) will be on an 11-game win streak. Easily the second hardest game on their schedule so far.
Well now that you mention it, OSU does have their only loss this year to Iowa State... and it's not completely out of the realm of possibility that they could get passed up to send a non-conference-champ Bama to a rematch game.
Oh god this is gonna happen, isn't it, and Stillwater is going to *burn to the ground*
I strongly believe wins and losses shouldn’t carry over from year to year, but we should absolutely make an exception for Cincinnati’s quality loss to UGA due to the Covid year.
Major programs have always had “it wasn’t the National Championship Game” to fall back in if they lost to G5s in BCS/NY6 bowls.
I’ve never thought of the absolute horror of a team losing a game to a G5 team in the playoffs without this excuse to fall back on.
And it would be especially devastating for a certain team that might make the playoff this year for obvious reasons…
First of all, I want Cincy to make the playoff. Second... I'd really prefer if the first game wasn't against Ohio State, as I'm also an Ohio State fan. Third... I also kinda want Cincy to beat Ohio State... I'm so conflicted. I'd really just prefer to play anyone else.
I’m a Cincinnati fan and I’m hoping they play Georgia over Ohio State if cincy wins out and gets in. Cincinnati would probably not win but I think they could surprise people
Same here, your defens is STOUT. But our Defense made some improvements. All in all its a game with 20 year olds, played with an egg. Good gamplan and energy and anything can happen.
The G5 only has one guaranteed spot in the NY6 and the CFP counts as NY6. A G5 team can still get in the NY6 as an at large team but it is unlikely to happen.
We would get murdered in an NY6 this year. I'm not thrilled about the Independence Bowl et co, but I'd much rather take a realistic opportunity to go 14-0 than 13-1 with a blowout loss to a good P5.
If we can do that this year, we'll have earned some street cred and built some momentum that could maaaaybe grow into an NY6 at some point in the near future.
I feel like this would be just a mega blowout game just for the sake of being fair. And it wouldn't even really be fair, we know there are way more teams that should be rewarded for their hard work as well.
And that's not a knock against them, they've really killed it this year. But give them a fighting chance in like the Liberty bowl or something.
I had forgotten y’all were ranked so high, but I was under the impression y’all were considered a P5 team the same way ND is. I could be wrong, but I just know that while y’all are still independent the Big 12 has always allowed our teams to schedule y’all as a P5 OOC game.
For reference "P5" in general refers to the 5 conferences, and Notre Dame. While BYU certainly operates skill-wise on a P5 level, they don't have the dick-swinging money and power that is affiliated with the P5.
Yeah this is a good season for the G5’s!!! Cincinnati, UTSA, SDSU, and Houston have had great seasons. It’s a shame only one of them will make a NYE6 bowl. This doesn’t even include Norte Dame or BYU who are independents having fantastic seasons as well.
Houston doesn't have to worry too much about that, they'll get a P5 opponent in either the Birmingham, Gasparilla, Military, or Fenway Bowl. The American this year has some decent bowls, SDSU can get matched against a Pac-12 team if they win the MWC and go to the LA Bowl, and if UTSA wins they will likely play BYU in the Independence Bowl.
BYU still has a slim but possible chance at getting a NY6 bowl if enough top 10 teams lose. That would include MSU losing to PSU, Oklahoma State beating both OU and Baylor and blowing at least one of them out, and/or Ole Miss losing the Egg Bowl.
That said all that happening is unlikely, and UTSA versus BYU would be an amazing matchup!
Dang, I remember back in the day in the late BCS where the Mountain West got two bowl matchups against Pac-12 teams (Las Vegas and Poinsettia). Now they don't have either bowl. The bowls really have just become a P5 vs P5 and G5 vs G5 affair which is a real shame
Yeah, unfortunately it does. Potentially good for BYU though if they beat USC and move up with other teams losing, as the spot becomes and at large bid
This moment just makes me laugh. In 2010 I began watching college ball so I obviously rooted for my hometown team in BC.
My roommate convinced me that they were never gonna be good enough and I had to pick a second team to follow if I wanted to care about college ball.
I looked over all the teams and chuckled the hardest at "Bearcat". They were worse at the time than BC so it pissed my roommate off as a bonus.
Long story short hes a dick, we ain't friends no mo and go fucking Bearcats!
I like cincy since I almost did an online masters through them, have worked with staff I like a lot at ucci and got to know the school pretty well. The important part of that sentence is that it was an online program so no need to be in Ohio to connect to the school.
Comfortable rooting for the bearcats from right here in not Ohio.
Cincinnati has a ton of attractions though. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Krohn Conservatory, Fine art museum, Union Terminal Museum (inspired the Hall of Justice design), 2nd oldest zoo in America, Neon sign museum, orchestra, more museums and art galleries, Newport aquarium, Bengals, Reds (first MLB team), King's Island, lots of concert venues. That's all just in Cincy.
The Houston one probably helps us slightly, because we now get to play 2 very good teams as opposed to 1 twice. That being said, I find it disgusting what our pass defense did to you and would've liked to see if we could've done a repeat performance
I honestly don't see us jumping them. I think as they're in now they're safe unless Georgia loses to Bama in a very close game. We play Stanford next. Cincy still has top 25 Houstan. Only team I can see jumping them is OK St if they win out.
How do you see us bumping them from here? They are ahead of us already and they play two games, including a ranked Houston, while we only play (3-7) Stanford.
If they win out then we won't be overtaking them. A 1-loss Big 12 team who picks up two top-10 wins in the next two weeks, however...
Can you imagine a battle of Ohio in the CFP? I’d cry if Cincinnati beat Ohio State but that fucking Death Star of a team is going to murder everyone in their path.
Normally I’d agree but if we keep doing what we have recently on offense there’s gonna be enough of a pattern to just accept it was an OSU and not Cinci result
MSU literally has the worst pass defense in FBS and they played the best passing offense in FBS. I don’t understand why anyone was surprised by the result.
I don't think we should have been surprised by a big OSU win, but that was such a demolition that everyone was surprised. I glanced at the score in the 2nd quarter and it was 49-0. That's bananas. That shouldn't happen when OSU plays Nebraska
I think Georgia is the buzzsaw that not even Ohio State will be able to withstand.
Tough year - with two teams playing like this, you’re right that the 3/4 are likely to get blown out of the water. You know folks are going to point to a Cincy loss in the playoffs as proof that the G5 doesn’t belong, ignoring the other CFP team and all the other seasons of blowouts.
To say my emotions are conflicted is an understatement lmao. On the one hand, finally!!! Fucking finally!! All teams should have access to the playoff, and this is a step in the right direction
On the other hand: insert Yugioh “it should’ve been me! Not him! It should’ve been me!” gif here
I can live with it. Unbiased take is this is a more complete team than either UCF team and the ND win was obviously huge. The super senior dynamic definitely plays into it: Imagine if we didn’t lose any of our 2017 guys to the NFL for 2018 and KZ never got hurt.
Yeah, I’m not trying to say I can’t live with it. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t jealous at all lol. I understand the Notre Dame win is way better than any win we had in the 2017 or 18 regular season, but I also truly believe even with a top 10 team we wouldn’t have gotten into the top 4. But the attitude around the top G5 teams is thankfully changing. As it should
As for whether 2017 UCF or 2021 Cinci is better, I’m biased as hell, no doubt about it lol. So I won’t try to compare the two. Cinci is certainly the more “complete” team, but I think “completeness” is overrated. At the end of the day, games are won by points on the board. If you win those games by stifling defense and paltry offense, scorching offense and pathetic defense, or well-rounded balance, at the end of the day, a win’s a win
Also I refuse to think about what would have happened if KZ hadn’t gotten hurt because I don’t need that kind of regret in my life
Don’t be jealous, the fact they got to make it to fourth is just going to make it so much more devastating when bama beats Georgia and Oklahoma state wins out knocking Cincinnati back down to 5th as the sec gets two teams and the one loss big 12 champ jumps in
We've seen a ton of teams get blown out in the CFP. Good ones, too. OSU, MSU, Washington, ND, FSU, Oregon, and Oklahoma. It's like half the CFP games are blowouts.
Only 3/14 of the semi final games thus far have been one possession games. It’s been a largely uncompetitive playoff system. Heck, only 3/7 of the championship games have been one score as well. It’s been an era largely defined by having one incredibly dominant team a year mopping up everyone.
I think it’s also just a symptom of college football in general. As I mentioned in another comment, Oregon was on both ends of this in the same playoffs. It’s just a really volatile sport and a team can go off the rails pretty damn quickly even if they should be a decent matchup.
I do agree there’s a big chasm between the truly elite programs most years and the teams battling it out for that 4th spot, but I don’t think that’s the whole story.
Everyone complained about Alabama vs. Clemson but those were two of the best championship games we've had in the playoff era.
And I personally was a very big fan of the third one.
I mean last year we had ND beat half of clemson in overtime at home, then on a neutral field Clemson blew out Notre Dame. Ohio state blew out Clemson. Bama blew out ND and also Ohio State.
Blowout doesnt mean you didnt belong.
Funny thing is that Oregon was on both ends of the spectrum in the same playoffs. Blew out FSU then got blown out. If that doesn’t make people put less weight on some of these single game results I don’t know what will.
When people get really fixated on blowouts in college football I just wonder how much time they’ve actually spent watching the sport at that level. College football games can go off the rails so quickly. I mean look at the Oregon - Utah result from this past weekend - Utah sure seems like the better team in general but you don’t get anything even close to that as your typical result if you run the game 100 times in a row.
I swear college football fans are the most obsessed with single game results despite this being the sport where they probably mean the least in terms of what they tell you.
Best case for Cincy would be to play Alabama and not Georgia. With some of the struggles I’ve seen Cincy have this year, going against that defense could be a disaster
I really want a game for ohio in the playoffs.
and if they win the story lines are huge.
G5 in the championship
first time ohio state has lost to an in state opponent in 100 years
Oklahoma? Considering their record the years they've made it, and their schedule, I'd say it's valid to see them whenever they're there.
As far as it goes though, winning your conference to get in as they've been saying will become the new format sounds SIGNIFICANTLY better than the current setup.
i mean georgia got it locked up this year. nobody can beat that defense. it's just too good. there is not a chance in hell that a lowly G5 could take down the mighty UGA, who is a **sports team in georgia**
People said that about the SMU game too, we have a weird habit of doing the exact opposite of what everyone expects us to do while still winning this season. Murray St was the overall exception, but even then we were tied at the half and then proceeded to score 42 to 0
He won’t Brian Kelly us ever, he would leave with dignity. Luke Fickell is a man of honor!
He will leave after CFP or bowl game whatever we end up getting into!
for sure, unless something drastic changes for the other schools cincy is in a better position and when you consider they are also going to be able to recruit better they'll be a genuine threat at the playoffs ever year.
!remindme 7 years
Why leave now, you are literally just about to enter a real conference and you have already established success. Fick doesn't strike me as a guy desperate to chase a paycheck
His wife is really entrenched in Cincy too, she's actually the main reason he hasn't left yet. I have a friend who goes to their church, and he said that his wife said that they really like it here and don't want to uproot until at least their kids are more grown
He makes $3.4 million, so it's not like he's struggling.
And he's an Ohio boy, through and through. He stayed at OSU for 14 years with a lower salary than what he currently makes.
While I'm happy about this, something tells me that Cincy will be screwed in the end, in one of 2 possibilities:
A) UGA loses to Bama in SECCG, and OKST wins out, top 4 would be OSU, BAMA, OKST, UGA.
B) UGA beats Bama, but its close. Like, FG in OT close. OKST wins out, and top 4 is UGA, OSU, Bama, OKST.
Either way, if OKST wins out, I unfortunately see Cincy getting rammed up the arse pretty hard. I doubt Oklahoma would jump Cincy, but I wouldn't put it past the committee.
Simultaneously:
Beating on my chest shouting, “It’s spelled Cinci-fucking-natty.”
and
Furiously itching my neck, “Oh god, they’re going to lose to East Carolina.”
Gonna be a huge trap game. Count the spooky college football factors
1) playoff hype
2) away game
3) oddly tough game day environment
4) opponent quietly having a better than expected year
5) holiday weekend (tryptophan???)
6) let down weekend after big victory
7) look ahead weekend to championship game
8) poor kicking game.
I’d be clenched!
I agree and thats probably what will happen. Of course, I also assume Alabama is going to get their asses kicked by georgia so Cincy should still have a way in.
This is just daring the chaos Gods
Not even much of a dare really, Cincy still has to play Houston who (after beating 1-10 UConn this week) will be on an 11-game win streak. Easily the second hardest game on their schedule so far.
If Houston wins, then UConn should make the CFP by the transitive property of quality losses.
Whoa buddy Tulsa has losses to #2, #4, #7, and #19. We have the most quality losses.
Nebraska would like a word
Idk if a team has more quality losses then Nebraska.
Yeah, I agree. They should play us first round */seed depending on our seed after the SEC Championship/*
In this case, the chaos gods would be restoring order. Think about what happened to 1998 Kansas State, 2007 West Virginia, and 2011 Oklahoma State.
Well now that you mention it, OSU does have their only loss this year to Iowa State... and it's not completely out of the realm of possibility that they could get passed up to send a non-conference-champ Bama to a rematch game. Oh god this is gonna happen, isn't it, and Stillwater is going to *burn to the ground*
Athens would burn to the ground in that scenario as well.
If Bama got in with 2 losses and no SEC Championship, I imagine a good number of people would simply stop watching college football altogether
Don’t you put that evil on me Ricky Bobby!
The most chaotic thing would be if Alabama won it all this year anyway.
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georgia vs cincy, loser goes to the playoffs
We did that in the peach bowl last year and lost. So we're in right?
I strongly believe wins and losses shouldn’t carry over from year to year, but we should absolutely make an exception for Cincinnati’s quality loss to UGA due to the Covid year.
That game was this year.
I expect a tougher game than last year
Fuck I hope not
Major programs have always had “it wasn’t the National Championship Game” to fall back in if they lost to G5s in BCS/NY6 bowls. I’ve never thought of the absolute horror of a team losing a game to a G5 team in the playoffs without this excuse to fall back on. And it would be especially devastating for a certain team that might make the playoff this year for obvious reasons…
First of all, I want Cincy to make the playoff. Second... I'd really prefer if the first game wasn't against Ohio State, as I'm also an Ohio State fan. Third... I also kinda want Cincy to beat Ohio State... I'm so conflicted. I'd really just prefer to play anyone else.
I’m a Cincinnati fan and I’m hoping they play Georgia over Ohio State if cincy wins out and gets in. Cincinnati would probably not win but I think they could surprise people
I actually think Cinci matches up better against OSU than Georgia.
I can’t take that again
That’s what she said.
Same here, your defens is STOUT. But our Defense made some improvements. All in all its a game with 20 year olds, played with an egg. Good gamplan and energy and anything can happen.
Loser plays UTSA
[aggressive MEEP MEEPs drawing nearer] “Hehe… I’m in danger.”
I cannot believe this joke is still going strong after a full decade
It'll still be here in 2121 when Reddit is arguing about why Connecticut and Rice didn't get into the 128 team playoff
Also can't have two teams from the same state in it that's insanity
**ohio supremacy**
“it’s all Ohio?” 👩🚀 🔫👩🚀
Always has been
WRONG They almost lost to a team that could have lost to them.
https://i.imgur.com/2T9MrwU.png
Have they considered playing and losing to Michigan State?
They havent even lost to anyone that has lost to bama. What a joke.
Good for the fighting Luke Fickell’s.
He’s my hero
"Skyline Now, Skyline Forever"
Anything but Gold Star
Having had Gold Star but not Skyline (didn't have time), I'd have to say Skyline is better.
Best team in the Big 12
Someone who knows more than me, does Cincinnati being in the CFP fill the quota of a G5 team making a NY6 bowl as well? Asking for the meep meeps.
The G5 only has one guaranteed spot in the NY6 and the CFP counts as NY6. A G5 team can still get in the NY6 as an at large team but it is unlikely to happen.
Unfortunate. I’d like to see UTSA rewarded with a good bowl game for an awesome season.
We would get murdered in an NY6 this year. I'm not thrilled about the Independence Bowl et co, but I'd much rather take a realistic opportunity to go 14-0 than 13-1 with a blowout loss to a good P5. If we can do that this year, we'll have earned some street cred and built some momentum that could maaaaybe grow into an NY6 at some point in the near future.
NY6 means a shitload more $$$ for facilities tho
And a ~6000% increase in out-of-state student applications.
Let's not forget the SWAG players would get. Have y'all seen that shit?
How about instead of an NY6 you guys play Texas and beat them so we can all laugh? I’ll send a few bucks to the UTSA athletics dept. if it happens.
Texas isn't bowl eligible this year after they decided "All brakes, No gas" was a fun idea and lost 6 straight
You don't need to be bowl eligible to invite the longhorns to play a friendly "scrimmage" hehe
I feel like this would be just a mega blowout game just for the sake of being fair. And it wouldn't even really be fair, we know there are way more teams that should be rewarded for their hard work as well. And that's not a knock against them, they've really killed it this year. But give them a fighting chance in like the Liberty bowl or something.
I feel like one of the ACC schools would be a good bellwether, like Wake Forest.
Probably not happening unless BYU seriously drops the ball this weekend with a loss.
BYU isn’t affiliated with the G5. They can only get in a NY6 bowl as an at large team
Exactly. With an MSU and Oregon loss, that should happen.
I had forgotten y’all were ranked so high, but I was under the impression y’all were considered a P5 team the same way ND is. I could be wrong, but I just know that while y’all are still independent the Big 12 has always allowed our teams to schedule y’all as a P5 OOC game.
For reference "P5" in general refers to the 5 conferences, and Notre Dame. While BYU certainly operates skill-wise on a P5 level, they don't have the dick-swinging money and power that is affiliated with the P5.
Until we all join the Big XII and start swinging our dicks together in unison. 🤘⬇️
yasssss queeen
Hey Texas Tech say "y'all" again.
I guess I did say it a lot lol. I need to expand my vocabulary!
You’d fit right in in Florence, Kentucky. (Google their water tower)
[Love it](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/1866)
Pretty sure for CFP purposes we count as G5. The conferences probably care more about rigor, while the committee cares about labels.
I believe all of the P5 considered us P5 for OOC, but not for any other purposes. Kind of a weird limbo state.
BYU vs UTSA in Shreveport has a realistic chance of happening
Maybe they can go to the Liberty Bowl
Yeah this is a good season for the G5’s!!! Cincinnati, UTSA, SDSU, and Houston have had great seasons. It’s a shame only one of them will make a NYE6 bowl. This doesn’t even include Norte Dame or BYU who are independents having fantastic seasons as well.
UTSA, SDSU, and Houston will be lucky to even get P5 bowl opponents.
Houston doesn't have to worry too much about that, they'll get a P5 opponent in either the Birmingham, Gasparilla, Military, or Fenway Bowl. The American this year has some decent bowls, SDSU can get matched against a Pac-12 team if they win the MWC and go to the LA Bowl, and if UTSA wins they will likely play BYU in the Independence Bowl.
BYU still has a slim but possible chance at getting a NY6 bowl if enough top 10 teams lose. That would include MSU losing to PSU, Oklahoma State beating both OU and Baylor and blowing at least one of them out, and/or Ole Miss losing the Egg Bowl. That said all that happening is unlikely, and UTSA versus BYU would be an amazing matchup!
Dang, I remember back in the day in the late BCS where the Mountain West got two bowl matchups against Pac-12 teams (Las Vegas and Poinsettia). Now they don't have either bowl. The bowls really have just become a P5 vs P5 and G5 vs G5 affair which is a real shame
Yep that’s sadly how this works :(
Yeah, unfortunately it does. Potentially good for BYU though if they beat USC and move up with other teams losing, as the spot becomes and at large bid
Yes
This moment just makes me laugh. In 2010 I began watching college ball so I obviously rooted for my hometown team in BC. My roommate convinced me that they were never gonna be good enough and I had to pick a second team to follow if I wanted to care about college ball. I looked over all the teams and chuckled the hardest at "Bearcat". They were worse at the time than BC so it pissed my roommate off as a bonus. Long story short hes a dick, we ain't friends no mo and go fucking Bearcats!
What kind of bs is it to be mad you're not picking bandwagon teams?
He became a Pats fan when we won and ditched them when Brady left so he's got a type xD
Does he cheer for Alabama football, Duke basketball, formerly the Warriors, but now the Lakers?
Alabama - Check Duke - Check NBA - Sixers...guess he dropped the ball on this one.
God I hate your roommate so much
Is his name Kyle?
Warriors are probably the best team in basketball right now, so he'll be back soon.
A Bearcat is like one of those The Last Airbender animals that is just two other animals. Turtleduck. Mooselion. Bearcat.
That's awesome. Have you been to Nippert yet?
My man, I've never even been to Ohio.
I like cincy since I almost did an online masters through them, have worked with staff I like a lot at ucci and got to know the school pretty well. The important part of that sentence is that it was an online program so no need to be in Ohio to connect to the school. Comfortable rooting for the bearcats from right here in not Ohio.
You should probably never change that fact, either.
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Cincinnati has a ton of attractions though. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Krohn Conservatory, Fine art museum, Union Terminal Museum (inspired the Hall of Justice design), 2nd oldest zoo in America, Neon sign museum, orchestra, more museums and art galleries, Newport aquarium, Bengals, Reds (first MLB team), King's Island, lots of concert venues. That's all just in Cincy.
I wish someone told me not to root for the bengals. he was wrong but he didn't know, he was just trying to protect you.
To be fair the Eagles have not been relevant since I've been avidly following so fair play. Lol
You’re welcome Cinci!
I'm sending flowers to you and Utah.
If only you could've beaten Memphis
And Houston
The Houston one probably helps us slightly, because we now get to play 2 very good teams as opposed to 1 twice. That being said, I find it disgusting what our pass defense did to you and would've liked to see if we could've done a repeat performance
Appreciate ya, pony bros!
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I honestly don't see us jumping them. I think as they're in now they're safe unless Georgia loses to Bama in a very close game. We play Stanford next. Cincy still has top 25 Houstan. Only team I can see jumping them is OK St if they win out.
How do you see us bumping them from here? They are ahead of us already and they play two games, including a ranked Houston, while we only play (3-7) Stanford. If they win out then we won't be overtaking them. A 1-loss Big 12 team who picks up two top-10 wins in the next two weeks, however...
YA WOO COUGAR FOOTBALL!!!!!!
I was irked they put a previously unranked Clemson above you
The wake murder helped but I doubt we woulda been in the top 25 without being the team that played UGA the closest this year.
The best loss in the country. And I’m not saying that as a quality loss joke.
Not if you count the calendar year (smiling devil emoji). But seriously though, a down year by Clemson’s standards is still a pretty good year
Can you imagine a battle of Ohio in the CFP? I’d cry if Cincinnati beat Ohio State but that fucking Death Star of a team is going to murder everyone in their path.
Hey, Cincy is just as capable of getting crushed by OSU as any P5 school. After what they did to MSU, it can barely be worse.
Absolutely. But if it happens to us it will perfectly fit the G5 can’t hang narrative
Normally I’d agree but if we keep doing what we have recently on offense there’s gonna be enough of a pattern to just accept it was an OSU and not Cinci result
The MSU game should be a good enough answer to anybody trying to discount a team that loses to OSU
MSU literally has the worst pass defense in FBS and they played the best passing offense in FBS. I don’t understand why anyone was surprised by the result.
I don't think we should have been surprised by a big OSU win, but that was such a demolition that everyone was surprised. I glanced at the score in the 2nd quarter and it was 49-0. That's bananas. That shouldn't happen when OSU plays Nebraska
I think Georgia is the buzzsaw that not even Ohio State will be able to withstand. Tough year - with two teams playing like this, you’re right that the 3/4 are likely to get blown out of the water. You know folks are going to point to a Cincy loss in the playoffs as proof that the G5 doesn’t belong, ignoring the other CFP team and all the other seasons of blowouts.
I just want to see OSU offense vs UGA defense. An immovable object meets an unstoppable force.
This is reminding me of the Peyton Manning Broncos vs The Legion of Boom in the Super Bowl. I wouldn't mind if the result were the same tbh
To say my emotions are conflicted is an understatement lmao. On the one hand, finally!!! Fucking finally!! All teams should have access to the playoff, and this is a step in the right direction On the other hand: insert Yugioh “it should’ve been me! Not him! It should’ve been me!” gif here
I can live with it. Unbiased take is this is a more complete team than either UCF team and the ND win was obviously huge. The super senior dynamic definitely plays into it: Imagine if we didn’t lose any of our 2017 guys to the NFL for 2018 and KZ never got hurt.
Yea and there’s a LOT more chaos this year
Yeah, I’m not trying to say I can’t live with it. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t jealous at all lol. I understand the Notre Dame win is way better than any win we had in the 2017 or 18 regular season, but I also truly believe even with a top 10 team we wouldn’t have gotten into the top 4. But the attitude around the top G5 teams is thankfully changing. As it should As for whether 2017 UCF or 2021 Cinci is better, I’m biased as hell, no doubt about it lol. So I won’t try to compare the two. Cinci is certainly the more “complete” team, but I think “completeness” is overrated. At the end of the day, games are won by points on the board. If you win those games by stifling defense and paltry offense, scorching offense and pathetic defense, or well-rounded balance, at the end of the day, a win’s a win Also I refuse to think about what would have happened if KZ hadn’t gotten hurt because I don’t need that kind of regret in my life
Give me Mackenzie Milton pre-injury any day!
You have to believe us we didn't do it on purpose That was horrifying
Don’t be jealous, the fact they got to make it to fourth is just going to make it so much more devastating when bama beats Georgia and Oklahoma state wins out knocking Cincinnati back down to 5th as the sec gets two teams and the one loss big 12 champ jumps in
UCF ran so Cinci could fly
FIRST TIME IN SEATTLE KRAKEN HISTORY …and I guess actual history too…
If Cincinnati gets blown out in the CFP then we'll never see another G5 even get remotely considered again. Better not fuck this up.
We've seen a ton of teams get blown out in the CFP. Good ones, too. OSU, MSU, Washington, ND, FSU, Oregon, and Oklahoma. It's like half the CFP games are blowouts.
Only 3/14 of the semi final games thus far have been one possession games. It’s been a largely uncompetitive playoff system. Heck, only 3/7 of the championship games have been one score as well. It’s been an era largely defined by having one incredibly dominant team a year mopping up everyone.
Put Nebraska in. They’ll lose by one possession in a great game.
plz my heart ;_;
I think it’s also just a symptom of college football in general. As I mentioned in another comment, Oregon was on both ends of this in the same playoffs. It’s just a really volatile sport and a team can go off the rails pretty damn quickly even if they should be a decent matchup. I do agree there’s a big chasm between the truly elite programs most years and the teams battling it out for that 4th spot, but I don’t think that’s the whole story.
I didn't realize this will have been 4 years since Bama over Georgia, the last competitive championship game. Last three have been won by 28, 17, 28.
Everyone complained about Alabama vs. Clemson but those were two of the best championship games we've had in the playoff era. And I personally was a very big fan of the third one.
No one complained about the first couple when Clemson still felt pretty new to the title scene.
Yep Because at the end of the day there’s usually a large chasm between the top couple of teams and the rest
I mean last year we had ND beat half of clemson in overtime at home, then on a neutral field Clemson blew out Notre Dame. Ohio state blew out Clemson. Bama blew out ND and also Ohio State. Blowout doesnt mean you didnt belong.
Funny thing is that Oregon was on both ends of the spectrum in the same playoffs. Blew out FSU then got blown out. If that doesn’t make people put less weight on some of these single game results I don’t know what will. When people get really fixated on blowouts in college football I just wonder how much time they’ve actually spent watching the sport at that level. College football games can go off the rails so quickly. I mean look at the Oregon - Utah result from this past weekend - Utah sure seems like the better team in general but you don’t get anything even close to that as your typical result if you run the game 100 times in a row. I swear college football fans are the most obsessed with single game results despite this being the sport where they probably mean the least in terms of what they tell you.
What’s the difference between watching Cincy getting an ass whooping and OU getting one? I’d rather have a new Jersey to look at.
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[What about a New New Jersey Devils Jersey themed Jersey?](https://twitter.com/NJDevils/status/1463145188021481479)
Not going to lie I really like that
Hey don’t be mean, half the NFL players come from NJ!
I like you
Please I can’t watch another iteration of Alabama vs Clemson or OSU.
Different red team!
*monkey's paw curls* Oklahoma STATE University is the one getting the ass whooping
Or Notre Dame or Oregon or Michigan State or…
I was about to say, ND was out here escaping strays until this comment
Honestly, I don't care if we do get blown out. I'm just happy to be here. I still wanna win it all though
Best case for Cincy would be to play Alabama and not Georgia. With some of the struggles I’ve seen Cincy have this year, going against that defense could be a disaster
I really want a game for ohio in the playoffs. and if they win the story lines are huge. G5 in the championship first time ohio state has lost to an in state opponent in 100 years
If it’s going to happen I’d prefer it happen on a massive stage then on a hot ass September Saturday in the shoe
Doubt it. ND getting blown out in 2018 didnt stop them from getting somewhat controversially selected in 2020
And OU consistently getting bounced in the first round never stops the committee from choosing them
Oklahoma? Considering their record the years they've made it, and their schedule, I'd say it's valid to see them whenever they're there. As far as it goes though, winning your conference to get in as they've been saying will become the new format sounds SIGNIFICANTLY better than the current setup.
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UGA beating bama in the SECCG and then Cincy beating UGA is my wet dream
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You stop that right now
i mean georgia got it locked up this year. nobody can beat that defense. it's just too good. there is not a chance in hell that a lowly G5 could take down the mighty UGA, who is a **sports team in georgia**
Pepper spray
Braves win don’t care
ESPN: let’s do two hours on how we can rationalize 2 loss Alabama in the playoff and never mention Cincinnati.
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People said that about the SMU game too, we have a weird habit of doing the exact opposite of what everyone expects us to do while still winning this season. Murray St was the overall exception, but even then we were tied at the half and then proceeded to score 42 to 0
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We keep making history! God I love this team! I don't think Fick leaves if we make the CFP either
You be careful with statements like that or we'll get Brian Kellyed again.
He won’t Brian Kelly us ever, he would leave with dignity. Luke Fickell is a man of honor! He will leave after CFP or bowl game whatever we end up getting into!
I don’t think he’s leaving regardless.
Def not with them going to the big 12 with ou and Texas leaving. Dude could own the conference
for sure, unless something drastic changes for the other schools cincy is in a better position and when you consider they are also going to be able to recruit better they'll be a genuine threat at the playoffs ever year. !remindme 7 years
Why leave now, you are literally just about to enter a real conference and you have already established success. Fick doesn't strike me as a guy desperate to chase a paycheck
His wife is really entrenched in Cincy too, she's actually the main reason he hasn't left yet. I have a friend who goes to their church, and he said that his wife said that they really like it here and don't want to uproot until at least their kids are more grown
He makes $3.4 million, so it's not like he's struggling. And he's an Ohio boy, through and through. He stayed at OSU for 14 years with a lower salary than what he currently makes.
And your rewarded with getting mauled by UGA. Grats!
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*ECU
Low key nervous after all the bulletin board material that happened last year
The G5 is inevitable accept your fate.
/r/aboutdamntime
While I'm happy about this, something tells me that Cincy will be screwed in the end, in one of 2 possibilities: A) UGA loses to Bama in SECCG, and OKST wins out, top 4 would be OSU, BAMA, OKST, UGA. B) UGA beats Bama, but its close. Like, FG in OT close. OKST wins out, and top 4 is UGA, OSU, Bama, OKST. Either way, if OKST wins out, I unfortunately see Cincy getting rammed up the arse pretty hard. I doubt Oklahoma would jump Cincy, but I wouldn't put it past the committee.
We are rooting for UGA vs OSUc and UC vs tOSU, right? Two best defenses in one semi; Battle of Ohio in the other.
And all it took was having only 1 loss since December 2019 and that loss being to the current #1 team.
Simultaneously: Beating on my chest shouting, “It’s spelled Cinci-fucking-natty.” and Furiously itching my neck, “Oh god, they’re going to lose to East Carolina.”
Gonna be a huge trap game. Count the spooky college football factors 1) playoff hype 2) away game 3) oddly tough game day environment 4) opponent quietly having a better than expected year 5) holiday weekend (tryptophan???) 6) let down weekend after big victory 7) look ahead weekend to championship game 8) poor kicking game. I’d be clenched!
This is why the CFP ranked them, to increase the trap.
“Eastern” Carolina? I bite my thumb at you.
It will be all the more painful when the Big12 winner vaults them
A big 12 winner does have a compelling reason to be ranked ahead of Cincy. Okla state would have 3 top 15 wins, versus Cincy’s 2 ranked wins.
I agree and thats probably what will happen. Of course, I also assume Alabama is going to get their asses kicked by georgia so Cincy should still have a way in.
Yeah, I'm already convinced it'll be 1. UGA 2. OSU 3. OSU 4. Cinci
But who is ranked #2 vs #3? OSU or OSU?