TheC said:

Neither game is must-win. I think if we split the week, we will be feeling really good.

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Neither game at this point is a must win, I agree, but I think getting one is a little more necessary than a nice to have. Losing that Iowa game took away what would have been a nice road win and put us a little bit behind the eight ball. We will have plenty of chances for good wins, so nothing is "have to have" on January 2nd, but the pressure goes up on future road games if we can't get one of these.

I am one that thinks that road wins carry some clout come selection time. It's not everything of course, but it is a variable the committee looks at. A team that shows it can win on the road is a little more appealing than one that shows they can just do it in their own building. Getting a few nice road wins (each of these would fall into that category) would be a nice resume builder.

Baz=Heisman said:

Have to at least split this week 🙏

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Neither game is must-win. I think if we split the week, we will be feeling really good.

FeralFelidae said:

Lower seed looking like 3-0 so far in the quarterfinals.

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All three winners so far were favorites

Have to at least split this week 🙏

Vassar69 said:

Haha no we had late reservations. Didn’t want to interfere with the bowl game

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Imagine how pathetic your life really is that you actively peruse other teams’ message boards to troll… like my god lol.

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4IUSox2 said:

Boise and ASU getting 3 and 4 seeds in the bracket was silly. Conference champions shouldn’t have auto byes. Just play them as the committee seeded. Boise was 9. ASU, somewhere behind them. Both would have been on the road in round 1 had this happened.

While I do not think 12-16 teams have legit shots at the championship, I can see this thing being expanded to 14 or 16 very soon, just for the money it’s generating.

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At least ASU put up a fight. Pretty much best game

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They play in a 15,000 seat arena. Hopefully it’s empty and we can steal a road W.

Line opened PSU -5.5, already down to -4.5 👀

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If the point is to make sure the tournament includes everyone who might reasonably be expected to win it, then 8 is the number. If the point is that, plus making more money, then there needs to be a play-in round for slots 5 through 8 so that the eventual winner, who will be one of the top seeds in all likelihood, doesn't essentially have to play a second season to get it.

TheC said:

I thought you couldn't do multi-year deals.

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There are no rules, and also multi-years should be the rule if crooked boosters NIL partners want transfer madness to slow.

TheC said:

I think this is proving that 8 is plenty and they should be seeded based on evaluation of their strength as in basketball.

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Let’s instead give Conference Champs the option of a bye or a home game. Zero programs would take the home game.

To say ASU didn’t deserve a #4 based on an OT loss to Texas — who only lost, twice, to Georgia — is silly. ASU was awesome, and also got robbed on the targeting call.

8’s enough, but also 4 was enough. The next option is 16 or perhaps 24, and I’ve got no interest in those.

Go Irish (ducks).

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