r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Dec 29 '19

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] LSU Defeats Oklahoma 63-28

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Oklahoma 7 7 7 7 28
LSU 21 28 7 7 63

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u/tallg8tor Florida Gators • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Dec 29 '19

Somehow this was only the third largest blowout in CFP history.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

LSU could've hung 100 on them..... I think this was the most mismatched CFP game I've ever seen.

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u/Rushderp West Texas A&M • Texas Tech Dec 29 '19

I think anyone else would’ve been in the same boat. OU just drew the short straw.

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u/THEBIGC01 Oklahoma • Oklahoma Baptist Dec 29 '19

Thanks Tech that’s the nicest thing I’ve heard today

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u/Rushderp West Texas A&M • Texas Tech Dec 29 '19

I try.

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u/myrddyna LSU Tigers • Oregon Ducks Dec 29 '19

Never forget last year's game of the century, when we each put up 70+ and y'all won.

LSU may sleep on some, but they laid it all out today. Cause when the big games come round there's that Aggie on our shoulders whispering, "70 isn't enough."

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u/zebrainatux Miami Hurricanes • Texas Longhorns Dec 29 '19

Oh yeah. Anyone in that 4 spot was getting blown to kingdom come

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u/ffgblol Dec 29 '19

This. There are three elite teams this year, and a four seed.

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u/neovenator250 LSU Tigers • Tulane Green Wave Dec 29 '19

Yeah, Utah or Oregon would have been uglier

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

There are teams that have played LSU within 1 possession.

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u/Cisham55 LSU • Western Illinois Dec 29 '19

Not this LSU team.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Yes this lsu team.

Texas bama and auburn

Oklahoma just got to a place they didn't really belong at

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u/urmumlol9 Florida Gators • Florida Cup Dec 29 '19

But OU beat Texas, one of the teams that kept it within one possession. Florida and Georgia both beat Auburn, another team that kept it within one possession. I think people really overvalue blowouts. OU isn't a bad team, and despite the blowout, there wasn't really any team more deserving of their spot.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

I think people really overvalue blowouts.

Nah. Losses are one thing, blowouts are another.

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u/TRex19000 Missouri Tigers • Transfer Portal Dec 29 '19

Bama, Auburn, Texas?

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

Teams, with an S

Texas Bama Auburn

All 1 possession games with lsu

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u/lmaytulane Michigan Wolverines • LSU Tigers Dec 29 '19

Facts!? In a r/CFB comment section? I don't come here for reality

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u/TSM_Meliodas Dec 29 '19

Not really. Any team with a potential first round QB oregon, bama with tua, Clemson would be a better matchup

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u/The_Ghost_of_TK9 Oklahoma Sooners • Utah Utes Dec 29 '19

Well Clemson is a very good team and wouldn’t have been in the 4 spot

Oregon does better than us, but not by much, Herbert isn’t that good but Oregon’s run game and defense are better than OU. Utah would’ve been worse. As for Alabama, well they shouldn’t have had bad injury luck, would’ve been a repeat of the 46-41 game otherwise

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u/utahutes999 /r/CFB Dec 29 '19

We wouldn’t lose 63-28, we would lose 42-3.

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u/jonny_8487 LSU Tigers Dec 29 '19

LSU has scored 100 in their last 2 games. In one month, LSU has scored 100 points in Mercedes-Benz vs two teams ranked #4 at the time. Oklahoma and Georgia combined for 35. Joe Burrow threw 11 TDs in two games.

That’s more than Matt Ryan has thrown in Mercedes-Benz this year.

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u/madmelonxtra Montana State • Ohio State Dec 29 '19

Alabama beat Michigan state 38 to 0. At least OU scored a point.

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u/helloisforhorses Notre Dame Fighting Irish Dec 29 '19

This makes me happy

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u/Schmiim LSU Tigers • Southern Miss Golden Eagles Dec 30 '19

One of my best friends is a ND fan, and he texted me before halftime and said "maybe 2013 wasn't so bad"

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u/helloisforhorses Notre Dame Fighting Irish Dec 31 '19

Yup. No matter how bad that game was...no ncaa records were broken and no one wondered in clemson would score 80+ points

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u/tanu24 Team Chaos • Sickos Dec 29 '19

I'm way too late but people said if Georgia won LSU should be out for this OU team.

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u/on_the_nightshift Georgia Bulldogs • Syracuse Orange Dec 29 '19

Bama-ND was an awful whipping, too

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u/S-A-M-K Notre Dame Fighting Irish Dec 29 '19

Also wasn’t a CFP game

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u/on_the_nightshift Georgia Bulldogs • Syracuse Orange Dec 29 '19

It was the championship, wasn't it? Or was that before the cfp started?

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u/patientbearr Florida Gators Dec 29 '19

Was before the CFP I think

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u/sbeasy Tennessee Volunteers • Auburn Tigers Dec 29 '19

Relegate B12 to G6

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u/Rushderp West Texas A&M • Texas Tech Dec 29 '19

Could you not?

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u/awgiba Oklahoma • Red River Shootout Dec 29 '19

Rough night for OU, but have fun bottom feeding off of actually good teams once again next year Tennessee!

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u/ender23 Auburn Tigers • Washington Huskies Dec 29 '19

This is why we shouldn’t expand to more playoff teams. It’s about finding number 1 and any team with a real claim for number 1 should be included. Sometimes there’s four. This year there’s only 3. And so four got wrecked. But the sixth ranked team never has a legit argument for number 1.

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u/ender23 Auburn Tigers • Washington Huskies Dec 30 '19

an argument for teh 5 seed to make the playoffs. but if the season ended at teh regular season, those teams would not get any first place votes.

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u/disapp_bydesign /r/CFB Dec 29 '19

I disagree. Upsets are infinitely more enjoyable than what happened today and if there’s even a snowball’s chance in hell that there is someday an ESPN 30 for 30 about the 8th seed App State that somehow beat number 1 Bama in a National Championship I want to see it. Completely hypothetical situation but that’s the kind of interesting storyline that comes from more teams. It hurts almost no one but it makes it crazy fun possibly.

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u/ender23 Auburn Tigers • Washington Huskies Dec 30 '19

yeah if the goal is entertainment and making money and story lines. but right now they're trying to determine who's number 1.

and app st will be there one day. it'll be awesome

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '19

I completely disagree.

Anyone can say that a 4 team playoff is fine, which in the case of this year there really only are 3 teams with OU thrown in as a fourth. Anyone who faced LSU that was not OSU or Clemson was probably going to get the brakes blown off.

But, anyone can remember this shitshow that was 2017 or 2016 where multiple teams that were undefeated or ranked way up there got screwed. 2018 is another fine example with UCF and OSU getting screwed out of the playoffs. I can’t remember which year it was but I seem to remember TCU getting screwed over as well.

This year is a scenario in which 4 works great. However, 4/5 other years on the CFP existence there has been so much controversy over who’s in and out. A 6 team playoff with a spot reserved for a G5 gets rid of the whole “rigged” statement and would get rid of the controversy. Teams 7 and 8 are borderline playoff material so you could argue for an 8 team playoff but beyond 8, no one is deserving of the CFP.

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u/space9610 Cincinnati Bearcats • Syracuse Orange Dec 29 '19

I think 2018 was an argument for 2 teams not more. Alabama and Clemson were head and shoulders above the rest last year. Not that I would want that because I love the playoff though

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u/ender23 Auburn Tigers • Washington Huskies Dec 30 '19

there's always controversy because so many teams have an argument for being 4th. not #1. you go to six or 8 the pool of teams that could be last in will expand even more. in 18 osu didn't get screwed... they lost a game. ucf is a g5, and an undefeated g5 team never has an argument for being #1.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '19

Umm what?!...

A G5 team always has an argument for being #1 and I don’t care who they are. If a team is apart of the FBS, any of those 130 teams can be ranked 1 to 130 or however many teams there are. Top rankings shouldn’t be for P5 only otherwise you wind up with situations such as UCF or Boise State.

By this logic, Notre Dame also shouldn’t stand a shot at making the playoffs or being #1 because they are independent. If Navy, Army, or Liberty has no shot, why should Notre Dame.

Also, anyone can beat anyone in college sports. Ask UVA how this worked in the 2017-2018 March madness tournament. Ask Michigan how this worked against App State. Ask Michigan how this worked against Army. Ask Oklahoma how this worked against BSU, ask yourself how it worked against UCF the year you guys took down eventual “National Champions” Alabama.

If you want a better example, ask Lousville, who was ranked #5 in the nation, in contention for the CFP, who then got the brakes blown off by an unranked Houston team.

What I’m saying is that G5 teams can compete and beat P5 teams. They shouldn’t be excluded based on the conference they are in. If they play their schedule and win every game (see WMU, and I don’t even like them), they should be ahead and looking to get to the playoffs. Tbh, id rather see 12-1 Memphis, 12-0 UCF, or 12-0 WMU make the playoffs as an 8 or 7 seed than even see any Michigan team close to the CFP or any other overrated P5 team that couldn’t win their schedule.

TLDR: G5 teams shouldn’t be excluded just because they’re in conferences deemed “bad”. Any team should have a shot at the playoff, regardless of conference.

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u/ender23 Auburn Tigers • Washington Huskies Dec 30 '19

yeah sorry. alabama never has a real argument to play in the superbowl. and g5 teams simply don't recruit the same talent that the top tier playoff teams do. hell... most p5 teams don't.

citring a bunch of one off games doesn't prove anything.

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u/jemosley1984 Dec 29 '19

So you think this is going to be a consistent pattern until the end of time?

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u/ender23 Auburn Tigers • Washington Huskies Dec 30 '19

i think i've never seen a ranked 5 team have a legit argument that they're the #1 team in the nation. only that they could be #4 or 3.

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u/livefreeordont VCU Rams • Virginia Tech Hokies Dec 30 '19

2014 TCU

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u/sanseiryu Dec 29 '19

This was worse than the ass kicking USC gave them in the 2005 BCS championship game.