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Wednesday, December 08, 2021
December 30 7:00 PM Peach Bowl Pittsburgh v. Michigan State
December 31 3:30 PM Cotton Bowl Cincinnati v. Alabama
7:30 PM Orange Bowl Georgia v. Michigan
January 1 1:00 PM Fiesta Bowl Oklahoma State v. Notre Dame
5:00 PM Rose Bowl Utah v. Ohio State
8:45 PM Sugar Bowl Baylor v. Mississippi
January 10 8:00 PM Championship Game Cotton winner v. Orange winner
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But, hey, Clemson's offense marching down inside the 10 on the opening drive is an upset, so I guess I can't get too bent out of shape about it.
Except that Penn State has never played Arkansas. This suggested a kind of scorigami based on college matchups. I looked for prominent long-established football powers that have never played each other. Some notable matchups that have never happened:
Washington/Georgia
Stanford/Florida
Wisconsin/Mississippi
Auburn/UCLA
Mississippi/Ohio State
Mississippi/Army
Oklahoma/Georgia Tech
Nebraska/Navy
Texas/Florida State
Texas/Michigan State
Shifting conferences, ease of travel, endless bowl games erode this list all the time. This year, Wisconsin played Army for the first time ever. That's weird - two famed teams that have been playing since the 1890s ...
There is probably a whole website devoted to this somewhere ...
Pitt backers got 3 1/2 points so... that's gonna leave a mark
Michigan has played Georgia twice before; Michigan won 26-0 in 1957, and Georgia won 15-7 in 1965.
Cincinnati has played Alabama four times, Georgia twice, and Michigan once. They lost all seven games.
And leave it to dumb McDonough to attribute it to a timeout sapping Cincinnati's momentum.
edit: a part of that was the excellent punting and punt coverage by Cincinnati. Maybe this kick return will help give Cincy a chance to bring things closer before the end of the half.
edit: bah, sacked. Deprived of a throw, a potential TD, potential INT runback, and anything else. Hard to know what will happen in the second half, but it's very hard to imagine Cincy ever getting close.
And then throw an interception to give it back to Georgia with 1:28 left.
@PatrickE_Vegas
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1h
Even before that last Georgia touchdown, @SuperBookSports posted odds for the Jan. 10 #CFBPlayoff championship game. Georgia -1. It’s now Georgia -1.5/total 51.
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[10:55 PM update: Georgia now -2.5 on DraftKings. a little recency bias likely - so may well churn closer to even in the next few days]
You definitely don't want to look three games into the past.
"Fighting Irish," my arse. how many more do they have to lose before we make them "Notre Dame Football Team"?
Darren Rovell
@darrenrovell
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11m
Notre Dame has gone 0-10 in its last 10 Major Bowl games, which includes two CFP playoffs games, a BCS Championship Game, five Fiesta Bowls, one Sugar Bowl and one Orange Bowl.
...and as I type that, the Baylor offense finally scores after just 49 minutes, making the score Offenses 14 - Defenses 7.
Bryce Young is balling out as hard as he can, but there's only so much you can do when you're throwing to freshman backup WRs.
Georgia has hit some big plays deep tonight against that secondary, and drawn a couple huge pass interference penalties.
Georgia bookends its season with pick-sixes.
The first time, I happened to see the botched interception that bounced a desperation pass into the Auburn receiver's hand for a game-winning TD with 25 seconds to go.
The second time included the so-called Kick 6 that won Auburn the Iron Bowl with no time left.
If I'd reached out & had them pay me to watch a short, crucial stretch of the national title game, they'd have been the champs, guarandamnteed.
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