Boy, that escalated quickly.
Yeah, that got out of hand, fast.
LSU is sending Oklahoma into orbit right now leading 49-14 at halftime of the Peach Bowl and will head to the national championship in a couple weeks.
So we’ll hear the same cries for Oklahoma to never get invited back to the College Football Playoff again this off-season, right?
In the world of fairness that’d be more than fair, correct?
They’ve gone to the CFP four times now and have been blown out in three of these games, the only close one being the classic Rose Bowl against Georgia that they lost in 2017.
But only Notre Dame “should never be allowed back in the College Football Playoff,” right Finebaum?
I say that jokingly about Oklahoma. Of course they deserve to be in this game today even if they’re getting blown out.
The bigger takeaway here is that it’s yet another year where the CFP has at least one dud of a game while the majority of semi-final games have gone that way.
This is six years into the College Football Playoff we’ve gone and so far we’ve had two memorable semi-final games (2014 Ohio State over Alabama and 2017 Georgia over Oklahoma).
I know we like to say the playoffs need expanded but do we really need to see what this LSU team would do to Memphis or whatever team you’d put in the No. 8 spot this season?
The idea of more football is great but if it just means for a bunch more routs that the average fan walks away from before halftime does it really have a point?
It’s a logical concept but the difference in tiers in college football has never been greater than it is now. Until that changes your Playoff is going usually leave a lot to be desired regardless of how many teams you let in.
Here’s to hoping Ohio State/Clemson makes up for this domination.