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Wow, this thread has gone off the rails. I wish players wouldn't opt of bowl games, but I can understand why they do, especially for non-playoff bowls. Yes, players have the same risk of getting injured in playoff games, but they are more likely to take the risk instead of missing out on an opportunity to win a national championship.
 
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Yet you still dont get it. The playoffs are meaningless games when looking at the chance of getting hurt and costing yourself millions in the NFL. How is it smart for Deonta Smith, Trevor Lawrence, Justin Fields or Travis Etienne to play in the playoffs?
They're definitely all pro-bono and the players all run the risk of a potential career-ending injury. None of those schools are going to compensate them for the multi-million dollar contracts they could lose just to play for free in a game that monetarily enriches everyone but them.
 
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What does expanding to 8 games accomplish other than having fans start wanting it expanded to 16?

Most 8 team models include 5 automatic bids for the P5 conference champions, and 3 at-large bids.

The conference championship games for those P5 spots would effectively expand it to ten teams competing for those 5 spots. Plus the 3 at large bids which would probably be determined the way the top 4 is picked now. You gotta think there's at least 5 or 6 teams in contention for those last 3 spots, which gives roughly 16 teams a realistic shot of making the playoffs every year. But it only adds one game to the potential champion's schedule.

The drop off from #4 to #8 is really not that big most years. There always seems to be a deserving team sitting in the #5 or #6 spot. Expanding the playoff gives more teams a chance to compete for a title. College football needs more parity right now. Most people are bored with watching Clemson and Alabama compete for national championships every single year.
 
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Miami's QB, D'Eric King, has a torn ACL and will require surgery. The likelihood for people opting-out of bowl games just got stronger!
 
This game was never in doubt. Hopefully the next one is more competitive
 
I'm going with Clemson in the next game
So far, the Clemson passing D looks awful. OSU receivers are wide open, or Clemson DBs are caught on the wrong side of the receiver. Every pass play. And Clemson is getting no pass rush.

Either that changes, or OSU wins, because that impotent a Clemson pass D along with trying to stop an RB like Sermon means a whole bunch of Buckeye points.
 
So far, the Clemson passing D looks awful. OSU receivers are wide open, or Clemson DBs are caught on the wrong side of the receiver. Every pass play. And Clemson is getting no pass rush.

Either that changes, or OSU wins, because that impotent a Clemson pass D along with trying to stop an RB like Sermon means a whole bunch of Buckeye points.

They'll be better in the 2nd half when they get their Senior Safety back on the field.
 
By the rule it looks like spearing, crown-usage targeting, but if Fields hadn't spun it would have been shoulder-first instead of helmet-first, yeah?
 
By the rule it looks like spearing, crown-usage targeting, but if Fields hadn't spun it would have been shoulder-first instead of helmet-first, yeah?
Perhaps so, but Clemson is still short once again.
 
But now Skalski must sit. Venables has failed to teach his bunch to avoid getting tossed for targeting.

The game happens pretty fast, little difficult to tell a kid not to do this or that with the speed of the game. Clemson will come out in the 2nd half sharper.
 
Tonight highlights the reason that Benji Gosnell prefers to play TE at Ohio St than for Longo.
 
Clemson is in deep doodoo.

They'll probably need a TD on just about every drive in the 2nd half unless their defense completely does a 180
 
Tonight highlights the reason that Benji Gosnell prefers to play TE at Ohio St than for Longo.

The last 2 years at UNC is why 4* Nesbit prefers UNC over Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Michigan St, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn St and about 15 other schools.
 
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