Peach Bowl. LSU vs OU.

Getting ready for this one. Pulling for OU (Jalen Hurts). But I also like Coach O.
But an LSU win hurts Bamas recruiting.


Unconfirmed reports that a plane crash in Lafayette this morning enroute to the game, contained a family member of LSU offensive coordinator Steve EmSminger.

Gonna be a Barn Burner.

Pulling for OU...

Not good. Casualties?

I think 6 dead.

Yeah confirmed his daughter in law

Geaux Tigers

Atta-boy Jes, Boomer!

LSU 45-24

Prayers for the families....

OU shocks the world and wins The coin toss

Damn, RIP

Yep.

Carley McCord.

Go Tigers!!

Pulling for OU

Rest in Peace Young Lady.

Alright. Let’s do this.

Play ball.

Go OU

The other direction.

OU needs to wake up.

A small plane crashed in Lafayette LA on it’s way to Atlanta GA with at least five casualties one being the DIL of OC for LSU. The coach has been informed and will coach.

OU has got to stay in this game. That TD was huge.

was watching on one channel that had three screens. Finally found a regular picture. What a waste on that other junk imo.

Geaux Tigers!

OMG

OU just got screwed

You can protest that non call in the NFL.

Terrible non call.

Insane

OU can’t give Burrow that much time, it’s gonna be a long day.

Yup.

LSU may just put up 70 on them! No way OU keeps up.

OU has had 1 Hail Mary.

This is about to get outta hand.

Thought defenses would catch up to that LSU offense, but I guess not.

OU is in trouble someone tell the refs LSU doesn't need any help

That’s gonna be targeting.

Pretty cheap shot by #44. Ejected

Geaux Tigers! 28-7

What a throw, and catch!

Rout alert. Makes you wonder about Texas-buckeyes and the rest of the selection committee.

Feel like I'm watching Brees-Thomas with Burrow-Jefferson...

Charlie

OU ain’t ready for this. They should go back and enjoy their win over Baylor.

Wow, now that was an interception!

they dont belong in this game

Jefferson is a frigging beast!!!

This is a good ol country a** whipping 35-7

LSU can play backups in second half.

Half way to 70...keep it up!

OU will be given little consideration on future #4 playoff spots.

I hear a melody...."turn out the lights, the party is over"!

Looks to be over at half time.

Given the stupidity of the committee you’re probably right. This year has nothing to do with next year.

Besides, the #1 positive for OU next year is hurts won’t be there

Yep. Beer thirty.

For the fourth time in a row people are left to wonder what team other than the Okie’s would have been worthy of the task.

None

Do you put the backup QB in if you are OU?

I know who LSU openly did not want to play again. But they lost to Auburn and blew it.

Yes

Let’s see what Rattler can do in second half.


OU needs defense.

Anyone who paid attention knew ou or anyone behind them did not stand a chance.

Whoop! 42-14

Good lord. This is a disaster.

whomp whomp

Think OU just said calf rope on that play.

Auburn proved Alabama wasn’t a Top 4 team.

I’m not saying Alabama is a top 4 team. Just that it would be a better game than this.

Aside from the @ss kicking on the field, LSU has about 150yds of uncalled penalties. They hold worse than I’ve ever seen on both sides of the ball

49-14. Keep the pedal to the metal!

Someone please throw the towel in. The guy ejected may have been the smartest guy on OU.

Would of been about the same blowout

I say keep the starters in for at least the 3rd qtr. 3 more TD's and then rest them. They deserve to have some fun!

OU is down 5 TDs at halftime.

LSU can do what they want. The probably could kneel every play and still win.

Zero U holds more than any other division one team.

I have seen several no calls done by Zero u but not by LSU.

Ou defense is depleted, suspended, injured and ejected and they suck harder than a Hoover vacuum. This is more about a terrible defense than a good offense. Don’t get me wrong, LSU is exploiting them, but come on, I think 4-5 of those td throws were to guys simply wide open. The last one the guy was 10 yards away from anyone and they started at the 2....

Offensively OU got away from what worked. They can run at will against LSU and they insist on throwing the deep ball. Trick plays that don’t work, their play calls are atrocious. They are beating themselves more than LSU defense is stopping them.

On the flip side, whoever LSU faces next will give much more competition. The defense will be light years better and both osu and Clemson can run the ball as well as throw it. Gonna give the LSU defense fits. Yes, LSU will score, but so will the other team. The natty will be a good game to watch.

And hopefully they will have refs that actually throw flags when needed. LSU has gotten away with numerous holds, a punch/slap to the helmet, blatant PI, a hit on the qb clearly out of bounds, a sack where the defender hit the qb helmet...that’s a lot of misses for a “excellent” ACC crew. Many of these penalties came before it was a blow
Out too. Dont think they change the final outcome, but they def make it a more interesting game.

It’s funny because I see it both ways. Lots of uncalled holds both ways, but they finally started calling them on OU after the killing was on. But, to say LSU has had none, well you just aren’t watching then. Every play there is an ou guy that is held. Every play.

I honestly believe they could kneel every possession and ou still wouldn’t score enough to win. They would try to get too fancy and just end up turning the ball over interceptions and sacks. They need to run, run and run. When LSU makes adjustments then start throwing. Hurts has been off like crazy this game. Nothing about LSU defense enforcing his bad throws. He is just off. Almost playing like he knew they had no chance and just going through the motions.

I concur. Couldn't be any worse.

You often posted that you were the selection committee. How in my whole wide world did you choose OU?

Zing

This is called an SEC track meet.

Big12 exposed again. Maybe conference champs don’t mean anything after all.

14 more points to get to 70.

Bill is all about politics...who else were we going to put in? Alabama without their qb and no conference title? A beat up Georgia team that got killed in their championship title loss? The south wouldn’t have us putting a Wisconsin team that just gave up a 21 point lead. And there were no semi-worthy contenders from pac or acc...our hands were tied.


In all seriousness, this is exposing the weakness of the big12 in that Lincoln Riley is not a great coach, he has just rode the wave of a really weak big12 since he took over. I know his job isn’t in jeopardy yet, but he is looking more like jim harbaugh by the minute...

Ugh! My Sooners are not at the same level as LSU.

Yup. Big12 exposes again. Never won a playoff game. Second year in a row they have trailed by over 4 TDS.

Might as well put in a UCF.

Stupid narrative, they’ve deserved to be there every time, just dot have the o and d lines to compete with an inept QB like hurts

Stick a fork in them. They are done. Remember when someone said that about George W Bush?

You’re watching a stupid narrative. 56 to 21.
49 points scored in first half by LSU.


Almost any option is better than this.

TEXAS!?

We need a bigger playoff. There are clearly better teams out there than ou, but because the system only has 4 teams allowed it’s all about keeping certain conferences happy.

Looking back for the five years of playoffs, the semi final has been a blow out way too much. This is not a good system. Yes better than the popularity contest the bcs was and whatever people called the prior system (other than a joke) but we need more teams in the playoff. Clearly a lot of teams would do better than ou has today

How would watching ou and Utah in a brawl change the outcome?

I think we’re looking for “out of the Big12” teams. Like a Penn State or Air Force would be better.

It doesn’t, but it allows more teams to have a chance. Like a Wisconsin, or penn st, or bama, or someone else....

Having to pick only four limits the available competition and makes for a weak field of teams when a conference champ needs represented from a weak conference

There is no reason to expand the playoff and this game shows why. There are 3 good teams in college football this year, more than some other years. Expanding the playoff would be more meaningless games with teams that can’t win the championship.

Just stop right there. This is about the best team in the nation. Not some 2nd tier team winning on a hail Mary and.the best team losing a QB to a groin injury.

There's only two conferences where being the champ means anything....been that way for about 10 years.

This guy gets it. If any year proves that you don't need more than 4 teams, this is the year.

Bingo

Yup. Big12 championship now means what a PAC12 championship means. ACC might as well not have a championship game.

Let’s hear who is the 4th best team this year? Record aside. Just the 4th best team.

This game shows nothing other than what everyone expected and was made worse when several defensive players got suspended or injured for OU. Same thing was expected from ND last year. You can not tell me there were no other worthy teams that could have given a better match up than those two teams this year and last. Same goes for 2016 when osu got killed by Clemson.

If we are going to have a playoff based system, let’s make it a playoff. Otherwise let’s just go back to a bcs popularity contest and christen a champ before the game is even played.

With a healthy Tua it would clearly be Bama, but since he was hurt I think it's gotta be Georgia.

Do you honestly think since the CFP a #5-8 team would have won the NC?

A healthy Georgia maybe, but not the team that took the field against LSU for the sec.

The first year an OSU team barely scraped in and won it all pretty handily. That year both tcu and Baylor had legit options to be there but lack of big12 championship game kept them out.

I don’t know but last years osu team was really clicking, would have made a run as a #5. Can’t remember much more since it is history. But the point is we don’t know because we don’t know. There’s clearly better teams than this ou team at the moment. Heck, Memphis would have given more a fight than ou right now.

My point is there are way too many meaningless bowl games. Why not allow more teams an option to win it all by expanding the playoff to 8 and just having some of the meaningless bowls mean something. Would we still see blow outs? Absolutely. But I bet we would see some 5-7 seed teams getting up there and playing for a natty instead of a stupid meaningless bowl.

These meaningless bowls are hard to watch.

I guess the thing that makes some of the bowls meaningless is the players don’t care. Do you think any of the bama players care if they beat the skunks? Do you think the skunk players care if they beat bama? Hardly...it doesn’t matter for anything. The lose lose game of penn st and Memphis is pointless. Why put a team expected to win with nothing to play for against a non-power 5 just to say “oohh we beat mighty Memphis”

It stupid. Make the games mean something and it becomes compelling to watch. As it stands, the only people that care about the meaningless bowls are the folks making bank on the bowl committees.

I think Georgia would beat any team ranked #4-15 at least 7 times out of 10, maybe more, except Bama. They aren't robots, some games they play better than others, but there's not another team outside the top 3 that can beat Georgia even half the time.

Now I know you are drinking....they barely beat ND this year and even TTUN smoked ND. Georgia got the benefit of playing a weak East sec this year. They aren’t that good.

You are only looking at it from the perspective of an OSU fan. Of course Michigan wants to beat Bama. But I can guarantee Bama players care more about where they are getting drafted. Same with Memphis...they absolutely want to beat Penn State. For a lot of these schools playing against a Power 5 blue blood is the biggest game they will ever play. For the guys at the top 5-8 schools in the country...OSU, Clemson, Bama, Georgia, LSU, etc...playing one of the smaller schools is like beating your little brother. It feels good, but it's not much of an accomplishment, and hard to get excited about.

College football has become too much of a "business." Kids should be having fun and a bowl game is just icing on the cake! Just my opinion.

I guarantee Michigan cares more about beating Bama than the other way around.

They can tell that story for 20 years.

Because.it doesn't change the outcome and puts draft picks into more injury opportunities... For what?

I usually root for Big XII teams, but I thoroughly enjoyed what LSU did today.

Past performance in recent playoff games should definitely be an input when selecting future playoff teams. Fans shouldn't be forced to watch the same team choke year after year.

They won’t. OU has officially rendered a Big12 championship worthless. Well, not worthless It’s equal to a PAC12 or MAC championship.

I 100% disagree. Because Alabama made it to the title game and has won a few, they should get the benefit of the doubt and be included? That’s a terrible idea.

What a total embarassment for OU, and the Big 12. I rarely feel sorry for OU, but I have to admit I did because I kind of like Lincoln Riley. Even if Baylor had beaten OU and got in, they would have suffered the same fate OU did, as it would have been a shellacking. This mindset of all offense and good enough defense is a big reason why the Big 12 basically sucks across the board.

Yep