2020 College Football Playoff National Championship game thread

canderson

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Ed Orgeron sounds like he's got max 5 years before COPD takes him to that big pack of Marlboros in the sky.
I don’t understand people who can’t understand him. His speech isn’t that hard to grasp - just a little mumbled.

Granted I grew up 20 miles from Louisiana and surrounded by Cajuns but he isn’t close to them.
 

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Is Moss a really good TE (i.e., would he be a nice fit on the Pats?) or is he just a decent TE on a ridiculously talented college offense?
He's only a junior, and folks don't know if he's going to come out yet, so he's not really showing up on a lot of prospect lists. He's Randy Moss' son. If he comes out, the projection is around the 4th round right now. Their other tight end, 6'4, 250lb Stephen Sullivan is also projected in that range.
 

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I don’t understand people who can’t understand him. His speech isn’t that hard to grasp - just a little mumbled.

Granted I grew up 20 miles from Louisiana and surrounded by Cajuns but he isn’t close to them.
He's not unintelligible. He just looks and sounds like an ogre.

edit: but people should take this as an invitation to post your favorite "unintelligible Scotsman" clips.
 

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The teams ran around 85 plays in the 1st half, not including special teams. These defenses are going to be exhausted. Both of the offenses get set and snap so fast.
 

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Who will be the top 11 CFB players of all time that they announce at halftime?

Archie Griffin
Marshall Faulk
Barry Sanders
Bo Jackson
Herschel Walker
Tebow
Charles Woodson
Staubach
Dorsett
Thorpe
Grange

That's what I'm going with off the cuff.
They left off Faulk, Woodson, Tebow and Dorsett
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They put in Butkus, Sayers, Brown and Campbell.
 

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I'm sorry. Jim Brown was an all word athlete, but he played 24 college games and had 2,200 yards from scrimmage and 21 td's in 3 seasons.

This is supposed to be best college football players of all time. Leaving off Dorsett for him is crazy, same with Tebow and Charles Woodson.
 

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I am surprised Bush didn't get some love. As a 36 yo, he was probably the most dynamic and exciting player I've watched live in CFB. Watching the USC games at 10p was appointment viewing. He looked another level above most teams he was playing.
 

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I am surprised Bush didn't get some love. As a 36 yo, he was probably the most dynamic and exciting player I've watched live in CFB. Watching the USC games at 10p was appointment viewing. He looked another level above most teams he was playing.
Probably didn’t want to deal with the USC taint from that era.
 

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I am surprised Bush didn't get some love. As a 36 yo, he was probably the most dynamic and exciting player I've watched live in CFB. Watching the USC games at 10p was appointment viewing. He looked another level above most teams he was playing.
I agree, certainly would have had him over Brown. Also thought Lee Roy Selmon would have potentially made it. Dude was a monster in college (40 sacks), then had a HOF NFL career.
 

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I am surprised Bush didn't get some love. As a 36 yo, he was probably the most dynamic and exciting player I've watched live in CFB. Watching the USC games at 10p was appointment viewing. He looked another level above most teams he was playing.
And then, how about OJ Simpson?
 

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Huge stop for Clemson there. If LSU went down and scored, not sure Clemson could have caught them.

Clemson needs to score before LSU scores again.
 

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I agree, certainly would have had him over Brown. Also thought Lee Roy Selmon would have potentially made it. Dude was a monster in college (40 sacks), then had a HOF NFL career.
And then, how about OJ Simpson?
The list definitely skewed older. Barry was the youngest player on there? And he came out in 1989. Certainly the lists has some questions but these are always more fun exercises than definitive lists.


Also looking back at that 1989 draft - Hart Lee Dykes over Andre Rison? oof
 

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ESPN’s supposed top college football player never won a Heisman
To be fair, I don't think a black player had ever won a Heisman at that point. Paul Hornung won it the year Brown was in the running, but Brown was a consensus all American, and Hornung wasn't.
 

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ESPN’s supposed top college football player never won a Heisman
Brown in 1956: 8 g, 986 yds rushing, 6.2 ypc, 12 td. The guy who won the Heisman was Paul Hornung, who rushed for 420 yards and threw for 917 on 53.2% passing, with 3 td and 13 int. And @Deathofthebambino was right. Totally racist environment at that point.
 

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I also did not see it hit the ground but thought it did because of how nonchalant everyone was acting
 

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I would like to see Travis Etienne and Clyde Edwards-Helaire in a running back version of a duel to the death. Both of those guys run so fucking hard.