CFP 2021 Week 12: Legends & Leaders

Awesome Fossum

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I want to root for Utah but I'm not sure I can support this uniform choice. Fortunately for them, my allegiance is worth about -3.5 points.
 

Philip Jeff Frye

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Harvard/Yale was great!
Depends on your point of view! Some tremendously bad play calling by the Yale coach at the end of the game.

For those who didn't see it, Yale had the ball first down on the Harvard 35 with a 4 point lead and about two minutes left after Harvard failed to get a first down on 4th and long. The ESPN win percentage thing had Yale at about 99% at that point. Needing one first down to clinch the game, Yale ran three plays straight into the line and got no yards. Having been extremely conservative, the Yale coach decides to get aggressive on 4th down and leaves the offense on the field instead of punting. A good punt puts Harvard in their own 5 yard line with a minute left and no timeouts. A bad punt into the end zone means they still need to go 80 yards. Instead, Yale throws an incomplete pass. Maybe those 15-30 yards end up not mattering, but Yale sure made it easier for Harvard to drive the length of the field and score the winning TD with 20 seconds left. Yale also wasted its timeouts on the drive to no purpose. Again, this probably didn't matter but it was stupid.

The game was fun - a beautiful day, announced crowd of almost 50,000, lots of back and forth, big plays, turnovers, last minute victory, but it was also sort of terrible. Both QBs were well under 50% completion percentage, no RB was near 100 yards. Both teams were bad on third down. The dunderheaded coaching. It seemed like a football game from circa 50 years ago versus what we're used to seeing today, even in the Ivy League.
 
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Utah returns a punt to end the half. 28-0.
After that shanked field goal, the Oregon defense needed to get a stop to get the team to halftime down 14-0. Instead, they got rolled, then after Oregon couldn’t muster anything on offense, they inexplicably punted to the return man instead of kicking it out of bounds with maybe 5 seconds to go.

Cincinnati controls its own destiny now, right?
 

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It feels like every year, one of the conferences (Usually the Big 10) has like 10 teams ranked, and then we realize... oh everyone except maybe 1 team is actually dogshit and they just got undue credit for playing each other.
 

Joe D Reid

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UC system with its best night in quite some time: UCLA beats USC by 29 and Berkeley beats Stanford by 30, both on the road.
 

Lose Remerswaal

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Depends on your point of view! Some tremendously bad play calling by the Yale coach at the end of the game.



The game was fun - a beautiful day, announced crowd of almost 50,000, lots of back and forth, big plays, turnovers, last minute victory, but it was also sort of terrible. Both QBs were well under 50% completion percentage, no RB was near 100 yards. Both teams were bad on third down. The dunderheaded coaching. It seemed like a football game from circa 50 years ago versus what we're used to seeing today, even in the Ivy League.
yes, it was glorious. No way they had 50,000 there, but the crowd was impressive, and the coaching was terrible, and I am not sure anyone knows what MIT did so the nation missed most of the third quarter on TV, but it was the most fun I have had watching The Game since my dad told me I couldn’t go to the bathroom with 4 minutes left in 1969.
 

Humphrey

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UC system with its best night in quite some time: UCLA beats USC by 29 and Berkeley beats Stanford by 30, both on the road.
I gotta think David Shaw is a dead man walking. Sad, given what Stanford was a few years ago.