Interesting that in the 1st year of a true playoff it is PSU vs SMU. Should call this the Sanctions Bowl or the Death Penalty Bowl.
Football Penn State to face No. 11 SMU in first round of College Football Playoffs
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Hopefully the groundskeepers get that grass nice and long for 12/21.
Penn State to face SMU in first round of College Football Playoffs
Penn State is officially in the College Football Playoffs.t.co
Kind of amusing what the Committee did here with 11/12 and 5/6 seeds imho. They gave Texas the 5 seed, but stuck them with the ACC Champion (i.e., SMU should have clearly been the 12-seed without a Conference Chapionship). IOW, they gave PSU the 6-seed, but the 5-seed matchup (I'd way rather play SMU than Clemson. SMU played nobody outside of Clemson and BYU and they lost to both for Pete's sake). No way the Committee should put the ACC Champion behind the 2nd place ACC team imho. But apparently they left SMU 12th and put Clemson 13th in CFP Rankings so they could leave Alabama unchanged at #11 in CFP Rankings, but still be the first team left out of Playoff (Clemson knocks them out as the 5th Highest Ranked Conference Champion) - the only way they could have put Clemson @ #11 and SMU #12 outright in CFP Rankings would be to move Alabama down 2 spots from last week to #13. They didn't want to justify this.... so they went this route, but it is interesting that they gave PSU the 5/12 matchup against the #2 ACC team (they gave Texas the #5 seed, but the 6/11 matchup with the ACC Champion Clemson.).
Or Clemson's resume isn't as good as SMU?
I think this is a reach but regardless it worked out great
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Nice consolation prize, even though I’m still freaking pissed from last night for a variety of reasons, from the awful officiating to Franklin not being able to calm the players in the first half to keep them out of boneheaded penalties. I don’t know about you guys but last night stings worse for me than any recent loss in recent memory because I truly think we win that game six out of every 10 times.
Penn State and SMU set for noon matchup on December 21
Penn State and SMU will have a noon kickoff on December 21.
Penn State opens as touchdown favorite over SMU
The initial odds for the first round of the College Football Playoffs and the Penn State Nittany Lions are a 7.5 point
It's better than not being in the playoff
We all knew Tennessee-Ohio State was going to prime time.
Texas isn't hosting a noon start so that left us Friday night or Saturday at noon
One nice thing not being talked about that much: A win puts us in the Fiesta Bowl. That's a reward.
Huge incentives to perform in the next game. This team needs to prepare and keep their heads in line.
Franklin and company need to watch tape on what worked and what did not work in the Oregon game. On defense that may mean moving Carter to linebacker for quite a few plays. On offense it means not throwing the game away with low percentage passes. We have RBs and TEs that are tough for opposing defenses to handle. Use them creatively, but without gimmicks.
Huge incentives to perform in the next game. This team needs to prepare and keep their heads in line.
Franklin and company need to watch tape on what worked and what did not work in the Oregon game. On defense that may mean moving Carter to linebacker for quite a few plays. On offense it means not throwing the game away with low percentage passes. We have RBs and TEs that are tough for opposing defenses to handle. Use them creatively, but without gimmicks.
I'd be very surprised if any of the home teams lost in the first round. Tennessee has the best shot if Ohio State hasn't gotten over the Michigan lost. ND and Penn State should win easily. Texas should destroy Clemson like Georgia did.
Penn State and Texas really do have the best odds to reach the semis.
Penn State and Texas really do have the best odds to reach the semis.
Big news, it will be a White Out
pennstate.rivals.com
Penn State announces White Out for CFP matchup against SMU
Penn State will be officially hosting its second White Out of the 2024 season.
How is their a trap game in a playoff?
I get what you mean, the talent level drops but if there's a let down for a playoff game then a lot of people need to be fired.
TNT owns the CFP Contract (along with ABC/ESPN). The Texas v Clemson game is also on TNT. This has zero to do with BTN, or the Conference relegating us to their 3rd Tier programming. Really no different than TBS winning a portion of MLB Postseason Playoffs Contract.
Agree. PSU will be favored in both games. At least Franklin is very good in those games.
I don't know if it's showing us love as much as the inherent flaw in the seeding process. Let's be honest. If you're virtually anybody other than Penn State right now, you look at these seedings and ask WTF.
It's clear the committee doesn't want to punish for losing a conference title game, and the committee didn't really value head-to-head as much as overall record. We got the nod over Ohio State. SMU got seeded higher than Clemson. We both lost those head-to-heads. But we had better records (and in both cases, unbalanced scheduling certainly aided that, but both OSU and Clemson had a loss that wasn't great).
Again, we'll take it. But we benefited from a bit of an odd construct.
They have a very mobile quarterback and three very good wide receivers plus a running game. On top of that the front floor is really good. I never said they were as good as Oregon. I said that they have a similar style of organ
Tennessee may prove me wrong. but I still think Ohio State is one of the 3-4 best teams in the country. Michigan is in tOSU's head as much tOSU is in Penn State's. Unless UT shows up wearing maize and blue, I expect a Suckeye win. I agree with you on Texas; the nightmare scenario for them would be making the finals and seeing UGA on the other sideline.
Ehh......yes, it hurt.
But the loss gave us an easier road to the semifinals than a win would have.
Oregon has a tougher road than we do. Bizarro world in seeding.
.....and they won't be playing indoors, under perfect conditions on astroturf.... You're nuts if you think PSU doesn't have as much team speed as SMU.
Home-field Advantage is massive here for PSU. As is not having the game officiated by corrupt, heavily-biased b2g hack clowns.
They won't be playing with corrupt b2g hack clown Officials.... look for duhO$U to be heavily penalized for holding and DPI along patchwork OL and Defensive Secondary.
It would have been criminal having them above us. If they aren’t happy, maybe schedule more than 8 Power 4 teams…
Do people not know the time zones in the USA?
I get the sense that this will change in the years ahead.
Again, I'll gladly take it this year. But reading comments on non-PSU CFB boards, the whole country seems to think we and Texas both got obscene gifts, particularly since neither of us have any big wins. When Penn State and Texas get better draws than Oregon and UGA, something is off.
Not really. Everything is Eastern Standard Time. Except for California and Vegas, which are 3 hours "behind" us. The rest of the country? Who gives a bleep.
I just hope.. and this might be a crazy thought.. that we we fill the stadium 12/21… we will not have our typical student section there.. which is always a huge advantage…so assume many locals…?
