When was the of e last time ND won a NY6 bowl game much less two in the same draw? Granted Georgia had a backup at QB, but ND had some major hits on defense including two of our best players.
Sugar bowl and Orange bowl
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"Granted Georgia had a backup at QB, but ND had some major hits on defense including two of our best players."
Well, up until this year, no one had ever won 2 bowl games in the same year -- and ND gets to say they were the 1st!
As for the "backup QB" -- I do not feel sorry for them -- ND has been playing down players all year, no one "felt sorry" for us .. you play with the guys you have and go.
I agree with this so much by you. Who cares that Georgia had a backup QB. They had three weeks to prepare and practice with the high level recruit backup QB. No sympathy. Now if there QB gets injured in the first half of the game and is out for the game and suddenly some backup QB is inserted on the fly and you lose I would have some compassion and say "that really sucks your qb went down eaarly on in the game. It may have been different had that not happened"
ND did not win any bowl games this postseason. Holy mothereffin' shit. That wasn't the Orange Bowl we played in, that was the semifinal of the CFB playoff. And the same thing for the Sugar Bowl, we didn't actually play in the Sugar Bowl, that's what's known as the quarterfinal, when there's 8 teams left in a playoff bracket. I guess that's kind of a math term, sort of, because there's four games going at that stage, so the totality as it were is split into four games comprising 8 participating teams, and in the semis it is split it into two games, so two halves, 'semi', as in like semicircle. And then there's just the one, which is where we are now.
But it was played in the Superdome in 'NOLA', where they traditionally play the Sugar Bowl, even though wasn't actually the Sugar Bowl. It's the Superdome! And that was the venue. Although I think in Miami it was actually called the Orange bowl, the stadium. You know, like the Rose Bowl. The Cotton Bowl's another good one. I guess a number of stadiums, the edifices themselves, used to be formally referred to as 'bowls', back when they started playing postseason bowl games. And the name stuck! And they just named the game being played after the stadium. Which seems reasonable enough, for a postseason exhibition game. But we played in some other, more recently built newfangled stadium. The original Orange Bowl itself has long since been demolished.
So two great win playoff wins over first UGA, and then PSU. Incredible that ND actually made it to the final of the very first CFB playoff, it truly is. When I was hoping simply getting in would have been very cool. But we didn't win any bowl games. Just to be clear.
But it was played in the Superdome in 'NOLA', where they traditionally play the Sugar Bowl, even though wasn't actually the Sugar Bowl. It's the Superdome! And that was the venue. Although I think in Miami it was actually called the Orange bowl, the stadium. You know, like the Rose Bowl. The Cotton Bowl's another good one. I guess a number of stadiums, the edifices themselves, used to be formally referred to as 'bowls', back when they started playing postseason bowl games. And the name stuck! And they just named the game being played after the stadium. Which seems reasonable enough, for a postseason exhibition game. But we played in some other, more recently built newfangled stadium. The original Orange Bowl itself has long since been demolished.
So two great win playoff wins over first UGA, and then PSU. Incredible that ND actually made it to the final of the very first CFB playoff, it truly is. When I was hoping simply getting in would have been very cool. But we didn't win any bowl games. Just to be clear.
What is going to take for people to stop putting a damn * next to our accomplishments. You want to talk about injuries. How about us losing our best player and the only graduating player predicted to be drafted in the first two rounds of this year's NFL draft?! Georgia had four or five! Penn State at least 3. OSU will have 4. Playing without 3 of our four defensive lineman and two offensive lineman.
What will it take? A win on Monday. Go get 'em boys.
What will it take? A win on Monday. Go get 'em boys.
Face it, ND won the Sugar and Orange bowl this year, something Kelly never will. That's what those games were called. As the famous saying goes, it is what it is.
That's why this NFL mock playoff is antithetical to college football. We should have ended a good season on a win, twice. And we would be overjoyed to know that we broke a 30-year streak. But instead no one will remember anything except the 16th game.
Just as Michigan got to win the last national championship that vaguely resembled traditional college football, Michigan got to celebrate the bull tradition. The defending champion wolfies were barely a .500 team but their fans are very happy because they got to go out with wins over Ohio State and Alabama.
Yeah, that's what we should have done. Play in not one, but two traditional NY's day bowl games, obviously not both played on Jan 1, win them both, and then just call it a season. I don't even know what you'd do as far as the rankings, or the 'national championship'. Would it really even matter at that point?
Maybe ND really should just gracefully bow out of the final. It's not cowardice, or poor sportsmanship, we just want to finish the season on a high note. As everyone knows, ND loves their tradition, and they're just not willing to give up the opportunity to savor two bowl victories in the same year, as obviously bonkers as that is. They still called it the Orange Bowl didn't they? And they made a little show of bringing out a basket of oranges for RL to frolic with and playfully toss around while beaming from the winner's podium with the cameras flashing. And ND would like to end it right there. That would certainly garner an asterisk on the initial CFB playoff....
