The conference champions were good teams, but weren't nearly as good as their rankings would indicate, with maybe the exception of Georgia.
That being said, it would have been awfully nice for us to have a bye. We lost Rylie Mills and Anthonie Knapp during that Indiana game, and Howard Cross, who was at best, at 85% strength, got banged up.
That plus Jeremiyah Love could have used a week of rest to truly get to full strength. He wasn't anywhere near his top level for the playoffs, even though he definitely came through in the clutch. Just think what he'll do this year, fully healthy and with another year of strength and conditioning.
^^ Exactly
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- ND can be the #1 seed starting this year. - AlbanyIRISH - 2:49pm 5/22/25
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- Should be a great selling point to chicks. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 9:52pm 5/22/25
- Hmmm.. the teams with byes last year did not fare well in the playoffs. [LINK]
- Curly1918 - 3:41pm 5/22/25
- Anomaly. 2 of 4 were unworthy & much worse than their opponent. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 7:59pm 5/22/25
- Teams with byes didn’t do well because the wrong teams had byes. [NT]
- sweetbobbyg - 7:43pm 5/22/25
- I just don’t like the long layoff. And I loved the home game in December. [NT]
- Curly1918 - 6:14am 5/23/25
- The whole conference title games needs to go away and move the playoffs up a week - ndphysics - 9:07am 5/23/25
- I don't like the long layoff either but the bye is still slightly better IMO. [NT]
- THEISMANCARR - 8:45am 5/23/25
- I hope this is the case... but I can't let go of my fantasy of playing USC at home in December. - Curly1918 - 8:48am 5/23/25
- ^^ Exactly - ndunabomber - 9:39pm 5/22/25
- I just don’t like the long layoff. And I loved the home game in December. [NT]
- Curly1918 - 6:14am 5/23/25
- The byes may not be quite the gift that some think. - jakers - 4:42pm 5/22/25
- Awesome - Nigel Tufnel - 3:29pm 5/22/25
- excellent. - und67 - 3:16pm 5/22/25
- fumble. [NT] - und67 - 3:17pm 5/22/25