I’ve seen a few embarrassing moments in college football, which has basically been ruined by the playoff committee, NIL deals, and the transfer portal. This weekend featured bowl games, bowl games that weren’t called bowl games (New Year’s 6 which I’ve never heard of till this year), and top teams losing in games that don’t matter.
I’m thinking of Ohio State, a team that, when ranked #2 in the country, lost to the #3 team and somehow dropped out of playoff contention (perplexing when the #8 team somehow jumps into the top 4 just for beating Georgia). If anyone can make that make sense, leave a comment below. So Ohio State played Missouri in the Cotton Bowl (sounds like a bowl game?) and lost, but again, what difference did a win make anyway?
Florida State got blown out by Georgia in another bowl game that, except for having the record for biggest point difference in Orange Bowl history, will be forgotten about in short time. Georgia’s 1st string beat Florida State’s freshman 3rd string team. OK. What did Georgia gain by winning? Nothing. What did FSU lose by losing. Nothing.
But the most embarrassing thing I saw was from Clemson. A game with less interest than finding sand at a beach. The only thing I can gather from what I’m about to show you is that maybe Dabo Swinney’s job was on the line? That can be the only explanation for his dramatic reaction to their field goal kicker making a field goal towards the end of the game that might win the game (it wasn’t made with the clock going to zero, they still had about a minute left in the game).
Clemson did end up winning and after the game the head coach and this other coach were caught on camera showing the excitement you’d normally see when two 3rd grade girls see each other at recess. It was weird.
Portrait of a man who’s probably already updated his resume on LinkedIn.
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