Rose Bowl: Oregon @ Wisconsin - Wednesday, January 1st 4:00PM

[Fear The Chorizo]

That blown timeout from earlier this half to convert after one of those horrific spots looks pretty big now, yes?

[DuWayne Steurer]

That should do it. Tough to take a loss where you beat yourself with turnovers and penalties.

 

Badgers really need to find a down field passing game. I appreciate Coan, but we need Mertz to be the real deal and take the job next year.

 

 

Yep. 70% completion rating, but there's nothing about that that feels exciting or compelling or like it should keep Mertz on the bench if he's the real deal. Heck, Alabama benched Jalen Hurts for Tua, we can surely bench Jack Coan, right?

[wildcat83]

Why chase him out of bounds?????? Let him score, it’s still one possession.

[DuWayne Steurer]

LET the guy score. That is your ONLY chance here.

[Fear The Chorizo]

That should do it. Tough to take a loss where you beat yourself with turnovers and penalties.

 

Badgers really need to find a down field passing game. I appreciate Coan, but we need Mertz to be the real deal and take the job next year.

 

 

Yep. 70% completion rating, but there's nothing about that that feels exciting or compelling or like it should keep Mertz on the bench if he's the real deal. Heck, Alabama benched Jalen Hurts for Tua, we can surely bench Jack Coan, right?

 

I'm hoping coan is entering the transfer portal this spring

[adambr2]

If you would have let him score you would have had another shot, dummies. Don't try to run him down.

[homer]

Why is he ten yards off the receiver?

[MrTPlush]

They left the receiver wide open to clinch that, kind of silly...why is the safety 20 yards back?

[adambr2]

Inexcusable that Chryst obviously failed to mention during the timeout that if they convert try to let him score.

[yourout]

LET the guy score. That is your ONLY chance here.

 

Help him score.

[adambr2]

For a team that made the Rose Bowl, these Badgers sure found plenty of ways to let us down this season.

[DuWayne Steurer]

If they get the first down and the guy downs himself or runs out of bounds, so be it, but don't stop him from scoring or push him out of bounds.

[pacopete4]

I’m more so laughing at #21 playing 10 yards off the ball. At least it ended on more stupid football by the Badgers. What a garbage game.

[CheezWizHed]

Looked like we were actually letting him run, but when it was obvious he wasn't going to go in, I think he tried to make him fumble. Tough either way.

 

Stinking game. Completely lost it ourselves. The PI call was bad, but we can't make that many mistakes and expect to win.

[wallus]

That dude wasn't going to score, he was clearly going out of bounds if no one was anywhere near him.

[MrTPlush]

Can’t really expect to win when the punter drops the ball and give up 7 points.

[adambr2]

In hindsight I would have rather just gotten to pound Memphis in the Cotton Bowl and let PSU have the Rose Bowl opportunity tonight if I had known we were going to represent the Big 10 this poorly.

[yourout]

This game will be pointed to for years as reason #1 not to expand the CFP to 6 teams

 

....I'm not following at all.

 

Yea... Neither of these teams belong in playoff discussions.

[Fear The Chorizo]

I know it's a bowl and there are seniors who will never play again leaving the team and all that, but I'm hoping Chryst or Alvarez gets into that locker room and blows the roof off it slamming the team's play. That was an embarrassment that just can't be swept under the rug as having a bad day in a bowl game. If performing well in a bowl is a spring board to recruiting and program development, this sure as hell sets things back 10× worse.

[Fear The Chorizo]

This game will be pointed to for years as reason #1 not to expand the CFP to 6 teams

 

....I'm not following at all.

 

Yea... Neither of these teams belong in playoff discussions.

 

As pac 12 champ, oregon would be one of the 5 power conference champ reps...as of halftime in the big ten title game, WI had an outside shot at creeping into the top 5-6 ranked teams in the country, too.

 

My point is that expanding the playoff would definitely have included these teams in a 6 team cfp discussion, and their play most certainly proved they wouldn't have deserved it.

[wallus]

I know it's a bowl and there are seniors who will never play again leaving the team and all that, but I'm hoping Chryst or Alvarez gets into that locker room and blows the roof off it slamming the team's play. That was an embarrassment that just can't be swept under the rug as having a bad day in a bowl game. If performing well in a bowl is a spring board to recruiting and program development, this sure as hell sets things back 10× worse.

 

Yep, make sure they don't get that next paycheck too!

[valpocrewsader]

Can’t really expect to win when the punter drops the ball and give up 7 points.

 

Pretty sure that punt was getting blocked anyways. Free defender from the edge looked like he was getting home on every replay.

[adambr2]

I mean Oklahoma clearly didn't belong in the playoff either. So I don't really know what this game shows anyone that they didn't already know about the big gap between the top 3 and everyone else this season.

[homer]

This game will be pointed to for years as reason #1 not to expand the CFP to 6 teams

 

....I'm not following at all.

 

Yea... Neither of these teams belong in playoff discussions.

 

I think they were both better than Oklahoma

[MrTPlush]

This game will be pointed to for years as reason #1 not to expand the CFP to 6 teams

 

....I'm not following at all.

 

Yea... Neither of these teams belong in playoff discussions.

 

The reason it won’t go to six is because there already isn’t 2 competitive semi final games. THREE games have been decided by one score. On the flip side SEVEN have been one team getting throttled...not even close. There has only been twelve games and over half weren’t even good competitive match ups in the end. Even in the championship game 2/5 have been blowouts.

 

This game is woefully irrelevant to the college football playoff future.