Upset Alert: Pitt (5-7) defeats #2 Miami (10-1) 24-14
Looks like the fightin' Narduzzi are turning in their 1 inexplicable upset of the season.
Edit: Miami recovers the onside kick, and driving with 1:53 left
Edit2: Welp, strip fumble recovery by Pitt and no timeouts left for Miami... game, blouses.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:21 PM ^
...this just makes it more likely that OSU gets in the CFP as a 2-loss B1G champ?
November 24th, 2017 at 3:27 PM ^
Clemson was always beating Miami next week most likely. This barely moves the needle for OSU.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:31 PM ^
But if they put a real beating on us and on Wisconsin (both of which are distinct possibilities), OSU could leapfrog several teams and still make it in.
If Auburn wins out I think OSU is sunk, but if Bama wins tomorrow and then Georgia loses to either Tech or Bama in the title game, OSU would have a real shot. And that's a terrifying prospect.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:34 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 3:35 PM ^
Right but my point was I don't think Miami would have ever stood in the way of that...11-0 Miami that then lost the conference championship game to Clemson who is then in isn't likely to keep OSU out if those other things you mentioned happen.
November 24th, 2017 at 5:12 PM ^
GA Tech will beat UGA, Auburn will beat Alabama, and South Carolina will beat Clemson. Those underdogs are all playing at home and only GA Tech will probably have a neutral crowd at worst.
And because karma hates us, OSU will beat us on our own turf.
Am I being cynical or just trying to do a reverse jinx? I'm too superstitious to say.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:27 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 3:51 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 4:12 PM ^
Umm...no they don't.
Neither of their losses were competitive and one of those losses was to a "meh" Iowa squad who put up 66 yards of offense against Wisconsin and just lost at home to freakin Purdue.
OSU has no right to be anywhere near the CFP but, as usual, everything will somehow work out in their favor.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:33 PM ^
you just run out of 0 and 1-loss teams. Alabama, Wisconsin, Miami, Oklahoma, Clemson, and Georgia are it. If Alabama runs the table and Wisconsin is out if they lose to Ohio State, who else is there? Alabama, Oklahoma, Clemson-Miami winner, and who?
The one thing that could really hurt them, other than losing, is Auburn (or Georgia) beating Bama making a 2 teams from the SEC a real possibility
November 24th, 2017 at 3:41 PM ^
This helps Ohio State (if they win out).
It's not a given that the CFP would put a 2-loss OSU (with 2 very bad losses) in over a 1-loss Miami that lost close to Clemson in the ACC Championship game.
It won't matter now. The ACC gets one team in only.
Only the SEC can potentially get 2 teams in now, and IMO that is only if Alabama loses tomorrow and is sitting in the clubhouse with 1 loss.
A 2-loss Auburn or 2-loss Georgia that did not even win their conference are not getting in over a B1G champion OSU that just knocked off an undefeated Wisc.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:54 PM ^
Then maybe TCU gets in. Seriously, the impetus for adding that game was their teams getting left out one year bcause of their horrendous non-conference scheduling. More often, leagues chances would be better without one. True this year for the Big Ten, maybe the SEC and nearly the ACC.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:58 PM ^
yeah i think it was always going to be clemson or miami - prob a better chance of neither making it than somehow 2 acc teams getting in
November 24th, 2017 at 3:49 PM ^
I have to believe a 2-loss OSU Big Ten Champion would have gotten rather than 2 ACC teams.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:55 PM ^
They might not have gotten in over a 1-loss Miami, if Miami lost very closely to Clemson.
The committee does not like 2 loss teams, and they especially don't like teams with 2 very bad losses, conference champion or not.
But it does not matter now.
November 24th, 2017 at 5:15 PM ^
Assuming Clemson doesn't pull a stinker vs S Carolina, the ordering by conference is
- SEC Champ (Bama/Aub/GA)
- ACC Winner (Clem/Miami)
- Okla if it's Big12 Champ (also smoked OSU)
- Wiscy if it's BIG champ
- ND tenuous hold on next in line (plays Stanf Sat)
- OSU if BIG Champ (2 blowout losses)
- USC if PAC-12 champ
- TCU if it's it's Big12 Champ
Bama as a loser is the only team IMO that could enable the committee to send two from one conference, for which there will always be enormous political pressure against. (I could see the committee rejecting a two-loss ND or OSU in favor of a one-loss Bama. No one else is going to overcome those political headwinds as a second representative of a conference.)
You can argue order/seedings/travel, but I think the above captures In vs Out pretty well.
November 24th, 2017 at 5:53 PM ^
I think the worst-case scenario is:
- SEC Champion: Alabama (13-0)
- ACC Champion: Miami (11-1)
- B1G Champion: Ohio State (11-2)
- Big-12 Champion: TCU (11-2)
- Pac-12 Champion: Stanford (10-3)
- B1G Runner-up: Wisconsin (12-1)
- SEC Runner-up: Georgia (11-2)
- ACC Runner-up: Clemson (11-2)
- Big-12 Runner-up: Oklahoma (11-2)
- Pac-12 Runner-up: USC (10-3)
- Notre Dame (9-3)
- AAC Champion: UCF (12-0)
Ohio State could reasonably get a 3-seed in that scenario.
November 24th, 2017 at 4:46 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 3:21 PM ^
Miami is another team on my unfavorable list !
November 24th, 2017 at 3:31 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 3:25 PM ^
get the buckeye fans more excited .. thus equating to more misery when Peters beats them with a last minute TD drive tomorrow.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:47 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 4:38 PM ^
JOK beating them alone would be all the devestation they could handle.
November 25th, 2017 at 6:51 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 3:29 PM ^
PLAYOFFS HERE WE COME
November 24th, 2017 at 3:29 PM ^
Richt kinda threw this game away when he panicked and benched Rozier in the 4th with 10 minutes left.
Killed the confidence his team had. Pitt then goes marching for a TD on a crazy 4th down bootleg call.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:30 PM ^
Rosier hadn't hit anything open down the field, kept overthrowing his WRs on deep balls.
They weren't winning with him in the game the whole way.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:50 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 3:58 PM ^
Mostly due to their QB having a horrible game. Is it panicky to make a change or stubbornness not to?
November 24th, 2017 at 3:30 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 3:31 PM ^
ha! F the U!
November 24th, 2017 at 3:32 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 3:34 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 3:53 PM ^
Why let facts get in the way of his opinions?
November 24th, 2017 at 3:36 PM ^
that underdogs should play with. Say what you will about Narduzzi (and to an even greater extent Dantonio), they know who the better team is, all they care about is winning the game.
I'd love to see that tomorrow.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:43 PM ^
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November 24th, 2017 at 4:32 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 3:45 PM ^
College football is full of these kinds of games. There is just too much relative parity, so that an 80% effort can't always beat a 110% effort. That's what makes it great.
November 24th, 2017 at 4:41 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 4:44 PM ^
Yeah, this is a valid point. Nobody that can actually beat us ever gives just an 80% effort.
MSU, PSU, Iowa, Wisc have all beaten us, but none of it has been an 80% effort on their part (can't always say the same about us.)
Ohio State always gives us 100%.
Not much opportunity for us to ever sneak up on somebody.
Maybe tomorrow perhaps. All the Ohio State fans have been treating this as a done deal, their only concern is running up the score to impress the CFP. They are not expecting a punch in the mouth.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:47 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 4:45 PM ^
I know it's always a joy for me when Notre Dame gets beat.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:57 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 4:47 PM ^
Inspirational, really.
We need to have some of that in us.
November 24th, 2017 at 3:58 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 3:38 PM ^
November 24th, 2017 at 3:43 PM ^
No one in the country can touch Bama
November 24th, 2017 at 3:45 PM ^