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Alabama/Notre Dame line at 20 1/2
Dec 27, 2020, 9:20 AM
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Our margin of win against ND made this line higher than bookies probably wanted. Without our margin, it would be about 11-12 points.
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Re: Alabama/Notre Dame line at 20 1/2
Dec 27, 2020, 9:22 AM
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And it would be that much, or more, against just about anyone ranked below ND yet all we hear is about how we need more playoff teams,.not less.
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1/3 of the CFP champions have been team #4***
Dec 27, 2020, 9:54 AM
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How many of the 1/3 were 20.5 dogs?
Dec 27, 2020, 10:08 PM
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Kinda small sample size don’t you think?
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Re: Alabama/Notre Dame line at 20 1/2
Dec 27, 2020, 9:59 AM
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Just my opinion, but line(s) never determined the outcome of a game. All they are good for is gambling, nothing more. As to more teams I feel that in time the number will increase to 8. As to how those numbers will be determined will need to be worked out. I personally think that the top 8 teams in the CFP poll at the end of the regular season should go. You do away with conference championship games as some teams may get an unfair advantage of not having to play that extra game. Each season each team plays 10 conference games, on a rotating basis + one OOC and one FBS team. That way a Clemson can schedule a Furman, S.C. State, or Citadel+ the intrastate rival game with Carolina.. The top 8 teams advance. or example Texas A&M would have gotten in. A 2 loss Florida team might have made it as well, but that loss to LSU, +the SECCG did them in.
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Re: Alabama/Notre Dame line at 20 1/2
Dec 27, 2020, 10:07 AM
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Conference championship games act as an elimination round in my opinion and it’s why ND getting in is a travesty.
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I disagree with just taking the top eight teams! Do you
Dec 27, 2020, 9:19 PM
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really want to see 3 of the eight come out of the SEC? I don't! Instead of doing away with the CCGs, make it mean even more, by giving the five conference champs automatic berths! If a conference wants to decide their champ without a CCG, that is fine too!
Five conference champs, the highest ranked G5 conference champ, and two at large, with no conference having more than one at-large team. This is very important, to insure no one conference has more than two teams in!
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Re: Alabama/Notre Dame line at 20 1/2
Dec 27, 2020, 9:47 AM
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This is all about Alabama because they are a great team this year. They can be beaten but it will a perfect game and some turnover help from them.
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44-16***
Dec 27, 2020, 3:48 PM
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Re: Alabama/Notre Dame line at 20 1/2
Dec 28, 2020, 4:46 PM
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Clemson will beat Bama in the title game...Trevor will be the difference
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Re: Alabama/Notre Dame line at 20 1/2
Dec 27, 2020, 10:49 AM
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I watched the lsu game from last year on the sec network. Didn’t turn the channel after and was half watching the bowl preview shows and one guy said “This Alabama team might be the best in the last century.” The story is always the same. Bama is the greatest team ever every year. They've earned some of that but good grief.
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20 1/2 is conservative
Dec 27, 2020, 8:40 PM
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The final margin will be much higher. It will be a royal beatdown.
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Spread covered by halftime is my bet.***
Dec 27, 2020, 8:45 PM
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Re: 20 1/2 is conservative
Dec 28, 2020, 10:15 AM
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I think ND will surprise some people. Most people.....ok danm it..they will surprise everyone. It will be a mixture of ND being a little better than what people perceive them to be and Alabama not being that great, walk in water type team that they are being made out as.
Alabama. 45 Notre Dame 38
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Re: 20 1/2 is conservative
Dec 28, 2020, 10:31 AM
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I'll grant you this: After Alabama blows out to a big lead and takes their foot off the gas, ND might make the final margin respectable.
Possible, but unlikely.
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Thats the thing though....they actually ARN'T better than
Dec 28, 2020, 1:09 PM
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people think, they are actually probably worse. Hell, we were missing half our #### team the first meeting and still should have won the ball game. The ACC title wasnt even as close as the score. You could tell Clemson took their foot off in the second half.
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Wow, this Alabama team must be even greater than their
Dec 28, 2020, 10:18 AM
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"Greatest of All Tiiime" team in 2018, which had us a 6 point dog.
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ESPiN apparently lost that game... Never show it.***
Dec 28, 2020, 10:36 AM
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Evidently that "Gob" that Flimbomb hocked up when he was
Dec 28, 2020, 12:35 PM
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"Gobsmacked" after the game must have landed on their DVD of the game and ate it up.
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Re: Alabama/Notre Dame line at 20 1/2
Dec 28, 2020, 12:00 PM
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Vegas had the make the line that ridiculous just to get some of the money to flow to ND. With that said, I would still take Bama with 20.5 points.
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The whole point of creating the line
Dec 28, 2020, 1:46 PM
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is to get the betting dollars close to 50/50 for each side. That way, the house wins big no matter what.
20 1/2 is what it took for ~half the bettors to bite on ND.
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