We should've been beating up on Notre Dame today...

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

In Orlando.

Thanks, Coach One-Foot-Out-The-Door...

 

[was21]

We would have beaten either of these two teams

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Notre Dame just had the play of this bowl season

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

LSU looks like it has no clue, right now.

 

[Bucky Dog]

Ed O kicks the FG on fourth down from the 6 inch line in a tie game instead of going for it! What an idiot.

 

[Dawgzilla]

And with that, Mullen STILL has not beaten a team who finished the season with less than 4 losses...

Don't mean to turn this into another Merlinz thread, but that stat still cracks me up.

 

[was21]

sssshhhhhhh...want O to hang around...just for kicks (no pun intended)

 

[Go Budaw]

There is not a chance in hell that we would have been selected over LSU even if we won the Egg. You haven’t been paying much attention to college football very long if you think they take a small market team like us over a national brand like LSU that we also finished behind in the standings.

 

[paindonthurt_]

How is that a bad call?

 

[msstate7]

There is not a chance in hell that we would have been selected over LSU even if we won the Egg. You haven’t been paying much attention to college football very long if you think they take a small market team like us over a national brand like LSU that we also finished behind in the standings.

Highest ranked team not in NY6, right? I say you wrong

 

[Bucky Dog]

How is that a bad call?

Because they were pushing the ND line back at that point and you have Guice and Williams. 2 minutes left is too much time to tie it up or get beat, which they did. Go for the TD and go up by 7. At very worst ND starts from their own goal line and it’s tied.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

It's what they did later

went into a prevent zone D...Boy that worked out.

Then when they got the ball back they looked like they did not know what to do,

just went to chunking it.

 

[Apoplectic_Objurgator]

And with that, Mullen STILL has not beaten a team who finished the season with less than 4 losses...

Don't mean to turn this into another Merlinz thread, but that stat still cracks me up.

I’ve been trying to make this point to anyone that will listen: murlins never had a signature win over a good team and never beat a team that had better talent

 

[Go Budaw]

Highest ranked team not in NY6, right? I say you wrong

First off there is no guarantee that would have been us. Secondly, the Citrus doesn’t select based on CFP rankings...its based on finish in the standings amongst other things (basically, the Citrus gets first pick after all NY6 slots are filled). We would have been a game back of LSU even with a win in the Egg. Finally, they never would have pitted us against ND even if we were tied in the standings and were the better team. LSU vs ND is a much bigger TV ratings draw.

 

[paindonthurt_]

Going for it on 4th down gets you fired. Ed O knows this well.

You take what is basically a guaranteed lead especially when neither offense had been tearing it up.

It isn’t debatable. You kick the FG every time there.

 

[512taylor]

Because they were pushing the ND line back at that point and you have Guice and Williams. 2 minutes left is too much time to tie it up or get beat, which they did. Go for the TD and go up by 7. At very worst ND starts from their own goal line and it’s tied.

Didn't they go for it earlier in the game in a similar situation and did not succeed?

 

[Dawgzilla]

I’ve been trying to make this point to anyone that will listen: murlins never had a signature win over a good team and never beat a team that had better talent

His signature upset win was probably the 2009 Egg Bowl.