Ohio State & Notre Dame dominate & Texas holds on in CFP 1st round | Always College Football

Notre Dame hosted the first CFP game on campus and dominated an Indiana team that didn’t have a good game plan. Penn State’s defense crushed SMU’s dreams before the 1st quarter was over. Texas held off a good Clemson team by running the ball all over the Tigers and Ohio State flexed hard on Tennessee and looked like a team on a mission from the start. Greg McElroy breaks down the 1st round games and has a few more general takeaways for all of us i.e. stop with the hypothetical matchups in the CFP.

0:00 Intro
1:35 Notre Dame dominates Indiana
3:00 Notre Dame looks like they can win it all and what was IU gameplan
8:56 Penn State’s impressive win over SMU
11:30 Penn State looks complete and bad day to have a bad day for SMU
15:51 Texas holds off a good Clemson team
18:15 Texas controlled the lines of scrimmage but Clemson showed so heart
24:22 Ohio State dismantles Tennessee
26:00 That version of Ohio State is scary good & Tennessee was nothing without Sampson
32:47 More takeaways from the 1st round
34:00 Stop painting a broad brush over conferences
38:30 Experience in CFP games matters
41:10 Let’s stop with the hypothetical stuff PLEASE
46:45 Did we need to go to 12 teams?
48:10 We need more home field CFP games
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