The 2025 College Football Playoffs Marks the Official Changing Tide in College Football
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The historic College Football Blue Bloods are going to have to adjust. The old days of college football are over, and that is not an opinion; that is a fact, marked specifically by the 2025 College Football Playoff Quarterfinals.
Ohio State, Georgia and Alabama lost to Miami, Indiana and Ole Miss respectively.
Could you even imagine reading that 10 years ago? If I had written that in a story 15 years ago, I would have been arrested for fraud.
That's no longer the case. The competitive landscape in College Football is leveling out and even though it came at the shortcoming of Ohio State, it is absolutely a good thing.
For too long, it was any collection of Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia, and Clemson against a couple of tier two programs, followed by an upstart who had no chance. I think back to Georgia's 66-3 win over TCU in the Championship Game.
This year marks the first year in the 12 year history of the College Football Playoff that at least one of those blue bloods is not in the Final Four, and that, obviously, includes the days of the four-team playoff.
From a big picture perspective, this is a great thing for College Football. The game Ohio State played on Wednesday night was a great, back-and-forth football matchup between two exceptionally talented football teams.
Thursday was a mixed bag. Texas Tech and Oregon were an objectively horrible and boring game to watch, while Indiana trounced the Crimson Tide in a game that was never close, followed by maybe the best game in CFP history between Ole Miss and Georgia.
A final four that features Indiana, Oregon, Ole Miss, and Miami is awesome for the sport and one of the very few good things that has come from this NIL, transfer portal era of College Football.
Specific to Ohio State, they should be sounding the alarms inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Facility.
The fear of playing Ohio State is out the window. Miami came into that game against the Big Bad Buckeyes and Buckeye Nation, and they had absolutely zero fear. They not only won both lines of scrimmage, but they dominated both sides of the line of scrimmage.
Ohio State rushed for a total of 45 yards on 24 carries and generated little to no pressure on Carson Beck. Furthermore, Miami ran for 153 yards on 37 carries, good for north of four yards per carry.
The Buckeyes’ foundation as a team is great skill players. That is all good when you play lesser competition, and you win the line of scrimmage after you walk off the bus. In games against real teams, if you can't drop back and throw the ball to those skill guys, none of it matters.
The Buckeyes have to change their roster building philosophy and fix it quickly.
The positive is that they can do it immediately in this era, but now the pool that they are competing against is widening. The tide has changed in college football, and while it is good for the sport, it comes at the detriment of the Buckeyes.
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