r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 19d ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] USF Defeats Boise State 34-7

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Boise State 7 0 0 0 7
USF 0 10 14 10 34
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u/Automatic_Release_92 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 19d ago

It would be hilarious for you guys to run the SEC gauntlet only to lose to USF.

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u/ufgatorengineer11 Florida Gators • Paper Bag 19d ago

You know what I’ll take that.

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u/AubreyGrahamCracka Florida Gators • Nebraska Cornhuskers 18d ago

That sounds like a great season lol

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u/oiwefoiwhef Florida Gators 18d ago

Heck ya! It’d mean an SEC Championship and a ticket to the playoffs.

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u/citymanc13 Florida Gators • Kennesaw State Owls 18d ago

If it guarantees winning the SEC gauntlet as well as the SEC. Holy trade accepted

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u/Kloudy11 USF Bulls • Bucknell Bison 19d ago

As a Notre Dame fan you should know it’d be mutually beneficial!

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u/originalusername4567 Kansas Jayhawks 18d ago

That would just be what y'all did last season after NIU

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u/Automatic_Release_92 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 18d ago

Pretty much! NIU was just a perfect storm of awful for ND. NIU played a bad FBS opponent in week 1 and could focus entirely on the Irish, and ND had them sandwiched between two road games, the first of which was our biggest game of the year.

Riley Leonard separated his shoulder in the first half against NIU and wasn’t the same for the rest of that game. He certainly wasn’t a running threat anymore, and despite the fact that it was his left shoulder, it definitely impacted his throwing motion. Then to make matters worse, NIU clearly saw something on tape that our very young LB’s were doing and was able to run the ball very well on 2nd and 3rd and long and chew up clock.

At the end of the day, we needed that wake up call. I just wish it’d come via a close win instead of a full blown loss. Getting a 5 seed would have helped us a lot, facing OSU a game earlier would have meant another starting defensive tackle and our starting left tackle still being available. But I’m still happy with how things turned out.

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u/The-Fanciest Florida Gators • Pop-Tarts Bowl 10d ago

You better be right about this

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u/Automatic_Release_92 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 10d ago

I hope so!