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It's more than just talent. First long distance travel and away game as a team, hotel beds, much larger crowd, just the stage is bigger. After you acclimate to it then your intimidation is not as much and you play more soundly. Probably still get beat because of the talent difference, but only by 10-12 points, not 30+.

Correct, my bad. If you look at Week 11 on ESPN, the AP poll spot was the CFP poll instead. lol https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings/_/week/11/year/2024/seasontype/2

So, what would have happened if we played Oregon State the first game of the year? Same result. They are just on another level than we are talent wise.

Correct. It's just hard to simulate going against Top 25 in practice. They will be a better team for seeing the difference in person.

I don't want to relive the misery listening to the excuses. Any summary?...asst coach firing... new play caller.... QB whisperer to tell Chandler not to go "warp speed" on critical passes?