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re: How can CFP commitee defend Tulane and JMU? (And what does this mean for future?)
Posted on 12/21/25 at 8:19 am to bamabonners
Posted on 12/21/25 at 8:19 am to bamabonners
Im for 16 teams to make sure a good team isn't left out. I think Texas and Vandy and ND should have been in.
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Posted on 12/21/25 at 8:28 am to FlyFishinTiger
Texas A&M didn’t beat a team in the top half of the SEC all season, then only scores 3 points in a home CFP game. They shouldn’t have got in.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 8:34 am to TigerFan244
Not only were the games rent a wins they were prime time rent a wins. I’d bet it never happens again. College Football is already a strange entity…its massive appeal is, I think, tenuous at best. I know that seems stupid but most CFB “fans” have no skin in the game, they aren’t alumni, their kids aren’t, they’re mostly rooting for laundry from their state. Many CFB fans have a main team they root for and then a second or more team(s) they like. The main appeal is the product and it failed on a massive stage yesterday. Most fans of Oregon and Ole Miss would have only watched those games with casual interest if they’d been played in mid September. There’d been a multitude of people attending their first game in person in mid September because ticket prices for rent a win games are low enough that the stands are full of kids and people who only go to a game every 3 years or so. There’d TV audience in mid September would have been minuscule but these games were prime time in front of a potentially massive audience….and the product on the field was horrendous.
Time will tell but it may also give an advantage to the 5 and 6 seeds over the top 4. A tune up game every other week is a pretty good idea versus 4 weeks or more of nothing. The people who are driving CFB are driving it in the ground…if they were managing a fast food restaurant they’d be fired week one. Why it’s so bad is not a mystery….they see $ signs today without a thought to tomorrow. The damage may already be done.
Time will tell but it may also give an advantage to the 5 and 6 seeds over the top 4. A tune up game every other week is a pretty good idea versus 4 weeks or more of nothing. The people who are driving CFB are driving it in the ground…if they were managing a fast food restaurant they’d be fired week one. Why it’s so bad is not a mystery….they see $ signs today without a thought to tomorrow. The damage may already be done.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 8:38 am to TigerFan244
A small conference team deserves some time in the spotlight. Texas would have done no better.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 8:50 am to GeauxBurrow312
The bureaucrat assholes that designed the bylaws are the real idiots. They’re the ones who screwed up. That’s how we got 2 G5 teams in this.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 8:54 am to FlyFishinTiger
The AP Poll before the conference championship game was this:
1 OSU
2 Indiana
3 UGA
4 Oregon
5 TT
6 Ole Miss
7 ATM
8 OU
9 ND
10 Alabama
11 BYU
12 ND
13 Vanderbilt
14 Texas
15 Utah
16 Virginia
1 playing 16 at home etc would have made some great games. Oregon playing Vandy???? Yes please. Even UGA Texas again in Athens would have been compelling. It’s actually pretty simple….just pair up the highest rated teams and have them go at one another. On campus for the first 2 rounds or at least the first round. It’s that simple.
1 OSU
2 Indiana
3 UGA
4 Oregon
5 TT
6 Ole Miss
7 ATM
8 OU
9 ND
10 Alabama
11 BYU
12 ND
13 Vanderbilt
14 Texas
15 Utah
16 Virginia
1 playing 16 at home etc would have made some great games. Oregon playing Vandy???? Yes please. Even UGA Texas again in Athens would have been compelling. It’s actually pretty simple….just pair up the highest rated teams and have them go at one another. On campus for the first 2 rounds or at least the first round. It’s that simple.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 9:20 am to TigerFan244
They defend it easily by saying this what everyone agreed to. The 5 highest ranked conference champs getting an automatic bid. Tulane and JMU is not their fault at all. The ACC tie breaker rules caused this when it should have been Miami playing Virgina.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 9:40 am to TigerFan244
The average margin of victory in this year’s first round, featuring 2 G5 schools, was 16.25, which is 3 points closer than last years first round margin of victory which included all p4 schools (and Notre Dame). The average margin was also closer than the average college football playoff game as a whole since the inception in 2014 (which averages a 17.4 point margin of victory)
Posted on 12/21/25 at 9:52 am to TigerFan244
Give the G5 their own playoffs. The winner can move up to a power 4 conference the following year. The team with the worst record in the power 4 conference has to drop down to a G5 conference. Each year a team moves up and down. Like soccer.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:12 am to TigerFan244
Urban Meyer said G5 teams should have to beat 3 ranked teams to get in the playoffs. I agree.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:14 am to GeauxBurrow312
Winner! I agree. 16 teams with no Auto qualifiers. If a team, P4 or G6, is in top 16, they re in. Simple.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:15 am to TigerFan244
How can it defend Tennessee? They lost their first-round game 42-17 last year.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:16 am to Chris ALL Capps
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They've both been as competitive as A&M.
A&M is the only team in playoff history to not score a single TD
JMU was far more competitive than A&M , and it wasn't close
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:18 am to TigerFan244
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These 2 games should end automatic bids for FBS or “champions” from smaller conferences. There are at least 10 other teams who could have made a case and played more competitive games. Horrible games to watch.
Thank you, FOX, they gave me my Eagles clinching a division championship last night and a great game with Da Bears and Packers. Not a bad evening.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:20 am to Ag72
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Are you okay? A&M was on the six yard line trying to score the touchdown that would have tied the game with thirty seconds left.
PRINT. THE. CUPS!
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:21 am to kywildcatfanone
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small conference team deserves some time in the spotlight. Texas would have done no better.
Ok. But, shouldn’t it be their OWN spotlight? G5 conferences are not the same game. It’s like watching JV teams play varsity teams in high school.
I heard them say last night, not a single 5 star recruit plays in the Sunbelt.
Oregon’s whole team is just 2-3 steps faster than JMU at everything.
Maybe JMU versus Tulane would have been a great game.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:28 am to TigerFan244
The irrational side of me wants to say they allowed it to prove a point to change the rules for the future. But we all know they’re gonna keep it politically correct. Im in favor of committee ranking top 4, but then for the rest letting computer ratings sort that shite out.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:31 am to BluegrassBelle
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My understanding is they have to allow one entry to avoid a potential anti-trust lawsuit.
Nonsense
Posted on 12/21/25 at 10:33 am to ht1950
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There are lots of minor bowls that no one attends that could be incorporated into such a playoff,
Let the bowls die and play the first 2 rounds on campus.
Posted on 12/21/25 at 11:02 am to DawgsLife
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Not if they drew up plans for them to have their own playoff
G5 programs are FBS programs. The playoffs for FBS programs are their playoffs too. That’s why they get a spot. The G5 programs aren’t going to agree to a separate championship with lower compensation. They like the $$$ that comes from a CFP appearance.
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