CFP Thread

[FearlessF]

not rewarding failure, just wanting a good game vs Oregon

hopefully JMU can provide that

[FearlessF]

[FearlessF]

[ELA]

[img width=361.238 height=437]https://i.imgur.com/rvJNhRF.png[/img]

I dont think anyone is pretending otherwise.  The ESPN Invitational is alive and well

[ELA]

"ND, Texas, Vanderbilt"

I would push back on this. We saw Texas v OSU and Georgia. We saw Bama against FSU and Georgia. We saw Vanderbilt against Bama. They sucked. They weren't any better than JMU. But for some reason we need to exclude JMU to see them lose again?

ND at least we saw be competitive, so I think they got a little screwed. But saying Texas or Vanderbilt are somehow way better than JMU? Nope. They had the chance to prove it and they failed. Stop rewarding failure.

This.

And if they get toasted, fine.  Then that was a good reward for the #5 team.  Seems like the best way to keep a meaningful regular season.  Give champs a shot, and if they dont deserve it, you benefit the best teams who didnt get a bye with a de facto bye.

The only reason to hate it is because you actually dislike the regular season and want the teams with the starz to get a 4th chance to prove it

[Mdot21]

last time ND misses out of playoff like this...


https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1997763809914528210?s=20

[FearlessF]

so, next year the committee keeps ND at #13 or #14

awesome 

[jgvol]

last time ND misses out of playoff like this...


https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1997763809914528210?s=20

F Notre Dame and their special treatment. 

[FearlessF]

and  F Bama and their special treatment.

[OrangeAfroMan]

not rewarding failure, just wanting a good game vs Oregon

hopefully JMU can provide that

Hope is not a strategy.  21.5 point dog.  It's all broken.

[OrangeAfroMan]

"ND, Texas, Vanderbilt"

I would push back on this. We saw Texas v OSU and Georgia. We saw Bama against FSU and Georgia. We saw Vanderbilt against Bama. They sucked. They weren't any better than JMU. But for some reason we need to exclude JMU to see them lose again?

ND at least we saw be competitive, so I think they got a little screwed. But saying Texas or Vanderbilt are somehow way better than JMU? Nope. They had the chance to prove it and they failed. Stop rewarding failure.

Our brains are very different.  
What is JMU's best win?  I'll hang up and listen.

[Gigem]

Im Not upset about JMU. I think the overall essence is that there are legal complications if they don’t let these guys in the playoffs. Nobody seriously thinks they can win. The only one with a snowballs chance is Tulane but OM already stomped them earlier this season. 

[OrangeAfroMan]

It's like letting a 10 year old play high school football because he might sue you.  Okay, you let him play, but if he gets in a game (the playoff), he's going to get hurt.  

I get wanting a seat at the table.  But an annual ass-kicking with the world watching maybe isn't such a great plan.  
And for these programs to get 2 in - NOT BASED ON ANYTHING REMARKABLE THEY'VE DONE (NEITHER IS UNDEFEATED OR BEAT A BIG-BOY TEAM) - but solely because the ACC is a dumpster fire, is a broken system.

People want to pretend winning a conference title means anything, with 16-20 teams in a conference, where nobody plays anybody else is also broken.  

And the decision-makers seem to be literally stupid.  Dull.  This board could come together and hash out far superior ideas, despite our differences.  Hell, chatGPT could, and it's college football depth of knowledge is near zero.  

Where are the impressive people involved?  Not ESPN, not former ADs, not blubbering idiots set in front of a camera to defend the indefensible.  The adults.  Where?!?  I mean Jesus Christ.  

[FearlessF]

Ed Zachery, Tulane and JMU are a necessary evil

blame the judges and lawyers, not the committee

ESPN doesn't want them in the playoff
the SEC and/or the Big don't want to share with them