2025-26 College Football Thread

[cowboyec]

GO ARMY.

 

[atlantacowboy]

Speak for yourself. Most people love to watch a good Cinderella team. That’s where a lot of the excitement comes from during March madness.

If JMU or Tulane even make the game competitive, there’s going to be a bunch of folks who look silly saying that they don’t belong.

I am literally speaking for myself. I guess you represent a larger group who elected you to speak for them?

Oregon is going to steamroll JMU and even if JMU manages to come within 20 points, who the hell cares? They are not one of the 12 best teams in the country. Putting them in the national playoff is charity not merit.

 

[DFWJC]

I am literally speaking for myself. I guess you represent a larger group who elected you to speak for them?

Oregon is going to steamroll JMU and even if JMU manages to come within 20 points, who the hell cares? They are not one of the 12 best teams in the country. Putting them in the national playoff is charity not merit.

So do think the 14 best teams make the NFL playoff?
What about the 67 best NCAA basketball teams?

If Philly loses out and Dallas loses a couple more but squeaks into the playoffs with worse record that some contender…..should Dallas sit at home and give up their spot

 

[gtb1943]

So do think the 14 best teams make the NFL playoff?
What about the 67 best NCAA basketball teams?

If Philly loses out and Dallas loses a couple more but squeaks into the playoffs with worse record that some contender…..should Dallas sit at home and give up their spot

and that is why committees are bad
the NFL playoffs are all about numbers not feelings or bias or anything else like was seen with the committee

Dallas is not as good a team as the birds are; we do not have their level of talent. Now if they collapse and fail to make the playoffs that is on them. Wins and losses. Not because ESPN made a deal to protect Alabama and the committee obeyed.

 

[jterrell]

 

[cowboyec]

jmu might wanna spend more time on who they're playin' rd1.
notre dame will take care of notre dame just fine.

 

[jterrell]

This makes no sense. We just want to see the best teams play each other. Nobody wants to watch JMU or Tulane. This is a new system and there is no precedent. Until they expand the playoff, they need to stick with the 12 best teams formula regardless of conference.

Who is "we"?
Because I have about as much interest in watching OU play Bama in another 20-20 type game as I do in watching a Taylor Swift concert. 0. It is zero.


At least in JMU you are seeing someone get their shot at forever. 1 CFP win makes them the hottest national story for 10 days.
Players and a team that would never get my eyeballs will do so. AND my rooting interest.
Few outside the SEC or Big 10 care about the waste of the SEC or Big 10 getting one more team in.

If the SEC and Big 10 want to create a super league of 48-64 teams they have every ability to do so. But until they do they are beholden to 136 teams to give them all a shot at the CFP.

The only team with a legit complaint is BYU who won 11 regular season games including 3 current top 25 match ups.
Notre Dame came up 1 point short twice then had a SOS outside the top 40. Not deserving with 1 top 25 win.
UT had 3 losses and 2 more wins in OT. Not deserving.
Vandy had the best single player but a mediocre at best defense and wasn't really competitive in its two losses.
Utah took a bad beat at home then lost the rivalry game. Struggled in any games they couldn't run the football.

This year is a prime example why the 5 conf champ rule is excellent. Without it people just pretend a bunch of helmet schools are entitled to spots after they underachieved.

Last year everyone was up in arms over the auto bye rule which was overblown and goofy complaints.
If it was auto byes Ohiot State would be 5 and get Tulane then JMU....
How would they ever recover?? I mean they only won the Natty as the 8 seed last year.

 

[cowboyec]

strong opening scoring drive by navy.
army gotta answer.

 

[DFWJC]

jmu might wanna spend more time on who they're playin' rd1.
notre dame will take care of notre dame just fine.

The players don’t post that stuff, obviously

Thats some JMU media person trolling

The average margin of 1st round games last year was about 20 fir the home teams

If JMU keeps it that close ( tall talk at Oregon) then Ill be surprised
I think Oregon wins most home games 30-40 points.

 

[cowboyec]

touchdown army.

 

[cowboyec]

2 of the best opening scoring drives i've seen all year.
old testament football.

 

[gtb1943]

Who is "we"?
Because I have about as much interest in watching OU play Bama in another 20-20 type game as I do in watching a Taylor Swift concert. 0. It is zero.


At least in JMU you are seeing someone get their shot at forever. 1 CFP win makes them the hottest national story for 10 days.
Players and a team that would never get my eyeballs will do so. AND my rooting interest.
Few outside the SEC or Big 10 care about the waste of the SEC or Big 10 getting one more team in.

If the SEC and Big 10 want to create a super league of 48-64 teams they have every ability to do so. But until they do they are beholden to 136 teams to give them all a shot at the CFP.

The only team with a legit complaint is BYU who won 11 regular season games including 3 current top 25 match ups.
Notre Dame came up 1 point short twice then had a SOS outside the top 40. Not deserving with 1 top 25 win.
UT had 3 losses and 2 more wins in OT. Not deserving.
Vandy had the best single player but a mediocre at best defense and wasn't really competitive in its two losses.
Utah took a bad beat at home then lost the rivalry game. Struggled in any games they couldn't run the football.

This year is a prime example why the 5 conf champ rule is excellent. Without it people just pretend a bunch of helmet schools are entitled to spots after they underachieved.

Last year everyone was up in arms over the auto bye rule which was overblown and goofy complaints.
If it was auto byes Ohiot State would be 5 and get Tulane then JMU....
How would they ever recover?? I mean they only won the Natty as the 8 seed last year.

copium is funny
defending a completely corrupt system because you hate ND

 

[gtb1943]

The players don’t post that stuff, obviously

Thats some JMU media person trolling

The average margin of 1st round games last year was about 20 fir the home teams

If JMU keeps it that close ( tall talk at Oregon) then Ill be surprised
I think Oregon wins most home games 30-40 points.

Honestly I am not all that sure how good Oregon is
They lost to Indiana and it was not as close as the score said
their only good wins were Iowa and USC and neither one was all that

yeah they were 11-1 but their victories were meh at best

 

[DFWJC]

Honestly I am not all that sure how good Oregon is
They lost to Indiana and it was not as close as the score said
their only good wins were Iowa and USC and neither one was all that

yeah they were 11-1 but their victories were meh at best

They lost to #1 Indiana

That’s it

They have that in common with Ohio St

I agree that their wins weren’t spectacular.
But that’s not controllable

 

[gtb1943]

They lost to #1 Indiana

That’s it

They have that in common with Ohio St

I agree that their wins weren’t spectacular.
But that’s not controllable

sure its controllable
now running up the score is frowned upon but in situations like this when you have to impress a committee that is a standard feature

if oregons coach chose not to do it then I tip my hat to him
but was that what happened?

Honestly they did not impress me at all the whole season

 

[Sydla]

So do think the 14 best teams make the NFL playoff?
What about the 67 best NCAA basketball teams?

If Philly loses out and Dallas loses a couple more but squeaks into the playoffs with worse record that some contender…..should Dallas sit at home and give up their spot

If Philly loses out that would be like 7 games lost in a row to end the year. So I think one could make the case that Dallas was just a better team this year and more likely to contend.

Not sure what your point is. But as it applies to this CFP, yeah there is an a issue when most people are arguing that the committee got it right but ND is like one of 5 teams that would have a legitimate shot to win the whole thing. That shows the silliness of the whole process.

 

[Sydla]

Who is "we"?
Because I have about as much interest in watching OU play Bama in another 20-20 type game as I do in watching a Taylor Swift concert. 0. It is zero.


At least in JMU you are seeing someone get their shot at forever. 1 CFP win makes them the hottest national story for 10 days.
Players and a team that would never get my eyeballs will do so. AND my rooting interest.
Few outside the SEC or Big 10 care about the waste of the SEC or Big 10 getting one more team in.

If the SEC and Big 10 want to create a super league of 48-64 teams they have every ability to do so. But until they do they are beholden to 136 teams to give them all a shot at the CFP.

The only team with a legit complaint is BYU who won 11 regular season games including 3 current top 25 match ups.
Notre Dame came up 1 point short twice then had a SOS outside the top 40. Not deserving with 1 top 25 win.
UT had 3 losses and 2 more wins in OT. Not deserving.
Vandy had the best single player but a mediocre at best defense and wasn't really competitive in its two losses.
Utah took a bad beat at home then lost the rivalry game. Struggled in any games they couldn't run the football.

This year is a prime example why the 5 conf champ rule is excellent. Without it people just pretend a bunch of helmet schools are entitled to spots after they underachieved.

Last year everyone was up in arms over the auto bye rule which was overblown and goofy complaints.
If it was auto byes Ohiot State would be 5 and get Tulane then JMU....
How would they ever recover?? I mean they only won the Natty as the 8 seed last year.

ND has as much of a claim as BYU if not more. Their best win was a Utah team that you trashed above. Haha.

And the “metrics” have ND as the clear team that probably should have been in that did not get in.

BYU had two cracks at a playoff caliber team and not only lost the two but got absolutely embarrassed.

 

[cowboyec]

army gift wrapped this lead to navy for christmas.

 

[DFWJC]

If Philly loses out that would be like 7 games lost in a row to end the year. So I think one could make the case that Dallas was just a better team this year and more likely to contend.

Not sure what your point is. But as it applies to this CFP, yeah there is an a issue when most people are arguing that the committee got it right but ND is like one of 5 teams that would have a legitimate shot to win the whole thing. That shows the silliness of the whole process.

My point was that in the NFL division winners get auto bids to the playoffs whether ther division was good or not

That’s all

 

[Sydla]

copium is funny
defending a completely corrupt system because you hate ND

I mean you knew you were dealing with a biased dude when he tried to argue that the current system is set up for ND and that if they used metrics ND would have little shot.