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College Football Playoff First Round

Tulane gets mopped around by Ole Miss.
Oregon just scored 3rd touchdown and its the 2nd quarter.

I love the underdog story, but unfortunately in this NIL and P2 power consolidation era, the field is just unevenly stacked.
I want G5's to do well, but this is just not fair to them. And I now have no idea how to reach better parity. I don't want to eliminate G5's from the CFP.

one of my favorite games of all time was 2007 fiesta bowl - Boise St vs. Oklahoma - a cinderalla story.
It's just not possible for it to happen in this era.

G5 haters will say close the CFP door permanently to all G5 schools. That's their ultimate goal.

I HATE what football has become. screw Big 10, SEC, CFP and all the powers that be.
 
Rich said:
The lack of run game was on Shannon Dawson. He's the OC. Been taking heat for that all season.
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I would agree with you on Dawson, I just always fall back to the belief that the coordinators will do what the head guy allows them to do. Earlier this year, the complaint was Miami was too conservative. Then they opened it up down the stretch of the season, but today they were running stuff that made no sense. When they just lined up and ran Fletcher, they bullied the Aggies.
 
Both Tulane & JMU looking waaayyyy overmatched today, which will only get the anti-G5-in-CFP crowd chirping big time tonight.

JMU has no way to stop Oregon's offense which scores like lightning. 34-3 late 2nd qtr. 5 TDs on 21 offensive plays for the O.
 
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JMU and Tulane weren't even undefeated, G5 teams should have to be undefeated or 1 close loss to a ranked team at worst.

Can't fault these teams it's the stupid playoff committee which does look a bit pre planned on their part.
 
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BugsyCT said:
Both Tulane & JMU looking waaayyyy overmatched today, which will only get the anti-G5-in-CFP crowd chirping big time tonight.

JMU has no way to stop Oregon's offense which scores like lightning. 34-3 late 2nd qtr. 5 TDs on 21 offensive plays for OU.
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There has to be a tiering of teams by athletic budget. James Madison is no longer playing the same sport as Oregon. I think a G5 team should not be eligible for the playoffs unless they are spending a minimum of $10 million a year in player compensation, or something like it.

We are already seeing unholy blowouts within Big 10 and SEC conference games, and that will only get worse. Same goes for Big 12 and ACC. Programs like BCU are not even pretending to try to compete.
 
Some close ones this afternoon. Not sure what was closer these games or UConn vs Iowa.


On second thought Iowa had a better shot than JMU. JMU simply doesn’t belong playing this game. No offense
 
Scoe said:
JMU and Tulane weren't even undefeated, G5 teams should have to be undefeated or 1 close loss to a ranked team at worst.

Can't fault these teams it's the stupid playoff committee which does look a bit pre planned on their part.
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I was just arguing with a UW graduate about this on a Seahawks board I frequent. Once you're in the club, you fall victim to just being annoyed that there are noncompetitive games in the mix. And I can agree to a point, because JMU and Tulane were not great teams, even by G5 standards. They're pretty good, but not really good enough to win against Oregon or Ole Miss, and it makes the path to the title easier for those two middling seeds. But there has to be a path to the CFP for outsider schools who are able to build a program that is good enough to compete, and proves itself. Maybe a strength of schedule/strength of victory qualification, coupled with a one-loss maximum, would work to distill the somewhat rare non-P4 schools who are good enough to give an Ole Miss a game from the schools who are overmatched. Maybe having a play-in level of the CFP where your Notre Dame or your other P4 who just missed the cut has to participate in a first-round play-in game against the best of the G5 schools, assuming no one qualifies automatically.

It's important for this to be worked out, because if it's not, it hastens the development of a two-tier system for all sports where only the P4 members can meaningfully compete for national championships in major sports and earn the perks that go along with that recognition, while everyone else is relegated to competing for some minor league-type title that doesn't carry the same clout, and diminishes the resources of the school as a whole over the long term.
 
There are 12 teams in the playoffs. I'm not mad at 2 of them being from the G5, even if they're getting blown out.

Just remember that JMU has scored twice as many points by halftime in their playoff game than Texas A&M scored in their entire playoff game. Maybe this "5 teams from the SEC" should get a little more scrutiny than the inclusion of Tulane and JMU...
 
I would see today's miserable showings by the G5s as an argument against a 16 team field. If BYU and ND were the 11 & 12, is anyone else even in the conversation for 13-16 if no G5s?
 
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Oregon smacking the ducking crap out of JMU. Like every 4 plays they score! Gotta say, these G5s are making our Fiesta Bowl loss to Oklahoma look more like a competitive game. And to think that our ex-coach thinks he can get CSU to compete in the CFP better than JMU or Tulane...hahahahahaha.
 
Well this was the worst possible scenario for the G5 schools. There no way we will ever see two G5 again and tbh, I’m not sure we should see another. Tulane came from the best G5 conference and got plastered. I’m not sure what their AD budget is but that’s not a good sign. I know this is bad news for UConn unless we somehow find a way to overcome Rule #1 in CR. I would have rather Vandy or some other school that had a decent resume get in and have it actually be a game. I hate Alabama but that’s was a good game last night. Bama was a team people thought shouldn’t be in but they belong because they spend like the rest of them. JMU and Tulane just gave the P3 all the ammunition they needed to lock out the G5 for good in the very near future.
 
UCFBfan said:
Well this was the worst possible scenario for the G5 schools. There no way we will ever see two G5 again and tbh, I’m not sure we should see another. Tulane came from the best G5 conference and got plastered. I’m not sure what their AD budget is but that’s not a good sign. I know this is bad news for UConn unless we somehow find a way to overcome Rule #1 in CR. I would have rather Vandy or some other school that had a decent resume get in and have it actually be a game. I hate Alabama but that’s was a good game last night. Bama was a team people thought shouldn’t be in but they belong because they spend like the rest of them. JMU and Tulane just gave the P3 all the ammunition they needed to lock out the G5 for good in the very near future.
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Rather than a blanket ban, they'll probably require a certain resume in order to qualify. Merely winning the AAC, the Pac-12, etc., and simply being ahead of the other G5 conference champs won't be enough.
 
I was hoping the G5 might put up some fight but just totally outmatched on the D side of the ball. I’d think we would have faired pretty well against either team because neither has any D.. not that ours would do any better,
 
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can you imagine a 12-0 UConn with our schedule this year, against Oregon or Ole Miss today?

LOL
 
Jetskies said:
Tulane gets mopped around by Ole Miss.
Oregon just scored 3rd touchdown and its the 2nd quarter.

I love the underdog story, but unfortunately in this NIL and P2 power consolidation era, the field is just unevenly stacked.
I want G5's to do well, but this is just not fair to them. And I now have no idea how to reach better parity. I don't want to eliminate G5's from the CFP.

one of my favorite games of all time was 2007 fiesta bowl - Boise St vs. Oklahoma - a cinderalla story.
It's just not possible for it to happen in this era.

G5 haters will say close the CFP door permanently to all G5 schools. That's their ultimate goal.

I HATE what football has become. screw Big 10, SEC, CFP and all the powers that be.
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College football jumped the shark. It's a 12 team playoff. None of the bowls matter anymore and there's like 3 teams who can actually win it all.

They put two G5's in this year so that next year and moving forward they can say we tried that and the G5's got wrecked.
 
ninety-nine said:
I was just arguing with a UW graduate about this on a Seahawks board I frequent. Once you're in the club, you fall victim to just being annoyed that there are noncompetitive games in the mix. And I can agree to a point, because JMU and Tulane were not great teams, even by G5 standards. They're pretty good, but not really good enough to win against Oregon or Ole Miss, and it makes the path to the title easier for those two middling seeds. But there has to be a path to the CFP for outsider schools who are able to build a program that is good enough to compete, and proves itself. Maybe a strength of schedule/strength of victory qualification, coupled with a one-loss maximum, would work to distill the somewhat rare non-P4 schools who are good enough to give an Ole Miss a game from the schools who are overmatched. Maybe having a play-in level of the CFP where your Notre Dame or your other P4 who just missed the cut has to participate in a first-round play-in game against the best of the G5 schools, assuming no one qualifies automatically.

It's important for this to be worked out, because if it's not, it hastens the development of a two-tier system for all sports where only the P4 members can meaningfully compete for national championships in major sports and earn the perks that go along with that recognition, while everyone else is relegated to competing for some minor league-type title that doesn't carry the same clout, and diminishes the resources of the school as a whole over the long term.
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I’m just happy to have watched us win so much. I don’t plan to be watching sec/b1g play each other. Certainly won’t be paying to watch.
 
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