College Football Playoff First Round

[nelsonmuntz]

I expect a change so that we won’t see 2 G-5 teams again, unless one of them qualifies as an at large. Tulane beat the ACC champion and won the fifth best conference in a year where it had a number of scalps. They deserved their chance. And this was one year — last year the G-5 representative played a competitive football game.

It is going to keep getting worse. What is Ohio State's payroll? What is JMU's? This isn't like 10 years ago where the major programs were at least pretending to not be paying their players. 10 years ago, a kid might go to JMU over riding the bench for a SEC team. Very few kids are going to do that now when the money is 3x or 4x to be the #4 left cornerback on Mississippi State compared to being the starting left cornerback on JMU.

The P4 are even having a hard time competing with each other. You are going to see some matchups within the major conferences where the lower team is never going to win another game, ever.

What is the point of Tulane vs. anyone? There is not some combination of factors that will enable Tulane to beat a Top 15 team. Although, I guess you could make the same argument about a lot of college football. What is the point of most of these games?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

41-10, it looked a lot worse and 51-34 is a bit of a respectable score when Oregon looked like they were gonna put up 80.

That Oregon game had all the benchmarks of the networks making a call down to the field to ease up on JMU.

 

[ScottVib]

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?

They would’ve talked about Texas.

 

[FightOnCT]

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.

I’ll bite: JMU did not leave the FCS to be relegated back into a lower tier. And requiring a spending budget to make the playoffs is only gonna turn the sport further into a money grab/pit.

You’ve been very anti-P4 for UConn specifically. Not trying to poke a bear here but I’m a bit surprised this is your take honestly.

 

[DW1361]

Just remember that in the end, JMU lost to Oregon by a similar score to what USC did, and better than Minnesota and Rutgers... on the road...

... I'm tired of the system finding reasons for schools not to compete...

Not sure this is one of your strongest arguments for inclusion of G5 schools. JMU lost that game by halftime (being nice here). The final score was not indicative of just how bad of a whooping they took. I think had you stopped with USC you might have had some case, but by adding Minnesota and Rutgers, I think you actually support just why JMU didn’t belong.

The only reason I paid any attention to the playoffs this year was due to the inclusion of Tulane, Miami and JMU. I love to watch the underdog, but the two G5 schools were clearly unable to compete. These lopsided games are okay for basketball, because a bad game can be easily switched off to watch a more competitive game. This isn’t the case in football and is why I feel G5 schools should no longer be included. The gap is just too great and it just isn’t a fun watch.

I don’t think it is the powerful system looking for reasons to exclude the G5. Clearly, these schools proved they can’t compete.

 

[storrsroars]

They would’ve talked about Texas.

So have a 13 team field, lol.

 

[Scoe]

Just have a receiving votes tournament whoever wins that plays the 25th ranked team then you have a bunch of play in games to make it into a field of 16.

 

[Hoophound]

These G5 schools are fine. It’s just that the top 5 or so are dominant. There aren’t many remaining P4 teams that would have done much better. There’s a huge difference between a top 5 team and a top 20 team.