Predictions for CFP Seeding...

[DuxburyO]

The ACC is loaded with schools who aren't comfortable with the current state of college football (not that I necessarily blame them) and act accordingly.

It's full of schools that are more comfortable rationalizing why they can't be great than expending the resources necessary to be great (and SU is still in this category, despite Fran's braggadocio).

A conference that has very few football-culture schools, compared to the SEC, B1G and B12 where almost every one is a football-culture school.

I mean, that the ACC ended up with Cal, Stanford and SMU after the breakup of the Pac-12 is all we need to know about how the conference sees itself, and how others see the conference.

Word of the day. Thank you

 

[Scooch]

By the way, the ACC already set its expiration date with the lowering of the exit fee penalty and the TV-ratings based revenue sharing.

The conference as we know it will be done in a few years. What happens today is inconsequential.

 

[FloridaCuse]

 

[FloridaCuse]

 

[FloridaCuse]

 

[HRE Otto IV]

That's literally not what it comes down to. It comes down to ranking, and no one is going to rank Duke higher than JMU or Tulane. No. One.

It is too late they already ranked JMU. But the JMU team from 2 years ago had a more impressive resume and was ranked only 24/25 (weren’t eligible for CFP). Having watched that team I am not sure they are better than WMU.

The CFP is about money and including JMU doesn’t bring money in.

I hope they go to 20 with the 10 conference champs and 10 at larges. Which means Vandy is the first team out. That seems like a good cutoff. Going to 24 adds too much crap.

 

[FloridaCuse]

 

[Scooch]

It is too late they already ranked JMU. But the JMU team from 2 years ago had a more impressive resume and was ranked only 24/25 (weren’t eligible for CFP). Having watched that team I am not sure they are better than WMU.

The CFP is about money and including JMU doesn’t bring money in.

I hope they go to 20 with the 10 conference champs and 10 at larges. Which means Vandy is the first team out. That seems like a good cutoff. Going to 24 adds too much crap.

They're never giving 10 auto-bids. It's FAR more likely they end auto-bids altogether and we never see a G6 team included again.

 

[FloridaCuse]

 

[HRE Otto IV]

They're never giving 10 auto-bids. It's FAR more likely they end auto-bids altogether and we never see a G6 team included again.

The it isn’t a playoff but a national invitation tournament.

Just split into an FBS-A and FBS-AA then. I am all for that too. Forces good OOC games.

 

[upperdeck]

If JMU were not ranked in the CFP now I wonder if it ever plays out they would get in. They were never one of the top 25 teams even if rankings said so.

 

[Scooch]

The it isn’t a playoff but a national invitation tournament.

Just split into an FBS-A and FBS-AA then. I am all for that too. Forces good OOC games.

I'm all for splitting CFB into 3 classes. A is the ~85 team super league. AA is the bottom of the current FBS and the top of the current FCS. AAA is the bottom of FCS.

 

[phil77]

I just don’t see how they are going to make a decision to leave the ACC out entirely. Like it or not they are a P4 conference and I think they will find a way to put Miami in and it will come at the expense of Bama or ND. Or they can mess with numbers even more and get Duke in somehow and then get both Bama and ND in and leave Miami out that way

 

[JKinUtah]

I don't think a loss in a conference championship game should hurt a team, but losing to an awful FSU team should. Just like winning a head to head battle should matter in deciding Miami vs ND.

 

[ImperialOrange]

I will be routing for JMU too but the game is likely to be over in the first Q. They are like a good FCS team going on the ROAD across country.

There is zero comparison to 2006 Boise who was playing an unmotivated team at a neutral site.

Also that Boise team beat a decent Utah team (8-5) on the road and beat two other teams that ended the year ranked besides Oklahoma. JMU doesn’t even have a Top 40 W this year.

If Cinderellas had to play road games in the NCAAs they wouldn’t win either.

Ehhhh JMU was the 10th ranked defense this year averaging 16.0 ppg against... I wanted us to hire their DC, they won't be a cupcake.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[orangepassion]

I can't see them leaving Bama out-They're scared of the SEC.

 

[blizz]

Notre Dame snubbed.


Cue the Ron Burgundy gif about laughing. Yes we are.