Only thing more stupid than Tulane and James Madison being in playoff games
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The only actual “college football” game I saw this last weekend was Montana versus Montana State.
I don’t know what we’re calling the sport now but it’s not college football anymore
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Regarding antitrust lawsuits, I think it would circumvent the problem by requiring that every team must be ranked in the top 16 (or 12). It's inclusive (e.g., see Boise State last year; they were in the top 12, ranked ahead of Clemson and SMU) but also merit-based.
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I think there will be plenty of years that G5 teams deserve to get in, and will. The Urban Utah team that beat Alabama in a bowl for example. Boise team who beat Oklahoma. I think TCU had some skwads when they were still in the Mountain West. We'll know the deserving G5 teams when they present themselves year by year. No need to force them in.
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I agree from the skill perspective and I've shat all over those teams for 2 decades (Hawaii in the sugar bowl LOL, TCU defecating the Rose Bowl). But it produced congressional hearings when they were excluded. And the sport is working really hard to kill itself and not having that guaranteed inclusion is one more slice closer to the thousand cuts. JMU fans were so happy just to be a part of it. I have so many friends who are either alums or their kids go there and just to get in was the biggest thing for that school. The G5 should have something to guarantee inclusion; otherwise it is one more step towards the CFB super league and mini NFL.
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You have a ton of friends who went to or their kids go to JMU? Before this PO game, I'm not sure I'd ever heard of JMU. I guess it's an EC vs WC thing?
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The problem is that the teams in power conferences all have more difficult schedules, by default. The scheduling system inherently works against G5 schools.
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Agree. I think the truly worthy ones will be evident, as the examples you gave did.
This is why I think a top 12 or 16 rule will be sufficient.
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James Madison had two teams in the playoffs this year
The other one will play in the Rose Bowl
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I have an interest in that game, but would still rather watch Alabama-Oklahoma or Miami-A&M over that. Big time college football is better, even now.
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It's a Northern Virginia thing. UVA and Virginia Tech are still the flagships in the state but JMU has rapidly grown recently. UVA & Tech becoming harder and harder to get into push a lot of smart kids to JMU. In terms of the circle of people I spend time with socially and at work it is probably equal representation between JMU and VaTech with UVA a distant 3rd (due to being so fancy with its admissions and taking way too many out of state).
