College Football Discussion - CFP Set

[trwi7]

Shocked they excluded ND but it was the right thing to do.

As for Bama, "don't penalize for playing the conference championship game" but how can there be zero consequences for their abysmal performance yesterday. Ridiculous.

I wonder if teams on the bubble would ever decline going to a conference championship game so they wouldn't possibly get penalized for getting blown out.

[MickeyDavis]

Kind of dumb to have that weekly rankings show the last 4 weeks.

[MickeyDavis]

At least Tulane and JMU don't get byes this year. That change was good.

[MickeyDavis]

No to 16 teams. Some controversy is fun.

[MVP2110]

Think Notre Dame should have been in over Bama, but I hate Notre Dame so I'm not crying for them.

[MickeyDavis]

Look at ND schedule next year.

09/06 - vs Wisconsin (in Green Bay, WI)
09/12 - Rice
09/19 - Michigan State
09/26 - at Purdue
10/03 - at North Carolina
10/31 - vs Navy (in Foxborough, MA)
11/07 - Miami (FL)
11/21 - Boston College
TBA - SMU
TBA - Stanford
TBA - at Syracuse
TBA - vs USC

[ReginaldDwight]

ACC is the conference that messed it all up having Duke in the championship game.

[MikeIsGood]

No to 16 teams. Some controversy is fun.

It would just move the goal post (pun intended) so that 17/18 are controversial. I can't believe we talk about this every year with every sport that has selections - no one ever learns

[ReasonablySober]

Total BS that they spend 20 minutes **** on JMU and Tulane while an ACC team made it in. That trash conference should have been no-bid.

[ReginaldDwight]

Total BS that they spend 20 minutes **** on JMU and Tulane while an ACC team made it in. That trash conference should have been no-bid.

You think JMU or Tulane beats Miami or ND?

[ReasonablySober]

Total BS that they spend 20 minutes **** on JMU and Tulane while an ACC team made it in. That trash conference should have been no-bid.

You think JMU or Tulane beats Miami or ND?

Miami, yes. They lost to Louisville and SMU. Miami could lose to anyone.

[BUCKnation]

Maybe ND will join a conference after this

[MickeyDavis]

Bama favored by 1.5, TAM by 4.5, Ole Miss by 17.5, Oregon by 20.5

[MikeIsGood]

Not convinced it would have helped them this year necessarily (though maybe/I didn't think super hard about it), but I do still think it's inevitible for ND to join a conference. They've held out way longer than I expected, though, so who knows.

[trwi7]

Not convinced it would have helped them this year necessarily (though maybe/I didn't think super hard about it), but I do still think it's inevitible for ND to join a conference. They've held out way longer than I expected, though, so who knows.

If they were in the ACC this year they probably make the conference title game and win it and that gets them in.

[MikeIsGood]

Not convinced it would have helped them this year necessarily (though maybe/I didn't think super hard about it), but I do still think it's inevitible for ND to join a conference. They've held out way longer than I expected, though, so who knows.

If they were in the ACC this year they probably make the conference title game and win it and that gets them in.

Oh that's fair - ACC for sure. I still think about them joining the B10. That's what I always thought was most likely despite the basketball ties to the ACC, but with how the conferences shook-out for football ACC makes way more sense now.

[trwi7]

Congrats to RS for getting to watch Haynes King in the Pop Tarts Bowl.

[MikeIsGood]

Speaking of ND/ACC...

Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua unloaded on the ACC in the wake of Sunday's College Football Playoff snub, saying the conference that houses almost every Fighting Irish sports team has caused "permanent damage" to the relationship. ...

Last month, the ACC's official account on X posted a side-by-side comparison between Miami and Notre Dame, accompanied by the text, "No hypotheticals, just facts." Miami beat Notre Dame 27-24 in the season opener, a game the Hurricanes never trailed, and finished with an identical 10-2 record. ...

ACC Network also replayed the Miami-Notre Dame game more than a dozen times Thursday and Friday, heading into championship weekend, despite Miami not participating in the league's title game. Duke, which won the ACC but had five regular-season losses, did not make the CFP.

[MVP2110]

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[MikeIsGood]

This is what B10 was trying to do earlier this year before Michigan made a huge fuss about it.