College Football - Championship Week

[cwood218]

This is so unreal.

[Derwood]

I've been teaching at the college level for nearly a decade. Almost none of the students are religious. Why is every D1 football player a freaking evangelical?

[cwood218]

Duke about to put JMU in the playoff.

[Derwood]

8 minutes ago, cwood218 said:

Duke about to put JMU in the playoff.

Might've just tied it

[cwood218]

4 minutes ago, Derwood said:

Might've just tied it

Yeah, I guess I jinxed them ... 😞

 

[Derwood]

JMU, come on down!

[cwood218]

And it's JMU.

[UMFan83]

I have a feeling this might be the end of P4 conference championship games, or at least them counting in the playoff rankings.  If the ACC misses out, Bama misses out, BYU misses out, etc because of conference championship game losses its going to cause a lot of discussion.

[CubColtPacer]

So if they stick to their criteria and don't care about rematches like they say they don't, we'll have a rematch of Ole Miss-Tulane which Ole Miss won 45-10 at home.  We should also have Oregon-James Madison.

Indiana will be 1.  I'm guessing it will be Georgia 2, Ohio State 3, Texas Tech 4.  And then I have no idea what they'll do at the back end.  Based on what they've said before, Bama should be behind ND, ND should be behind Miami, but I don't necessarily think that they would always have Bama behind Miami.  I'm going to say ND and Miami get in, not sure which order.

[Andy]

11 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

I have a feeling this might be the end of P4 conference championship games, or at least them counting in the playoff rankings.  If the ACC misses out, Bama misses out, BYU misses out, etc because of conference championship game losses its going to cause a lot of discussion.

Well, BYU wasn't in as it stood (whether that was fair or not is a different discussion) , so they didn't miss because of the title games.

[Andy]

7 minutes ago, CubColtPacer said:

So if they stick to their criteria and don't care about rematches like they say they don't, we'll have a rematch of Ole Miss-Tulane which Ole Miss won 45-10 at home.  We should also have Oregon-James Madison.

Indiana will be 1.  I'm guessing it will be Georgia 2, Ohio State 3, Texas Tech 4.  And then I have no idea what they'll do at the back end.  Based on what they've said before, Bama should be behind ND, ND should be behind Miami, but I don't necessarily think that they would always have Bama behind Miami.  I'm going to say ND and Miami get in, not sure which order.

If it's ND and Miami, Miami will be 9 and ND 10. If it's ND and Bama, it's ND 9 Bama 10.

I'm not ruling out Miami and Bama being the two either, but the odds online favor Notre Dame significantly over Bama and Bama over Miami.

Edited December 7, 2025 by Andy

[soccer10k]

Time for a little FCS minute.

UC Davis got the 8 seed, which meant a bye and a home game. If they won, they'd get to face the North Dakota St buzzsaw (won 10 of 14 titles), who was 12-0 this year. However NDST lost at home to Illinois St today and Davis won which means we get to host a QF matchup next week. Only other two times we made the QF, we were on the road and lost. Will be a tough game because Illinois St beat NDSt, but still cool. Was at the game today (just got home) and will be going next week too.

[raw]

THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RUNS THRU BLOOMINGTON EFFING INDIANA!  LET'S GOOOOOOO!

[CubColtPacer]

Notre Dame being out isn't the problem.  The process is.  Two weeks ago, they were ahead of Alabama.  Since then, Alabama barely beat Auburn and then got destroyed by Georgia.  And yet that was when they moved ahead?

And then Miami moving ahead when both teams were already finished with their season.

Both those teams you can make good arguments for being ahead.  And the Miami case you can understand the process a little bit with the BYU loss.  The Alabama one makes no sense.

[CubColtPacer]

Although even the Miami one doesn't make complete sense because if Alabama didn't drop whatsoever even after getting destroyed and they were a coin flip with ND the previous week, then why did BYU drop to give Miami the chance to pull up next to ND?  That is pretty inconsistent.

[Andy]

It's Duke winning. If Virginia had won it would be Notre Dame 9 and Alabama 10. But because the ACC was set to be excluded entirely, they moved Miami in. They set this up on Tuesday when they said idle teams could move around.

[Andy]

Congrats IU. Your first game just got significantly easier. Every predictive metric in existence thinks Notre Dame is a lot better than either of your potential opponents.

Edited December 7, 2025 by Andy

[soccer10k]

9 minutes ago, CubColtPacer said:

Notre Dame being out isn't the problem.  The process is.  Two weeks ago, they were ahead of Alabama.  Since then, Alabama barely beat Auburn and then got destroyed by Georgia.  And yet that was when they moved ahead?

And then Miami moving ahead when both teams were already finished with their season.

Both those teams you can make good arguments for being ahead.  And the Miami case you can understand the process a little bit with the BYU loss.  The Alabama one makes no sense.

Agreed 100% on the process. Wasn’t their reasoning that the Miami H2H win didn’t matter before because Notre Dame was in a different group than Miami? I can’t remember exactly what the reason was but it was dumb.

I’m glad Miami got in over Notre Dame. Didn’t really care that much about Bama vs Notre Dame. One one hand, Notre Dame didn’t lose to Florida St. But they also didn’t beat a team as good as Georgia either.

[bukie]

7 minutes ago, CubColtPacer said:

Although even the Miami one doesn't make complete sense because if Alabama didn't drop whatsoever even after getting destroyed and they were a coin flip with ND the previous week, then why did BYU drop to give Miami the chance to pull up next to ND?  That is pretty inconsistent.

That's just because the committee is a worthless group of lying hucksters trying to shill for the SEC time and time again.

Once more, Alabama undeservingly gets the benefit of the doubt despite doing nothing to earn it, and it doesn't matter how many teams make up the playoffs.

[I owned a Suzuki]

I dont like to get too whatever about who is 12th or 13th.  But 2 out of 3 yrs Alabama benefitting from inconsistencies from the committee is a bit shady.

[Derwood]

Find someone who will look at you like the CFP Committee looks at a 3-loss SEC team

[soccer10k]

30 minutes ago, bukie said:

That's just because the committee is a worthless group of lying hucksters trying to shill for the SEC time and time again.

Once more, Alabama undeservingly gets the benefit of the doubt despite doing nothing to earn it, and it doesn't matter how many teams make up the playoffs.

I mean, they have one of the best 3 or 4 wins of the season by winning at Georgia so saying they did nothing is a bit over the top.

Also, they got left out at 9-3 all the way back in 2024 so clearly they didn’t get the benefit of the doubt then.

[Derwood]

[bukie]

14 minutes ago, soccer10k said:

I mean, they have one of the best 3 or 4 wins of the season by winning at Georgia so saying they did nothing is a bit over the top.

Also, they got left out at 9-3 all the way back in 2024 so clearly they didn’t get the benefit of the doubt then.

2 of the last 3 years, Alabama has been the beneficiary of some very shady logic by the selection committee.

The year they didn't, they cried foul and then lost to a terrible Michigan team in a bowl.

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