Bowl Season

[Captain Morgan]

Liberty not helping the cause

[Stonewall]

They were ranked at #18 when we beat them. Deserved or not , if they had gone undefeated , they perhaps would have finished in the top 15 and been the top rated G5. We kept them out of the Fiesta Bowl.

[AppDub]

I have no issue with Liberty. Would be more than happy to see them knock of a P5 on this stage. Don't see it happening.though.

[Bigdaddyg1]

Sorry for what is probably a basic question but who is in charge of the playoffs going forward? Who will decide the format of teams? In other words what will keep the powers that be from just changing the format to require any G5 to earn a high enough ranking (like Cincinnati did) in order to qualify?

[AppInDC]

Sorry for what is probably a basic question but who is in charge of the playoffs going forward? Who will decide the format of teams? In other words what will keep the powers that be from just changing the format to require any G5 to earn a high enough ranking (like Cincinnati did) in order to qualify?

My understanding is the 2024 and 2025 seasons will have the 6 plus 6 model (or possibly a 5 plus 7 model since Pac 12 collapsed but not sure that hss been officially voted on yet). Any changes to the playoff contract going through 2025 had to be unanimously approved by each of the conferences (the P5 and the G5) as well as Notre Dame.

It's unclear to me what the process will be from 2026 on. Whether we stay at a 12 team model that guarantees at least one spot to a G5 or something that more heavily favors Big Ten/SEC remains to be seen.

[moonshine]

They were ranked at #18 when we beat them. Deserved or not , if they had gone undefeated , they perhaps would have finished in the top 15 and been the top rated G5. We kept them out of the Fiesta Bowl.

A team must win the conference championship so unless the NCAA allowed JMU’s waiver and the SBC changed course, the Dukes were not eligible for the Fiesta. While they deserved to play in a bowl based off on the field results, JMU made a bowl due to not enough eligible teams.

Liberty getting drilled at the half. Not that the Ducks need the help but the refs have been less than stellar.

[Pikapp79]

The Cotton Bowl is setting college back 100 years. It is awful.

College football fans aren’t familiar with good defense.

A defense can look real good when the offense is well .. offensive

Chicken or egg

[Black Saturday]

I think the refs have been paid by Nike. Too many little bullsheet calls imo helped the game get away from Liberty.


The deck is stacked against us little guys anyway.

[hapapp]

Sorry for what is probably a basic question but who is in charge of the playoffs going forward? Who will decide the format of teams? In other words what will keep the powers that be from just changing the format to require any G5 to earn a high enough ranking (like Cincinnati did) in order to qualify?

The ten FBS commissioners.

[Black Saturday]

We knocked JMU out of the NY6 , or at a minimum, one could make that argument.

Kind of, maybe, sorta like, the Gumrroots did Drink's team?

[Stonewall]

I stand corrected. Article I read just stated “top ranked G5”.

[Stonewall]

And Iowa has no offense.

[NattyBumppo'sRevenge]

Oregon by million...I hope

Curious as to rational for Oregon by a million?

Liberty was already hated before the hated Chodewell started coaching there. Liberty, UNC and Coastal are teams that are hard to pull for even if it helps App.

Agreed, my disdain for Liberty is very long. I hope that Oregon blasts them back to FCS

It should be enough to put all of conference USA in FCS and they wouldn’t even be the best FCS conference

[Black Saturday]

Liberty's arse whipping is a reflection on the level we play in like it or not

[Bigdaddyg1]

Over the last 10 years how many G5's have beaten P5's who finished the season in the top 10?

[NattyBumppo'sRevenge]

Chodeswell should get fired

[ah59396]

Over the last 10 years how many G5's have beaten P5's who finished the season in the top 10?

I think the G5 is 4-6.

But let’s be honest with ourselves. The G5 team is getting their Super Bowl and the P5 team they play doesn’t have a lot of interest in being there.

[BeauFoster]

Those Group of 5 Guys on twitter are saying “it wasn’t a blowout, it was a poorly officiated game”. I’m sorry, but those guys are worse than that guy who ran AGS for all those years who whined about FCS not getting respect. Liberty didn’t belong in that game, and it showed. I’m not saying App did, because they didn’t, but I guarantee there were better teams in G5 that didn’t get lucky because they play in and went undefeated in a glorified FCS conference.

[Stonewall]

SMU was likely a better team. Tulane ? Boise ? Troy? I don’t see it.

[Boonegoon]

SMU was likely a better team. Tulane ? Boise ? Troy? I don’t see it.

Right!? They all lost their bowl games to middling p5s . This year was not a G5 year, it’s not always like that, but this year it is.