I don't get the love for Miami. They are getting way too much credit for that ND win. ND was not a good team those first couple of weeks. If they played again now I think ND would roll.
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knuckifyoubuck
Heisman
It's always been this way - highest ranked 3 loss team: SEC, highest ranked 2 loss team: SEC, etc., etc. Nothing to see here.
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They have the 2 highest 3 loss teams.
I guess I can understand Texas but there's no way Tennessee should be ranked ahead of Illinois, Tennessee's best win is against a 5-5 Kentucky team. Illinois win over #15 USC is infinitely better than any of Tennessee's wins. This is where you really ee the "durrrr but their losses are so good!" effect come into play.
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To be fair, the B1G has some serious clout too.
If IU wasn't in the B1G they'd be treated like an undefeated G5 team.
If IU wasn't in the B1G they'd be treated like an undefeated G5 team.
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Last year maybe, but this is 2 straight season they've pretty much done what they've wanted against opponents.
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Boise has been excellent, by G5 standards, for 15-20 years.
IU has done what they wanted against weaker Big Ten teams but still haven't made a statement up in weight class. (This years Oregon win is tbd and not looking like Oregon is a real powerful team)
Same knock everyone would have on a G5.
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Yep it was UCF, their P5 OOC wins those 2 years were against 4-8 Maryland and 7-7 Pitt
They may have won their 1st round game depending on the opponent if there was a 12 teamer in 2017 (the undefeated year) but they weren't getting close to winning the national title. Though i'm gonna assume without the "They didn't want to be there" factor that Auburn had in that bowl game they probably lose in the 1st round.
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Yeah, it's unique to college football.
You have 130 some odd teams that play the same sport but ~5 of them are playing a different sport than anyone else. Then that 5-25 type team band comes and those are the only ones who have a miracle in them that can get an OSU/UGA etc on a bad day. You start getting further down the spectrum and you have what happened with USCe and A&M, they could hold a fucking 30 point halftime lead.
Sooner or later, the big divide will come, just because of money if nothing else. No one cares about Mountain West, Sun Belt, MAC, B12 teams.
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You care about the American and Conference USA so little you don’t even mention them.
And then there’s the Pac-2!
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cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
2025-26 College Football Playoff schedule, dates, TV channel, sites
Here's the complete schedule for the College Football Playoff for the 2025-26 season, including game dates, how to watch and teams. This is the second year of the 12-team playoff.www.ncaa.com
2025-26 College Football Playoff schedule, dates, TV channel, sites
All times Eastern
- First round (Dec. 19-20) — on campus
- Friday, Dec. 19: One game
- Saturday, Dec. 20: Three games
- Quarterfinals (Dec. 31-Jan. 1)
- Wednesday, Dec. 31: Cotton Bowl
- Thursday, Jan. 1: Orange Bowl (early afternoon)
- Thursday, Jan. 1: Rose Bowl (late afternoon)
- Thursday, Jan. 1: Sugar Bowl (primetime)
- Semifinals (Jan. 8-9)
- Thursday, Jan. 8: Fiesta Bowl
- Friday, Jan. 9: Peach Bowl
- CFP National Championship
- Monday, Jan. 19 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida
So, it’s a NATIONAL PLAYOFF, but six of the games are played in the South. When is the Big Ten gonna take a stand for their players and fans?
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
Agreed.
How about this:
First round - on campus
Quarterfinals - on campus
Semifinals - on campus
Championship - Rotate this bad boy between about 6 spots. Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl or Peach Bowl (not both), Cotton Bowl, maybe pick something in Florida, Indianapolis, or some other midwestern dome, and pick something out east - Baltimore area, maybe?
Or, hell - play it in Honolulu every year.
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CincyInterloper
Hall of Fame
I don’t remember what other year they went undefeated, but a 12-0 UCF beat Auburn in the 2018 Peach Bowl.
From Wikipedia:
At 12–0, UCF was the lone remaining undefeated team in Division I FBS, as Wisconsin had lost to Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship.
. . .
Auburn entered the game 10–3, notching noteworthy wins over then-No. 1 ranked Georgia on November 11followed by a 26–14 win over then-No. 1 ranked Alabama in the Iron Bowl. Auburn won the SEC Western Division, and elevated to #2 in CFP ranking, but lost the SEC Championship Game in a rematch to Georgia.
So the Peach Bowl was a quality win. But it came too late to help with the CFP ranking, and we’ll never know how they would have fared in the playoffs.
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