In Reply to: Are BOTH Tulane AND JMU better than ND? posted by ClockBlocker on December 08, 2025 at 12:21:37
The playoff is a tournament that has built in a few concessions designed to open it up to broader potential pool of teams to create excitement much in the same way that March Madness has with it's inclusion of conference champions that arguably have little business being on the same court as the teams they will face. But then low and behold, every now and then (now more frequently than ever), one of these teams shocks the world and the same will eventually happen with the College Football Playoff. And I'm sure that if Tulane and JMU both get pasted in their opening round playoff games you and many others will be screaming, "See, ND should have been in over both these teams!!!!" But you'd be missing the entire point, they are there to allow for the possibility that any team in the country has a chance to make the College Football Playoff, and regardless of whether or not it happens this year, eventually, one of these teams is going to win a game that they aren't supposed to.
Also, F#uckND, that program has over the years been given more preferential treatment than everyone else combined. The sense of entitlement is insane.