11-30-2025, 01:39 PM
Go Hoos!
Duke won't be in the CFP if they win (UVA beat them by 17 in mid-November). There is no automatic conference bid. The five highest ranked conference champions get auto-bids. That won't be 8-5 Duke with non-conference losses to UCONN, Tulane, and Illinois. It would be the winner of Tulane/North Texas and JMU. I think ND's skull-clubbing of Stanford guarantees that Miami is iced out. They'll get a good TV bowl against Michigan or similar.
Conferences are too big. CFP needs a complete overhaul. If you want to be NFL-lite, be NFL-lite with regional (ish) divisions and clear paths for winning. You don't have a committee picking teams for the Super Bowl.
There was one clear clubhouse leader in the ACC at 7-1 (UVA) and only because their loss to NC State was scheduled as a non-conference game because I guess they missed each other in this unwieldy 16/17 -team conference. At a minimum the ACC needs to immediately kick ND out of all sports and go back to 8-team divisions with round robin play. Winding up with Duke in the championship game is a joke. They won the 5th tiebreaker, which is the combined winning percentage of conference opponents.
SMU (6-2) beat Miami (6-2)
Miami (6-2) beat Pitt (6-2)
Pitt (6-2) beat Tech (6-2)
Tech (6-2) beat Duke (6-2)
Duke (6-2) beat no one in the top 5
So while a couple of upsets in the SEC give us Bama-UGA and Ohio State plays Indiana, both with lots of eyeballs, we get a good basketball matchup in an empty Charlotte stadium with no one watching.
Miami is clearly the best team of the five and SMU, Pitt, and Tech all had win and in opportunities they couldn't cash in, but for the ACC to have any semblance of football credibility, UVA has to win. They'll probably be slaughtered in someone else's stadium, but to be skunked while watching JMU (played one real team and lost) getting slaughtered....no good.
Duke won't be in the CFP if they win (UVA beat them by 17 in mid-November). There is no automatic conference bid. The five highest ranked conference champions get auto-bids. That won't be 8-5 Duke with non-conference losses to UCONN, Tulane, and Illinois. It would be the winner of Tulane/North Texas and JMU. I think ND's skull-clubbing of Stanford guarantees that Miami is iced out. They'll get a good TV bowl against Michigan or similar.
Conferences are too big. CFP needs a complete overhaul. If you want to be NFL-lite, be NFL-lite with regional (ish) divisions and clear paths for winning. You don't have a committee picking teams for the Super Bowl.
There was one clear clubhouse leader in the ACC at 7-1 (UVA) and only because their loss to NC State was scheduled as a non-conference game because I guess they missed each other in this unwieldy 16/17 -team conference. At a minimum the ACC needs to immediately kick ND out of all sports and go back to 8-team divisions with round robin play. Winding up with Duke in the championship game is a joke. They won the 5th tiebreaker, which is the combined winning percentage of conference opponents.
SMU (6-2) beat Miami (6-2)
Miami (6-2) beat Pitt (6-2)
Pitt (6-2) beat Tech (6-2)
Tech (6-2) beat Duke (6-2)
Duke (6-2) beat no one in the top 5
So while a couple of upsets in the SEC give us Bama-UGA and Ohio State plays Indiana, both with lots of eyeballs, we get a good basketball matchup in an empty Charlotte stadium with no one watching.
Miami is clearly the best team of the five and SMU, Pitt, and Tech all had win and in opportunities they couldn't cash in, but for the ACC to have any semblance of football credibility, UVA has to win. They'll probably be slaughtered in someone else's stadium, but to be skunked while watching JMU (played one real team and lost) getting slaughtered....no good.