2025 College Football Playoffs

[greyhammer90]

 

[Wild Bill]

Notre Dame at #9 means they get to go to Oklahoma and play their abysmal offense. If they win, they play Indiana in the Rose Bowl. Id rather play Indiana than Ohio State or Georgia. That's a win setup.

If they win that round, they'd likely play Texas Tech? That's a dream setup too.

Basically Ohio State vs Notre Dame rematch in the national championship looks very possible.

Tech or Oregon.

 

[T-Boone]

Hopefully Tulane and JMU both get beat by 70 and common sense prevails with this. Neither should be anywhere near the top 12.

 

[ColinKSU]

The fact that Bama, who was just ranked 10 (the last seed in) just 1 week ago, can win a squeaker against a 5-7 team then get their doors blown off by the #3 team in btb weeks and still get in the playoffs, is all you need to know about SEC bias

Bama has zero chance of winning a national title this season. None. Not even the biggest SEC honk would bet their own money on that team beating anyone playing serious football.

It’s insulting to every team that is actually playing well right now to put Bama in with them.

 

[IrishBoognish]

 

[NDWarrior]

Being ranked at #9 with potential matchups with IU and TTU is much better path than being ranked #10 with potential matchups with GA and OSU.

 

[NDWarrior]

Joey Galloway is hot on ‘bama remaining in at #10 and ND at #9 based on precedence and because why would any team want to play in CCGs then? But EJ Manuel quickly replied but CCGs are likely going away with expansion to field of 16. So they could absolutely this year break with precedence and kick ‘bama to the curb because there are likely no ramifications for future seasons with the impending format changes. But again, ND at #9 is the preferred path whether Miami or ‘bama are in at #10.

 

[GATTACA!]

Hopefully Tulane and JMU both get beat by 70 and common sense prevails with this. Neither should be anywhere near the top 12.

Blame the ACC for being wet trash this year. I have no problem with the G5 getting 1 team in. Especially once we inevitably go to 16. It's a nice reward for the team that earns #1 overall. Also what's the point of the G5 if they're literally competing for nothing? It's not realistic to think a G5 team will be top 15 with any regularity. It's the ACCs fault we're getting 2 this year though.

 

[IrishBryan77]

Shit in your hands and clap, you miserable bastard.

Lmfao. I had not heard this before. I like it

 

[IrishBryan77]

dude, get off it. Top coach who used NIL and the Portal as well as anyone

And he's the best coach PERIOD in college football right now. Hands down. (Sorry Marcus).

if we get in, I don't want anything to do with Indiana.

 

[IrishBryan77]

Gonna be a long morning tomorrow. Stupid TV show.

Not if you're passed out through it.

 

[NDWarrior]

And one last thing re: CCGs. They're kind of anti-climatic and kind of feels like the teams (e.g., IU (esp.) and OSU) kind of blew their emotional load when there's still an entire playoff season ahead. And for what? For OSU to still get a 1st round bye and IU to act like they've just won the CFP Championship? OSU as a more experienced Championship team appears to be taking the loss in stride and not getting too emotional realizing this.

These CCG games are pointless and should absolutely be eliminated.

And then we no longer need to worry about a 7-5 Duke beating a 10-2 VA for a possible playoff berth or to se BYU only get pummeled by TTU for the 2nd time.

And maybe Alabama plays an OR or OSU in the first round instead of getting beat on by GA in a rematch CCG game.

 

[TracyGraham]

And he's the best coach PERIOD in college football right now. Hands down. (Sorry Marcus).

if we get in, I don't want anything to do with Indiana.

I get that he is an outstanding coach, but the second round is going to be tough no matter what. As great as Cignetti is, I'd still rather play them instead of OSU or the GA defense we just saw.
-Those teams are much more talented
-It will be extremely tough for OSU to lose 2 in a row IMO
-OSU has Freeman's/ND's #
-Georgia looked like the Georgia of a couple years ago.
Of course TxTch would be great but we aint getting the number 5 seed.(I'm assuming they will be the #4 seed)

Gun to my head it is Indiana over OSU/GA every time

 

[MadMasher]

Regardless of how this turns out today the system is still broken. You have tulane and james Madison getting into the playoffs. All because they won their weak conferences? This is not how you get the 12 best teams for the playoffs. I don't know what the actual answer is but the system isn't working. The NCA needs to address it this year and either expand the playoff to 16 teams or come up with some form of matrix that eliminates weak conferences from making the playoffs. If they want to punish Notre Dame for not being in a conference and not giving us a bye if we finish in the top four fine by me. We will play anyone, anywhere at any time.

 

[NDWarrior]

I get that he is an outstanding coach, but the second round is going to be tough no matter what. As great as Cignetti is, I'd still rather play them instead of OSU or the GA defense we just saw.
-Those teams are much more talented
-It will be extremely tough for OSU to lose 2 in a row IMO
-OSU has Freeman's/ND's #
-Georgia looked like the Georgia of a couple years ago.
Of course TxTch would be great but we aint getting the number 5 seed.(I'm assuming they will be the #4 seed)

Gun to my head it is Indiana over OSU/GA every time

100% Agreed. I was just coming here to say just that - The 2 teams I'm most worried about are GA (as you said that was a typical hard-nosed Kirby D today in action) and OSU for the same reasons you outlined - Today's game meant nothing to OSU really and I would absolutely not count out an OSU team on fire in the playoffs like last year.

ND at #9 up against, OU, then IU and then either OR or TTU where we only have to play GA or OSU in the Championship game if we make it that far is the preferred path for sure.

 

[wizards8507]

Notre Dame at #9 means they get to go to Oklahoma and play their abysmal offense. If they win, they play Indiana in the Rose Bowl. Id rather play Indiana than Ohio State or Georgia. That's a win setup.

If they win that round, they'd likely play Texas Tech? That's a dream setup too.

Basically Ohio State vs Notre Dame rematch in the national championship looks very possible.

Is it definite that the Big 10 champion goes to the Rose Bowl? I thought it was whatever site is geographically closest to the #1 seed.

 

[wizards8507]

Regardless of how this turns out today the system is still broken. You have tulane and james Madison getting into the playoffs. All because they won their weak conferences? This is not how you get the 12 best teams for the playoffs. I don't know what the actual answer is but the system isn't working. The NCA needs to address it this year and either expand the playoff to 16 teams or come up with some form of matrix that eliminates weak conferences from making the playoffs. If they want to punish Notre Dame for not being in a conference and not giving us a bye if we finish in the top four fine by me. We will play anyone, anywhere at any time.

How does expanding to 16 solve anything? Instead of having debates about #9 through #14, we'll be sitting here having the exact same debates about #13 through #18.

Besides, you need to have these three different classes of teams that get a bye, teams that host a game, and teams that play on the road. Otherwise late season games REALLY won't matter and you'll see things like the #3 team resting all of their starters on rivalry week because they're already in anyways and there's no bye to play for, so who cares?

 

[Veritate Duce Progredi]

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This should come up as a talking point for Notre Dame and Miami.

"Notre Dame outrushed Alabama this past week, despite the gritty intent of the Tide."

The fact that the committee pays attention to how teams run the ball and used it as justification for moving Bama up last week really puts them in a difficult spot. If a team can be held scoreless until the 4th quarter and rush for negative yards, and lose 2 of their last three going into the playoffs, should they still be considered a playoff team?

 

[IrishSteelhead]

Last night I heard an IU guy say

“This sounds terrible, but I almost wish we lost. The losing team always wins the rematch.”

He ain’t lying.


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[TracyGraham]

The situation is kinda the fault of the conferences and their tiebreaker rules. In the future, maybe they should stipulate the conference championship game should be between the 2 highest ranked conference teams in the playoff rankings. In that case Miami would have been in the championship with a achance to prove their case and it would have been Ga/ole miss in the sec.

 

[Huntr]

ND's defense should be salivating at the prospect of playing against Mateer.

 

[MadMasher]

How does expanding to 16 solve anything? Instead of having debates about #9 through #14, we'll be sitting here having the exact same debates about #13 through #18.

Besides, you need to have these three different classes of teams that get a bye, teams that host a game, and teams that play on the road. Otherwise late season games REALLY won't matter and you'll see things like the #3 team resting all of their starters on rivalry week because they're already in anyways and there's no bye to play for, so who cares?

Valid points. Like I said I don't know what the answer is but the system they are using right now doesn't work.

 

[Veritate Duce Progredi]

I really hope ND gets Oklahoma in the first round. Ultimately, it's our tackles that have me the most concerned and I'd prefer to ease into the 'tackle litmus test'. Miami did disrupt us a lot because they had two elite DEs (and we were breaking in new OL starters, freshman QB, first year DC, etc).

Oklahoma's offense seems like a good matchup for ND. Are there early odds on the potential matchups? Curious how Vegas sees it.

 

[wizards8507]

Wait the selection show is THREE HOURS LONG!?

 

[NDRock]

9. Notre Dame
10. Alabama
11. Miami

BOOK IT

I’ll say
9. Miami
10. Bama
11. ND

I just don’t see them leaving out a bubble Bama team two years in a row and the ACC will want at least one team. Dumb reasons of course but it is CFB.

 

[irishff1014]

How does expanding to 16 solve anything? Instead of having debates about #9 through #14, we'll be sitting here having the exact same debates about #13 through #18.

Besides, you need to have these three different
classes of teams that get a bye, teams that host a game, and teams that play on the road. Otherwise late season games REALLY won't matter and you'll see things like the #3 team resting all of their starters on rivalry week because they're already in anyways and there's no bye to play for, so who cares?

I have been saying this exact same thing. You keep changing the number of teams because people aren’t happy, but all you are doing is pushing the argument back a few numbers. And now you have set a precedent that if the teams bitch enough, they will just expand again.

If they were to go to 16 I think the need to add a stipulation that 16 is the most teams they will expand to and be done. I am sorry no 3 loss teams deserves to be in the playoffs. Yes, I know JMU at 11-1 is not going to beat 10-3 bama but the NCAA allowed the Sun Belt to be a division 1 conference.

People/schools are going to bitch and you aren’t going to make them happy.

 

[arrowryan]

I’ll say
9. Miami
10. Bama
11. ND

I just don’t see them leaving out a bubble Bama team two years in a row and the ACC will want at least one team. Dumb reasons of course but it is CFB.

So you think ND gets left out?

 

[Huntr]

I’ll say
9. Miami
10. Bama
11. ND

I just don’t see them leaving out a bubble Bama team two years in a row and the ACC will want at least one team. Dumb reasons of course but it is CFB.

ND would be left out of the playoffs if these are the rankings

 

[NDRock]

I have been saying this exact same thing. You keep changing the number of teams because people aren’t happy, but all you are doing is pushing the argument back a few numbers. And now you have set a precedent this the teams bitch enough they will just expand again.

If they were to go to 16 I think the need to add a stipulation that 16 is the most teams they will expand to and be done. I am sorry no 3 loss teams deserves to be in the playoffs. Yes, I know JMU at 11-1 is not going to beat 10-3 bama but the NCAA allowed the Sun Belt to be a division 1 conference.

People/schools are going to bitch and you aren’t going to make them happy.

So you think ND gets left out?

I think they’ll fuck us.

 

[IrishTusker]

If there is not formal expansion, there should be play-in games for the 11th and 12th spots. 11 vs. 14 and 12 vs. 13 or something.