Just three years removed from FCS and they’re playing in what amounts to a play in game to the CFP tonight. Pretty wild
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Griz in Texas
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If Tulane wins, they are pretty well out of it, so I don't agree that they are a play in game. North Texas is actually ranked ahead of them in the CFP rankings as well, so they need Duke to win as well and its very complicated.
footballdood
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Doesn't JMU have insane student athletic fees of several thousand dollars?
Could be Montana.
Grizzlies1982
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Don’t know about several thousand but I seem to remember it was insanely high.
Whatever the amount I thought a proposal of that same amount at Montana would generate pitchforks and torches rather than sports revenue
That one cfp appearances alone woukd be enough to fund UM's entire athletic budget for 20 years.
But I always forget there's no money at the fbs level.....
But I always forget there's no money at the fbs level.....
footballdood
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If I trust AI it's $2.5k a year. For comparison EWU tuition is about $8.5k all in per year (I think the athletic fee is $250 to $300 a year) so that's about 30 percent of just the cost of attendance. I know you can't directly consume compare the two schools but it's still kinda crazy to me.
And you Griz fans are quick to dunk on EWU but they had good computer science program when I was there and I think it's still pretty respectable.
And their ex-HC has Indiana at the cusp of an FBS NC.
bUt wE cAnT MoVe uP bEcAuSe wE wANt tO cOmPeTe fOr cHaMpIoNsHiPs
James Madison will be in the playoff this year, and Boise State was there last year…….
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The only way JMU is getting in is if Duke wins the ACC Championship tonight. Otherwise Tulane will get in over them.
The fact that they’re in the conversation is more the point than the outcome. They are “competing for championships” now at the highest level. It has long been the argument of the most apathetic of boosters and administrators at UM that achieving that level of success at the next level would be impossible, and yet here is JMU breathing truth into the lie.
5280Griz
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I saw a graphic during the game yesterday that said with a win, JMU had a 56% chance of making CFP with Virginia winning today and 99% chance with Duke winning. That must have been before the Tulane game finished.
Ok so one G5 team out of like 50+ teams makes the CFP. So you have to be the absolute best G5 team to make it and there’s zero margin for error. It’s a nearly impossible task to make the CFP as a G5 team. But sure, I guess you have like a 1% chance to compete for a championship when playing in the G5.
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Two G5 teams have made it in just the first two years of the CFPs expanded existence, and both of which are teams UM has had a long history of competing against.
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And I thought that our motto was “Superbia et traditio Ursōrum Montanēnsium timidīs aut infirmīs nōn committentur”
My brother in law is a prof in the computer science program, now specializing in the computer security aspect.
