and called off the dogs to keep their players healthy for the game that mattered. JMU’s 21 points late in the 3rd and 4th quarters were true trash points. If that were a regular season game, Oregon would have wanted more style points and hit 70+ on them. Oregon came prepared today and had a nice practice game against a JMU team who didn’t belong there. If JMU played Texas Tech, they would have gotten worked there too. Texas Tech belonged. ND belonged. BYU belonged. Alabama was the outlier but can see where they could have been the 12th seed. JMU and Tulane did not belong. JMU’s one loss was to a middle of the pack ACC school in Louisville. Yes I get it, JMU could have beaten Virginia Tech given the opportunity but they would have been 7-5 or 8-4 at best in the ACC even with UVa’s easy schedule. Tulane was crushed by Ole Miss (regular season) and crushed by UTSA but did beat the ACC champs but they didn’t deserve to be there either. Bama or Vandy were deserving of the 12th spot but would give the nod to Bama since they beat Vandy head-to-head. Had UVa won the ACCCG, both Alabama and Vandy should have been left out with UVa as the #12. It would have been gross too especially since they played the weakest possible ACC schedule that the conference had to offer. But a 11-2 UVa Power conference champion should have gotten in over Bama or Vandy. Unfortunately the CFP has the “everybody gets a trophy clause” thus a few trashcan programs get to sneak in every year. I was OK with Boise State getting in last year but it turned out they weren’t at the CFP level. ** Edited by Calamitous at 1/1/2026, 6:40:53 PM