Remember when JMU Football fans were jonesing for a spot in the College Football Playoff?
That was after JMU dropped 70 on North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and before losses to a pair of mediocre Sun Belt rivals, Louisiana-Monroe and Georgia Southern.
It was never going to happen, but you can’t tell that to JMU Nation.
JMU is a respectable 44th in the ESPN Football Power Index, but that’s not going to get you a playoff berth.
The spot that the fan base was aiming at is the one that goes to the highest-rated Group of 5 champ.
As of this week, that’s Boise State, which is 8-1, ranked 13th in the CFP, and finishes its regular season at San Jose State (6-3), at Wyoming (2-7) and at home with Oregon State (4-5), ahead of the Mountain West Championship Game, likely against either Colorado State (6-3, 4-0 Mountain West) or UNLV (7-2, 3-1 Mountain West).
There are two other Group of 5 teams in the CFP Top 25 – Army (9-0), the top team in the American, and Tulane (8-2), which is second right now in the American.
Army is at 24th in the CFP, and Tulane is 25th, so for whoever wins the AAC would have to hope Boise State chokes in the Mountain West title game to be able to leapfrog their way into the Playoff.
The Sun Belt is nowhere near this conversation, you notice.
Meanwhile, Curt Cignetti has Indiana at 10-0 and ranked fifth in the CFP.
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