James Madison, You?

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So JMU is the ultimate Cinderella story in this year’s CFP. Unlike the actual story, though, JMU’s trip is more than a transformed pumpkin and a glass slipper. Let’s just say their path to their Cinderella moment is a little more convoluted than that:

It took the stars aligning in nearly every way imaginable for James Madison to make the College Football Playoff this year.

If ANY SINGLE THING in this list happened, the ACC Champion would have been a ranked team and James Madison would not have made the CFP:

  • Georgia Tech beats NC State
  • Georgia Tech beats Pitt
  • SMU beats Cal
  • Miami beats Louisville
  • Miami doesn’t get flagged for not realizing a whistle had been blown on 4th & 9 against SMU
  • A phantom call isn’t made to keep Duke alive when Clemson had them beat
  • Clemson stops Duke’s 2-point conversion attempt in the final minute
  • Duke doesn’t fumble at the goal line and have Georgia Tech pick it up and return it 99 yards for a touchdown
  • Wake Forest doesn’t hit a 50-yard field goal as time expires vs. SMU after getting the ball back down by 2 with 12 SECONDS LEFT.
  • Pitt doesn’t blow a 17-0 lead at home against Louisville
  • Wake Forest beats Duke
  • Duke beats UConn
  • Duke beats Tulane
  • Duke beats Illinois
  • North Carolina doesn’t allow Duke to score a go-ahead touchdown with 2 mins left in the game
  • Duke beats Virginia in the regular season
  • Virginia beats Duke in the ACC Championship

If any of those happened, JMU is not in the Playoff and the ACC has two teams in. It took every single possible thing happening to create an extremely rare scenario.

I mean, all they had to do was win, right?

10 thoughts on “James Madison, You?”

    • All that may be true, the acc’s cry for multiple invites go unanswered, Cinderella actually had a tough path to the next level, evil stepmother and all that, those dukes have a chance, they don’t have a fairy godmother, which means there was a GodFather involved, if you’ve ever experienced a GodFather moment…there’s always an “offer you can’t refuse”…GO DAWGS!!

  2. Those who whined for Cinderella teams should be forced to pick them in their office pools and lose their $ up front.

    • The losers that pull for those teams (that they never knew existed until they had #12 by their name) would happily pay to virtue signal and then shrug their shoulders at the loss and show back up in March to ruin basketball. Remember when Oregon wins by 50, they will be the bad guys. “There’s something about an underdog that inspires the mediocre.” It’s really turned into a mental/emotional health issue.

    • I suspect that those who whined for Cinderella teams don’t bet in office pools. But they might pass some bodacious gas in an elevator just before getting to the next floor and leaving.

  5. Make that list using play by play for Georgia to win the SEC. I’ll start

    FG missed in kneeland
    4th down TD pass in kneeland
    Ref not seeing the ball punched out at auburn
    Lagway makes the 1st down in the 4th qtr
    Josh McCray doesn’t make the line to gain against ole miss
    About 150 other plays against ole miss, fu, tenn or auburn.

    • Yep, there are hundreds of plays like this in each team’s season. All that matters now is what we do with the opportunity.

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