I’m fine with 1 getting in, the ACC is obviously to blame for a lot of it.
My issue is that because we only get campus games for this one round, these 4 games are what you want to be the most fun. If we could get a second round of games on campus sites then it would be a much easier pill to swallow.  Previous Message With no G5 teams playing. It’s a participation tournament already. So let the G5 schools feel like they have something to dream on. Previous Message
It’s still better than nothing, but is so much less fun than it could be.
Imagine if tomorrow was Miami @ A&M, then Notre Dame @ Ole Miss, then Vanderbilt @ Oregon. Instead there’s no reason to watch 2 of the 3 games (sorry Spackler).
And then think about week 2 could be with home games instead of sterile neutral sites. Could have things like Alabama going into Bloomington and Oregon going into Lubbock.
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 Other Bowls and FCS Playoffs thread. Let’s throw Army-Navy in here too. - ATL December 13, 2025, 14:36:11
- This UVA - Miznoz game is complete ass.* - SurfTheBoneyard Yesterday, 21:31:58
- Georgia Tech doing literally the dumbest shit after getting deep into BYU territory. - ATL Yesterday, 17:57:55
- This UNT/SDSU game is crazy fun* - bbonb Yesterday, 17:53:31
- Athletically, we need to look more like GT looks* - opossum jenkins Yesterday, 17:40:44
- This pop tarts bowl coverage is awful * - ISeeDeadHawkeyes Yesterday, 15:58:48
- Politics/sports - RVA Yesterday, 12:33:38
- some of these bowl games are just dire. Do either PSU or Clemson really care about playing - ECEIllinois Yesterday, 12:08:18
- Impressive catch by MN* - biclops December 26, 2025, 19:05:32
- Dolphins keeping it close against Minnesota * - ATL December 26, 2025, 17:38:09
- Minnesota QB keeps trying to throw it to the other team. * - larue33 December 26, 2025, 16:22:48
- Official: Whittingham to UM. 5-year deal. - AintHatin December 26, 2025, 15:52:57
- why did the CMU players run away from the ball from an obvious backwards pass?* - ECEIllinois December 26, 2025, 13:01:58
- Nm* - illini21 December 26, 2025, 8:23:01
- Whittingham the front runner for the Michigan job per ESPN* - illini21 December 26, 2025, 8:20:59
- Hawaii up 28-24 after being down 21-0* - ECEIllinois December 24, 2025, 22:24:34
- hey Carl Spackler! Donovan Leary in transfer portal - Poldark December 24, 2025, 9:34:17
- Looks like W. Kentucky will take the New Orleans Bowl, Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl underway, - larue33 December 23, 2025, 20:23:01
- This Western KY-Sothern Miss game is proof that we need less bowls. Awful football.* - voiceofreason December 23, 2025, 18:08:26
- Cosign * - PapaDels December 24, 2025, 18:32:11
- fewer
 - IlliniSax05 December 24, 2025, 7:53:26
- Valid.* - voiceofreason December 24, 2025, 9:44:08
- fever - osklister December 24, 2025, 9:21:31
- I'm here for every bowl game they play. * - larue33 December 23, 2025, 18:20:26
- I felt the same way about Miami/Texas A&M.* - ATL December 23, 2025, 18:11:01
- Same here.* - voiceofreason December 23, 2025, 18:16:20
- Louisville just kneeled out a 27-22 win over Toledo in the Boca Raton Bowl and - larue33 December 23, 2025, 16:45:50
- Jeff Brohm might be the guy for Michigan* - OB25 December 23, 2025, 10:02:22
- When we beat USC last year, it was the first time we beat an SEC team - TarheelIllini December 22, 2025, 12:57:54
- USF QB Byrum Brown to portal, will surely end up at one of the blue bloods. - OB25 December 22, 2025, 11:14:14
- Regarding the G5 CFP blowouts... - EffinIllini December 22, 2025, 9:42:07
- UNC hiring Bobby Petrino as offensive coordinator - RVA December 22, 2025, 9:08:48
- ISU is killing Nova in FCS. * - illini December 20, 2025, 20:53:52
- Man, I’m so glad Tulane and James Madison made the playoff. * - VIV December 20, 2025, 20:42:05
- Illinois State up 21-6 at the half* - ECEIllinois December 20, 2025, 19:59:14
- TD ISU!* - ECEIllinois December 20, 2025, 19:04:19
- Wayne Knight really delivers for JMU* - Herman Blume December 20, 2025, 18:55:52
- Pretty underwhelming day of football all over today* - John Coctostan December 20, 2025, 18:35:36
- A G5 team getting curb stomped by a superior team from a superior conference. Go figure * - bbonb December 20, 2025, 17:12:44
- Dots - illini21 December 20, 2025, 17:13:20
- Woof* - illini21 December 20, 2025, 17:08:52
- Alright, get the ball 2nd half and potential for big Ole Miss injuries - Carl Spackler December 20, 2025, 16:11:42
- Immediate grab to head- concussion. Curious if ole miss takes it seriously* - John Coctostan December 20, 2025, 16:01:44
- tAMu and Oklahoma: boy the home field advantage sure paid off. - osklister December 20, 2025, 15:54:10
- lol* - biclops December 20, 2025, 14:57:13
- Montana/Montana St. starts in 4 minutes on ABC and will be more entertaining to watch* - OB25 December 20, 2025, 14:56:39
- How about we just give the Group of 5 their own little playoff* - illini21 December 20, 2025, 14:46:26
- lol good lord Ole Miss might put up 50* - illini21 December 20, 2025, 14:45:32
- Too easy* - OWWDig December 20, 2025, 14:43:42
- Thanks for coming Tulane* - John Coctostan December 20, 2025, 14:43:30
- Tulane sucks* - Wes December 20, 2025, 14:43:27
- Yeah…shut up, SEC. We can all pay our players now.* - voiceofreason December 20, 2025, 14:39:06
- Reed is awful. And OSU will obliterate Miami next week* - bjl63 December 20, 2025, 14:37:03
- One of the more fraudulent ‘great’ seasons ever by A&M. Totally a function of imbalanced scheduling* - OB25 December 20, 2025, 14:36:55
- 100%.* - Mrap24 December 20, 2025, 14:44:01
- Hate that play design. They drew 5 defenders to the spot they wanted to throw* - John Coctostan December 20, 2025, 14:35:11
- Woof. Bad throw. * - illini December 20, 2025, 14:35:10
- S-E-C* - ATL December 20, 2025, 14:34:26
- Targeting?* - jjlocke923 December 20, 2025, 14:33:06
- Reed got two guys killed with that pass* - assassin December 20, 2025, 14:32:22
- No real offense for 55 mins then all this* - John Coctostan December 20, 2025, 14:30:57
- Probably should have done down on the 1* - Herman Blume December 20, 2025, 14:24:33
- What a run, dragged the defender for 25 yards* - OB25 December 20, 2025, 14:16:26
- Trying to get them to jump offsides on 4th down by staring at your sideline is a new tactic* - illini222 December 20, 2025, 14:13:43
- Gotta say the scene/atmosphere at Kyle Field is pretty awesome* - RSMBob December 20, 2025, 14:09:19
- This game has zero flow. Just ugly* - John Coctostan December 20, 2025, 13:55:21
- Reed is an abysmal passer* - bjl63 December 20, 2025, 13:50:09
- replay shows ball hitting the ground - "this one might be overruled" * - Orangeillini December 20, 2025, 13:46:50
- Skycam broadcast on SEC Network with A&M radio call is pretty good* - OB25 December 20, 2025, 13:42:14
- lol how is that not a penalty * - assassin December 20, 2025, 13:26:45
- DOINK * - jdl December 20, 2025, 13:19:41
- Notre dame lost to both of these teams* - illini21 December 20, 2025, 13:19:31
- the only positive about how bad these games have been is it's assuredly making ND fans more angry - OrangeSox December 20, 2025, 12:36:26
- frank_beamer_celebration.gif* - ECEIllinois December 20, 2025, 12:33:50
- They should just move straight to the 2 point conversion contest * - jdl December 20, 2025, 12:33:23
- I'm not sure I've ever seen someone miss a field goal that badly* - Sounder December 20, 2025, 12:33:10
- This isn’t a great endorsement to expand the playoff* - Mrap24 December 20, 2025, 12:17:39
- How was Miami favored in this game? * - illini December 20, 2025, 12:15:33
- Reminder: the TAMU campus police twitter account is a great follow on game days - biclops December 20, 2025, 10:24:04
- if only OU had a decent kicker this year, no telling how far they could have gone * - bbonb December 19, 2025, 22:44:45
- Alright, Roll Damn Tide in the Rose Bowl* - illini21 December 19, 2025, 22:41:47
- Ok nevermind about the kicker* - OB25 December 19, 2025, 22:40:07
- so glad we have Olano* - ECEIllinois December 19, 2025, 22:39:35
- crazy to watch these crappy mistake prone teams and know INDIANA is gonna beat the shit out of em* - John Coctostan December 19, 2025, 22:37:33
- I’d rather have Cairo Santos* - bjl63 December 19, 2025, 22:30:59
- lol* - assassin December 19, 2025, 22:30:24
- These coaches look like clones* - Carl Spackler December 19, 2025, 22:15:47
- That seemed pretty obviously incomplete to me.* - Carl Spackler December 19, 2025, 22:07:05
- I think every CFP team should adopt a Steven Seagal movie title as its mantra * - biclops December 19, 2025, 21:53:18
- Did not have 50 cent coming out pumping up the OU crowd on my bingo card* - illini21 December 19, 2025, 21:50:07
- Holy cow at that drop* - Mrap24 December 19, 2025, 21:33:16
- The ramifications of that Oklahoma drop are crazy to think about. - OB25 December 19, 2025, 21:27:55
- Why do they keep blaming Mateer for his receivers dropping easy catches? - OB25 December 19, 2025, 21:18:06
- What happened to Ryan Williams? * - illini21 December 19, 2025, 21:12:14
- Gotta catch that* - Mrap24 December 19, 2025, 21:11:55
- the amount of dumb by Oklahoma in this game. phew* - OrangeSox December 19, 2025, 20:42:19
- Get over yourself ref, come on* - OB25 December 19, 2025, 20:40:54
- These two teams suck ass, we don’t need a 12 team playoff * - illiniranger December 19, 2025, 20:36:05
- This game is tits* - illini21 December 19, 2025, 21:57:26
- Wait until you see what Oregon does to, checks notes, James Madison?* - Sounder December 19, 2025, 20:45:58
- Just wait until the talking heads bitch about the 17th team when they expand….* - bjl63 December 19, 2025, 20:38:30
- These two couldn’t complete a long pass with my grandma playing DB * - illiniranger December 19, 2025, 20:36:51
- I have some takes I would like to take back. Sweet sassy molassey, what a collapse* - OB25 December 19, 2025, 20:34:15
- hello me not dead * - biclops December 19, 2025, 20:33:53
- Haha wow* - illini21 December 19, 2025, 20:33:50
- My goodness, that drop has totally flipped the game.* - OB25 December 19, 2025, 20:20:46
- Momentum shift* - AintHatin December 19, 2025, 20:20:29
- You can’t criticize Mateer for not running there - bjl63 December 19, 2025, 20:20:28
- Well this has taken a turn* - illini21 December 19, 2025, 20:20:26
- I hope this OU defense decapitates Mendoza* - illini21 December 19, 2025, 20:08:54
- Tide rolled. Fire DeBoer - Poldark December 19, 2025, 20:01:50
- Man, I love reading game threads - illini21 December 19, 2025, 19:58:41
- Can only imagine the game thread right now on the Alabama version of this board* - OB25 December 19, 2025, 19:54:40
- Give me that kid instead of Cairo Santos* - OB25 December 19, 2025, 19:47:34
- Bama looks terrible. * - illini December 19, 2025, 19:43:43
- Alabama looked absolutely lost defensively on that drive* - OrangeSox December 19, 2025, 19:31:29
- The current playoff format is such a tease. - OB25 December 19, 2025, 19:11:26
- I don't find conference rematches in Round One interesting at all. We've seen this movie* - illini222 December 19, 2025, 19:35:17
- Yep agreed* - illini21 December 19, 2025, 19:32:18
- Plus watching whine ND whine is fun* - Carl Spackler December 19, 2025, 19:26:38
- The average margin of victory in last year’s first round was 19. - Carl Spackler December 19, 2025, 19:22:11
- I’m fine with 1 getting in, the ACC is obviously to blame for a lot of it. - OB25 December 19, 2025, 19:27:30
- Lane's call in show is back! - nash December 19, 2025, 12:14:19
- Illini victim Western Michigan absolutely throttling Kennesaw State 27-0 in the 2nd.* - ATL December 19, 2025, 10:53:34
- I know we are supposed to hate Mendoza bc Hoosier…but he seems like a super impressive kid* - Ron McDon December 13, 2025, 19:18:52
- Cuban Tim Tebow is pretty annoying* - Sounder December 13, 2025, 19:12:27
- Illinois State leading 35-17 going to the 4th quarter in the FCS Quarters* - DanSaint December 13, 2025, 18:31:13
- Army-Navy uniform game is strong* - Sounder December 13, 2025, 15:11:17
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