{"id":1931,"date":"2025-12-08T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:27:50","slug":"is-booger-mcfarland-right-about-jmu-and-tulane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/sports-media\/is-booger-mcfarland-right-about-jmu-and-tulane\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Booger McFarland Right About JMU And Tulane?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The College Football Playoff<\/a> saw a wrench get thrown into the works this weekend, after Duke’s upset win over Virginia<\/a> to claim the ACC championship.\u00a0 With five losses, the Blue Devils were not going to be one of the 12 teams moving on to the playoff, and it allowed two Group of Six champions, Tulane from the American and James Madison from the Sun Belt, to be a part of the bracket.\u00a0 ESPN’s Booger McFarland is critical of the decision to allow teams from outside the Power Four conferences be a part of the playoff.<\/p>\n

“No one in America aside from JMU or Tulane thinks that JMU or Tulane can win a championship this year,” McFarland said on Sunday’s CFP Selection Show.\u00a0 “Like, that\u2019s the matter of fact, but they\u2019re in it because we had to include them based on the parameters we were given, and I think that\u2019s going to rub a lot of people the wrong way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Booger McFarland on College Football Playoff, James Madison and Tulane, and the Group of Five: “We’re trying to include teams to make them a part of this, when I think everyone knows that, yeah, they’re good, but can they play with the big boys?…” \ud83c\udfc8\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f #CFB<\/a> #CFP<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/OtV3I9VZnB<\/a><\/p>\n

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