December 25, 2025
By Jay Busbee: Now that we’re outside the blast radius of College Football Playoff hot takes, let’s pause for a breath. Yes, the two G5 games were every bit the blowouts everyone expected. Yes, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, or Texas almost surely would have put up a better fight than Tulane and James Madison.
Whatever your playoff argument was heading into the first round, it’s now invalid given that we have eight blue-chip teams, most of them old-school, blue-blood programs, up and down the CFP bracket. And between all the machinations among conferences and networks, and the fawning love for Notre Dame, it’s obvious that the future of the CFP has little room reserved for any program that doesn’t fit either the big-conference or legacy-brand designations.
So with a few days of breathing room before the spicy Rose/Sugar/Orange/Cotton takes, let’s ask a question we probably should’ve been asking a long time ago:
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