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Their transfer ratings are bullshit and everyone knows. It's literally made up.
For fun and I'm bored, Here is their 25 schedule:
ODU- Win
Kennesaw State- Win
Indiana State- Win
Illinois- Loss
Applaud them for finally traveling in October- great job- At Iowa- Loss
At Oregon- Loss
Michigan State- Win
UCLA- Win
At Maryland- Win
At Penn State- Loss
Wisconsin- Toss Up
At Purdue- Toss Up
The shine will be off the JMU turd for certain. In a couple years they may be "Indiana" again...
Probably why they needed to increase their SOS by replacing UVa with Kennesaw St and Austin Peay
Do they play any of the top 8 B1G teams this season?
"the bowl game format. If the CFP did home games until the finals, then they would be all sellouts."- LMAO the biggest, most high stakes games of the entire year might sell out yall. Nothing to see here.
FWIW, after doing my whirlwind tours of 12 college campuses my daughter is considering, I'd say the most "distracting" scenery (in a positive sense) of any of them was definitely Emory. Of course, that's because it felt like about 60-70% of the students were Asian and that is my bias. Thankfully I did not hit any cars as that would have been really bad to try and explain to my wife and daughter what I was looking at when I should have been looking at the road.
I guess Indiana wanted a bigger challenge
Indiana has cancelled a 2027-2028 home and home series with Virginia and will pay $500k to UVA per @michaelniziolek After having already added Kennesaw State to the 2027 schedule, Indiana will pay Austin Peay $400k for a game in 2028 as the other UVA replacement pic.twitter.com/Oh4X8njwc1— Unnecessary Roughness (@UnnecRoughness) July 15, 2025
The appearance of the campus helped me decide on Tech way back in the 90's. The fact that it had a rocking engineering department was also a huge factor.
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Nothing beautiful about UVA's campus. It's crowded into a hodge podge town setting that shares too much space with vehicles and non-UVA related traffic. VT's campus puts it to shame, in my experience. I lived nearby for almost 10 years and had to go to the 'ville all too often.
As for the ladies, I'm old enough now that I shouldn't comment, but I'll just say that a friend of mine got so caught up in appreciating the view as he drove through town that he hit a stopped car with his new Saab. He didn't want to deal with insurance consequences from a moving violation, so he wrote the other driver a check and then reported the collision to his insurance company as a deer strike. Of course, that could have happened anywhere, but the scenery was definitely attractive to me as a "ute" and I understood how it could happen.
Personally, I 10000% agree this is the fatal flaw of the playoff.
Even the blue bloods aren't selling out their home stands
IMO this is due to:
- the bowl game format. If the CFP did home games until the finals, then they would be all sellouts.
- The media consumption culture of the post-netflix, 4k TV world:
- The TV experience is a better way to consume the game (not the atmosphere, the game) than being there in person.
- Due to the immediate availability of every piece of content at every moment, there's just so much more competition for eye balls. That means not even Bama fans want to show up for a matchup that isn't blockbuster.
Which ratings are we speaking of??
Because the CFP semifinal and final were both down. The Semi -17% and Final -12%.
Upon deeper research, ABC and ESPN had all time highs for regular season ratings, mostly due to SEC - ABC averaged 5.8 million viewers for 46 regular season games, a 56 percent increase year-over-year, making it their best season in 15 years. Across ESPN platforms (ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU), viewership reached an average of 1.9 million viewers per game, up 19 percent year-over-year
B10 let their relationship with Nielson expire mid season, so they're ratings aren't captured accurately.
Some sources:
- https://www.sportsvideo.org/2024/12/06/ratings-roundup-college-football-...
- https://www.footballscoop.com/2025/03/03/the-100-most-watched-games-of-t...
Look, I know/understand that ratings are heavily fudged. Simultaneously, we can all recognize that it's not like viewers are leaving the sport in droves.
Anecdotally, for every CFB fan I know who complains about the sport being ruined, I know of an NFL fan who's more interested in Saturdays than ever before.
I think judging a campus by how automobile friendly it is a poor metric. They're designed for student living / learning and focus on walkability first and foremost.
Yeah, gonna have to disagree there. uva campus looks like shit. Trying to get around via automobile around campus is one of the worst experiences I've ever had anywhere and good luck trying to make sense of the roads and parking especially around 'the corner'
Absolute dogshit of a place
Because the playoff made the first 12 games less meaningful. It's like the NBA now, regular season has almost no urgency, just need to win enough to make the payoff then play like every minute matters.
247Sports had Joseph Reddish as an 85 rating transfer, Quentin was an 86 rating out of High School and Nick was an 87 rating out of High School.
Joseph was not rated out of high school.
Sure we want to win. Just not enough.
He is more talented than the D3 kid we just gave a scholarship to? no?
Wait, I thought UVA was a shoo-in for the P2 according to SwimSwam??
Yeah, but back in '90 with Shawn Moore, they looked pretty darned good until he got hurt. So much for their dream season and 3 week old #1 ranking. Nice to know we were the first team to knock them off of their pedestal that year.
"UVa has a lot of inherent advantages - location (less than two hours away from DC, Richmond & 757), money, academics, beautiful campus, success in non-rev sports, co-eds etc."- these are old excuses Hokies make. Charlottesville proper is a shit town on Rt. 29. If their location was so special, they would sign 4 star football players. You won't find a more beautiful campus than Virginia Tech. I've been to many of the "big" ones. You are the first person to claim UVA women as attractive as an advantage, btw. JMU women are much hotter while we are being sexist, etc. It's an excuse. They win in the olympic sports because they want to. We do not. We cobble together "good enough" and pray for miracles. UVA winning championships has little to do with being in central virginia with good academics. They actually want to win. We do not.
I think the ratings thing depends on how you slice it. The CFB Playoff, the "Whole Reason" why we do the sport now, in the eyes of the chattering class, has seen year over year drops in viewership. Even the blue bloods aren't selling out their home stands, signs of apathy are everywhere IMHO.
An interesting take, and we share an appreciation for Asian or Amerasian beauty, by the way, but at 75 years old, it seems like most ladies in college are attractive to me, and "dirty old man" doesn't go over well anywhere, right?