FOX Sports' Joel Klatt really didn't like the fact that the one-loss Sun Belt champion James Madison Dukes and two-loss American Conference champion Tulane Green Wave got a shot in the 2025/2026 College Football Playoff.
After claiming in the build-up to the CFP's first-round action that JMU and Tulane making the field was bad for the sport because Cinderellas don't happen in football, Klatt took a victory lap and stood up for a group of Power 4 schools that hardly need any more institutional support:
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Vanderbilt Commodores, Texas Longhorns, and BYU Cougars, all teams with as many losses as the Green Wave, and fewer than the Dukes, albeit with stronger competition, but vitally lacking what has always mattered in the CFP selection process when it's a toss-up, a conference championship.