Navy -- the Rodney Dangerfield of College Football

[NavyCrimson]

Absolutely - again!!!

[One Trick Pony]

I loved RD

[ponyinNC]

Looks good on you though!

[One Trick Pony]

https://youtu.be/VzPsdkTCufs

[sadderbudweiser]

These are servicemen who happen to play football, and who very well could be risking their lives after the stupid bowl process in active duty/combat in order to protect your right to [deleted] and complain about it.

Suck it up, and allow for the most historical of college football rivalries to be played out. If it results in a delay to your precious travel plans, so be it.

This is what college football is SUPPOSED to be about - tradition, rivalries, history. Not money.

This is what happens when the suits are picking up the bill.

[Stallion]

"tradition, rivalries, history. Not money"

Actually it is MOST CERTAINLY all about the MONEY that's why it is played on December 10th with no competition-maybe there is a compromise to give the game its own window during the regular season. The tradition, rivalry and history is not diminished by the date a game is played

[mustangxc]

I think it could be the featured game on Black Friday. Just give it its own time slot.

[Charleston Pony]

Western Michigan up 23-7 at half in MAC Title game

[Terry Webster]

Don't know how the ncaa can keep WMU out of the Cotton Bowl.

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

Go Navy! Personally, I love the Army-Navy game. This rivalry is the best demonstration of what college football should be.

Yes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1RFWwJHi3s

[mrydel]

Don't know how the ncaa can keep WMU out of the Cotton Bowl.

Maybe if Navy puts 75 on Temple?

[Charleston Pony]

Don't know how the ncaa can keep WMU out of the Cotton Bowl.

13-0 is 13-0 no matter how you cut it. While some will say "but who did they play?" I would point to the fact they went undefeated in a league where Central Michigan could only find 3 wins, despite the fact that they (CMU) were able to go to Stillwater and beat OSU (admittedly with the aid of a controversial call), a team that is playing for the Big XII Championship today. While I am all for advancing the cause of the AAC and can see the argument that right now Navy might be the better team, I hate to see an unbeaten denied an opportunity to compete with one of the big boys. Of course, if they win the Cotton Bowl game, the loser will talk about how they just weren't motivated and how it was a slap in the face to have to play lowly WMU

[mrydel]

Points well taken except the controversial call in the OSU/CMU game. There was no controversy, it was wrong. But that does not alter anything else you said.

[mustangxc]

I agree CP, but all of those points are used against the AAC in selecting the teams for the CFP and all are used in keeping the American from having an automatic New Year's 6 bid. Since I want the best for SMU and the conference we are in I want the playoff committee to recognize the American as clearly being the superior league. If the American lands the New Year's 6 bid amid controversies such as this one maybe they will grant us an automatic bid. Keep in mind that even if Houston had beaten Memphis they still would have been disqualified from the Cotton Bowl bid because they are not a conference champion. Meanwhile no one has a problem with Ohio State being in the playoffs without being conference champions. My issue is with the lack of consistency. There is no way you can say that Oklahoma/Oklahoma State and Western Michigan would be deserving of New Year's 6 bowls ahead of Houston if Houston had taken care of business against Memphis, yet that most likely would have been the case. The system is unfair all around so I don't care if Western Michigan gets the shaft.

[peruna81]

I am SO rooting for Navy this weekend, not only bc I like their program more than temple, but would just LOVE to see such a big monkey wrench thrown into the plans of the "powers that be" of college football...

this right here...