{"id":365268,"date":"2025-12-23T09:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365268\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:16:07","slug":"joey-mcguire-calls-out-notre-dame-in-his-take-on-g5-schools-in-college-football-playoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/365268\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey McGuire calls out Notre Dame in his take on G5 schools in College Football Playoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

College Football Playoff<\/a> format appeared to be the most popular talking point coming out of this year\u2019s first round. Specifically with the Group of Five after Ole Miss<\/a> and Oregon<\/a> took care of business vs. Tulane<\/a> and James Madison<\/a>, respectively. Many out there believe the G5 should be completely left out, usually met by major pushback from others.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech<\/a>\u2018s Joey McGuire<\/a> was asked about the topic ahead of his team\u2019s trip to Miami for the Orange Bowl. His goal is to make sure everybody is playing through the same criteria, even those who are considered independent. McGuire steered his primary part of his answer away from the G5 and to Notre Dame<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think when you have a criteria where you\u2019re going to select a team, everybody should be in that same criteria,\u201d McGuire said<\/a>. \u201cSo, and I\u2019m going to make Notre Dame mad \u2014 be in a conference and you\u2019re in the playoffs. They\u2019re in the ACC, they\u2019re in the playoffs. That\u2019s nothing against \u2014 Marcus Freeman<\/a>, I think he\u2019s an absolute rockstar. I would want my son to play for Marcus Freeman, that\u2019s not what I\u2019m talking about. I\u2019m talking about let\u2019s make it, across the board, that everybody is measured the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Notre Dame remains consistent about its stance on joining a conference. They do not appear interested in doing so, wanting to keep independence. While there is a scheduling agreement with the ACC, they are far from considered a member in football.<\/p>\n

Ironically, it was an ACC team that got in over them on Selection Sunday. Miami<\/a> jumped Notre Dame due to a head-to-head matchup in Week 1 despite the Hurricanes not making the ACC Championship, and spending every previous CFP ranking behind the Irish.<\/p>\n

Eventually, McGuire did get into his thoughts about what could be coming for the Group of Five. He seems to enjoy the idea of them having their own playoff, separate from the power conferences, and presumably Notre Dame.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you do that, if you\u2019re going to put a G6 in, I think that their scheduling has to change some if they\u2019re going to get in,\u201d McGuire said<\/a>. \u201cOr, at some point, I could see it, and I don\u2019t know when that is, where you have the FCS, you have the G6 playoffs. I think it would be great if they did the same thing that they do in the FCS where they have home games. I think it would be great for TV and then you have the power four playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College Football Playoff format appeared to be the most popular talking point coming out of this year\u2019s first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-365268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}