Just how good was James Madisom

[82hoosier]

JAMES MADISON FOOTBALL SCHEDULE 2023

Bucknell 38-3 not ranked
Virginia 36-35. #89
Troy. 16-14 #25
South Alabama 31-23. #78
Marshall 20-9. #83
Old Dominion 30-27. #90
Georgia State 42-14. #85
UConn 44-6. #126
Appalachian State 23-29. #56
Coastal Carolina 56-14 #69
Air Force 21-31 #49

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Above is the schedule and scores of the James Madison football games this past season, followed by their rankings. These rankings are taken from an end of the season compilation by Athlon. The biggest victory by far was the 16–14 win over Troy. The next biggest win was most likely the 56–14 victory over number 69 ranked Coastal Carolina.

 

[Coach Geez]

This isn’t the end be all by any means, but to put things into perspective, JMU (Sagarin #44) would have been the 2nd best team in the B10 West trailing only #36 Iowa. Sagarin has Iowa as a 1pt favorite on a neutral field.

 

[OpenWheels]

Well, your numbers seem to say yes, beat 8 teams in the 50 to 100 range, lose to one. 8-1 in that range is damn good. That's probably 30ish level. Meaning if they played 9 teams ranked 20 to 50, could they go 4-5 or 5-4? Probably.

I still say no, but it's very close.

Played Air Force, a legit team, OK without many key players and without their staff. May haven been able to beat them, probably at least 50-50 or better, regular season.

 

[MyTeamIsOnTheFloor]

JAMES MADISON FOOTBALL SCHEDULE 2023

Bucknell 38-3 not ranked
Virginia 36-35. #89
Troy. 16-14 #25
South Alabama 31-23. #78
Marshall 20-9. #83
Old Dominion 30-27. #90
Georgia State 42-14. #85
UConn 44-6. #126
Appalachian State 23-29. #56
Coastal Carolina 56-14 #69
Air Force 21-31 #49

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Above is the schedule and scores of the James Madison football games this past season, followed by their rankings. These rankings are taken from an end of the season compilation by Athlon. The biggest victory by far was the 16–14 win over Troy. The next biggest win was most likely the 56–14 victory over number 69 ranked Coastal Carolina.

I don’t pay attention to stars.

Do you really think a bunch of writers know what they’re talking about?

 

[Euro]

They were a very good team playing in a low level conference

 

[Jssanto]

I would take out the bowl Air Force loss. Too many players and coaches did not participate.
But your question is valid. It is a big step up to go from JMU to the Big Ten. Can the prior JMU players compete at this level?
Is the new coaching staff better than the prior?
Will a mid major scheme achieve good results in a power 5 conference?
Time will tell, but this is the time of the year for hope and enthusiasm.

 

[Cavanagh]

I don’t pay attention to stars.

Do you really think a bunch of writers know what they’re talking about?

This is true for football and basketball. The guys who are ranking these players, if they were good, would be NFL scouts, or with a college/nfl team. Instead they make 40 grand a year (maybe too high of a number) to cover the local college team, aka Fatjohns.

 

[Vern Pain]

I don’t pay attention to stars.

Do you really think a bunch of writers know what they’re talking about?

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us move on to greater things. Think I remember someone saying that once.

 

[Jssanto]

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us move on to greater things. Think I remember someone saying that once.

lol. I always think of Knight and that quote when someone wants to talk about sports writers.

 

[DCDAVID]

They were a very good SunBelt team that would have finished 4th or 5th in the BT East.

 

[baileyiu]

They were a very good team playing in a low level conference

This “very low level conference” had 11 teams make a Bowl

 

[Euro]

This “very low level conference” had 11 teams make a Bowl

Lot's of low level bowl games, like eating penny candy

 

[secondasky]

Also JMU has only been D-1 for two years.

 

[bbh_42]

Yes, they were a good team compared to the level of talent they had vs their opponents.

JMU will be just like Marshall and Appalachian State. Dominant programs at the FCS level who will have some early success at the FBS level and then fall into mediocrity after the initial excitement wears off and they have to compete for different level talent.

The question to me is the talent. Was last years IU talent better than the JMU talent. If we believe it was, then CCC’s system probably wins those close games we lost last year.

 

[hoosier roadtrips]

Ranking all 41 college football bowl games for 2023-24: Playoff semifinals deliver with Orange Bowl a big dud

Anybody can sit down and watch a bowl game, but it takes a visionary to rank every single one of them

www.cbssports.com

Here is a story about the bowls, with No. 39 being a funny analysis.