The Dukes’ 31–14 win over Troy in the Sun Belt championship game gave HC Bob Chesney’s squad a major boost in the playoff conversation. Despite their 12–1 record, JMU fans worried their head coach might soon leave for UCLA. However, the question of how the Dukes would navigate the playoffs without him didn’t linger for long. The 48-year-old ended all speculation during the post-game press conference.

Bob Chesney said “Yes” straight away to him coaching the Dukes for the college football playoffs. “The bowl game we’re still talking about right now, me and Matt Roan (JMU AD), but definitively in the college football,” said the HC on December 6th . “T he college football playoff conversation, they stay the course. Then you continue to just go through everything that they’ve

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