— By Bill Cornwell

If the Sun Belt Conference has a realistic chance of having a College Football Playoff-qualifying team, it most will likely would have to be James Madison.

The Dukes are 7-1 and 5-0 in SBC play, with their lone blemish a two-touchdown loss to Louisville in Week 2.

JMU’s wins this season have come against Weber State and Liberty in non-conference play and over Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Louisiana, Old Dominion and Texas State in league play.

The Dukes, receiving votes in both top 25 polls this week, go for a seventh straight win Saturday at noon in Huntington when they face Marshall in an ESPN2-televised contest.

Bob Chesney is in his second season as head coach at JMU and has a 16-5 record, though one of the five setbacks came against the Herd last season with

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