The right thing to do is 9 auto qualifiers and 6 at large. That would be a true playoff and a real postseason. Now obviously the majority only cares about making it the vast TV product possible, and it’s not actually about what’s right, so I’m well aware it will never happen. So in the mean time here I am hoping for the least effed up option to come out of it.
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It's true that it's the big 10's idea but not because they're afraid they won't get 4 in. They'll average 5 a year most likely.
The reason they want it is because of how much money the potential end of season conference playoff would bring. Can't do it without automatic bids.
And before someone says bla bla some conferences will be harder to qualify under this format because some conferences have X teams while others have Y. My reply would be “I don’t give a F” not my problem that you decided to have 100 teams in your conference.
Sorry, as you can see it truly pisses me off what people have done to college football.
Yeah that's not the issue. This isn't basketball, the MAC champion would never win a playoff game. Never. Not once, not even if given a billion chances.
The very best of the g5 have slightly better odds, they might win 1 out of every 100 or so.
March madness only works because there are upsets. If the mid major and below never won any games, they'd have changed the rules on that a long time ago.
If there was P4 media rights aggregation and open bidding for TV rights, a separate (and overdue) 8-team G5 playoff with 5 AQs could be funded to where G5 schools would get higher regular season and playoffs payouts than what they get now.
Wait you want every G5 conference to get a playoff spot? No one is going to watch crazy blowouts. G5 aren’t in the same category of P4 schools let alone those competing for a championship.
Really should just have the G5 do their own thing and keep this for the power conferences
You made me curious so I looked it up. This says 4 of the 6 computer polls would have had SMU ahead of Alabama so I guess we know which polls the SEC is NOT going to push for in their request for a criteria change.
So I don’t agree with assuming SEC and Big 10 should be given more auto bids just because they have historically been better, but you want me to go ahead and turn around and do the same to the G5?
I don’t give a crap about the quality of the game. Make it an actual competition instead of just assuming a conference or conferences will always be better. The good games will come once you get final 4 etc.
Having G5 teams play doesn’t make it a competition it makes it a slaughter. You might not care about quality but most others want to watch good football
And yeah if you don’t know that G5 teams will always be worse especially in the modern era then I don’t know what to say. They have no business getting more then one team into a serious playoff and 1 is a stretch as it is
The MAC champion got beat by a combined 51 points in the two P4 games they played.
The Sun belt champ got beat by a combined 52 points in their two P4 games.
The AAC champ got beat by 35 in their lone P4 game.
Sorry there is just no reason those conferences should be the discussion for the playoffs.
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I feel like the G5 had a legit argument a few years ago. But with NIL and the portal, those programs will continue to be picked apart. There isn’t as much talent there now.
Ok, then don’t argue when the SEC and Big 10 want to own the majority of the playoffs because their teams have historically been much better than the current teams in the Big XII. Cant have your cake and eat it too buddy.
Sounds like you may be part of the problem. That mentality is what will destroy this sport even more. Yup they probably are not as good, but prove it in the field, not by creating a system that assumes the haves will always be the same ones and the have nots will also never change.
I understand where you coming from but
1. Do you really want/need those conference champs playing ND or Ohio state again after they lost by 35 already that season?
2. I am not talking about historically, everything I referenced was the 2024 season.
3. I am okay throwing the top rated G5 in there. No need to fully shut them out.
4. The ship has already sailed with SEC/Big 10 owning the playoff. Any proposed format puts at a disadvantage already. There is no going back now.
You are off your rocker if you think any g5 can compete in this new era.
I think that there are years when a Boise or a Memphis or even an Oregon State can compete. But, they are going to be seeded low enough that they won’t stay close to the 5 seed or 1 seed however it plays out.
