Won't go anywhere anytime soon but possibly the first move in a decades-long transition to a new system.
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Won't go anywhere anytime soon but possibly the first move in a decades-long transition to a new system.
It’s actually the first good idea I have seen and if we are going to transform college football, this would be preferable. But then with football not being the driver of realignment, college basketball would be the driving force with Big 12 in the drivers seat.
G5 separate playoff, interesting.
Report: CFB Group of 5 Conferences Discussing Realignment, Separate Playoffs from CFP
Administrators from the Group of Five conferences—the American Athletic Conference, Sun Belt, Mountain West, Mid-American Conference and Conference USA—have…
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The best solution has always been the G5 grabbing the Big Sky, MVFC and a few other eastern schools from the upper level of the FCS and going to a 75 scholarship level with a 32 team playoff.
I'm glad they're finally discussing it.
I'm glad they're finally discussing it.
So instead of having playoff access with the real teams they should relegate themselves to a lower tier that even less people will care about?
“access with the real teams” gets them $1 million a year and to be a whipping boy for 1 game more often than not. What’s the point?
KidSilverhair
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You think people wouldn’t watch a G5 playoff? Sure, not in the numbers of the CFP, but people love college football. There’d be viewers, there’d be media outlets wanting to broadcast it. Odds are they’d get a bigger pot of money to share from this idea than the scraps the CFP is reluctantly giving them.
Also if some have the notion they’re not considered “real teams” that isn’t going to change just because one of them gets in the CFP. There’s almost literally nothing to lose.
Also if some have the notion they’re not considered “real teams” that isn’t going to change just because one of them gets in the CFP. There’s almost literally nothing to lose.
No one watches or cares about the division 2 championship which is basically what this becomes. Yeah they might be a sacrificial lamb most years but if they pull off the occasional upset or two it can help the narrative.
I disagree, the G5 teams we know (I don't know any division 2 brands), and play against the P4 teams. Boise St vs Tulane and SDiegoST vs Memphis in a playoff structure, I think would be highly entertaining. I tuned in when BYU played Costal Carolina a few years ago on short notice.
If the SEC and Big10 separated, I ain't watching any games involving them.
Separation always reduces eyeballs.
That's not true. I love the lower tier playoff. Because it's, you know, a playoff like it always should have been. Those games are way more interesting than the run of the mill bowl games.
Give me a legitimate chance at winning a title against my peers rather than a seat at the table because mom (the courts) says you have to let me sit there.
The P2 are already sucking the money out so why stay and have a 1/70-some chance at getting your ass kicked by somebody rather than getting to play competitive games for 5 extra weeks that you actually have a chance to win and advance.
The FCS Playoffs do lower tier bowl game numbers on TV and you'd think a level down playoff would do at least that.
A G5+ Playoff could be a financial win for those schools for a couple reasons:
Personally, I am not a fan of the CFP Championship Game being played in late January- almost 8 weeks after the regular season ends. I have a tough time with the current 4 team format ending on Jan 10. Come January 1 I am in full college basketball mode.
- The P4 CFP is going to stretch into the 3rd week of January. If the G5+ could get their playoff to start early December and finish up by New Years they could fill a void in P5 games.
- With a 12 or 16 team P4 playoff, what will be the impact on bowl games? Will fans loose interest in bowls because they will match up a few 8-4 games, but most bowl games will be between 7-5 or 6-6 teams.
Personally, I am not a fan of the CFP Championship Game being played in late January- almost 8 weeks after the regular season ends. I have a tough time with the current 4 team format ending on Jan 10. Come January 1 I am in full college basketball mode.
