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Post by Bevo on Apr 5, 2021 13:59:44 GMT
To me, #3 is the biggest hurdle right now for the G5. The perception (and "perception is reality") that the G5 isn't battle-tested in terms of opponents. Currently, it's the biggest thing that is the deciding factor, IMO. I agree that this is the biggest hurdle. The G5 conference play just doesn't match the P5 conference schedule when you look at overall SOS. The ONLY way to combat that is, to schedule tough OOC teams. Of course, that is difficult because: 1) Not too many competitive P5 schools WANT to schedule tough G5 teams. There's more risk than benefit. If they win, people say.. "Oh, it was just a G5 team". If they lose, people say.. "HA! You lost to a G5 school". You don't get credit for a 'quality win', but it's devastating loss. It's not always fair. But, that's the "perception. 2) Scheduling is so far in the future, it can be difficult to predict who the "competitive" teams will be. Who knew Texas and USC were going to SUCK for so long? The other reason though is, The CFP guys want to MAXIMIZE TV revenue. Although, everyone LOVES the "Cinderella Stories". I suspect they usually don't translate into TV ratings. "Small schools" often come from "small places". And, for sure, they have a small number of alumini. They just don't bring in eyeballs. Especially not, with only 2 rounds.
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Post by ajbuckeye on Apr 5, 2021 17:33:22 GMT
This way way outside of the box for me. There are no professional or collegiate sports that I am aware of that only take conference champs or division winners only into the post season. AJ, name any sport (except exhibition FBS football) whereby regular season champions are not permitted to advance to championship post season play. Adding 'at large' entries is commonplace in intercollegiate sports and good, imo, but champions get 'autos' in every other sport on Earth. In college basketball the regular season champs of many conferences do not get in because they lay an egg in the conference tournament. Personally I think the regular season champs would be the more deserving team in almost any scenario this happens. I don't like the 10 conferences 10 team scenario because there is a significant difference between the competitiveness of conference like the MAC and the BIG. The problem with college football is that the powers that control the format think they have they greatest system possible for this sport. This is something that unilaterally we all strongly disagree with. We will need to get to 16 to get auto qualifiers for conference champs to be a reality.
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Post by Bevo on Apr 5, 2021 18:26:51 GMT
We will need to get to 16 to get auto qualifiers for conference champs to be a reality. You're right to say that's what it would take to get auto-qualifiers. I just don't see that as a priority. And, I don't think the P5 conference official do either.
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Post by tigercpa on Apr 5, 2021 19:40:50 GMT
I'm also of the opinion that playoff expansion will not help down the road - I don't think it will do anything more than turn into a larger P5 play off and will still exclude G5.
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Post by Hero on Apr 6, 2021 16:02:59 GMT
Of course it won't happen ,Hero, because major college football is the only sport on Earth at any level in which the championship of that sport is NOT administered by the governing body of the sport. There is the problem, plain and simple, and why we'll probably never have a fair and inclusive championship.
We waited for a hundred years for them to get off their arses. THAT IS THE PROBLEM.
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Post by bluehen on Apr 9, 2021 15:21:53 GMT
The root of the problem was when the founding fathers of Pasadena, Ca., in the early 20th century, decided to host an 'exhibition' college football game to draw mid-westerners to the area to invest in real estate. It worked and as a result we've had about 110 years of post season 'exhibition' big time CF games rather than post season championship football. Thank goodness that the other NCAA divisions chose to have a post season championship format about 45 years ago.
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