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[ByeSonBusiness]

Will there be a G5 playoff?

Why would the G5 have a playoff when their best team ain't participating lol

[Rock]

I can't understand how anyone can speak in absolutes when talking about this.

When the 4 team playoff was announced many people said "well, that's it...they're taking their ball and going home. They'll never expand...never allow the poors in the G5 to play. No point in moving up now". Fast forward barely a decade and here comes a 12 team format with a guaranteed G5 player. Now we hear "pfffft sure, but a G5 will never get an at large".

How can anyone think it will stay at 12? Give it a decade and the talk of expansion will again start up. What happens if they go to 16...or good lord 20? ...and if you scoff at 20, people scoffed at 8...and here comes 12.
There will be seats at the table. If we stand pat and 10-15 years from now Georgia S., SHSU, or JMU make the playoff, I'll just have to shake my head.

You can come back and say never never never if you want, but just be sure to ask yourself if you were one of the crowd who said never to more than 4.

Boom.

Robotic Bison Dominance. FBS style. TM

[daddy daycare]

Why would the G5 have a playoff when their best team ain't participating lol

Best team getting housed by 8 TDs or the G5 tells the P5 to piss off and does their own thing. That's how.

[daddy daycare]

I think the opposite will be true of future scheduling, assuming we are G5. The scramble to get to that 6th auto bid will do two things; focus G5 realignment on quality of football and push non-conference games to find the best opponents. You might see less G5 vs P2 but G5 good vs good has to happen to increase strength of schedule. I think FCS vs G5 will be dead because it will kill SOS.

After I saw the news first thought was that the MAC is screwed and the AAC might be in trouble. The MAC will keep taking the payday games vs the Big 10 & Big 12 eat all the losses and never sniff the 6th bid. How does the AAC keep SMU? Good football and a boat load of cash. What ever happens to the PAC MW they will move to get into a top 6. I almost feel bad for USF and Memphis they are stuck in CUSA 3.0

San Diego State for example then...loses a "payday" and one conference game. No chance. Which is fine. Just wondering ff the payday game will go away for schools like that. However, every game counts I guess.

[Hammerhead]

More details have been released. Top 4 get a buy and all first round games will be hosted on campus (or venue of their choice) by higher seed. Can you imagine the complete chaos in this state if we hosted an SEC team in an 8/9 matchup? It would be pandemonium.

Even better would be an SEC team playing up north on a cold December day or night.

[Hammerhead]

Check again...It 12 team with top 6 conference champs getting an autobid.

That might work if NDSU can find a home in one of the top 6 conferences.

[Bisonator98]

It's really now or never for NDSU to FBS. If they miss out now they will be stuck in division 3 for ever. There's no reason not to be pushing all the chips in at this point. Get your ass in gear Matt!

[AKBison]

With the bigs controlling this they will figure out a way to get a couple of teams from each of there mega conferences to get in. NCAA is letting them run the show and have from inception. Only way a non power 5 team gets in is if the politicos bring pressure. The politicos are the only reason we have a playoff now. The threat of political involvement is the only thing that moves the needle.

You missed the top 6 conference champions get an auto-bid part. At that point, your basically the defacto G5 national champ with a chance to showcase yourself on the Big stage. It's not perfect but it's a step in the right direction and gives all of the G5 something to play for every year.

[BigHorns]

I disagree.... the public pressure would be immense

you're saying Cincinnati doesn't get into a 12 team playoff but got into the 4 team?

haha get out

1 or 2 G5 teams will get in this yearly

One team will, by design. More than that is unlikely, also by design. Maybe 2 can make it in a great year for the G5.
Absolutely none of those will be CUSA teams. The SOS will prevent that for anyone playing in that conference.
MAC has maybe a very long outside shot.

Most years, you are going to see one of MWC, SBC, or AAC take that one G5 bid.

[MWC]

If the 12 team playoff would have been in place last season, Utah State would have been the 6th seed. USU had an excellent season but they were not the best G5 team. They probably weren't even the best team in the MW. They beat SDSU in the championship game.

No G5 conference is "screwed" It still comes down to winning games. Instead of 4 nearly impossible slots to get, G5 gets a guaranteed spot. That is not the worst outcome. However, there are 131 FBS football schools. That means 119 will not be in the playoffs. Does that make them worthless afterthoughts?