G5 in Playoffs to Stay!

I don't see what the big deal is.

I could see Bama making a run if they are able to get Indiana on a down day, but we basically know the class of the country this year is Ohio State/UGA/Indiana.

8-12 have almost zero shot. 5-7 need help. This isn't the NFL where the last seeded team can reasonably make a run. Bump JMU and Tulane for ND/BYU. They have a marginally better shot, sure, but it's not happening for them. They don't have the rosters.

We put Cinderellas in March Madness when they have no shot, but sometimes funny things happen and they make it to the Elite 8.

Just leave them in. It's more fun. It's better exposure for those schools as well.

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The G5 has to have “access” or lawsuits will happen.

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so let them happen

Here are the arguments:

1. G5 teams don't play big boy football all year long so- how did they earn a spot to play against the best 12 end of regular season?
2. The 2 G5 Teams got beat by a combined 48 points
3. Tulane already lost to Ole Miss by 35 points earlier in the year
4. These repeat games destroy fan interest around the country
5. Horrible reward for Oregon and Ole Miss fans to play teams they are so heavily favored by...It's the playoffs, it suppossed to be good vs. good
6. G5 teams are not ranked in the top 12... that's a problem
7. G5 have never won a national championship- ever, so why are we playing pretend and all this BS inclusive BS
8. ND bowed out of a bowl game because frankly they should be in the playoffs rather than watching Tulane get blown out again by Ole Miss
9. G5 is different- so treat it as such
10. this is stupid

Just go to 16 teams and let the 1 and 2 seed play the 2 G5 schools.

G5 teams do need access, but they need to limit the privilege. Nobody should have an automatic bid. Either the conference championship games go away, or you just make them exhibition games done for conference bragging rights.

Just take the final rankings best teams. Now I am willing to give them some leeway because there is an inherent bias against them. So, i would take a G5 team in say the top 15 if no G5 team made the top 12.

Why doesn't anyone hate on the ACC? If Miami was the ACC champ, JMU doesn't get in and theirs another at-large spot available. If the actual ACC champ was ranked higher than JMU then they are in and JMU is out.

The problem with 16 team leagues is that there can be these 4 team ties that don't always result in the top 2 ranked teams playing each other.

This year was an anomaly because of Duke winning the ACC and the five highest ranked conference champions rule.
There's a simple fix:

Include the highest ranked G5 team by a sanctioned computer model (like the BCS) in the playoffs but only if they are in the Top 12 or Top 16 when the playoff expands. I would assume that passes muster from any antitrust considerations. It's objective and still gives G5 programs access to the CFP.

It wasn't so bad. There are always crap games in the playoff. There aren't 12 teams (certainly not 16) that are capable of winning a title. At least Notre Dame was excluded.

Wasn't that decision made when the PAC-12 still existed?

Their demise should have been the end of this stupid rule