re: Memphis shuts up UCF

I'm trying to be civil. I haven't called you any names. I've simply stated that FBS football cannot have a tournament that mirrors what other divisions do. You simply cannot guarantee a bid to a post season tournament to every single FBS conference when the schedules amongst those conferences are vastly different. You also cannot ask NFL prospects to play what would amount to 17+ football games in a season without being paid. As long as the NCAA forbids pay-for-play, it is unreasonable to think that would work. There's just no way around that. Lower divisions don't have to deal with that. They may have a handful of players throughout their entire division that play on Sundays. For the elite teams at the FBS level, you're talking about half or more of their rosters being future NFL players. That is a very real and relevant issue you don't want to address except for saying "they don't have to play." Yes, they do have to play. There is nowhere else they can play as long as the NFL restricts access based on age.

At the end of the day, there is maybe one team every few years from a G5 conference that has any modicum of a valid argument of deserving a spot in the playoffs. There wasn't anyone last year, anyone in 2018, UCF in 2017, no one in 2016, no one in 2015, no one in 2014. We do not need to completely blow up the playoff model to make those accommodations for outlier G5 schools that pop up every so often. If you want to argue to expand the playoffs to 8 teams, providing for 3 at-large bids and 5 auto-bids, I'll listen to that. That would provide for these outlier seasons from the G5 conferences. But when you argue for auto-bids from every conference, every year, that's a non-starter. And IMO, once you get past the top 8 teams, you're talking about potentially 2 and 3 loss teams that I don't believe have earned a spot to play for a national title.