Does the Pac 12 expect to be P5?

Does it matter? The playoffs just take the 5 highest ranked conference champions plus the next highest ranked non-champions

There's going to be another realignment that have got to be West Coast teams in the mix other than UW Oregon U S C

The two States having this conference ,... other markets

Probably manages to keep them in the future mix as much as Stanford Cal U C L A

The only “power” schools today are in the SEC and Big Ten - everyone else is on the outside looking in.

There will be 36-40 “power” schools that will do their own thing outside the NCAA - then the rest of the 80 D1 schools will be what is left of the NCAA.

The money that will come in to the sec and big ten schools simply outpaces everyone else.

You are looking at professional athletics vs amateur athletics….and the gap is wide.

does the new pac12 conference winner get an auto qualifier for the playoff

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Pac 12 is a mid-major conference now

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But the Rose Bowl

Unequal sharing is coming in for a chat with the SEC sooner rather than later.

The big boys will eventually cull the Vanderbilts, Mississippi State, Northwestern, Purdue, etc. of the world.

I think what people are missing here is that all they need to do to make this a success is become the clear cut 5th best conference, and then try to close the gap to the ACC and Big 12 over time. That's what they're chasing and they have a pretty good chance of doing it.

They just want to be on the right side of the cut line if some restructuring of FBS happens down the road. They have a better chance now than they did in the MW, Sun Belt, or as independents.

It's also fair to point out this is all just deck chairs on the Titanic, but what do you do? Not try?

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The question is who will be in the 40....

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There just isn't that many good teams left to choose from that aren't already in the big ten or sec.

If we go back to the bcs era, the only teams to ever play in a bcs championship game that arent currently in the big ten or sec are va tech, florida state, miami and notre dame.

In the 4 team playoffs, the only teams to make the playoffs that arent current big ten or sec teams are clemson, florida state (already counted for above), notre dame (already above also), tcu and cincinnati.

Last year a few more new teams made the expanded field but honestly none of the new teams were a threat to actually win anything.

So that's what, maybe 5 teams that actually compete for national championships that the big ten and sec can still take in, and notre dame will never join either conference.

The real shame is all the dead weight at the bottom of the big ten like rutgers and purdue that will make it into the super league while teams like kansas state, utah, north carolina state, and oklahoma state are left behind.

I agree but I seriously doubt the big 10 isn’t going to use their next expansion round for gutting the ACC