RoadkillBBQ said:
Kozmozag said:
They have to do away with auto admits. If someone in your conference cant earn it your out.
That 1 simple change really does fix the majority of issues. Unfortunately it will never be voted in. The G5 absolutely won't support that.
The problem with leaving out G5 is that you would basically make the playoff between SEC and B1G, with maybe a Big XII or an ACC guy tossed in every now and then. Which at that point, just combine the conferences to a single super conference and play the season out with a CCG that determines national champ. Which would be a hard pass for me.
The argument of "well the G5 should play better and be ranked higher" doesn't hold water because unless a G5 team played zero conference games and played nothing but OOC games against SEC or B1G teams, they will never get the votes to be ranked high enough to have a legit shot at being top 12.
I don't have a problem at all with them being included, I actually kind of like it. 98% of the time they are going to get boat raced in round 1, which shows that they should have stayed home. But that 2% where they reach up and punch somebody in the mouth like Boise St. used to do occasionally 20 years ago makes it worth while.
CCG's need to go, or the playoff needs to be set before they are played. I'd prefer to see them just go away though because they serve little to no purpose now and for some teams they are positive, others they are negative - and it's all media bias. So get rid of them, set the brackets based on end of regular season results and start the playoffs then. At some point maybe add play in games, but that's harder to do in football than other sports.
