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Yes the five P5s would get in. There would probably not be a G5 participant unless it's a really impressive team with a top 10 ranking and at least one victory that makes notice. Memphis had none of that. And there's no way in hell Baylor is getting in at large over another Big 10 team or a third SEC team. Their schedule and lack of any quality wins would've been much more scrutinized.

Four teams has given the committee the easiest job. Eight teams would actually make them work and decide who's worthy of getting in.

 

How do you figure? Six of the eight would be auto qualifiers. They’d only pick two teams.

And those two would be the SEC runner-up and the Big Ten runner-up.

 

Five of the 8. G5 team isn't getting in most times. And picking three at-larges is a lot harder than picking the zero they currently have to.

 

I still think the answer is six - top two teams get a bye. First round at home stadiums.

 

I think that conference realignment will solve some of these problems. I believe the Big 12 will dissolve in 2023 when the Big 12 television contract expires for a couple reasons. One. the Longhorn Network will disappear because of Texas's competitive woes and the continuing decline of cable subscriptions. I also think the football powers in the Big 12 (read mostly Oklahoma and Texas) would like to get into another conference in order to have a better chance of making the playoff. Once the number of Power conferences reduces to four then some of the problems disappear. And the final reason the Big 12 disappears is greed. Oklahoma and Texas think they can get more money if the cut the Iowa State's of the world out.

 

That's exactly what those bastards need.
More money.

 

Something of a threadjack but college football, and other professional sports, have enjoyed a boom in large part because of the existing economic model of cable television. But cable television subscriptions are dropping about four percent a year. So far college sports has still prospered even as paying subscriptions drop. Administrators have assummed the good times will last forever.

These administrators remind me of publishers in 2007.

 

The good news for college football administrators is that they really can't bend for TV any more unless everyone starts going with MACtion. They've already agreed to not settling on kick times more than a week out, playing on Thursdays and Fridays, playing anytime between 11 a.m. and 8 or 9 p.m. local time. All that can happen now is taking less money. Or TV money shifting to more of a PPV model where conferences get a "base" number, then bonus money depending on how many people buy their "extra tier" like ESPN Plus, SEC or ACC Network.

 

The Mountain West taking its broadcasts online after the contract with CBSSN expires would not be a surprise.

 

If that means no more 7:45 p.m. October/November games in Laramie, Boise, Colorado Springs, Logan and Fort Collins, and no more Thursday/Friday games, that's a good thing. Everyone in cold-weather locales could play at 2 p.m. Saturday like you're supposed to and SDSU and UNLV could still play at night before November.

 

If they go to an eight-team playoff there will be a spot for a G5 team. There is zero chance that doesn’t happen.

 

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