New 12 Team Playoff . . . To Guarantee One or Two G5 Slots??

[The-Hack]

You all might have read the incoming rules of selection, which sound damn-near identical to the current rules of selection of the NYD6 Bowls.

“The new 12-team College Football Playoff field will include the six highest-ranked conference champions, which will receive automatic bids. The top four teams will receive a first-round bye to the quarterfinals.

The six highest-ranked teams remaining will round out the 12-team format.”

How the 12-team College Football Playoff will work: Teams, schedule, bids

Here's a breakdown of how the new 12-team College Football Playoff will work — starting in 2024-25 — according to CFP officials.

www.ncaa.com

But what happens when there are only 4 remaining P5(4) conferences with the death of the PAC?

The way it is written, there will only be 4 conferences left that possess traditional P5 teams, so will two have to be selected from the MAC, CUSA, etc.?

Or was “it written,” some time back, prior to the collapse of the PAC, and will it be interpreted as allowing only 5 conference champions?

Given that many former quality G5 programs have found new homes in the surviving Big 12, it will have watered down the potential quality of the G5 team(s) that make it in, anyhow: BYU, Houston, Cincy, and maybe some others are now “P4,” teams.

 

[bthaunert]

It was written prior to the collapse of the PAC. It will go down to 5, with one being the highest ranked G5 team

 

[The-Hack]

It was written prior to the collapse of the PAC. It will go down to 5, with one being the highest ranked G5 team

That’s the only rational reading, and I just found it in the other thread.

The only reason they even get one slot, guaranteed, is to prevent anti-trust litigation, so there is no need to allow two of them in.

 

[WildcatofNati2]

It should be four. There is no reason whatsoever to guarantee a playoff spot to the best midmajor. In 2021, it was conclusively proven that there was a path for a midmajor team to make a four team playoff. I fail to see why a deserving midmajor would therefore be forbidden from being in a TWELVE team playoff, and, in fact, over recent years, many would have indeed made a 12 team playoff. And that's fine, if they're deserving. The problem is, years like this year, where the best G5 team is absolute toast against a playoff level team and probably are the 40th or 45th best team in the country, not the 12th best.

 

[The-Hack]

The problem is, years like this year, where the best G5 team is absolute toast against a playoff level team and probably are the 40th or 45th best team in the country, not the 12th best.

And given that a handful have “made the leep” to P4 to fill out the new Big 12, it will water down the quality of the remaining G5. Maybe Mercer and Slippery Rock make “the leap” up to fill G5 slots once held by BYU, Cincy and Houston?

 

[The-Hack]

And that's fine, if they're deserving.

True.

And I think there have been G5 teams not just ranked 4th (Cincy/21) but in the Top 12 since 2014, showing, again, they are not excluded by actually requiring a Top 12 ranking.