12 team playoff might be the best option

[NolePride]

Only there is little really that fair in an auto bid and it's hardly black and white.

The NFL has 32 teams controlled by one central governing body. They have parity in schedules, parity in player acquisition with a hard salary cap, and the disparity in talent between the top team and the median is relatively low.

FBS has 10 entirely different conferences that all choose their own rules and criteria for just about everything. They each have different schedules and don't all play the same number of games. There is no parity of any kind in player acquisition. The difference between the top team in FBS and the median is greater than any other sport of any kind by miles.

The crowned winner of Conference USA is not on par with the crowned winner of the SEC. They are not in the same league. And yet you and your ilk want to lump them together and throw out every other very good team in the country that just happened to have a slightly better one in the same conference in lieu teams that played nothing but crap sandwiches all year.

It isn't anything that approaches fair or balanced. Sure, it's easier for casual fans to understand maybe, but that doesn't make it better or fair.

Well, at least I understand where you are coming from.

You worry about who the real #2 is. I don't.

We can argue about who is #2 during the off season.

You are 100% correct on how the NFL is different from CFB.
BUT...the NFL does manage to stay away from "another man's opinion and their fans are fine with that.

If you are an 8-8 Divison Champ and you face an 11-5 at-large team
in the first round of the playoffs...the Div Champ is the host team
not the 11-5 wildcard team. Their system is very straight forward
and upfront and all can understand it.

But the NFL doesn't play games against the CFL. There isn't some
team from Europe or Japan that plays an exhibition game against
the NFL.

I'm just saying that if Group of 5 teams can be scheduled by P5
teams then a Group of 5 team should get a spot in a playoff.

And the best way to do that is to take Conf Champs.

I don't believe that teams/players should automatically be eliminated by another man's opinion. If my team wins the
SEC they play in the playoffs. If they don't...they don't.

If we don't want to do that...then let the Go5 split off and have
their own playoff system...and only play against other Go5 teams.

The P5's play against each other and nobody else. The only added
expense will be at Kansas, Illinois and Oregon State. They'll have
to modernize their phone systems to handle all the incoming calls.

 

[WizardHawk]

Oh I've been very much in favor of sending the G5 off packing a long time ago. They need the P5 far more than the other way around given how much extra money they make off this arrangement.

You analogy isn't correct though. What you want would be kin to the NFL throwing out those top seeded wild card teams and taking the CFL teams that won their division. It's insane.

I want more high level football. That system you propose does not in any way give you that.

And all I was doing is pointing out how you claim you want fairness, but only when you can easily understand it. Not true fair. It isn't fair to punish a very very good second place SEC team in lieu of giving that spot to whoever comes out of the sunbelt. That's not fair or right in any way. Period.

 

[HuskerOC]

This sounds more gay than a bachelor party at Chippendales.

 

[PhilSimms11]

This sounds more gay than a bachelor party at Chippendales.

I know, right? This is the best solution...

P-5
(1)Clemson (12-1)
(2)Oklahoma (12-1)

(3)Georgia (12-1) vs (6)USC (11-2)
(4)Alabama (11-1)* vs (5)Ohio St (11-2)
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G-5
(1)UCF (12-0)
(2)Memphis (10-2)*

(3)Boise St (10-3) vs (6)Troy (10-2)
(4)Toledo (11-2) vs (5)FAU (10-3)
(*)at-large