NAM37 Posted December 29, 2016 Group: Member Topic Count: 130 Content Count: 1,867 Reputation: 218 Days Won: 2 Joined: 08/07/2003 Share Posted December 29, 2016 (edited) Quote Northern Illinois athletic director Sean Frazier is among a growing number of Group of 5 officials that favor adding a playoff specifically for the Group of 5 schools. "It's time to have a realistic conversation about creating a playoff for the Group of 5," Frazier told ESPN. "Why not?" It's been 32 years since a non-Power 5 team won a national championship (BYU in 1984) and it likely will never happen again in the current format. In the first three years of the College Football Playoff, a Group of 5 team has never ranked higher than No. 13 (Memphis in the 2015 initial rankings) by the CFB Playoff selection committee. "There is absolutely no ability for us (teams in the Group of 5) to be in that national title conversation," Frazier said. "That's just reality. Anyone that says we can: that's a flat-out lie." The Group of 5 consists of schools from the American, Conference USA, Mid-American, Mountain West and Sun Belt conferences along with independents BYU, Army and UMass. Frazier said he believes a Group of 5 playoff could be financially rewarding to those schools. NBC, CBS and ESPN have interest in televising a Group of 5 playoff, an industry source said. More at: http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18369921/growing-number-group-5-officials-considering-playoff-non-power-5-teams Personally I think that for every non-AAC conference this makes complete sense right now, and the unfortunately truth is it might really make sense for us too (but I refuse to admit it). Edited December 29, 2016 by NAM37 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E.T. Posted December 29, 2016 Group: TBP Subscriber III Topic Count: 4,729 Content Count: 37,562 Reputation: 2,314 Days Won: 29 Joined: 12/24/2001 Share Posted December 29, 2016 It would be the beginning of the end and really separating NCAA 1A level ... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCBull Posted December 29, 2016 Group: Member Topic Count: 112 Content Count: 8,159 Reputation: 864 Days Won: 8 Joined: 09/25/2008 Share Posted December 29, 2016 I don't know why he says it's a flat out lie a G5 team could make the playoffs. Unlikely, sure. Impossible, no. Making a G5 playoff would do that, though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB Posted December 29, 2016 Group: Member Topic Count: 338 Content Count: 3,691 Reputation: 247 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/08/2004 Share Posted December 29, 2016 This will kill non power 5 conferences. Bad idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bull Dozer Posted December 29, 2016 Group: Member Topic Count: 343 Content Count: 13,697 Reputation: 2,041 Days Won: 45 Joined: 09/04/2006 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Nobody will care about this playoff. It will basically be your fantasy football leagues loser's bracket. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMW Posted December 29, 2016 Group: Member Topic Count: 39 Content Count: 2,109 Reputation: 909 Days Won: 6 Joined: 09/14/2007 Share Posted December 29, 2016 5 minutes ago, Bull Dozer said: Nobody will care about this playoff. It will basically be your fantasy football leagues loser's bracket. NIT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capital H Posted December 29, 2016 Group: Member Topic Count: 106 Content Count: 1,318 Reputation: 265 Days Won: 2 Joined: 08/15/2008 Share Posted December 29, 2016 1 hour ago, E.T. said: It would be the beginning of the end and really separating NCAA 1A level ... The beginning of the end happened 16 years ago with the BCS implementation, the split between P5 and G5 was just the icing on the cake. Its just no one in the Green and Gold is willing to accept it since USF is at the kiddy table. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAM37 Posted December 29, 2016 Group: Member Topic Count: 130 Content Count: 1,867 Reputation: 218 Days Won: 2 Joined: 08/07/2003 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 5 minutes ago, MMW said: NIT That was my first thought also, but the better comparison is probably the FCS Championship: http://www.ncaa.com/championships/football/fcs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MMW Posted December 29, 2016 Group: Member Topic Count: 39 Content Count: 2,109 Reputation: 909 Days Won: 6 Joined: 09/14/2007 Share Posted December 29, 2016 2 minutes ago, Capital H said: The beginning of the end happened 16 years ago with the BCS implementation, the split between P5 and G5 was just the icing on the cake. Its just no one in the Green and Gold is willing to accept it since USF is at the kiddy table. Even if it became wildly successful and people tuned in (they don't for FCS) the P5 will just expand theirs to eclipse the G5 anyway. We are at the kiddie table and it sucks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewEnglandBull Posted December 29, 2016 Group: Member Topic Count: 1,518 Content Count: 42,125 Reputation: 8,834 Days Won: 344 Joined: 11/29/2009 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Non issue for AAC teams, Aresco is totally against it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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