(12-18-2019 07:53 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  

(12-18-2019 07:34 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(12-18-2019 05:51 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  The 4 other P5s will wait and see if the Big 12 survives the expiration of its GoR intact, in which case they may well pursue an 8-team CFP for the next cycle. If it becomes a P4, however, with de facto autobids for P4 conference champs, then there is no need for expanding the CFP from the perspective of the powers-that-be. It would be preferable to simply expand the CCG to a 2-round affair than expand the CFP.

How many times does this have to be said? ESPN has ZERO interest in champs only. It simply will not happen no matter how nice and neat and orderly and it makes OCD types happy-we aren't having a 4X16 where everyone places 10 conferences games and we have a 4 team champs only playoff.

On top of that, the exclusion of G5 is very problematic.

I'm unsure how you know ESPN that has no interest in champs only. A P4 doesn't have to be 4x16, nor do there need to be 10 conference games (I don't even know where you're getting that from). And the G5 are excluded already for most practical purposes. I don't think that in a P4 scenario it'd be de jure autobids for the P4 champs. It would just take the form of contracts with the New Year's bowls. Perhaps there would be some provision that if a conference champ was unranked, another team would be chosen instead, which could theoretically be one from outside the power conference.

It was mentioned a number of times when the CFP was being negotiated. Conference champs only was a non-starter for ESPN. If for no other reason than Notre Dame.

As for the rest, you don't understand satire. The "OCD" bit was a joke.

There's a difference between practical exclusion and rules based exclusion. The G5 still have a theoretical chance. TCU would have made it in 2010 as a member of the MWC.