(01-04-2018 08:21 PM)McLeansvilleAppFan Wrote:  

(01-04-2018 06:59 PM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  If you're seriously competing for a top 4 spot as a G5, you'd better beef up your OOC like crazy. If that means not scheduling FCS teams and only scheduling the top of the G5, so be it. (That goes for you, too, Boise State circa 2006-2010.)

The problem with this logic is that games are scheduled so far out it is hard to tell what you may be getting. I realize FCS is not going to help SOS but if UCF scheduled only P5 OOC then the argument will be those P5 were not good enough, or they had an off year. Schedule only ranked P5 will bring a response of not being Top-10. Schedule nothing by Top-10, then the margin of victory just was not what it should have been. The finish line will forever be moved back and out of reach of G5.

Every conference champ should have a shot, anything short of that is a popularity contest

That's the bottom line. Nobody is asking for a level playing field in revenue, tv deals, recruiting, or anything like that. But every player should be able to achieve a National Championship on the field totally dependent on what they and their team actually DO. No polls, no eye tests, no computers, no sportswriters, no Condoleeza Rice....what they DO on the field.