(07-04-2017 09:24 AM)megadrone Wrote:  

(07-04-2017 08:07 AM)westwolf Wrote:  Dennis Dodd opines that Baylor will be excluded from the P5 in the next realignment. Not that he thinks it will be only 64 in the new P4, but Baylor, Kansas, KSU, ISU will be possibly out while BYU and a few others will go up. Heard his interview on College Sports (XM).

could be anyone in the Big 12 not named Texas or Oklahoma is left out. Options for the rest of the schools would be band together in a better than AAC G conference or really be a tweener conference.

I don't think there's a way to align the leftovers of the Big 12 in any other way, with the possible exception of Kansas to the Big 10.

West Virginia, Iowa State and KState probably don't have other realistic options. WVU would want to look east, but the ACC and SEC have already passed on them, leaving the American (which isn't the same conference they left). These 3 with Ok. State are a good core, and better than the American, but may not be enough to land a contract bowl spot.

Houston, Baylor, Tech, Okla State, Kansas, Kansas State, TCU, BYU, Boise, West Virginia, Cincy, UConn, Iowa State, and USF would probably be pretty strong in football. Strong enough to embarrass the CFP in some years.

Remember the CFP only has value because people see it as the 'real national championship'. You end up with a 2 loss team winning the CFP and an undefeated Oklahoma State team with good wins going undefeated...and the whole CFP product gets damaged.

The reason that the P5/G5 thing has held up is because no G5 team has upset the apple cart yet.