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RE: Air Force Coach Troy Calhoun Floats G5 Playoff Idea
(07-15-2017 06:17 PM)Attackcoog Wrote: (07-15-2017 06:05 PM)Scoochpooch1 Wrote: (07-15-2017 05:33 PM)billybobby777 Wrote: (07-15-2017 05:06 PM)Attackcoog Wrote: But "playoff creep" has never been a topic involving Group of Five teams. Air Force coach Troy Calhoun has an idea that would change that. In essence, he wants a four-team Group of Five playoff, the winner of which would then move on to an eight-team College Football Playoff featuring the five Power Five conference champs plus two wild card teams. The Colorado Springs Gazette explained Calhoun's theory ...
http://www.cbssports.com/college-footbal...-overkill/
It would be a fun event...IF it didn't lead to any sort of situation, or a hypothetical possibility of a Boise run or Utah or TCU run of past dozen or so seasons allowing for those teams get into the current 4 team playoff. Non power teams who would likely have played in the 4 team playoff if it had existed:
2004 Utah team--12-0 Fiesta Bowl champs
2008 Utah team--13-0 Sugar Bowl champs
2009 Boise team--14-0 Fiesta Bowl champs
2010 TCU team--13-0 Rose Bowl champs
Those teams do don't belong in any 4 team G5 playoff, they belonged with the big boys in the Big Boy Playoff.
Couldn't disagree more. Only 2010 TCU team would have had any shot of beating top 4 team.
Then they would have lost. Lots of teams have fared poorly in the playoffs. The fact is, the G5's have pretty consistently done well in their bowl game vs teams they "had no chance" to beat. Let it play out on the field. If they are outclassed---they are outclassed. If the G5 wins---they advance.
That sounds nice in theory but it doesn't work.
We know these teams are outclassed. We don't need blowouts to prove it.
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