Kittonhead,

It's easier with the autobid. Undefeated is really not the test. Why punish a Houston or Fresno State or Cincy for scheduling a couple really hard P5 schools and losing one of those? You would just encourage strong G5 schools to never schedule OOC games against top 30 P5 schools. So undefeated is a very bad idea.

The other alternative, setting some arbitrary threshold of ranking or some other criteria, is very hard to judge, because a school running off victories against the likes of Charlotte, ODU, USM, UAB, FIU, simply cannot be measured against a school having to slog through WSU, Stanford, UW, USC and Colorado in the same stretch. So are you relying on a bunch of sports writers and their bias? Or are you relying on some computer program ranking? Or just squinting your eye and making a WAG that they are or are not good enough?

The simpler thing is to just let them in.Boise State their really strong 2004 year probably would have been a 4 seed, this year's UCF team probably a 6 seed, and all other G5 in the Playoff era 8 seeds. It's far better to just limit the committee to seeding the 8 teams, and picking the best two at-large .