RE: How ridiculous is the idea of a G5 four team tournament?
I don't think it'd be cutting things off, no. We're already SET G5 vs G5 bowls existing Anyway, right? It wouldn't be separating G5 from P5... it'd be dismissing auto-conference setups in a couple G5 vs G5 bowls, and instead putting top teams voted on -- and then just ADDING one more for them. That's it! And it wouldn't be a Title for Top G5. You'd still have Top G5 team playing in the Access Bowl!
All it'd be doing is saying "Hey, there's going to be Two bowls that go beyond regular conference alignment. Instead of G5 conf team vs G5 conf team like we already have had, it's going to be the Top #2-#5 G5s. In later December. Oh yeah, the winners are going to play each other in Subsequent Bowl, during the BCS Bowls to add to the excitement of that timeframe."
The Top G5 team would play in the Access Bowl... or in a rare case, the Playoffs. It'd make things exciting to see who makes it to the "other Top 4" after the Access Bowl winner as #1. If Marshall loses to LA-Tech, do THEY make it in the Top 5? Is Marshall totally out then? And BYU & Navy are in on the action every year, too (but still not the Access Bowl requiring a conf champ)! Makes things more exciting.
This Year (assuming things roll as planned):
TOP G5 Boise: Fiesta Bowl
BOCA RATION BOWL [instead of C-USA vs MAC, #1 vs #4]:
#1 Colorado State (10-2) vs #4 Memphis (9-3)
MIAMI BEACH BOWL [instead of American vs BYU, #2 vs #3]:
#2 Marshall (12-1) vs #3 N Illinois (11-2)
Who wouldn't want to see that, with a subsequent matchup bowl a week after New Years? We already have G5 vs G5 bowls set up anyway! This would draw more viewers, and this isn't even a good year for G5s!
This is good because it's NOT a "title" -- it's a Trophy. Why? Because the Top G5 goes to the Access/BCS Bowl. This doesn't "separate" G5 into another football division any more than having G5 vs G5 and P5 vs P5 bowls like we have now, right?
In the MAC, we have WMU vs EMU vs CMU games every year. We recently started the MAC Michigan Trophy of the best. Does that separate them into another MAC division? No. Miami-OH plays Cinci every year for a trophy.
In this case, you just do something fun with bowls. Hell, they add weird meaningless bowls all the time, right? Well, this is 10x better. By keeping the Top G5 in the Access/BCS Bowl, you're Ensuring people won't even see it as "the G5 Title". It's a Trophy based thing and they're exciting games. Much better than a 11-2 MAC team playing a 7-5 Sun Belt team, or a 11-2 MW team playing a 7-5 C-USA team.
IMO, it would be an Awesome MODIFICATION.
(This post was last modified: 12-03-2014 12:48 AM by toddjnsn.)
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