(12-03-2017 11:33 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  It has become clear the CFP is not a playoff. It has devolved into the "Big Brand Name College Football Invitational". While I have zero interest in a G5 playoff---I am intrigiued by another option.

What if the G5 approached the NCAA about doing sponsoring the NCAA FBS National Football Championship. The post season event would be run and sponsored by the NCAA and would be open to ALL FBS Conferences. All conference champions are automatic qualifiers. A 10 man selection committee comprised of one representative from each FBS conference would fill in the rest of the 12 team field. Participating schools would earn "credits" for each round of participation (including the finals).

Years ago, the privately owned NIT tournament got the best college basketball teams and crowned the defacto national champion. In those days, the NCAA tournament was an afterthought (basically looked at the way we view the NIT today). The fairness and wider participation of the NCAA tournament eventually allowed the NCAA Tournament to become more and more popular--attracting better and better teams. Eventually, the NCAA Tournament became the determiner of the "real" college basketball champion.

This year, the top seeds of such a tourney could be Ohio State, USC, and the an undefeated UCF. If properly packaged and capitalized, such a tournament might just be worth a heck of a lot of TV money. I could easily see such a more open and inclusive tournament becoming the preferred college football post season model of the American public VERY quickly.

What you are saying instead of taking a NY6 consolation prize the G5 lead the charge on a legitimate NCAA playoff.

Could a TV partner get behind this to the point where the money could attract P5 teams? At first maybe it would have to settle for non-CFP P5 teams wanting this instead of the Foster Farms Bowl.