(04-28-2021 07:17 AM)CoastalJuan Wrote:  Everyone stands to make more money under a 5-1-2 system. You have 6 NY6 bowls. Use a 3-year rotation.

This is the point that I think most detractors are missing. The biggest P5 conferences will continue to want more money. It's like an insatiable appetite that can't be quenched. For the SEC and the B1G, the problem is that the only way to grow the product is to extend it beyond their own fan bases. For sure, the last few years of the CFP have been popular in the southeast and parts of the rust belt, but when pretty much everything west of the Rockies feels like the sport has abandoned them, they're not invested. By expanding this thing, suddenly the fans of every Pac-12 team watches knowing they were a legitimate part of this.

And before you dismiss the G5 as part of this, think of two things. First, the goal here isn't to get the hard core college football fans to watch. We're ALREADY going to watch. It's to get the more fickle and casual fans to tune in. How do you do that when you're autoexcluding giant chunks of the country?

Here's a list of the largest enrollments among universities in the country:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Un...enrollment

4 of those top 10 are G5 schools! Just among those four there are >1,000,000 alumni! And yes, some of their hard core football fan alumni (like Quo) root primarily for other teams instead of their alma maters, but we're not talking about those alumni. We're talking about the others who will be needed to grow the total product so that they'll care enough to watch. That is why you need autobids, and that is why you need to have an avenue that at least provides a mechanism for every team to be connected to the top teams in the country.

This truly isn't rocket science...

USFFan