(05-05-2021 07:33 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(05-04-2021 11:33 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(05-04-2021 04:33 PM)Crayton Wrote:  I honestly mulled over the Notre Dame situation for a whole day (in my spare time). I could see a Notre Dame-specific rule returning where they qualify for the bye. But in the end I decided this was most fair and perhaps even still favors Notre Dame, who gets the #12 seed in those years.

Note that a "Notre Dame specific rule" never has to mention Notre Dame. It simply has to specify that an A5 Conference Champion is seeded above any member of an A5 conference who did not win their championship.

Pro forma, that allows any FBS school, including Go5 schools and independents, a chance at a first round bye ... it's just that there is only one school that has more than a remote chance of grabbing that spot.

Yes, but why would we want such a rule? Even in a formal sense it is kind of strange, as it allows a G5 conference runner-up to theoretically get a bye, but not an A5 conference runner-up.

Despite being almost entirely theoretical, given the remoteness of the chance of a Go5 at-large, a parallel Go5 autobid rule would close that possibility.

Quote: And why would we want to give P5 conference champs a leg up on a bye over teams from other conferences? Winning the PAC doesn't mean you are better or more deserving than anyone in any other conference.

"we want" to? I am not arguing in favor of "a Notre Dame rule", just pointing out that there could be one that doesn't mention Notre Dame at all.

If this is about real world possible playoff formats, as opposed to the ideal playoff format which we obviously have no reason to expect will happen, ...
... the question is why would the media partners want to ...
... and I expect the answer would be to avoid diluting the value of the CCG. The SEC might well have three or four participants, but under a system that privileges the conference champions, winning the CCG is still needed to get a first round bye.

Quote: So maybe the rule, if we need one at all, should be that an A5 conference champ must be seeded above any other team from *their* conference?

That is a rule I would like to see ... what you win on the field in a conference championship game should at the very least be a better position than non-champions from your conference, no matter what any galdurn committee sees in their "vision test".