(06-10-2021 03:14 PM)SMUstang Wrote:  

(06-10-2021 02:42 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(06-10-2021 08:48 AM)SMUstang Wrote:  In my opinion the AAC should leave the #12 spot open in case either BYU comes available or Boise State has a change of circumstances. JMO

Do we know if BYU was asked? The prevailing wisdom seems to be that BYU doesn't want to be in a conference considered beneath the one that Utah is in, but they don't seem to have a problem with that for hoops. Would anything less than a guaranteed spot in the NY6 for its conference satisfy BYU?

I’m sure Aresco has talked to them. Gonzaga is the Notre Dame of hoops.

Commissioner Aresco seemed pretty confident that teams such as BYU might pick up the phone and give him a call if a CFP expansion including a probable auto-bid for the top G5 conference would be announced.

We're not there yet, but it looks like momentum is building for a CFP expansion plan that would include auto-bids for the highest-ranked conference champions.

6 of the past 8 seasons, and over the past 4 seasons in a row, the highest-ranked G5 conference champions were the AAC championship teams.

That would seem to be a pretty compelling reason why BYU may want to consider joining the AAC if the proposed CFP expansion plan is adopted.

Unless they join a conference, their only path to the CFP would almost certainly require them to go undefeated - - since no non-P5 team has made it into the top 12 without going undefeated during the regular season - - and BYU has only had one undefeated team in its history, dating back to 1922.

The question wouldn't be whether BYU would find it highly advantageous to join a conference, but which conference they would join.