(06-12-2021 08:46 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(06-12-2021 07:30 AM)BCSvsBS Wrote:  

(06-12-2021 07:26 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  Not sure how this 12 team playoff changes the P5 vs G5 dynamic. What am i missing?

Perhaps this is the reason.

American's Letter to the Autonomous 5

The answer to quo's question is that it doesn't. The AAC still wants to be labeled P6, just like it did before the CFP changes, if it actually does change. The NCAA could designate them as an "autonomous conference" today, but that wouldn't make them P6, it would just make them A6.

What it also wouldn't do is change how much their media contract is worth on the open market, or require one of the NY6 bowls to guarantee them a spot every year. It wouldn't cause their attendance in football or hoops to close the very large gap with the current conferences designated by the media as "power conferences". It wouldn't require the eleven members of the CFP board to give them preference for inclusion over the other conferences in the G5 (and, frankly, I don't think those four conferences would vote to give them that preference even if the P5 representatives and the ND representative were to suddenly agree to it).

If I am reading the reports of what the committee's recommendations are, no P5 conference is guaranteed to have a team in the 12 team CFP. The AAC (and the MWC et al) all have the same path to the CFP that the P5 have. But that may change before the proposal is adopted. The proposal as it now stands could significantly alter or abolish any contractual arrangement individual conferences have with the Rose, Sugar and Orange Bowls. These are some of the many details yet to be worked out over the next couple of years before any of this goes into effect.

You're reading too much into what I was addressing. You're thinking and not reading. I was merely posting a link to a letter from the American Conference addressing our lack of Autonomous status and the fact that we wish to receive said status. If in fact the American does receive Autonomous status then by definition, the designations change. As in A6 vs A5 and G4 vs G5.

I mentioned nothing about Pow6r, Bowls or even the playoffs themselves.