(08-02-2019 01:22 PM)Stugray2 Wrote: The 5-1-2 will be pushed for hard by the American, possibly with some support from the MWC. But I don't think it'll happen, to rather if it does, it will require the G5 school be in the top 10.
5-1-2, 1 highest ranked Go5 conference champion or independents. That addresses the anti-trust challenge to the "5".
(08-02-2019 06:32 PM)Wedge Wrote: (08-02-2019 03:56 PM)esayem Wrote: If you want to argue a 5-1-2, then you have to include Independents with the G5.
The playoff slot reserved for them should be a "non-P5" slot. Independents other than Notre Dame should be eligible to be chosen, along with any team in an G5 conference.
If there's a sixth reserved slot, it will be for
every school not eligible for the first five. Notre Dame does have the 24th ranked Law School in the country, after all.
Maybe it "should be" for everyone outside the "de facto P5" (including Notre Dame) which provide the pool of
actually eligible for the current 4 at-large CFP spots, but shoulda woulda coulda, if ifs and buts were candies and nuts, we'd
all have a Merry Christmas.
(08-02-2019 06:37 PM)quo vadis Wrote: Does anyone seriously think a system will be adopted in which Notre Dame can compete for only two playoff spots, but UAB and San Jose State can compete for three?
That's what a 5-1-2 amounts to, folks.
What it actually amounts to is Notre Dame can compete for two and UAB and San Jose State can compete for one, since no Go5 school will ever be selected at-large, with the possible exception of an undefeated BYU with 6 middling P5 programs on its schedule. Anyone else would certainly get knocked to "n+1"th ranking, where "n" is the ranking of the last at-large school.
However, the "everyone not in the 5" 5-1-2 does open the door for the "Access Bowl" spot to be for the highest ranked non-actual-P5 school not in the CFP. That gives Notre Dame a soft NYD landing in the years it's passed by a Go5, and gives BYU the New Years Day bowl access it wants, so while it gives the Go5 less of what they want, it also brings with it a more powerful support coalition than the Go5 going it alone to push for more access.