paraphrased your statement for brevity Quo:
(06-08-2021 08:34 AM)quo vadis Wrote: ... if (they) have autobids then the G5 will get one ...
Right now, they can do that with the NY6 bids. But with expanded playoffs there will be no more NY6.
These assertions are both false. First the Playoff is not a standard NCAA tournament following NCAA rules. It is a special situation agreed to by the stakeholders who have uneven power. Whatever they decide will be like a collective bargaining agreement, the G5 will yield any regular NCAA rights and accept the new system. NCAA ByLaws will be adjusted to the format agreed, per usual.
So there is no reason and no possibility that G5 conferences will get an autobid. Instead they will probably have a minimum of one at-large reserved for the highest ranked non-autonomous school (BYU, Liberty, Army, UConn, UMass and NMSU get thrown in that pile).
As for the NY6, they will probably remain in some form either as 2nd round games hosted by the top four seeds, and two moving out of rotation to host 1st round. (Advantages: Championship game only a week later than now, only two "on-campus" semi-finals reducing unpredictability; two more bowls added to NY6 for 4 Christmas weekend games. Disadvantages: two NY6 Bowls move back to Christmas, greatly reducing the value of those games, especially for fans staying in town; four New Years games will see less demand as fans of teams will have spend vacation already on first round -- basically the hit is on the venue providers in this scheme)
Or they may go to unbalanced approach with all twelve schools playing in NY6 games as 1st round playoff, and the top two ranked winners getting 2nd round byes; the top four seed winners would get on campus home games in round 2 or 3; the Championship game pushes back two weeks. (Advantages: NY6 remains intact, four winning P5 schools get playoff home game, still one Championship game at neutral site, no other bowls required, no other disruption required. Disadvantages: Funky 2nd round byes, playoffs end a week later)
Bottom Line, we don't know what the format will be, so we don't know if this enhances or reduces the NY6 bowls. I think the latter is easy to execute, but the former is simpler on American minds, so probably wins out.
The use of the NY6 comes down to format chosen.