I think it’d be tough too but honestly I’m not sure what else can be done? Stanford/Cal likely wanting academic minded Rice and others that suit that profile isn’t helping shit for an A status ether.
No i mean there is no such thing as an automatic status for the cfp. 0 conferences have an automatic status
Huh? When this thing goes to 12 isn’t there 6 conference champions that get auto bids?
the 6 highest ranked conference champions. among any and all conferences. the same condition applies to the SEC as it does to the MAC. be among the 6 highest ranked conference champions to get a spot in the CFP.
Technically, you are correct. Where I believe you are off is that the 6 number will change to 5. The "6th highest ranked Conf Champs" was a genius way to give AQ to the P5, with at least 1 AQ for the G5. It did allow for the odd year where 2 G5 Conf Champs could be rated higher than 1 of the P5. It happened only in 2020, and ironically it was the PAC that would have been the P5 champ left out. But, that was also the COVID year so it really doesn't count.
And while that might happen and likely would that still doesnt mean the Pac x would lose access and that doesnt mean that there is any kind of auto bid.
Let’s make this easy for you Dave, teams Are selected by a comittee ie people. There will be inherent bias when selecting. We can pretend power conference champs won’t majority of the time be given the auto bids but we’d be wrong. The PAC right now is considered a POWER conference. In 2025 they likely aren’t. Sure they’ll have a “chance” to get an auto bid, but it’s much more likely they’d be weighed on a similar scale (given they lost almost everybody) as the MACs, AAC and CUSA of the world then they would of a Power conference in my scenario.
Count on that happening. The PAC was the worst conference in the CFP era before they lost all their good teams. They are no longer considered P5 starting in 2024. They will absolutely be treated like a G conference - their contract will reflect that, and their place in the pecking order will reflect that. Again, the G6 should have their own championship. That's how to make money.
What's your position on a G6 playoff? I've always thought that made the most sense. You would make some seriously good money. And your team could play for championships.
But they arent conference assigned autobids.
That doesn't make them non-auto bids. It just assigns them differently, and actually quite geniusly. But they are auto - if you win your conference in the P4, you will be in unless you suck. I've stated that technically you are correct. But practically, you aren't. Any P4 CC will be in unless there are two G6 CCs ranked higher than them. It's happened one time and that was during the Covid season, to a conference that no longer exists.
Final BCS rankings that year going to bowls
I've been for having separate playoffs all along.
Dude, pretending the PAC In 2025 would get the same benefit of the doubt (wether it’s the scenario in the OP or the one I laid out) as the PAC in 2023 is ludicrous and you know it. When the auto bids get cut to 5 and after the Power conference champs get there auto bid it’s basically 6 other conference champions for 1 spot automatically. Sure the other conference champs can get an at large but that’s a Very large chance rather then having that automatically.
I looked it up somewhere and saw they were top 20, but I'll take your post as being correct. You found the 1 year where this was a problem, but that can never happen again because there aren't divisions anymore. So my point stands. Practically speaking, there are AQs.
there was also the 2020 Pac like you said earlier.
Look, I think this is a feature not a bug. It's why it was a genius move by the committee that came up with the CFP. Don't say the P5, at the time, and 1 G5. Say top 6. That gives incentive to the G5 schools to invest and know they might have 2 slots, and to the P5 schools that know they better get their conference aligned right or they might miss out.