https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll
Horn at 1. Illinois enters at 24. NIU rises to 23. Aggy also is ranked again.
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15-18 are a bit suspect – OU, LSU, ND and U-M
Top 20 Big 12 programs:
12 Utah
13 KSU
14 OK State
20 Iowa State
Who is the favorite at this point? KSU with win at Tulane who came close at Norman?
Which G5 will get the Playoff spot?
23 NIU
26 Memphis
27 Boise
29 UNLV (battle of the MWC champ?)
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We play ranked Iowa State in two weeks.
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GO ILLINI!
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I feel like voters kinda give teams a pass on early losses. Don’t mean as much as later season losses. Even if they are against “lesser” programs. Whether that’s right or not, it is what it is
In about 4 weeks, the only thing that will matter is the # in the “L” column.
The quality of who you beat won’t matter.
The quality of who you lost to won’t matter.
Ws are so much more important than Ls.
Regardless of the level of competition.
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6 SEC teams in the top 10! Wow! That Texas v UGA game in a few weeks should be a good one of both are undefeated.
KSU at 13 is not a bad spot. If B12 can get 2 teams in the top 12, should get 2 playoff spots.
Yeah that’ll probably be an ABC prime time evening game
Did we get votes for beating rice, almost beating ou and losing to a playoff bound UNLV?
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Until each of the 10 conference champs get an auto invite, you can count me unimpressed.
And unless you play in a conference championship game,you should not be able to have a wild-card.
You had your chance during the season to make the Conference Champ Game and you didn’t. Now you want in because you think you are better than the winner of the MWC top two? Should have showed it on the field when you could.
On a related note, I heard talking heads mentioning the SEC could have 6-7 teams in…that is BS.
It is still all about keeping the non-blue bloods down.
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Autobids for G5 conference champs? Seriously?
Let’s see how the biggest ranked G5 champ does in the playoffs before making a case that all G5 champs deserve a playoff spot.
Yes, seriously.
Every year somebody G5 beats a playoff team or a potential playoff team. NIU beating Notre Dame. We beat OU a few years back. We almost beat Texas last year with our 4-8 team.
And if they get access, it balances out recruiting, nil or not.
Let it be determined on the field.
Let’s see how the Big 12 and ACC champs do as well. May not be any difference.
Let’s see how many of the wild cards pull an upset. Might not be much different. But when one conference gets 5-6 wildcards, their chance of pulling off an upset is a lot higher.
Let them play.
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So what? None of what you say means that all 6 G5 conference champs should get a spot. NIU beating ND means NIU has the best chance of being the highest ranked G5 champ. So they get in. But if they can’t even win their own weakass G5 conference then even with that win over ND, they don’t deserve a spot.
Playing weak schedules and winning a conference made up of cupcakes should absolutely not guarantee a spot.
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Their conferences would get better if they had an auto bid. Would they beat saban’s Bama…unlikely. But a lot of teams lost to them.
Why fill the bracket in with a bunch of 3 or 4 loss SEC/Big 10 schools. They have no chance at winning.
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Because the 3-4 loss SEC teams fill 80K seat stadiums and bring eyeballs for TV
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No the conferences wouldn’t get better. And a 3 or 4 loss SEC/B10/B12 team is without a doubt superior to a G5 team, even a conference champ. There’s no way the MAC champ deserves to get in ahead of the 3rd or 4th best SEC/B10/B12 team.
G5 teams don’t generate any TV revenue, but you want them to have a greater share in wealth they had 0 hand in generating, plus rewarding them for playing a cupcake schedule. Let’s see a G5 team play and win 3 nonconference games against the cream of the SEC/B12/B10.
Hmmm…the NCAA basketball tournament draws a ton of viewers to watch teams from smaller conferences take on big conference teams.
Could be the same for a football tournament. But we’ll never know.
UHredcat96 is right. Never giving the lesser funded conferences a chance really only guarantees that they’ll remain less funded.
And if a kid knew he had a better chance to get into the playoff by going to the MAC or the MWC, recruiting might improve. But this might be the biggest reason for excluding the (presently) have nots.
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