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Utah won 28 games in three years, rising to No. 3 one year and No. 11 the next.
TCU won 11 games three times in four years and has three top-10 finishes.
It’s weird, these teams seem to do more than jack squat.

Can we play the game so the G5 actually wins? (Gets the money and gets the trophy?)
Call me crazy (hey Cra-Cra!)

There are 5 Conferences in the Group of 5, what if they sent their top champ to a New years 6 Bowl? (Keeps the money coming in) and have the other 4 conference champs participate in a 4 team playoff, (that occurred say 3~ish hours before the CFP playoff.)

The winner of the playoff is crowned G5 champion, and if the top G5 team wins their New Years Day Bowl Game they are crowned co-champ. So what, there are 2 lower level champs. They get to keep the Big Money and have their own playoff.

The only negatives I see is a couple of minor Bowls get dropped due to 4 teams no longer participating, some mid tier bowls reshuffling who gets invited. And "controversy" over who the "real" G5 champ is. But I think the controversy will actually get them more press time, and draw more interests to their games.
There also could be some back lash from the top G5 team wanting to be in the playoff instead of the Bowl game, but I think we the fans would want to see it. I don't know, would you rather play 1 "elite" team or 2 really good teams to get a trophy?

While everyone is spit balling, what about a six-team playoff where, just as in the NFL, the top two teams get byes. Conference champs from the Power 5, and the top-rated team from among everyone else (Notre Dame and the lower-tier conferences). Does that mean 2012 Wisconsin (8-5) gets destroyed in one of the first-round games? Probably, but it also means conference championships mean something. And it gives a real advantage to the teams that finish 1, 2, without excluding other conference champs who may or may not have played a tougher schedule (or so they argue).

It excludes Alabama this year, but again, that makes a conference championship more meaningful. I kind of like returning to an era in which the conference championship is everyone's goal. Given that Alabama won in OT, would it have been a sin if Georgia wins the title this year? Is there any real evidence that Alabama was "more" deserving than Georgia?

I'm sure I'm missing something, but I kind of like it. And just like the NFL system, have the first round the week after conference championships, the second round the week after that, and the championship on New Years Day.

If they have a playoff that lets conference champs of non-P5 conferences in, why wouldn't Arizona State move to the MWC and get into the playoffs every year?  Why wouldn't Illinois move to the MAC?  

The G5 or Other5 or whatever you want to call them are voluntarily participating in a system in which they cannot finish #1.  That's an odd choice, but it has been their choice.  Yes, they should move down.  And yet year after year, FCS teams keep jumping up instead, to join in with the ever-growing group of football teams that have no chance at #1.  Seems to me these ADs at Georgia State and App State and UTSA have some 'splainin' to do to the actual players themselves.

Seems odd.

i know, just a dig at the bigxii. it still baffles me how mizz played for sec title 2 times. they were decent teams, but not that good. east was just a clusterf.