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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5599324, member: 1145"]
That will never fly in football. Why? Money.

First, the NCAA does NOT in any sense run/administer the post-season of 1A (FBS) football. That has always been done by the schools and conference's themselves, working with private groups and individuals. And the money for the playoffs is HUGE. So the last thing any Major/Power conference or program wants is a playoff that makes the CUSA and MAC champs auto bids.

If the NCAA ran this for 1A CFB, it would follow its basketball policy: all champs of any league at that level are guaranteed in, And basically any teams that want to move up into that division get to do so, which means that the post-season will keep getting watered down by schools moving up to get a piece of a pie that they and leagues never built up. It is like a giant welfare scam. And the SEC and BT will bolt, fully secede, before they allow the NCAA or any other entity to start ordering them to share with Mac and CUSA and MWC and a string of current 1AA (FCS) leagues.

And all that is why we have so much talk about the disparities in ability to spend requiring a new Top Tier for CFB. I do think that is coming. It is just a matter of when. I think many in SEC and BT would prefer it be just their 2 leagues, but more than a few of their people also would prefer it be 3 or 4 leagues. I think the political powers of both parties will be drawn into the arrangement phase unless there are 3 and maybe 4 conferences with a total 50 or more schools involved.
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