Collusion by Group of Five to fix playoff Snubs.  I heard someone talking about this on the radio the other day.  It is difficult for me to remember who it was.   I am not sure this would result in what they think it would.   If the Group of five or is it Six now pull together to stop playing power five schools in the regular season.   I am not sure it will have the affect they are hoping for.

The idea was that to fix the problem of a team like The University of Central Florida not getting into the playoff.  The group of five should all get together and agree to not play any power five schools until this problem is fixed.  They are operating under the assumption that a problem exits in the first place.   I can see that the problem exists from the perspective of the Group of Five.  They clearly want what they don’t have at this point.    They want to be included in the College Football Playoff.  The are after all in the Bowl Division of NCAA College Football. With in that division there are two subsets.  The Power Five and the Group of Five.  These are not hard set in the division but the reality is that they do exist.  The separation between Power Five and Group of Five is real.

No Problem for the Power Five

From the perspective of the Power Five conferences there is no problem.  Well the playoff has problems but from their point of view an undefeated group of five team not getting in is not one of those problems.  The Power Five schools have nothing to gain by letting a Group Of Five school into the playoff.  If a group of five teams gets in and then gets hammered that is what was supposed to happen.  If the group of five team wins then that is bad for the power five schools.  It might be good and entertaining for us.  Unless it was your school that lost that game.  There is no upside to the Power five schools letting one of the group of five teams in.

This could all change when they go to eight games.  The group of five may be able to get one team in.  There will be strict stipulations on how that school will get a bid into the playoff.  Again even with those stipulations the power five schools have nothing to gain by letting one of those teams in.

Collusion by Group of Five to get into the playoff is a crazy idea

The notion that there should be Collusion by Group of Five to fix playoff Snubs is crazy.  If the group of five were to take this stance they would assure that they would never have a spot at the playoff table.  The other thing that it would do is to solve a problem that the Power Five schools cannot seem to solve for themselves.  Many people have been saying that power five schools should only schedule other power five schools.  I actually do not think that this is a completely bad idea.

Too Much Money for some teams

If the Group of five were able to unify and pull off the collusion idea the end result would only hurt schools in those conferences.   Many of these schools schedule power five school, not because they think that they can compete with them.  They want the payout to help fund their athletic department.   Many of these schools get extremely large payouts to get beat 70 – 10.   I have heard others say that those schools get embarrassed and that should be stopped.  Yeah those schools are so embarrassed that they run to the bank with a huge smile on their face to deposit that check.  Then on to next week to grab another one.  I have no problem with that happening either.  It spreads around some of that huge money that is pouring into college football.

To the Collusion suggester out there.  This is a really crazy idea.   I really don’t see any way that you would get all the teams that are not in a power five conference to go along with this.   The Power Five schools are hoping that you do this.  You solve so may problems for them by doing this.

There are better Options

There are other options that you have that would be much more effective than collusion by the group of five against the power five.  You could just break away from them completely and have your own playoff.  I am not sure what the ramifications would be on this but since you know that you have limited if any pull to get into the playoff.  Why would you want to stay in that grouping.   Move to your own.  That would still have 60 – 70 schools in it.  You have your own playoff and see how it rolls.  This would be a better option than trying to force the group of five into letting one teams every four years into the college football playoff.

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