Chris Branh of the Athletic (for giggles)...
...wrote that "An ACC title would surely be good enough for at least the fifth spot on that list, even if, say, a Mountain West or American team finishes the season ranked higher … which would mean a Group of 5 team would earn a first-round bye in the first Playoff. A hilarious and plausible future lies ahead for us." Do people truly forget that ND plays football? A 3 loss (3rd to ND) FSU team isn't getting seeded above a 0 or 1-loss ND unless NDs only loss happens to be to that FSU tram (and even then I question it).
Replies to: Chris Branh of the Athletic (for giggles)...
I don't think you're reading that right
he means the ACC champ will be at least fifth out of the top five ranked conference champions. So, it could look like this: #1 SEC Champ, #2 Big 10 Champ, #3 Big 12 Champ, #4 MWC Champ, #5 ND, #6 Big 10 runner up, #7 SEC runner up, #8 Big 10 3rd place, #9 SEC 3rd place, #10 Big 12 runner up, #11 Big 10 4th place, #12 FSU (ACC Champ), with #5-#8 hosting games
ND can't be in the top 4 and in this scenario, even though FSU might not even be ranked in the top 12, they'd get the #12 slot as an automatic bid because they are the fifth highest rated conference champion. Where this falls apart is if FSU is ranked below 2 conference champs that are outside the SEC/Big 10/Big12. So if 2 teams of the following example group win their conference and are ranked ahead of FSU as ACC champ, they're probably out: Liberty (Conference USA), Boise State (MWC), Memphis (AAC)
Should be some minimum requirement for league champs. Less than 3 losses for something like
Top 15 ranking. If u lose all your non conference games it shouldn’t matter if u conference champs u less your out of conference games are all in the top 10 and that ain’t gonna happen