The problem is they keep trying to create metrics that favor the power conferences, and when it doesn’t work like it was supposed to, they move the goalposts. The system was set up to be fool proof, they never thought that one of the power 4 conferences would have a lower ranked champion than the G6, so that’s their own fault. Notre Dame can cry all they want but if they were in the ACC, they’d have been in. More than likely that is. They want their cake and eat it too, holding their own media deal and staying independent. Why do 134 other teams and 10 conferences need to crater to that? They don’t. This will create some dominos though. It’s phase one of the power 2 split. Now how many get invited to that party is hard to tell. It al depends on how much those 2 leagues want to share with the rest of the teams and conferences. As much as they already hoard the money, they already sort of share the money with G6 teams and FCS by scheduling money games for us. Rather than doing that, the NCAA could just go to the market as one and fund college football. But that would mean the SEC and BIG10 would have to take a cut in their billion dollar media deals. Personally, at this point, let the 60-70 teams split, form a D League NFL, and let the rest of us get on with college football. Or flat out expand the playoffs to 24 teams, all 10 conference champs get in with 14 at large bids. Dump the bowls.
