G6 playoff gaining momentum

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G6 playoff gaining momentum

Unread post by appdaze » Fri Dec 19, 2025 8:56 pm

Reported by yahoo sports. Bowl organizers looking at a non p4 playoff. Welcome back to the FCS boys and girls.


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Re: G6 playoff gaining momentum

Unread post by NattyBumppo'sRevenge » Fri Dec 19, 2025 9:32 pm

Should have a 4 team playoff for a spot in the big playoff

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Re: G6 playoff gaining momentum

Unread post by ArmantiWaterSafety » Fri Dec 19, 2025 9:32 pm

Honestly, I'm ok with this. If JMU and/or Tulane holds their own I'll change my tune, but my guess is they get rocked by 35+ points. I don't want want to play all year to get there and then get absolutely embarrassed. The top 15 or so aren't our peers, regardless of the fact we're all FBS.

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Re: G6 playoff gaining momentum

Unread post by KentHogan » Fri Dec 19, 2025 9:37 pm

Hate it.

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Unread post by 311neers » Fri Dec 19, 2025 10:26 pm

It took a miracle for JMU to get in. Probably won’t happen again.
We can’t compete with the big dogs all year/playoffs. I’m okay with G5 playoff if they still let us attempt to slay some P4 during regular season.

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Re: G6 playoff gaining momentum

Unread post by Seattleapp » Fri Dec 19, 2025 11:09 pm

At some point guys need Someting to play for. As was mentioned, It took a miracle for JMU to make it and they most likely get clobbered tomorrow and with everyone saying bowls are a waste of time, what is left for G6 teams? Ik this climate, no G6 team has a prayer of winning the national championship, but there are a lot of good G6 teams. Having them play for a championship would be fun for their fan bases. Montana/Montana State is going to be an electric atmosphere tomorrow. Meaningful post season games are fun no matter what level of football you are playing .

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Unread post by Yosef84 » Sat Dec 20, 2025 6:37 am

I feel like a separate playoff is still premature but I realize it is ultimately almost inevitable and always has been. Even before we moved up, the discussion was about an eventual split between the P5/G5 and part of the rationale for moving up was to avoid being stacked down even further in obscurity. It will literally be a re-creation of the FCS (I-AA) original model if and when it happens. I just think this year is an anomaly with the G5 in general being down and at the same time getting 2 teams into the field (thanks to the ACC). We will see how it works out but some current "Power" teams might not like where it lands either.

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Re: G6 playoff gaining momentum

Unread post by AppDawg » Sat Dec 20, 2025 8:34 am

We have reached the point where I do not see things changing until there is a missed season. The schools are going to have to lock out the players. It’s the only way I see an agreement and foundation being established that preserves the semblance of what we have always known as college football. Absent that, why would the players ever agree to anything other than what the current environment is?

As for a G6 playoff, no thank you. I could get on-board with a NIT style setup with P4&P6, but not G6 exclusively. Under either scenario though, until the root issues are fixed will players play or opt out?

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Unread post by EastTNMountaineer » Sat Dec 20, 2025 9:05 am

If it’s inevitable, I actually am OK with it. We need to be realistic and realize that we are not peers with SEC and B1G. That’s not to say we can’t beat them, we have. Many times.

I’m just saying it would be nice to have something to play for other than being the sacrificial lamb of the current playoff. And there are quite a few good group of five schools with passionate fan bases that would watch. The real college football fans. The only thing I’m unsure of is how this would work with guys entering the transfer portal before the hypothetical G5 playoffs.

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Re: G6 playoff gaining momentum

Unread post by Capt. Ed » Sat Dec 20, 2025 9:15 am

My hope is the top schools leave the NCAA and form a super league of 70 or so teams, leaving 60 or so teams currently in the G6. Call it the Mid Majors or Still College Football Division. Create our own rules and add a NIL cap per team. If a cap won't work, go to revenue sharing. Create and enforce rules like attendance and minimum financial support and apply to existing teams and move-ups.

It's time to quit hoping any of us are going to get into the top division or not being seen as the minor league.

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Unread post by Stonewall » Sat Dec 20, 2025 9:54 am

A step back to 1AA. Will be hard to sell donors who invested in the move to FBS. No longer able to say we compete at the highest level. Would likely necessitate a major downsizing of the program to offset revenue loss.

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Unread post by Bootsy » Sat Dec 20, 2025 11:06 am

SEC/B10 are driving the train, everyone else is along for the ride. ACC/B12 are in the first class Pullmans, AAC is in the Pullmans with the bunk beds. The rest of us are in the caboose, holding on for dear life.

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Re: G6 playoff gaining momentum

Unread post by guitarstrat82 » Sat Dec 20, 2025 12:04 pm

Nah man if this happens I’m officially done supporting college football.

Absolutely no one outside of the fan bases of the g6 teams playing in that matchup will watch it... just like FCS.

Attendance will be just as bad as bowl games and FCS playoff games.

ESPN/media talking heads will use this as further justification as to why g5 never belonged.

Players will still opt out of that in favor of the transfer portal given the playoff means nothing compared a chance at a p4 nil bag.

G6 needs to organize and lobby just like the p4 and file lawsuits if it ever tries to move in this direction.

If we do indeed do this I propose p4 is called division 1, g6 is division 2, fcs is division 3, division 2 is division 4, and division 3 is division 5.

Because that’s exactly what this is. I for one did not pour my blood sweat and tears into working with this program during our FBS transition just to be demoted to division 2 a decade later.

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Re: G6 playoff gaining momentum

Unread post by ASUTodd » Sat Dec 20, 2025 12:27 pm

Relegation.... It's the way to go.

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Re: G6 playoff gaining momentum

Unread post by BTK2000 » Sat Dec 20, 2025 12:49 pm

EastTNMountaineer wrote:
Sat Dec 20, 2025 9:05 am
If it’s inevitable, I actually am OK with it. We need to be realistic and realize that we are not peers with SEC and B1G. That’s not to say we can’t beat them, we have. Many times.

I’m just saying it would be nice to have something to play for other than being the sacrificial lamb of the current playoff. And there are quite a few good group of five schools with passionate fan bases that would watch. The real college football fans. The only thing I’m unsure of is how this would work with guys entering the transfer portal before the hypothetical G5 playoffs.
Do you exclaim “yes daddy harder” when nick saben and Paul finebaum are on TV encouraging more disparity between the G5 and P5 or you just silently get off on watching the talking heads supporting the destruction of most of the college football landscape.

Even if it is something else to play for, which I agree would be something, once there is no acess to the cfp the media money and relevance will vanish. It absolutely will. This board was full of people in the FCS days that bemoaned the lack of media coverage of even the fcs championship game. The truth is that even the temu bowl hosted at a high school stadium at 2pm on the CW, pays more than the FCS payouts. The reality of the situation is that once there is no acess, everyone will stop paying and the revenue will tank.

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Re: G6 playoff gaining momentum

Unread post by BambooRdApp » Sat Dec 20, 2025 1:05 pm

BTK2000 wrote:
Sat Dec 20, 2025 12:49 pm
EastTNMountaineer wrote:
Sat Dec 20, 2025 9:05 am
If it’s inevitable, I actually am OK with it. We need to be realistic and realize that we are not peers with SEC and B1G. That’s not to say we can’t beat them, we have. Many times.

I’m just saying it would be nice to have something to play for other than being the sacrificial lamb of the current playoff. And there are quite a few good group of five schools with passionate fan bases that would watch. The real college football fans. The only thing I’m unsure of is how this would work with guys entering the transfer portal before the hypothetical G5 playoffs.
Do you exclaim “yes daddy harder” when nick saben and Paul finebaum are on TV encouraging more disparity between the G5 and P5 or you just silently get off on watching the talking heads supporting the destruction of most of the college football landscape.

Even if it is something else to play for, which I agree would be something, once there is no acess to the cfp the media money and relevance will vanish. It absolutely will. This board was full of people in the FCS days that bemoaned the lack of media coverage of even the fcs championship game. The truth is that even the temu bowl hosted at a high school stadium at 2pm on the CW, pays more than the FCS payouts. The reality of the situation is that once there is no acess, everyone will stop paying and the revenue will tank.
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Unread post by bcoach » Sat Dec 20, 2025 1:13 pm

Who ever thought this would not happen.

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Unread post by CornCobPipes » Sat Dec 20, 2025 1:17 pm

Hate the idea. We just need a 24 team playoff.
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Unread post by biggie » Sat Dec 20, 2025 1:24 pm

I might be ok with a G6 playoff if G6 is still eligible for the big one as well.

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Re: G6 playoff gaining momentum

Unread post by AppStFan1 » Sat Dec 20, 2025 1:27 pm

appdaze wrote:
Fri Dec 19, 2025 8:56 pm
Reported by yahoo sports. Bowl organizers looking at a non p4 playoff. Welcome back to the FCS boys and girls.


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This is exactly why many of us who wanted to move up felt we had to do it. We need to be with more like minded schools and we never wanted to fall into tier 3 so we had to be FBS. FCS is going to be tier 3 and right now about half of it is what D2 use to be and still no minimum requirements to be FCS so we made the right move. I say bring on the G6 playoff. Gives us something worthy to play for instead of these toilet bowls that mean nothing.

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