There's an article in today's (12/5) The Post about a G5 playoff.

The writer makes a some interesting points,several of which have been posted here.

Personally,I think all D1 programs should,at least theoretically,have a chance to make the playoffs.

There's also no question that current system makes that almost impossible.

After thinking about it I came up with an idea.

Expand the playoffs to 8 eight teams.

6 slots go to P5 conferences, for the committee to distribute as they see fit.
2 slots go to G5 schools,again,as the committee sees the fit.

See how the G5 teams do over a few years.
They hold their own,they stay.
They don't,then look at a G5 playoff.

A playoff for conferences like the MAC simply admits once and for all that those conferences are second level. We currently have that with D 1 and D 1 AA. The playoff proposed in this article would place a playoff between those two levels.

I heard a discussion about this on one of the games I watched over the weekend. I think it was the C-USA championship game. The announcers concluded that it wasn't going to ever happen because the current setup brings too much money to the G5 schools, and that they would have to forfeit that in the G5 Playoff System.

My personal favorite tweak of the current system would be to expanded it to eight. Give each P5 conference champ an automatic bid. Have two slots for at-large bids, and one slot for the highest ranked G5 team.

THAT would be fun! It would never be allowed to happen, but damn would it be fun.

In an 8 team playoff like OCF suggested, 2010 Boise would have hosted a P5 team in the first round had they not lost to Nevada, so it is possible. But no way do they force higher ranked P5 teams to play first round games at G5 stadiums, and I'm fine with that. Attendance money would be a big part of the pot and small schools' AD's need that money desperately.

This sounds like the most reasonable idea yet, as long as the G5 school is ranked in the top 20. If not that spot go to another at large team.