PAC 2 Alliance With CUSA & MAC? Race To NY6 Scenarios; BLEAV Network | College Underdogs | Ep. 72 

If anyone is looking for credibility of the AP & Coaches Polls regarding the CFP keep in mind that they keep rankings JMU which is not eligible for post season football tournaments, as a matter of fact, in the past some AP voters have included FCS members in the votes for ranking... The CFP is the only relevant poll for the purpose of the "The NY6/Playoffs.

Smu vs Texas sounds fun it’s been awhile

If the PAC-2 opts for a CUSA, MAC, or AAC scheduling partnership the MWC should start sweating. That likely means OSU and WSU are looking to raid the MWC to rebuild the PAC-10/12.

I don’t get why the pac 2 isn’t trying to align with the sun belt to at least have some kind of strength of schedule. It’s not like they won’t have the money. It would help them a ton just to play programs who have national prominence at the g5 level like JMU or App st instead of liberty and Toledo.

I feel like Oregon state and Washington state are just dragging this out to maybe get an invite to a power 4 conference

Great job as usual. The CFP committee will choose Tulane if they win out. The other conferences best chance are: CUSA: Liberty with 0 losses MAC: Toledo with 1 loss SBC: Troy with 2 losses MWC: UNLV with 2 losses All of the above have a "chance" if Tulane loses another game. If Tulane or another AAC team is champion with 2 losses, might still have a "chance", but a better bet would be Liberty or Toledo at that point. Before the rules changed to give the CFP committee priority in the selection of the MY6 bowls, there is no doubt in my mind that the Cotton Bowl would choose SMU to play Texas. However, the Cotton Bowl no longer has that choice, so they will need Liberty to lose at least one game. If both Tulane and Liberty lose another game then my guess would be that a 2-loss AAC champion would be selected over either a 1-loss CUSA or MAC champion. The only hope for the SBC or MWC champion is for the AAC champion to have 3 losses, as I don't believe that the CFP will choose any 3 loss team to go to the NY6. I hope that I've covered the vast majority of the possibilities.

The AAC have to fight to keep itself top of the G5/G6. They have to do this is in Football, MBB/WBB, and any other sports. The PAC2 needs 48 games to fill their schedules. Currently OSU has 6 games scheduled and WSU has 8 games scheduled. Therefore, OSU needs 9 games each year and WSU needs 8 games each year. This requires 34 additional games to be scheduled. CUSA has New Mexico State, Sam Houston State, and UTEP. These are the shorter distance schools. The MAC has better airport schools at or near Buffalo, Toledo, Northern Illinois, Eastern Michigan, Akron, Kent State, and Miami (OH). Of course longer travel to good airports include CUSA schools Middle Tennessee State and FIU. Even if the PAC2 signed 1 and 1 games, they might have to add $5 to $10 million per year to compensate travel and full year season scheduling convenience. This just bridges the gap to 2026. The PAC2 will have a hard time adding AAC schools at $7+ million compared to MWC schools at $4 to $5 million. They need to add 6 schools to form an NCAA PAC8. I could see market value in adding SDSU, SJSU, UNLV, Utah State, Boise State. The other choices all have distance, quality, or money issues: Rice (distance, money); Fresno State (quality); New Mexico (quality); Air Force (quality); Nevada (doubling market); Hawaii (distance, quality). Can the PAC2 get a media partner to offer $7 to $8 million? Will OSU and WSU try and take more than equal shares? These are questions podcasters from these schools have to answer. I do not think they fully comprehend how weak their poop truly is. I think they are hoping the B1G will add 2 of Colorado, Utah, or Kansas. This is trying to draw straight flush gambling logic. The PAC8 will not even be AAC quality. If the media deal never materializes, the MWC leadership are vindictive, and will demand $25 million entrance fee for each school to join. Making a deal now is a better gamble than what happens when they fail.

If SMU plays(and beats of course) utsa in the title game and not Tulane, then I’m a bit worried the ny6 spot will go to Liberty because they’re getting a lot more hype rn, even though their strength of schedule is so weak. The committee does not value utsa, at least so far. And even if they upset Tulane, the 3 losses will anchor them in the CFP’s eyes. Even more so because the game would be at home instead of on the road.

This should tell you how bad the AAC is. The conference is garbage. I pray that a conference picks Tulane out of Hell.

The AAC is staying clear of this across the board. Oregon State and Washington State are not going to settle for non-Power 4 status. They will benefit short-term from the proceeds of the Pac-12, but it will only go so far, and they will struggle to latch on with any other power conference. The geography of the schools is a huge drawback. They will wait for the Mountain West where exit fees will disappear and they can determine who they will align with. Fresno State and San Diego State (as bad as they are) will make sense for them if they just wait two years.

When the ACC loses teams they will be picking up OrSt and WSU