Good year for G-5 schools

[ohio herd]

With 6 schools in the Top 25 currently I am hopeful that this season may bring some respect that is due. I suppose the only downside is that for these schools (Liberty the exception) it has been hard to play any P5 schools this year since the OOC games were canceled for most. I am going to bet that only about 4 will survive and end up the final AP poll in the Top 25.

 

[cottrell75]

 

[GoHerdMarshallYes]

With 6 schools in the Top 25 currently I am hopeful that this season may bring some respect that is due. I suppose the only downside is that for these schools (Liberty the exception) it has been hard to play any P5 schools this year since the OOC games were canceled for most. I am going to bet that only about 4 will survive and end up the final AP poll in the Top 25.

It's nice to think that, but it won't happen in the grand scheme of it all.
What it made me think was the G5 should consider taking all the schools who actually give a damn about football (bye MAC, most of CUSA, some of MWC, a little of the Sun Belt, and some of AAC), and put them into maybe 2 conferences and let their best compete with the P5's.
Again, wishful thinking on my part.

One thing the G5 absolutely did this year was win against the P5 when they could.
If this were a normal season, plenty of G5's would've been crushed by the P5 and nobody would've really noticed outside the occasional upset, but since it was a condensed season, the wins by the G5 look the more impressive.

 

[BleedsGreen33]

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1. This should shut up everyone that wants Marshall to go independent.

2. This is why FBS college football needs to be burnt to the ground.

 

[The Real SamC]

With 6 schools in the Top 25 currently

Currently there are FOUR schools from the Group of Five in the top 25. Marshall from CUSA, Coastal Carolina from the Sun Belt, and Cincinnati, and Tulsa, both from the AAC. Liberty and Brigham Young are NOT members of the G5. They are independent programs unaffiliated with any conference, including the Group of Five CONFERENCES.

Because Liberty is NOT in the G5, and thus NOT eligible for the access bowl, our best case scenario involves it beating CCU this week, and then Tulsa taking out Cincinnati on the 12th, leaving one undefeated team among the conferences which tried to play a full season.

 

[MichiganHerd]

Not to muddy the water here too much, but I'm suspecting the 2020 success of the G5 relative to rankings has a helluva lot to do with very few games against P5 competition.

 

[BleedsGreen33]

Not to muddy the water here too much, but I'm suspecting the 2020 success of the G5 relative to rankings has a helluva lot to do with very few games against P5 competition.

You could definitely make the argument that the amount of G5 teams in the top25 early on was due to the Pac-12 and B1G not playing, but you can't really question the schedules. I don't think they would have been much different.

Of course we know about ours so yes we would have played a P5 in Pitt.

However.

Liberty played Syracuse, VT, and NCST going 2/3.
Coastal played Kansas and won
ULL opened with ISU and beat them which now looks like a really good win.
Cincy and SMU have not P5 OoC games
Tulsa played OkST
UCF beat GT to open the year

Outside of Cincy the G5 resume's don't look all that much different than they would in a normal season.

Cincy being so high though with no P5 is a little more suspect now. I still think they're a good team, but you have to wonder if they could have gotten that high in any other year without the head start.

 

[oldeherd]

Having watched some of that late weekend night PAC 12 action, no doubt in my mind that some of the G5 schools mentioned above along with the HERD could compete well in games with the likes of Ariz. State, CAL, Colorado, Wash. State, maybe a couple more, from the "exalted" Power PAC 12!