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Starting in 2025, the Ivy League will participate in the FCS playoffs and the winner of the conference will get an automatic bid.

Football was the only sport where the Ivy League did not compete for a national championship.

The idea to join the FCS playoffs originated with a proposal from the league's student-athlete advisory committee.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/43040720/sources-ivy-league-participate-fcs-football-playoffs

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Just now, Wag Tag said:

G5 wake F ing up! The money is in the playoffs, not going to the Potato Chip Bowl!!!

G5 NIT

Top 24 schools. 

All games at home sites (neutral site games are dumb)

Byes for conference champs (and maybe second place) 

Army, Tulane Navy Memphis

Jax State, WKU SHSU Liberty

Miami (OH), Ohio, BGSU, Buffalo

UNLV Colorado State Fresno SJSU

Louisiana Marshall JMU GA Southern 

Wild Card: Uconn- TX state, Ark State, ECU

 

maybe thats too many, but could be fun. 

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1 hour ago, meanJewGreen said:

G5 NIT

Top 24 schools. 

All games at home sites (neutral site games are dumb)

Byes for conference champs (and maybe second place) 

Army, Tulane Navy Memphis

Jax State, WKU SHSU Liberty

Miami (OH), Ohio, BGSU, Buffalo

UNLV Colorado State Fresno SJSU

Louisiana Marshall JMU GA Southern 

Wild Card: Uconn- TX state, Ark State, ECU

 

maybe thats too many, but could be fun. 

The G 6 programs should have their own football playoff system just like 1AA does. Throw in the PAC ,perhaps scale back to 3 teams per conference with 2 wild cards for a total of 20 . I don't recall the number of 1AA teams involved in their playoff system but what ever the number it works.

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2 hours ago, wardly said:

The G 6 programs should have their own football playoff system just like 1AA does. Throw in the PAC ,perhaps scale back to 3 teams per conference with 2 wild cards for a total of 20 . I don't recall the number of 1AA teams involved in their playoff system but what ever the number it works.

24. With 8 byes. 

 

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There is zero reason to create a G5 playoff until effectively pushed out of the big boys playoff. If the G5s created their own playoff, it would give the P4 additional ammo to remove us from future FBS plans. The Big 12 barely made this playoff. You think they're going to make any attempt to break away? Of course not.

I watched some FCS playoff games on ESPN+ this past weekend. There's no media money to be made with a G5 playoff. If you want to create an NIT type system with some guaranteed bids for G5 champs who don't make the playoff then fine. That would bring opportunity to knock off P4 programs in a playoff environment but by no means can we afford to willingly separate. Make them evict us.

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10 minutes ago, GMG_Dallas said:

There is zero reason to create a G5 playoff until effectively pushed out of the big boys playoff. If the G5s created their own playoff, it would give the P4 additional ammo to remove us from future FBS plans. The Big 12 barely made this playoff. You think they're going to make any attempt to break away? Of course not.

I watched some FCS playoff games on ESPN+ this past weekend. There's no media money to be made with a G5 playoff. If you want to create an NIT type system with some guaranteed bids for G5 champs who don't make the playoff then fine. That would bring opportunity to knock off P4 programs in a playoff environment but by no means can we afford to willingly separate. Make them evict us.

Same O same O!! We are the only football conf without a playoff and I’m including High School. To compare an FCS school to a school with an enrollment of anywhere from 25 to 40k makes no sense . You make my point big 12 barely got in you think a G5 with strength of schedule is going to get in? Power 5 goal is to become more and more exclusive.    Wake Up!!!

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29 minutes ago, GMG_Dallas said:

I watched some FCS playoff games on ESPN+ this past weekend. There's no media money to be made with a G5 playoff.

You watched but there's no market for it? What sort of numbers did the games on the regular ESPNs do, cause I feel like more and more people are paying attention post-NDSU domination. 

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32 minutes ago, Wag Tag said:

Same O same O!! We are the only football conf without a playoff and I’m including High School. To compare an FCS school to a school with an enrollment of anywhere from 25 to 40k makes no sense . You make my point big 12 barely got in you think a G5 with strength of schedule is going to get in? Power 5 goal is to become more and more exclusive.    Wake Up!!!

Why would you willingly uninvite yourself to the party? Make them get rid of you. 

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18 minutes ago, Coffee and TV said:

You watched but there's no market for it? What sort of numbers did the games on the regular ESPNs do, cause I feel like more and more people are paying attention post-NDSU domination. 

If there were a market for it, the playoff games wouldn't be on ESPN+.

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Just now, GMG_Dallas said:

If there were a market for it, the playoff games wouldn't be on ESPN+.

Sort of like the AAC? 

They weren't all on ESPN+ is my point though, and you still tuned in. 

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