CFP Rankings are used for selection is why. If BYU qualifies based on those rankings, they are in.

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Nov 18, 2020
2:26:56pm

Turnpike Lane Monday Morning Quarterback

CFP Rankings are used for selection is why. If BYU qualifies based on those rankings, they are in.

"Using the final CFP rankings, the selection committee seeds and pairs the top four teams and determines the participants for the other four non-playoff New Year's Six bowls that are not hosting the semifinals that year. These four non-playoff bowls are also referred to as the Selection Committee bowl games. These six games focus on the top 12 teams in the rankings; to date during the College Football Playoff era (2014 through 2019 seasons), of the 72 teams to play in a New Year's Six game, only eight have been ranked lower than 12th."

New Year's Six

The New Year's Six, sometimes abbreviated as NY6, is an unofficial but commonly used term that refers to the top six major NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) bowl games: the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Peach Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl. These games are played annually on or around New Year's Day, and represent six of the ten oldest bowl games currently played at the FBS level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Six

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Nick Carparelli Executive Director of Bowls does not see BYU in a NY6 bowl.

dave

11/18/20 2:12pm

The worst thing to happen would be to go undefeated and end up in potato bowl...

idacoug

11/18/20 2:13pm

I've been saying for quite sometime now that as an Independent, we are literally on the outside looking in...

Coug

11/18/20 2:15pm

Independence is a good thing for BYU, but the worst thing about independence is

idacoug

11/18/20 2:19pm

Agree. We play way more big games and P5's during the season as an Independent,

Dangerous

11/18/20 2:40pm

And nobody cares about the regular season games we play... they matter none because Conference play is king

Coug

11/18/20 2:56pm

I use been in complete agreement. As an independent it’s impossible to be in the

LyleLanley

11/18/20 2:44pm

Only positive is that it would shut up Jarom Jordan

Dangerous

11/18/20 2:38pm

It is only based on ranking. Nothing else. The bowls don't get to choose anythin

rcbyufan

11/18/20 2:13pm

False. Our ranking cannot force the committee to choose us

SlantRoute

11/18/20 2:26pm

Wow. You are wrong on this. How do people still not know how this works?

rcbyufan

11/18/20 2:32pm

Explain please

SlantRoute

11/18/20 2:38pm

See link.

rcbyufan

11/18/20 2:48pm

How do you not know?

LyleLanley

11/18/20 2:44pm

Please read the rules. See link. Click on #10

rcbyufan

11/18/20 2:38pm

True but expect us to be much lower in their initial poll. They are not the ap

LaserCoug

11/18/20 2:40pm

And that's fine. If you think the committee will rank us low, then yes we will

rcbyufan

11/18/20 2:46pm

I think your misunderstanding. They have no obligation to take us.

Blueto

11/18/20 3:04pm

This is incorrect. The *CFP* are directly controlling of NY6 participants

Doogal McCougar

11/18/20 2:41pm

Wonderful

acougfan

11/18/20 2:13pm

But independence! Undefeated! Exposure!

11/18/20 2:14pm

If BYU is top 4, they are not going to NY6 for sure, they are in the playoff.

Lance71

11/18/20 2:14pm

That is what he said. Unless they make the playoff. No big bowl game.

dave

11/18/20 2:15pm

That's pretty accurate. BCS has got some backs to scratch that are way ahead of

Taysom 4 Heisman

11/18/20 2:18pm

Saying, "unless they make the playoff no big bowl game" is NONSENSICAL

rcbyufan

11/18/20 2:31pm

It sounds like outside of the 2 CFP games the other NY6 games do have a choice.

dave

11/18/20 2:35pm

Yeah. That is incorrect. For BYU to be left out it needs to be done at the

rcbyufan

11/18/20 2:44pm

How confident are you that we will be 7 without adding quality games? I'm not.

dave

11/18/20 2:47pm

I'm not confident of that fact at all. What I'm saying is the ranking determines

rcbyufan

11/18/20 2:50pm

I don't think this is correct. They have to take the highest ranked G5 team but

Blueto

11/18/20 2:57pm

RE: I don't think this is correct. They have to take the highest ranked G5 team

rcbyufan

11/18/20 3:09pm

Sigh. The NY6 Bowls are obligated to take teams based on rankings. That's it.

BYUMizzou

11/18/20 3:20pm

It doesn't HAVE to be, but the way this season is playing out, it seems likely that BYU will be more attractive

Byron McNertney

11/18/20 2:49pm

There's no game(s) we're going to be able to add which will magically get us into the top 4

Indy Coug

11/18/20 2:24pm

Not without a lot of P5 chaos. Goal needs to be top-8 to stay in the CFP Rankings for a NY6 qualification

11/18/20 2:30pm

Only hope would be if Oregon's schedule opened up.

here's to hoping

11/18/20 2:41pm

he must not read CB

BlueFrog

11/18/20 2:14pm

I don't know who he is but dave's description of what he said is either way off

rcbyufan

11/18/20 2:16pm

Go have a listen... Link

dave

11/18/20 2:22pm

9 minute mark of the interview.

dave

11/18/20 2:25pm

That's Cartel Speech. I wonder if it's legally actionable.

spoxjox

11/18/20 2:15pm

It is at the start of hour 2 of Criddle's podcast yesterday. Have a listen.

dave

11/18/20 2:16pm

I'm pretty sure the REAL design of the big bowls is to make money.

Byron McNertney

11/18/20 2:17pm

Obviously. We’re not going to do a NY6 bowl and the CFP

TwinsRight

11/18/20 2:19pm

It sounded like he said top 4 playoff or nothing

dave

11/18/20 2:20pm

There will be a huge uproar if BYU is 10-0 and gets left out of a NY6. The

11/18/20 2:21pm

Uproar from who? Not the P5 schools.

mudpupper

11/18/20 2:22pm

Almost every single national media member. I mean, c'mon, Kirk freaking

11/18/20 2:28pm

depends how sensible the team getting in was. if it was worthy of a debate, i doubt would make too big a fuss about it

BlueFrog

11/18/20 2:45pm

Your last sentence doesn’t follow the rest of the post.

StalwartBraveTrue

11/18/20 2:22pm

We need a playoff spot.

dave

11/18/20 2:22pm

True but Carparelli’s statement suggests there is no way to do that unless we

StalwartBraveTrue

11/18/20 2:33pm

If BYU is a top 8 team in the rankings, they can't keep them out.

11/18/20 2:23pm

Why not?

boogers

11/18/20 2:25pm

CFP Rankings are used for selection is why. If BYU qualifies based on those rankings, they are in.

11/18/20 2:26pm

That says eight teams ranked lower than 12 have been invited. So if we are

bluesloth

11/18/20 2:34pm

Only guarantee is top-9 or better. 12th or higher not getting in unless in a P5.

11/18/20 2:36pm

Where does it say that?

bluesloth

11/18/20 2:37pm

History of the CFP at-large selections.

11/18/20 2:39pm

History also shows zero non-P5/ND at-large invites.

bluesloth

11/18/20 2:44pm

Right, and this year there are even more at-large spots than normal because of

11/18/20 2:35pm

How many at-large selections have been outside the top 12? We are fighting for

StalwartBraveTrue

11/18/20 2:37pm

You CANNOT qualify for an at-large outside of top 12. This is because At-large

rcbyufan

11/18/20 2:42pm

So currently BYU is guaranteed?

StalwartBraveTrue

11/18/20 2:51pm

CFP Rankings have not come out yet. So until they do, no guarantees

11/18/20 2:55pm

Ah, yes, I’m ahead of myself. Great point.

StalwartBraveTrue

11/18/20 5:51pm

No. We don't have a ranking yet. The committee's ranking is all that matters

rcbyufan

11/18/20 2:58pm

Not true. BYU has to be top 4 to make a playoff spot

SlantRoute

11/18/20 2:29pm

A top-9 team has never been left out of the CFP. #10 has a couple times. Be in the CFP top-9, and you are in.

11/18/20 2:32pm

This is false. They are contractually obligated to take the highest ranked team

BYUCLA

11/18/20 4:09pm

If we finish top 10 and undefeated and get excluded from the NY6. The

Blueto

11/18/20 2:23pm

Why? We’ve been top G5 once in 30+ years

Tangotongo

11/18/20 3:00pm

I thought we all knew this already.

boogers

11/18/20 2:24pm

If the CFP committee ranks us high enough the bowls don’t have a choice in the

11/18/20 2:25pm

Actually pretty easy to leave BYU out. SOS.

StalwartBraveTrue

11/18/20 2:40pm

I see us starting at 12 in the CFP poll

kiyoshige

11/18/20 3:00pm

Nick sounds like a John Junker (Fiesta Bowl) disciple from BYU's 1996 season, good ol boy

CLCougar

11/18/20 2:31pm

But in 1996, BYU got one of the Top 5 bowls. It's a little bit of Apples and

11/18/20 3:05pm

Wouldn't be the first time BYU was screwed over by the powers that be

Jericho

11/18/20 2:33pm

Psssshhh. “Executive Director...”

crm48

11/18/20 2:40pm

This is what I have said from the beginning; it's the playoff or nothing

2FarGone

11/18/20 2:48pm

the cartel controls the playoff rankings. it will be the tater bowl

claw

11/18/20 3:00pm

Huh, that sounds strangely like the definition of a cartel

11/18/20 2:48pm

we are upset because the executive director of the advocating source to enhance

Littlerich

11/18/20 2:49pm

This is true. He is however very well connected to the system.

dave

11/18/20 2:51pm

If this is true, that a top 10 AP/CFP ranked team wouldn't get in a NY6 bowl

Little Mac

11/18/20 3:25pm

We won't be top 10 CFP

kiyoshige

11/18/20 3:36pm

Maybe you're right. Although I think the actual numbers are favorable to BYU

Little Mac

11/18/20 5:19pm

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