Isn't there already a  "mid major" poll for D1 college basketball, teams like Marshall? It is kinda like admitting you don't belong with the big boys (power conferences). It is just another attempt to separate the blue blood conferences from the SBC and the MAC conferences. When will there be a low mid major poll?

The ironic part is the people who wanted out of CUSA into the Sunbelt to get off of Facebook Live.

Is going to find their way back on Facebook Live in the SB.

That's uhhh not how it works.

As for the rest of the bellyaching, at what time in the history of FBS/I-A football do you guys think things were anything close to equal between the haves and the have nots? 25 years ago, we went undefeated with a win at Clemson, and our reward was a bowl game in Detroit.

This poll sounds like a fun idea. I agree that 10 or 15 would be a better idea than 25. But it's not something that's going to fundamentally alter anything. The bottom half of FBS has always been on a different level than the top half.

Love it. Now get the G5 playoff and make football exciting again.

Yep. Pretty much this.

Blows my mind how, in college basketball, Cinderella stories are embraced and part of the excitement and allure of the game.

Not so much in college football. Potential G5 wins over P-whatever schools can no longer be tolerated/accepted.

The same people ruining college football are trying to ruin basketball too.  The SEC Commissioner recently complained that the NCAA tournament is giving away "highly competitive" spots to automatic qualifiers from lower conferences at the expense of what he views as better teams from bigger leagues.  So Cinderella stories are definitely not embraced in basketball by the powers that be in the same way they aren't in football.  Football is just the priority to "fix" first in their mind since its where the biggest money is, but make no mistake they will come for basketball too.

Let's face it, we'll have the S (Super) 4 and the rest of NCAA D1 football. There is no sense in dividing D1 G5 and FCS anymore. Just roll us back into that group, spread out the conferences, we'd become a P5 in the NCAA D1 Non-Elite group.  THe playoffs would continue, and the teams that make it would be the best of the rest; not Elite S4.  THen a top 25 would be very good.  The game would still be fun, the competition would be enhance at the current FCS  without (IMHO) being at all diluted in the current G5. 

You'd see, also an opinion, more folks who are on the S4 teams, not getting any or much NIL money, migrate back to this group and Saturday football fun would return to many stadiums, tailgating still tastes the same, etc.

AND, if they'd do this and keep a pack together that NO ONE plays a S4 ever, they'd have plenty of TV leverage as well, the programing is needed....