re: Group of Five Conferences are planning their own dedicated Top 25 Polls

I honestly think this could be a great thing. Too many G5 teams with weak schedules are given attaboy rankings. While that may seem all well and good there are plenty of P5 teams that play brutal schedules and accrue losses but would murder those G5s. That stuff meaningless to fans of top teams but it matters a ton to everyone else and it matters to coaches trying to rebuild. It affects a lot of coaches and their pay.

BUT there’s also no doubt that there are G5 teams who have proven something on the field by schedule and winning. They deserve recognition but maybe not over those with worse records against better competition. Then there are the G5s that have special seasons even if it is against dreadful competition as well as just G5s who are in the top of the G5 (many of those could take some mid level P5s.

Hopefully it helps everyone but it also needs to encourage G5s to add P5s to their schedules if their goal is to enter the regular polls.