I’ve looked at every single G5 school since 2004 that has finished the season undefeated: UCF, Western Michigan, TCU, TCU, Boise St, Utah, Boise St, Hawaii, Boise St, Utah, Boise St.

Only ONE team played 3 P5 schools in the regular season: 2004 Utah Utes.

Teams that played 2 P5 schools in the regular season: Western Michigan (16), TCU (10), TCU (09), Utah (08).

Teams that played 1 P5 school in the regular season: UCF (16), Boise (09), Boise (08), Boise (06), Boise (04).

First of all, stop over-rating Boise State. They played one game a year, every year. They don’t deserve s**t.

Second of all, let’s look at 2004 Utah vs the other top 4 teams: USC, Auburn, Oklahoma, Texas.

Utah’s top 3 wins: Texas A&M (7 wins), Arizona (3 wins), North Carolina (6 wins)
Utah’s # P5 games: 3 games

USC’s top 3 wins: Cal (10 wins), ASU (9 wins), 7 win OSU.
USC’s # P5 games: 10 games
Comparable games to Utah: Utah vs Arizona (23-6) vs USC vs Arizona (49-9)

Auburn’s top 3 wins: Tennessee (10 wins), Georgia (9 wins), LSU (9 wins)
Auburn’s # P5 games: 10
Comparable games: None.

Oklahoma’s top 3 wins: Texas (11 wins), Texas Tech (8 wins), Colorado (8 wins)
Oklahoma’s # P5 games: 10
Comparable games: Utah vs Texas A&M (41-21 Utah, 42-35 Oklahoma)

Texas’ top 3 wins: Colorado (8 wins), Texas Tech (8 wins), Texas A&M (7 wins)
Texas’ # P5 games: 9
Comparable games: Utah vs Texas A&M (41-21 Utah; 26-13 Texas)

Utah didn’t deserve to be in a 4 team playoff over any of those teams. They all accomplished more, had better wins, and had better resume’s for a playoff spot. And Utah had, by far, the best G5 resume of any team out there. It is not fair, to let a UCF or Boise St, who has only played ONE FREAKING POWER FIVE TEAM into the playoffs over a P5 school that has played 9+. And it is not fair to include TCU, Utah, BYU or Boise St in SOS, because all of those teams benefit from playing incredibly weak schedules, and if you put those teams into a P5 conference, they probably wouldn’t be ranked either, or have 10+ wins as an opponent.

No G5 should play for a national title. Their schedule will always make it impossible to build the resume they need to play for a title.

Who do you kick out of this year’s playoff for UCF? Alabama? Alabama has done a lot more than UCF and is a lot more deserving of a title shot. So is USC, Ohio State and Washington.

No Boise St team ever had any sort of resume to play for a title. Neither did TCU or 2008 Utah Utes. 2 P5 games is just not good enough. One is laughable.

Winning one game over a P5 school in a bowl game is very impressive. Try doing that having played Alabama or Washington the week before and WSU the following week. I’d bet none of those teams would survive a three week stretch of Arizona, Stanford and USC unbeaten. Or WSU, Washington and Colorado. Hell, even last year, USC couldn’t survive a four week stretch of Alabama, Stanford, Utah State and Utah. It is too hard.

These G5 schools are not deep enough to survive. So don’t punish Alabama, Ohio State, USC, Washington for beating the grind by letting some team that only played Maryland into the playoff. This is America, where supposedly those who work the hardest get the best shot to succeed. Let the most accomplished teams have the shot at the title.