Ye olde notebook:
Over the holidays a story broke via ESPN.com that “a growing number of Group of 5 officials” favor adding a playoff specifically for those schools.
The premise is it has been 32 years since a non-Power 5 team (BYU in 1984) won a national title with no other in sight. In the first three years of the College Football Playoff, a Group of 5 team (one within either the American, Conference USA, Mid-American, Mountain West or Sun Belt conferences) has never been ranked higher than No. 13 by the CFP selection committee. That was Memphis in 2015.