Report: Group of Five schools exploring invitational College Football Playoff

As the 2024 college football season fast approaches, conference commissioners from the Group of Five conferences already have one eye on the future. They will have an in-person meeting in Dallas next week to discuss the future of the sport.

Among the topics of conversation will be a shifting landscape in the sport as the playoffs expand and new ideas about tweaking the system trickle through the sport.

A Yahoo! Sports report notes that the G5 meeting will likely address future issues such as whether the G5 will maintain its one automatic qualifying playoff spot and whether leagues like the Big Ten and SEC could eventually get multiple automatic berths in the field — a looming potential threat to the G5.

But there’s another angle.

The G5 commissioners will also discuss “the possibility of a reshaped postseason incorporating the bowl system.”

“We are open to all of that. That would be really interesting and have some value,” Mountain West commissioner Gloria Nevarez told Yahoo! Sports. “What if it’s like an NIT of football?”

On3 will have more on this developing story shortly.

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