Terry Bowden Says CFP Needs To Expand For Group Of Five Schools To Have Shot

Akron football coach Terry Bowden said that he "doesn’t think any team in the Group of 5 conferences has a prayer" of making the CFP, according to Heather Dinich of ESPN.com. Bowden said that he has "long been an advocate of an eight-team playoff to give a Group of 5 program a chance." He said, "I don’t think anybody in the Mid-American Conference believes that if you go undefeated they’re going to pick you to be in the final four. I don’t think they’re going to pick us. There’s always going to be one or two teams with one loss from the SEC or Big Ten that they’re going to pick over an undefeated team. With four teams? Not a chance. I don’t think we coaches believe there’s a realistic chance, and I don’t think our players believe the four-team playoff gives us a realistic chance of playing for a national championship" (ESPN.com, 3/9).