So does the FCS. In men's basketball, women's basketball, volleyball, baseball, softball etc etc etc, if you win your conference tournament, you get into the NCAA tournament. So let's give them a spot in football too!!
Maybe you didn't read my last post, but I agree with you. I said, if you have an athletic league that awards a championship (i.e. the FBS) then every team in that league should be able to say at the beginning of the season, "If we take care of business, then we have a shot to win the championship"
The problem is that, thanks to NIL/transfer portal/P4 power distribution, we are quickly approaching a landscape, if we haven't already arrived at it, where the best G5 team from here on out might win one playoff game, but it'll be almost impossible to win 2. Let alone win 4 playoff games to win a championship. Boise St and Utah 20-25 years ago are probably the only two in modern history that might have had a chance even in the previous landscape. So now you're leaving out a team at 11/12 that actually could win 4 in a row. And why? To give a decent G5 team a token spot where they are going to be overmatched 99.9% of the time.
So why not let G5 have their own spotlight? If they have their own playoffs and their own championship, now it goes from 1 team having to go undefeated to 5-6 conference champions having a chance to win a championship in their own weight class.
Football is not like basketball or baseball or softball, where one great player or a very disciplined and technical team can go on a run and knock out higher seed teams. Let G5 football actually shine and be recognized separate from the P4.