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[QUOTE="freescooter, post: 5303502, member: 1023"]
There are really 2 different questions.  
1. What would it take to get considered?
2. What would it take to get in?

Both depend on more than one factor.  But the bar for Q1 is lower than Q2.  We would get consideration if we finished 11-1, 12-0 for sure.  Let’s say our loss is 35-34 to the ACC champ and we beat the AAC and MWC champs.  Not a likely scenario, I’ll grant you but not impossible to imagine. In such a scenario we would absolutely get considered.  Or if the next best G5 team is 9-3.  And we sit at 11-1 with only a loss to a P4 champ or a really good P4 team.  In either scenario or something like these we are at minimum discussed.

Getting in is a different story a bit.  We would need to be the best G5 team without doubt I think. If it’s close Boise or Tulane or Memphis or a service academy absolutely gets selected over us.

But ESPN wants to draw interest.  And UConn is a brand. Certainly a bigger one than Texas State or Middle Tennessee or Ball State.  So if the best G5 was a MAC or a Sunbelt type team and we are appreciably better, I bet they would figure out a way to get us in.
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