Talk:Group of Six conferences

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On 23 January 2026, it was proposed that this article be moved from Group of Five conferences to Group of Six conferences. The result of the discussion was moved.

AfD Decision: 19 January 2020

From: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Group_of_Five_conferences

Procedural Close - This is a redirect that has been tagged for AFD. The proper forum is Redirects for Discussion. Either Twinkle has failed to recognize a redirect, or a new editor has made the good-faith errors both of not using Twinkle and of nominating this in the wrong forum. Take this to RFD. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:56, 20 January 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by PhanChavez (talk • contribs)

N00b Mistake

As a new user, I did not know or realize the difference between AfD and RfD. No notification was received in regards to the Procedural Close after tagging the redirect for article deletion. Several more days (including additional conflict) have past since the nomination, procedural close.

The same conflict and confusion which was caused by a Draft:Group of Five conferences being in progress, and creation of the redirect by another user. Notification of the Procedural Close and subsequent steps to be taken would have been appreciated. Don't bite new users. Be helpful. Explain things.

Now trying to clean-up the mess I've made of things.

PhanChavez (talk) 23:40, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Page History: Redirect Replacement with Article Content

On 25 January 2020, the contents of Draft:Group_of_Five_conferences was dropped wholesale into the the current page. Previously, the page contained a redirect link to Mid-major. That redirect link was created between a second submit for review of "Group of Five conferences" (draft), and the second reviewer declining the draft, likely due to the conflict caused by the creation of the redirect link.

Yes, it's confusing. Please re-read the above statement, see the listed history of events below...

Draft
Decline (lack of notability)
Revise and Resubmit Draft
Redirect created
Decline (talk about "splitting" the article at the redirected talk page)
Confusion and Conflict (DRN, 3O, Teahouse, AfD)
Replacement of Redirect with formal article content (WP:BB from WP:RFD)

A See Also section was added to include the Mid-major reference/citation (contains valid information, that article needing to be cleaned-up due to weasel-words and/or tone-style issues). — Preceding unsigned comment added by PhanChavez (talk • contribs) 03:33, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

PhanChavez (talk) 03:35, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

When was G5 term first used?

Article is currently missing any history/chronology of when the term "Group of Five" was first used by sportswriters.

Pre-BCS? BCS? After the collapse of the Big East?

Article should also be expanded back to (at least) the Bowl Coalition / Bowl Alliance era, as at that time the "G5" (or equivalent) conferences had no access to the national championship game. BCS gave them access if ranked No. 1 or 2.

PK-WIKI (talk) 06:49, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Page move

@Sceptre@Vataxevader, I have reverted the two recent page moves per @PK-WIKI's request at RM/TR. Please open a move discussion by following the instructions at WP:RMCM or using an automated tool like Twinkle if you would still like the page to be moved to a new title. Toadspike [Talk] 21:36, 23 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's fair. In my opinion, there is a possibility we're jumping the gun a little bit by folding in the Pac-12 before it regains recognition as an FBS conference, but I have noticed the use of "G6" over "G5" recently too, so… Sceptre (talk) 00:32, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 23 January 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 18:23, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Group of Five conferences → Group of Six conferences – I know there was a hesitancy to change the title, as people wanted to wait to see what the "new" Pac-12 was like. However, with the CFP's decision today to guarantee auto-bids to the conference champions of the Power 4 conferences, that is probably as close to an "official" source we will get that recognizes the Pac-12 is no longer a power conference, and is included in the "G6". Red0ctober22 (talk) 20:46, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Support. ESPN is now calling it the Group of Six [1]. Just delaying the inevitable at this point Admanny (talk) 22:02, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.