970 AM Kolpack & Izzo

[Gully]

Discussing tournament brackets...doesn't sound like change for next year other than a little more avoidance of early round rematches.

[Rock]

Discussing tournament brackets...doesn't sound like change for next year other than a little more avoidance of early round rematches.

Did I hear correctly a mention of a possible impact to seeding to make early round rematch avoidance happen? Hope it doesn't become a careful what you wish for.

[ndsubison1]

They said they would try to avoid pairing seeded teams from same conference. How about not throwing every team from same conference in same area? Why should seeding change?

[A1pigskin]

Discussing tournament brackets...doesn't sound like change for next year other than a little more avoidance of early round rematches.

There must have been enough complaining to take another look.

[Rock]

They said they would try to avoid pairing seeded teams from same conference. How about not throwing every team from same conference in same area? Why should seeding change?

I thought they said that seeding may be impacted by this change. May need to re-listen.

Assumption is if there is a 2/3 situation like NDSU ill state last year may use the vague rules as reasoning for seeding.

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[BisonNeil]

I thought they said that seeding may be impacted by this change. May need to re-listen.

Assumption is if there is a 2/3 situation like NDSU ill state last year may use the vague rules as reasoning for seeding.

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What? Seriously? No longer going to use the quality loss rationale to move the auto bid for the conference down?

[bisonaudit]

What? Seriously? No longer going to use the quality loss rationale to move the auto bid for the conference down?

I wonder if some of the conference tie-breakers aren't set up to award the auto-bid to the poorer team? It would make it more likely for the conference to secure an extra bid.

[gotts]

I wonder if some of the conference tie-breakers aren't set up to award the auto-bid to the poorer team? It would make it more likely for the conference to secure an extra bid.

I thought one of the conferences (Southland maybe?) has one of the later tie-break criteria that it goes to the team that has gone the longest without a conference title.

ETA: http://www.anygivensaturday.com/show...-rules-defined

This link from AGS has the info I was thinking of, but the link they provide in the post appears to be dead.