Meh. Don’t you have to win all your playoff games anyway to be champion?
There’s no way an undefeated or even 1-loss Bison team (this year) doesn’t get seeded #1 or #2.
Take care of what you can control, the rest is just noise.
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant - B.Aud
We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie
There were two bad ones last year.
Maine shouldn’t have been seeded. The team Sagarin had 7th (Maine’s seed) would have been about an 11.5 point favorite on a neutral field, nearly 80% to win.
Weber State shouldn’t have been seeded. They’d have been a 13 point dog to Sagarin’s #2, 83%.
When you add in the fact that a seed confers about a 5 point bump for a team in round 2 over whoever they play by virtue of home field and a week off, this is a big problem for the tournament. Colgate, per Sagarin was the 9th best team in the bracket last year, the committee made them the 8 seed. A ‘mis-seed’ so small you can’t call it a mistake. 51%/49% on a neutral field. But, if they had to play the week before and then travel they’d be about 42% to win instead of 56% at home after a week off.
I have the honor to be Your Obedient Servant - B.Aud
We all live in stories... It seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories... The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. Through that argument you change your mind sometimes... That's how societies grow. When you can't retell for yourself the stories of your life then you live in a prison... Somebody else controls the story. - S. Rushdie