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What the NCAA does with post-season assignments isn't always logical or consistent. Division III and FCS have said they will not allow the crews to be assigned from the conference of either team. Until this year, Division II required that if both teams are from the same conference, the crew was required to come from that conference. They changed that this year to align with the other levels. When the Bison played Illinois State in 2014, Patty lobbied hard for a MVFB crew to be assigned, but they refused.
The other thing each level has done is each conference submits 1 or 2 crews (usually mixed crews) to the supervisor for that level. The national supervisor (part-time role that exists primarily to do playoff assignments) assigns crews to the first 2 rounds. At the D2 and D3 level, those assignments are largely geographic to limit travel expenses. Texas only has 1 D3 conference, so a lucky northern crew gets flown down there for any assignments (Mary Harden Baylor has been a common location). FCS doesn't have any travel limitations. MVFC worked week 1 at SELA, and week 2 at Sacramento State.
The supervisor has observers watch each game in person or on video and grade the crews. The last 3 rounds are then worked by the top 6-7 crews based on those observations taking into account geography and teams participating. This year, D2 had the top 4 crews work the quarterfinals, and the championship crew was picked from that round.
FCS did some unexpected things this year. A MVFC crew worked the quarterfinal game at Montana State. It consisted of officials who worked week 1 and week 2 plus at least 2 officials who hadn't worked either. My assumption is that crew would have worked the championship game if neither NDSU nor SDSU had made it. I hoped they would get it if both made it, but that didn't happen. I heard the crew that worked the Bison game Friday night had not worked yet in the playoffs.
Playoff assignments are the ultimate currency for each official to do what they do. Downgrades during the season can remove that, especially at the D1 level (we aren't evaluated as closely in D3).
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