Admittedly a smaller field, but there have been undefeated teams from non autobid conferences left out.
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Admittedly a smaller field, but there have been undefeated teams from non autobid conferences left out.
You could definitely be "one of the best" and finish 4th in your conference. My issue is with you laying claim to being THE best. Without autobids, undefeated teams will get left out in favor of...
Leaving that 10-1 Lehigh team at home was rediculous, but I can't really complain. If you don't win the conference, there is credible doubt as to whether or not you are the best team. At that...
Lehigh had a crap year and had no business in the playoffs without the autobid. The problem is, the same was said by many of the 1998 Lehigh squad until the playoff games were played. It comes down...
The problem is that there aren't enough games between common opponents to determine who the best 16 teams are. My opinion on the matter stems from my belief that the playoffs should be about...
Long long ago, in the dark ages before NDSU played D-I football, we had a tournament in which all 16 teams were seeded.
Full disclosure: It was Lehigh's AD who spearheaded the push to fewer...
16 is plenty if you do away with the as many at-large than auto bid rule. Every conference should get an auto bid. Then the few remaining at larges can accommodate the 10-1 team that lost it's...
There's a lot of suckage in that bracket. And I don't mean the seedings. God almighty, the FCS playoffs should never get bigger than 32.