Originally Posted by
Professor Chaos
This is the Division 1 Football Championship - that means that any D1 conference (that wants it) should get access to it. If you want to argue that the non-scholly Pioneer or partial scholly NEC shouldn't be D1 conferences I'd say that's a valid argument but if you want to determine a champion of the (sub)division you should give all willing teams in that subdivision access to the championship tournament so they can gain or lose that access on the field not in a committee boardroom. That's why automatic bids are needed.
The only teams that would benefit from a 16 team format over a 24 team format are teams #9-#16 and their chances at winning the whole thing are about as good as teams #17-#24 anyway.
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