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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5428366, member: 1969"] Its still margin of victory relative to opponent strength, not just margin of victory. Merely playing Q4's to boost your overall margin won't be much of a solution if you are a bad team or conference. You need to win these games by an average of at least 28 points or so, to be above average for a P4 team. This is not to say Q4 games and margin is not problematic -- it certainly is -- better teams (i.e not Syracuse 2024) can try to run up score towards the end, or push tempo for all the game, take out starters a few minutes later than normal. But its not a solution to pump a bad league into anything meaningful. The ACC won its Q4 games last year by an average of 19.2 points. The average team from another P4 conference won them by 26.4 points (data as of Dec 17). That 7 points is a huge delta. Playing more Q4 games may have actually made things a bit worse for the ACC last year. [/QUOTE]