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Message: [QUOTE="Archbold44, post: 5599309, member: 10528"] I think AQ for basketball is much more interesting because a team has to win a tournament to get in. Football is just one game, frequently without even the certainty that it is the two best teams in the conference. See ACC and SEC this year. I think the B1G has it right that play-in games are the way to go. What is more interesting... Indiana v Ohio State to decide seeding or... Michigan v USC to see who goes to the playoffs and who stays home? And imagine if that was known heading into the game... winner goes to Texas A&M. They for CCG weekend is for it to be a true play-in game... winner gets in, loser goes home. No loser gets a potential AQ spot. So imagine this... each P4 conference's highest ranking team gets in... Ohio State, Georgia, Texas Tech, Miami. Then the COMMITTEE decides 6 at-large spots and determine which conference play-in games they need to see to fill in the spots the final 6 spots. In the B1G... they could exempt Indiana and Oregon... teams 5 and 6. In the SEC... they could exempt A&M and Ole Miss... teams 7 and 8 In the B12... they could exempt BYU... team 9 In the ACC... ND steals exemption for team 10. Then to fill out the final 6: SEC CCG Weekend Game: Oklahoma v Vandy...team 11 SEC CCG Weekend Game Bonus: Alabama v Texas... team 12 B1G CCG Weekend Game: USC v Michigan... team 13 ACC CGG Weekend Game: Virginia v Ga Tech... Team 14 B12 CCG Weekend Game: Utah v Arizona... Team 15 G5: Tulane v James Madison... Team 16. Then... create the field trying to avoid rematches and seed relatively fairly: #1 Ohio State v winner of G5 game #2 Georgia v winner of ACC CCG game #3 Indiana v winner of B12 CCG game #4 Texas Tech v winner of B1G CCG game #5 Oregon v winner of SEC CCG1 Alabama v Texas #6 A&M v BYU #7 Ole Miss v Notre Dame #8 Miami v SEC CCG 2 Oklahoma v Vandy This is just an example. Some years... it might be 11 P4 teams and 4 play-in games. Keys: always 1 exemption per conference, plus one play-in game per conference AND 1 G5 play-in AND Notre Dame if 10+ wins. The rest gets filled in. [/QUOTE]

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