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Message: [QUOTE="BlazeOrange, post: 926243, member: 683"] It also limits exposure in the conference championship game: If you have a dominant (i.e., national champion contender) team in the top tier, they'll more likely play the top "other" team in the championship, assuming that they swept the name brand group and the other name brand teams played each other about even. The top team would then match up with a team they are less likely to be upset by and ruin the conferences hopes to qualify for the playoffs. It won't always work out that way - there will often be two elite teams that will rematch, etc. - but it tilts the odds a little bit. And the conference championship game wont' necessarily be a coronation, as the smaller market teams could be legit contenders in their own rights during some years. [/QUOTE]