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[QUOTE="bpo57, post: 209103, member: 1572"]
Actually Neil I think it's the other way around.  You're clearly not getting my point.  Maybe that's my fault so I'll give it another try.
 
If the Committee is going to take ten BE teams then they are going to have to take some teams that finished below .500 in the conference. How many times has that happened in the past?  You can probably count them on one hand. So the only rationale for taking these under .500 teams is if you believe the BE is a tremendous conference.  Yeah these teams finished under .500 but the BE is just the baddest conference on the planet so don't be confused by the under .500 record. Here is where last year came in. If I were on the Committee there would be a small seed of doubt in my mind if somebody was trying to tell me the BE was so tremendous. I would think yeah that's what they told me last year. Not at all saying it is a big factor, just saying I don't think it's a complete non-factor.  
 
For the record I think ten should have gotten in last year so I am not arguing so much that too many got in. But I do believe that the conference was overrated last year and said so at the time.
 
One other thing, Neil.  You keep saying the bubble is worse than ever. I don't know why you believe that as you provide no basis for that point of view. But I think the ACC, B12 and PAC10 will get the same amount of bids if not more than they got last year.
 
But hey we can agree to disagree and if anybody is so confident that the BE will get ten in then I am happy to give them generous odds at 5 to 1 and even money that the league gets less than nine.
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