re: Would you prefer the selection committee have concrete qualifiers or not?

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I was just using geauxnavybeatbama's criteria above me. I don't think Ok State won a conference championship game, so they are disqualified.

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ugg, I read it.

that's the dumbest criteria I've read in this thread. You can't automatically disqualify every independent and every major team that plays in a conference without a conference championship game. You will end up with a playoff missing the top seed or multiple top seeds - and therefore lose all credibility. His proposal reads like a proposal from someone who just hates everything not exactly like his conference.

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Point is that all set in stone criteria systems can have pretty big perceived "flaws" or unforeseen/unintended results.

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What would be the problem with the criteria I outlined above? Especially:

1) top (#1) ranked team is in
2) teams 2-4 are automatically in if they are independents or won their conference.
3) teams 5-6 are in if they won their conference and there are unfilled slots after step 2.
4) teams 2-4 are in automatically (regardless of conference championship criteria) if there are unfilled slots after step 3.