From: james.m.gibson@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, October 27, 2023 at 4:18:48 PM UTC-4, xyzzy wrote:   
   > Ken Olson  wrote:    
   > > On 10/26/2023 6:44 PM, The NOTBCS Guy wrote:    
   > >>>> Yes, but not only would neither of them get a bye, I doubt that either    
   > >>>> of them would even get a home game in the first round, unless the CFP    
   > >>>> Management Committee decides to have a "if an at-large team plays a    
   > >>>> conference champion in the first round, the conference champion hosts    
   > >>>> the game even if it is the lower seed" rule, which I doubt will happen    
   > >>>> ("hey - be glad you're in the playoff at all").    
   > >>> I actually dispute that. I think they would want to give preferential    
   > >>> to a conference champ, even if...    
   > >>    
   > >> Somehow, I don't see the CFP committee telling, say, Alabama, "Sorry    
   > >> that your only loss this season was to #1 Georgia because your winning    
   > >> field goal was declared no good as an official thought the tip of the    
   > >> ball passed over an upright, and by NCAA rules, it was not reviewable,    
   > >> and since only conference champions can be seeded 1-4, you are a #5    
   > >> seed, but since 12 seed Boise State won its conference, your first round    
   > >> game is in Boise...in mid-December. Hope you like the cold."    
   > >    
   > > Sweet   
   > Yeah. That would be awesome.    
   >    
   > But as we can see from NCAA basketball tournament seedings, winning your    
   > conference means basically nothing beyond getting you in.    
      
   And now the NIT has officially gone the way of favoring the bigger conferences   
   - auto-bid to regular season is out.  Auto-bid to top 2 NET teams in each of   
   the Power 6 conferences for 12 auto-bids to power conferences and 0 for other   
   conferences is in.   
      
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