From: constance@duxmail.com   
      
   On 2023-12-04, The NOTBCS Guy  wrote:   
   > "The committee...selects the best teams." It says so in the Principles and   
   Procedures for Establishing the Bracket.   
      
   More precisely:   
      
       For purposes of any four-team playoff, the process will   
       inevitably need to select the four best teams from among   
       several with legitimate claims to participate.   
      
   Note the acknowledgement that there might be teams left out which   
   have legitimate claims to participate. As with FSU.   
      
   > Oh, wait...my mistake...those are the principles and procedures for   
   > establishing the men's basketball tournament bracket. Nobody seems to   
   > mind that they don't choose the "most deserving" or "best when you   
   > look at their entire body of work" at-large teams. After all, they   
   > don't play the tournament over the entire season - just at the end.   
      
   And they have a delineated list of criteria they use to make this   
   choice of who to sadly leave out. Looks to me like they did their   
   job just as they stated they would do from the get-go.   
      
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