Bullet point thoughts:
- My model ended up predicting South Carolina to be the last team in (over SMU). The teams everyone are talking about for the last spot were all really close. There was no right choice or wrong here.
- Someone needs to decide whether we want a tournament of conferences and wildcards, a tournament of the best teams, or something in between. The current system is the former and made more sense before the last round of realignment.
- Media and people keep double-speaking about teams ranked in the top 25 and the 25 best teams. They will present the former as if it is the latter. These are not the same thing and are not meant to be.
1) Every P4 team should play 10 P4 games.
2) Every P4 conference should have a CCG.
I don't care how many of the 10 come in-conference. To a degree, more good OOC games are preferable.
Georgia fans have surprised me most out of all SEC fanbases, and not in a good way.
Been living in the Atlanta area for 5 years and can confirm that this is a consistent thing. The way I expected the Bama/UGA fan bases to be is reversed.
The two positives about the auto-buys is that it keeps the majority of the country involved into the second round and makes the conference seasons matter.
#5 worked out about the best it could for us. O don't think that it is as good as a bye, but it's so much better a path than the other first round seeds.