The Format: Boise State, My Wife & An All SEC Final Four?
It won't happen but, let's talk about it because Miami could have, maybe, had a loss
I spent Monday evening explaining the playoff to my wife while we watched Jeopardy and whew buddy. She was in a word, appalled. Active sentences from her:
-“So you can be 16 and go to 4 and get a bye?”
-”Wait, they’re in the 20s but they go to 12?”
-”If they’re 2 why do they go to 5?”
Which is the entire point of this and trying to clear up The Format.
Got a chance to talk about this with Ovies & Giglio on Tuesday because it is a thing we have to keep thinking about.
I did not get jury duty. Service Complete for Mr. Felder. I don’t even have to show up today and I’m off for two years. Life proceeds as normal.
Speaking of normal, I decided to normalize my template because I got tired of having to go back in my notes to figure out the bracket:
So that’s the template and based on this week, here is what it would look like:
This is the format based on current rankings. We have had 3 different number ones in the last three weeks, UGA, Texas and now Bama. It won’t end like this, but it is a good exercise to realize what is going to happen. So, let’s get into it.
-The SEC, and this is not a joke about the south, it is a joke about how involved they will all be in every other team’s future: We Family Baby, Kissing Cousins.
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