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<blockquote data-quote="aaeismacgychel" data-source="post: 1879174" data-attributes="member: 748794"><p>I've personally never been a fan of using injury to a key player as reasoning for not giving a bid or giving lower seeding than the overall body of work and resume would dictate. And my reasoning is that tournament seeding or bowl/playoff seeding should be based on a team's accomplishments, not the projected team they are able to field. While I do realize that not doing this theoretically "dilutes" the field and allows for a heavily unbalanced draw in extreme circumstances I also don't think it's fair or right to punish a team for something out of their control. Even in an extreme example where say a P5 team starts the season something like 29-0 with an amazing resume then has all 5 starters get injuries that make them out for the season and proceeds to lose their next 3 games via extreme blowout obviously unable to compete, I still think that if their 29-3 resume is one of the four best in the nation, they should get a 1 seed, regardless of how weak the team they would be able to field is. As such, I think Rutgers got screwed. They should be in if this was based on resume alone.</p><p></p><p>The most underseeded team in the field I think is FAU. Yes, they had a weaker schedule, but no really bad losses and they have winning records against both Q1 and Q2 opponents with their 31-3 record. They should be at worst a 7 seed in my opinion and probably a 6.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aaeismacgychel, post: 1879174, member: 748794"] I've personally never been a fan of using injury to a key player as reasoning for not giving a bid or giving lower seeding than the overall body of work and resume would dictate. And my reasoning is that tournament seeding or bowl/playoff seeding should be based on a team's accomplishments, not the projected team they are able to field. While I do realize that not doing this theoretically "dilutes" the field and allows for a heavily unbalanced draw in extreme circumstances I also don't think it's fair or right to punish a team for something out of their control. Even in an extreme example where say a P5 team starts the season something like 29-0 with an amazing resume then has all 5 starters get injuries that make them out for the season and proceeds to lose their next 3 games via extreme blowout obviously unable to compete, I still think that if their 29-3 resume is one of the four best in the nation, they should get a 1 seed, regardless of how weak the team they would be able to field is. As such, I think Rutgers got screwed. They should be in if this was based on resume alone. The most underseeded team in the field I think is FAU. Yes, they had a weaker schedule, but no really bad losses and they have winning records against both Q1 and Q2 opponents with their 31-3 record. They should be at worst a 7 seed in my opinion and probably a 6. [/QUOTE]
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