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Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye
Well, then you should'nt be chiming in on this then, huh? While the discussion is indeed about the I-A playoffs, how it is done at the lower levels most certainly relates. For your info, the 16-team playoff format is so "ridiculous" that it has been that way since at least 1991 (when YSU won their first title), and I'm pretty sure it has been that way for a lot longer. By the way, YSU was ranked outside of the top eight in the end-of-regular-season polls in one of the years they won the title (#11 in 1993, IIRC), so having a 16-team field is quite acceptable.
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This is DIA, not DIAA/DII/DIII -- and knowing the ins and outs of their system is as applicable as knowing the ins and outs of MLB, NFL, NBA, etc. playoffs. Especially being that I only responded in reference to an argument that had nothing specifically to do with your preferred playoff scenario, and in fact applies to all playoff scenarios.
What you're saying is that it's quite acceptable because it happened to be YSU? Seems to me YSU maybe didn't deserve to be there in the first place, but JT's team proved they only need to be hot for 1 part of the season to get the championship in a playoff system -- and his big game preparation came through for them. Good for JT, good for YSU. They earned it. But making an emotionally-slanted argument isn't going to get you any points with me.