re: Would you prefer the selection committee have concrete qualifiers or not?

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There's no schedule manipulation in football now?

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Not like basketball where you have the mid-majors making their schedules of other mid-majors with each play a couple against a power conference school. This manipulates the RPI calculations and drags down many power conference schools who have to resort to scheduling low majors to complete a home schedule.

Notre Dame could manipulate their schedule to where they are in any year they have a decent record if a system like the RPI was used as they will get the boost from playing ACC schools then can use the other games against teams they have little chance of losing too but would drive up the numbers of these sources given to the committee.

If there is any criteria set, being a conference champion would be the one pushed for to eliminate the SEC from getting multiple teams into the playoffs.