Personally I was against it just because of the perception of it nationally since Okie St. made a strong case. I do think ESPN promoted this and now will feast on the controversy to push for the plus 1. Make no mistake, if there was a plus 1 this year, the same 2 teams would be playing for the MNC. We would kill Stanford and Bama would beat - kill Okie State. I think we take Bama in N.O., but if we were to lose, I admit it would be hard to grasp being SEC champs and Bama being BCS champs. Having said that, I think with a plus 1 the SEC dominance would be further exposed and will become common for 2 SEC teams to meet in MNC game.

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Posted by FTBLFN

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Posted on 12/10/11 at 9:02 am to Superfly1372

There's also a scenario where the +1 matchups would have to be conference-on-conference if 2 of the 4 teams were from the same conference. So this year's matchups would be LSU-Bama in the semis under that format.

If the SEC did continue to dominate in the +1 format other conferences, fanbases and regional media folks would push for something else to help level the field.

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Posted by SpOrk

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Posted on 12/10/11 at 9:30 am to FTBLFN

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, fanbases and regional media folks would push for something else to help level the field.

exactly, if it favored their teams, they would want it to stay the same

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Posted by Superfly1372

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Posted on 12/10/11 at 9:56 am to FTBLFN

I could see them doing that this year but what if you had an East and West team meet in SEC Champ, both undefeated and loser doesn't drop out of top 4. They would then have to rematch for chance at MNC? Seems like that would negate the SEC champ game which SEC should be against. Make em win their way back to a rematch in MNC would make more sense to me.

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