Quote:That's very interesting. Personally, I think that getting a bye and home field advantage is way too "rewarding". A team that has to travel back-to-back weeks and play against a team who had an extra week of rest/preparation is stacking the deck against them. Even if the 5 or 6 seed was the best team in the country, the odds of winning the championship are incredibly low.

 

Also, you'd absolutely HAVE to re-seed 1 through 6 after the bids are earned. If you give seeds 1 through 3 to conference champions from the #1, #2, and #3 conferences then you'd run into some major problems.