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I've noticed that a few people like to blame everything on East Coast Bias (if it's not Bush's fault it must be ECB!) and it got me to thinking about this years playoffs.

It's real obvious that the top 2 FCS conferences are the CAA and the SoCon. The Patriot is number 3, but they keep losing to the CAA and SoCon in the playoffs so they don't get to show it. All 3 of the top conferences are East Coast Conferences.

This year the top 3 conferences got 8 teams in the playoffs but thanks to regionalization they put 6 of them on one half of the bracket and they put the other 2 on the same side of the other half of the bracket. In other words, the committee guaranteed that at least one of the final four teams will come from a lesser conference.

This weekend we have:
a CAA vs CAA match up
a SoCon vs Socon match up
a CAA vs SoCon match
and a game between two schools that nobody has ever heard of. All I know is that one school plays on a red field and the other one uses all caps and an asterisk in it's name.

Regionalization is nothing more than West Coast Bias and a deserving team will miss out on this years final four because of it.

BlueHen86 wrote:I've noticed that a few people like to blame everything on East Coast Bias (if it's not Bush's fault it must be ECB!) and it got me to thinking about this years playoffs.

It's real obvious that the top 2 FCS conferences are the CAA and the SoCon. The Patriot is number 3, but they keep losing to the CAA and SoCon in the playoffs so they don't get to show it. All 3 of the top conferences are East Coast Conferences.

This year the top 3 conferences got 8 teams in the playoffs but thanks to regionalization they put 6 of them on one half of the bracket and they put the other 2 on the same side of the other half of the bracket. In other words, the committee guaranteed that at least one of the final four teams will come from a lesser conference.

This weekend we have:
a CAA vs CAA match up
a SoCon vs Socon match up
a CAA vs SoCon match
and a game between two schools that nobody has ever heard of. All I know is that one school plays on a red field and the other one uses all caps and an asterisk in it's name.

Regionalization is nothing more than West Coast Bias and a deserving team will miss out on this years final four because of it.

You have a good point, until the west wins, there is really nothing to add.

BlueHen86 wrote:The Patriot is number 3, but they keep losing to the CAA and SoCon in the playoffs so they don't get to show it.

And the MEAC is probably #4 but also ends up playing the CAA and SoCon in the first round. If the committee would just pair SCSt with a Montana State or SFA, they could easily advance.

89Hen wrote:

BlueHen86 wrote:The Patriot is number 3, but they keep losing to the CAA and SoCon in the playoffs so they don't get to show it.

And the MEAC is probably #4 but also ends up playing the CAA and SoCon in the first round. If the committee would just pair SCSt with a Montana State or SFA, they could easily advance.

Unless I missed a game, the last time a Patriot team lost in the playoffs to a team outside the SoCon or CAA was 1999. Patriot teams are 4-0 in the playoffs against other schools in that time.

I didn't look up the MEAC, but I'm sure you are right.

BlueHen86 wrote:The Patriot is number 3

You fellas may be onto something.