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The above is what is actually happening. Below is what should be happening if the best teams were to be going to the postseason.
The Frontier Conference got three teams in the postseason, but is that enough? Montana Tech had the toughest schedule in the NAIA, and the NAIA didn’t even give them a first-round bye. College of Idaho won’t get a home game even though Massey has them at #3.
Dordt got in, with a home game no less, despite losing–at home–to the very mediocre Midland NE. Massey “thinks” (Massey is a computer so there isn’t a bias like the selection committee) that Carroll College, SOU, and Rocky Mountain were all more deserving than Dordt, who finished third in their conference with a strength of schedule not in the top 35.
Ottawa (Kansas) got in with a 6-5 record and one of the easiest schedules in the entire NAIA! Several of the “at-large” selections are not in Massey’s top 13 like Marian, St. Thomas, and Dordt.
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Massey Ratings gives the Raiders a 30% chance of winning against Massey’s #2 team in the country. (The coaches have College of Idaho at #5.) With 20 teams going to the NAIA playoffs this year, if Massey was in charge, SOU would be in (at #16). Instead, teams like Dickinson State (who lost to Rocky Mountain who the Raiders beat), Evangel (who hasn’t played a team in the top 40 — SOU has had six games against teams in the top 15), and Texas Wesleyan (who lost by 18 points at home to the only top 20 team they faced) will make it to the postseason.
Increasing the number of playoff teams to 20 was a great idea. Allowing the coaches, who don’t seem to look at schedule strength at all, to determine who makes it was not.