Nation, you are not thinking this thing all the way through. At playoff selection time, polls do not matter. Strength of schedule does not matter. What matters is the athletic directors that sit on that committee, all but two or three of whom represent conferences way inferior to the MVFC. These people have an unspoken agenda, namely, to get "their" teams into the playoffs and to find an excuse to keep out as many strong teams as possible so that their darlings can win a game or two. As IAA and Pioneer have suggested, given the current strength of the MVFC, it would be stupid to play dangerous ooc games and risk five losses. Now if that committee really selected the best 24 teams in the nation, that would be different. But they don't, as we have learned many times over the past fifteen years.
