best team from basketball Conference No. 1 every season and whatever team makes the tournament from Conference No. 30-something and conclude that the gap is one inch closer than whatever is between conferences 1-10 in FBS football.

There are so many examples on a regular basis of an NIU beating a Notre Dame... it just doesn't stand up to any quantifiable scrutiny.

But, even if you say it does, that doesn't change anything in my view. I want a playoff. Not an invitational tournament. I am totally in favor of adding more "non-competitive" matchups, and I have virtually every other college sports competition with decades of history to show as precedent for how it would not only work, but thrive.