Ross Dellenger on CFP

Yahoo! Sports writer talks Oregon's path to a national championship with Jim Rome.

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00:00Did Oregon because it's set the way it is did Oregon deserve better as the top seed overall than a quarterfinal matchup against either

00:07Ohio State or Tennessee

00:10Yeah, they they did you would think they did but

00:13The seeding is the way it is

00:16partly because you have

00:19The buys only going to conference champions, you know, only conference champions are eligible for the by so the rankings

00:27You know like for instance Boise was the three seed right because they were the third best third highest ranked conference champion

00:34But they were only ranked

00:36I can't remember exactly maybe eight or nine and so there were

00:39Plenty of teams in front of them that got a large burst but can't get that by

00:43That throws off the seating a little bit, right?

00:46I mean, Ohio State in Tennessee were both ranked ahead of Boise and they were seated below boys

00:53Because they didn't run a conference champion

00:55Chip and now I have to play each other in the first round with the winner getting Oregon

00:59So in a bracket if you had the bracket just based off

01:03Ranking Jim, Oregon would play the winner of an 8-9 seed game

01:07Which I think if you just did it off the rankings and didn't do the buys right would be Boise

01:13I think would be in that game

01:14It would be like Boise and in Indiana or something like that

01:17It would be a would make more sense right for a one seed to play

01:21So the seating is kind of off and while I do agree with you, I think the format is pretty cool

01:26It it it puts a lot of a lot of value on conference champions and championships what they wanted

01:33However, this format was created when we have five when we had five power conferences not four

01:40We have four now and not only do we have four Jim, but we have four that are pretty unequal

01:45right, and so this format was created for a

01:485 power of a power 5 not a power 4 so it'll be interesting going forward what tweaks may come of it