Quote Originally Posted by Cooterpoot View Post
It shows you the effects of playing those low level teams and losing. Our total RPI was killed by those teams/losses. Our RPI was 25 instead of being in the teens. What? Only 4 SEC teams had a lower RPI and we lost series to two of those.
Which doesn't matter anyway because the committee showed that balancing out conferences and location was more important than RPI once you got past top 8. This year they also seemed to put some weight on conference tourney performance as well.

Say what you want about Q4 loses - yes they hurt, but they did not really matter - as the committee showed they really didn't care about strength of schedule either. We played 30 Q1 games. Only Bama, SC, and UK played more (so not a weak sec schedule as some want to claim). We won more Q1 games than a number of hosts even played. Arizona played 12 and went 3-9; UCSB played 10 and went 3-7; EC played 7 and went 5-2; UNC played 17 and went 8-9; Clemson played 18 and went 10-8; FSU played 16 and went 8-8. The committee basically said "we don't want the SEC to dominate again, so spread the hosts out.