It was an 8 seed vs a 7 seed.
I don't have the time or the interest to comb through wikipedia to bear this out, but out of
MLB
NBA
NFL
NHL
NCAAM
and NCAAF
I would be interested to know if that is the highest combined seeding number (15) for a game played in the round of 4 or later, all time?
If it's not, it's gotta be top 3.
Simply put: their entire seeding and bracketing procedure is fukked if you have 7 v 8 in the final round.
Reseeding it would fix SOME of the problem, but the fact that the round of 4 was 8v5 and 7v6 means that every team that got a bye lost. Reseeding isn't fixing that, the entire seeding process itself needs revamping. You're not putting the best 4 teams in America out there to wittle themselves down to a champtionship game. Or if you ARE putting the best 4 teams out there, you're not assigning seeds correctly, because for 100 years college football has been "the 1st ranked team is champ".
Now you're trying to tell me the 8th ranked team is the champ?
I didn't even see the highlights.
Part of me thinks this is just a necessary step/move by the SEC & Big 10 to break free and leave the NCAA in their dust, but who knows.