The expanded School Soccer Playoff introduced drama within the first 12 months.
And in a considerably shocking change from the four-team postseason of the final decade, an enormous model was disregarded.
Alabama was handed over for SMU, punished for its three losses. It was the foremost query mark getting into the announcement, after the Mustangs misplaced a heartbreaking ACC championship recreation to Clemson on a 56-yard subject objective on the horn.
Alabama had the much better win, a victory over SEC champion Georgia. But additionally two dangerous losses, to Vanderbilt and Oklahoma. SMU’s two defeats got here by a mixed six factors to BYU and Clemson.
So after all of the speak about how dominant the SEC can be after including Oklahoma and Texas, it wound up with fewer bids than the Huge Ten (4). Someplace, Greg Sankey is fuming.
In any other case, there actually weren’t many surprises. Undefeated Oregon landed the highest seed as anticipated, Georgia was No. 2, Mountain West champion Boise State acquired the third bye and Arizona State the fourth.
Texas, the very best at-large seed, will host No. 12 Clemson within the opening spherical.
Penn State acquired the sixth seed and can meet SMU.
The 7-10 recreation is an in-state battle between Notre Dame and Indiana, whereas Ohio State meets Tennessee in essentially the most attention-grabbing first-round recreation, with the winner getting Georgia within the quarterfinals.
