Just a few random thoughts after nearly a week has passed. The officiating has gotten worse as the athletes have gotten better. Some think the games with Lacrosse and Susquehanna were poorly done and they were, but the game the
Johnnies had in Moorehead was much worse for both teams.
Not sure instant replay can come to the D3 level, but it would be nice to have in some cases.
The new playoff system in its first year is crap and it's not the systems fault. The travel restrictions and all
the other variables make it very difficult. Just using the power index for today, in the West you have the 16 playing the 28, and the 5 against the 10. In the East you have the 35 versus the 11 and the 6 against the 15.
If you use the d3 final poll the West has 6 versus 21 and the 1 against 23. The East would have 30 against 19 and 26 versus 5. It's not a fair comparison but the FCS playoff quarterfinals continue this weekend and the top 8 seeds are all still playing in a 24-team field.
A further dive....the first round games using the NPI starting in the East.....34 vs 35, 27 vs 41, 24 vs 29 and 36 vs 62. To the West 18 vs 81, 18 vs 30, 21 vs 65 and 25 vs 54. I certainly do not have an answer as to a fix. As long as conference champions are an automatic bid I don't think there is a fix.

Have not posted in years so not sure where to get this answered. Bethel is hosting Coe correct? and the winner gets Lake Forest. If I remember from bracket day Lake Forest did not submit a host bid so they will travel. So in theory Bethel could host two games as an at large bid. That does not seem fair. I see some other folks have
posted some questions, perhaps someone posted this already.