re: Espn: Sizing up the SEC resumes

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The ulitmate goal is not to pitch the "two best teams" in a final game. Rather, it's to have one team that's demonstrated (that means on the field) superiority to the exclusion of the most number of other teams.

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I don't understand the purpose of a rematch if there are other remotely plausible options.

This isn't a sport where you can do a best of three or five or seven. If you set up a rematch then you either have a useless result or an inconclusive one. You have a useless result if the team who won teh first time wins again. The game proved nothing not already shown by the first result. You have an inconclusive result if the team who lost the first game wins the second time. Now you need a best of three since you have a split.