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The Commish's Court: Same playoff questions, different year

By A.J. Mass
ESPN.com

Monday, December 3, 2007

This column was supposed to write itself. Every season after Week 13, the message boards and my ESPN mailbox are flooded with the same questions over and over again, year in, year out. It takes on different forms, and every so often there's a new spin that pops up and surprises me, but essentially, I know what to expect ... "We're about to start our playoffs next week. How do we decide which teams make it?" "At the beginning of the season, we decided to have the tie-breaker be X, but now sever ...

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