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The metrics (rpi, rankings, etc.) consistently show MSU as a top 5 team and Ole Miss somewhere around 15 to 20, and Miami also around 15 to 20 and Illinois around 30. Simple bracketing principles when 16 teams get seeded as the same number would indicate a high 1 seed gets a low 2 seed and a...

I agree with most of this, but if the committee decided both Illinois and Miami were going to be 2 seeds playing in the state of Mississippi, it would have made a heck of a lot more sense to put Miami in Oxford and Illinois in Starkville, not the other way around, as the committee did.