It isn't about politics, it is about conference strength, based on All-Americans in previous years. It seems loaded in favor of big 10, who get 70 qualifiers out of a possible 110, but past performances indicate that the 7th place guy from there, or the 4th place from Big 12, will be the winner versus 2nd place from CAA
There are politics in the Big XII...they skipped a guy that took 4th for a guy that took 5th because of "flu"
I'm just saying when a conference adds 3 schools...maybe just maybe they should add 1 WC per school added or something.