This! Plus, I’d like to think that by playing well in the regular season, a team earns the right to play more games, or at least the opportunity to play more games.
I will rephrase my tongue-in-cheek comment. One P/P team will eliminated quickly from the tournament, which I think is the IHSAA’s intent.
The unintended consequences like you have mentioned are why I agree it would be a bad thing for football in the state.
As it is, Chatard must win sectional in 2021 and 2022 or win a regional in one of those years or they would return to 3A.