But read 4.1.18-f-1 in the handbook. It's states:
Teams in their classification will be selected to fill the remaining slot in the bracket by comparing the highest finishing, non-automatic qualifying team in each conference based on adjusted MaxPreps ranking.
NOTE: under no circumstances may a team "leap-frog" a higher finishing team in their own conference. For this procedure split conferences will have their classification treated as a separate entity.
I'm not saying I'm right and your wrong nanner nanner boo boo. I'm just trying to understand this completely...
Yeah so that means that after auto seeds are taken they'll take the next highest finishing team out of each conference and compare their rankings. Seed the highest ranked one and replace that team in the pool with the next highest finishing team from that conference.