Oh, a slight factor

As I posted on another thread, the worst record for a Pool C team is 25-18 for Bowdoin in 2012. Obviously, they had an outstanding strength of schedule. I also personally think that any team with .800+ winning percentage is in the conversation regardless of SOS.
The game-is-a-game concept really shows in its accounting for playing tough teams in the southern schedule that may not necessarily have been in-region before.
Just going down the SOS list and eyeballing winning percentages (NOT in order of primacy), it looks like the list of teams competing for Pool C berths might be...
Marietta
Heidelberg
Stevens Point
John Carroll
St. Thomas
Southern Maine
Amherst
Rowan
Case Western (likely Pool B though)
Moravian
Rutgers-Camden
Baldwin-Wallace
Cortland State
Concordia Ill
Ramapo
Emory (could be Pool B)
Shenandoah
ECSU
UW-Whitewater
Birmingham Southern (Pool B candidate)
Linfield (likely won't need it)
Webster
York
Buena Vista
Gettysburg
Tufts
Trinity
St. John Fisher (Pool B possibility)
On a second pass down the list, the fringe might be something like...
Millsaps, UW-Oshkosh, Hendrix, Alvernia, Allegheny, Oswego State, Wheaton, Berry, Endicott, Adrian, Rhodes, Kean (surprised not higher, but SOS not good this year), Salisbury, Frostburg State, Ohio Northern (only because they have pretty much all the OAC heavies coming up), Ithaca.