Official 2005 UNI Panther Football Schedule

[Newsbreaker]

Here's a question, and I'm going to guess that Reed will have a strong opinion on this one ( ).....While the DII game might balance out the 1A game, does the selection committee see it that way?

Do they really look at the schedule and say "Well, they played a DII, but they played a 1A as well, so that's a draw?", or do they just see the DII and say we're scheduling inferior competition...especially if we don't beat the 1A?

I would think, as the 1A's are given 12 games, that the selection committee MIGHT say "you guys have a chance now to play a 1A every single year, with very very few exceptions. With the guaranteed game and payday, there is little reason to waste one of your remaining games against a DII opponent...use the remaining OOC games to play each other."

I could be wrong, however.

[panther2317]

Now, see the way it's been explained to me is that 'a win is a win and a loss is a loss'. So they way I see it...if you play a 1-A and a D-II game and go
1-1 over those two games...it doesn't matter who you beat and who you lost to for the committee. That's why it's so important to get to 8 wins. The committee doesn't look down upon ONE D-II win...as it doesn't give special favor to a 1-A win. (or close loss...a loss is a loss).

That's how it's been explained to me.

[Newsbreaker]

Here is what I found on the selection criteria:

The major set of criterion for selecting the remaining 8 at-large participants:

The committee shall select the best available teams.
There is no limit to the number of teams they may select from a single conference.
The won-lost record of a team will be scrutinized to determine a team’s strength of schedule; however, more than three losses will place a team in jeopardy of not being selected.
The committee may give more consideration to those teams that have played all Division I opponents.
If the team of a committee member is under consideration, the member may not vote for the team being considered and will not be in the room when a vote is taken.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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Good find. I was going to just post that. Here is something else that needs to be taken into consideration.

Every other year, we only get 3 home conference games. That means, in order to continue the pay days that UNI gets from football, they need 3 home non-con games each year (this year it's Drake, Minn-Duluth, and N.Arizona). If UNI keeps a home and home with Drake going, and they play at home each year that UNI only has 3 home non-con games (like this year), then that leaves two additional games. That means if UNI started a home and home with two other 1-AA teams, UNI wouldn't be able to keep that 6th game each year. So, that D2 game helps give UNI that cheaper pay day. Now, if UNI started a 2 for 1 with some schools that would be different, as UNI would get 2 home games during those 3 home conference game years, which would equal 6 home games. So, I think financially, having a D2 game is beneficial.

Now, if UNI played Drake each year for a "home and home" series and bought in Valparaiso, Dayton, etc...from the PFL (drake's conference), then I think we might have something. That might actually work out pretty well. But, look at next year's schedule, as of now UNI only has 5 home games, and no D2 games...what do you guys think about that?

[Matt Trump]

A big problem with playing other I-AA teams is that they won't play us. I believe UNI's contract with the Southland Conference (Norwestern St, Stephen F. McNeese, etc) expires after next year. UNI has been lucky in the fact that the Southland had a smaller league and needed more games to fill out the schedule. They have since added a couple teams and don't need to schedule us any more. Scheduling has been an issue since the Terry Allen days. Heck, a weak non-conference schedule helped to cost us the playoffs in 1999. It goes with the territory of being a top 10 program.

[GonzoCat]

The more I think about it, the more I hate this schedule. Not ONE competitive OOC game before the contest that determines the season, at WKU. Awful scheduling job, IMHO, it just drives me crazy.

Now you don't think Iowa will even be competitive with UNI? I think that's a stretch and quite a turn around from your earlier posts about that game.

I'm late to this discussion, but it looks like you originally said "not ONE competitive game", then after Reed to the trouble of explaining how competitive the Gateway can be you edited it to say "not ONE competitive OOC game".

I think you should acknowledge that change as it makes quite a difference to your position.

[Newsbreaker]

I ommitted the "OOC" part when I first made my post...which I'm sure was confusing, as that is what I meant. Good catch on your part, Gonzo.

[Panthers to the Bone]

Seven games on television, with another three on tv in markets other than Iowa. Pretty sweet. 2 ESPN2 games, 2 ESPN+, and 3 others on regionally.

[Chitown Panther]

Seven games on television, with another three on tv in markets other than Iowa. Pretty sweet. 2 ESPN2 games, 2 ESPN+, and 3 others on regionally.

The Farley recruiting classes are going to keep getting better.....

[panther2317]

Is it ridiculous for me to suggest that someone needs to step up and produce most of these games next season for a statewide audience??? Hopefully this success coupled with more exposure throughout the state in the coming years will help to grow Panther Nation

[Panthers to the Bone]

http://www3.sdstate.edu/Athletics/NewsDetail55273.cfm?Id=46,4776

SDSU schedule states that the UNI/SDSU game is on Sept. 16th at 4:05. I had now deleted the Northwestern State game from that slot now. My guess is that NW State is being moved back another year. Probably SDSU, South Dakota, Drake, and Iowa State are the non-conference games next year.

[pantherclaw]

aren't SDSU and south dakota the same thing? or is SDSU san diego state university?

[B.True]

SDSU = South Dakota State University
USD = University of South Dakota

both were d2 until 2 years ago when SDSU moved up to I-AA. they were 6-5 last year with decent wins over Northern Colorado, Southern Utah, UC-Davis. those lost 42-12 at Texas State in early October.

[pantherclaw]

AHHH thank you. okay so looks like its going to be an interesting non-conference.

[Panthers to the Bone]

Well, Illinois State has updated their schedule. It looks like the schedule matches all the releases thus far. It's a pretty good bet that this is the correct schedule. 8 games in the state of Iowa...2 in the Des Moines area market...6 in the UNI-Dome. Thoughts on this schedule?

http://goredbirds.collegesports.com/sports/m-footbl/sched/ilsu-m-footbl-sched.html