Farley's comments before bracket selection

[ubuntuCAT]

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and the all important, but contentious: pop or soda?

or coke

kaboom

[jegbomb52]

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Also...so lets say we lose Saturday (hopefully we won't have to worry about it) do we not put up 2010 under the playoff qualifier?

If not, then would this be the first time a conference champ from an autobid conference didn't make the playoffs?

That is a system flaw. The teams playing this weekend should be at-larges. Not two auto bids playing each other.

[TommyT]

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If we don't tank the last game we would be waiting an extra week to play. I personally think it is better for us to have to play the extra game - this way our team stays hungry and has incentive to avenge the snub. If you're listed on the bracket as something other than TBD, then you are in the playoffs and not a play-in game.

[jegbomb52]

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We will have to agree to disagree on that. Again, if more teams played the first weekend then didn't I could see your argument. But its now, the teams that play this weekend are the lower seeded teams, and are the only ones playing. Hence (in my eyes) a play in game. If the 4 seeds had byes and everyone else played I would consider it playoffs (like the NFL) but until then its just hugs and juiceboxes. In my opinion the playoffs never should have been expanded anyway. There is one year I think a 7-4 UNI team could have made noise (2004) and thats it. Not 8-3 / AQ = no playoffs.

[JayJ79]

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That is a system flaw. The teams playing this weekend should be at-larges. Not two auto bids playing each other.

so you don't think the 12 best teams should get the bye? Because it is fairly obvious that some of the AQs from weaker conferences are not as good as many of the at-larges.

and just for comparison, do the "play in" games for the NCAA basketball tourney only involve at-larges, or do AQs participate in those as well?

[ubuntuCAT]

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and just for comparison, do the "play in" games for the NCAA basketball tourney only involve at-larges, or do AQs participate in those as well?

Now it's half and half

[JayJ79]

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Now it's half and half

so that would make it part of the tournament (because the champion of each AQ conference is guaranteed a spot in the tournament).

what was it before (with the 64/65 game)?

[06panther10]

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Wouldn't have mattered, I kind of wish WIU would have beaten SIU, we probably would have a bye next week and possibly the number 5 seed because last Saturday would have been an entirely different game. Does anyone know Farley's record when it is clear the winner of the two teams playing are going to win the title?


3-0 Not a lot of stats, but enough to show that game probably would have been different. I know one thing for sure, we wouldn't be sitting back talking about how laid back practice was last week.

01' UNI defeats WKU (on the road, a year before their NC)
03' UNI defeats SIU
05' UNI defeats SIU

In 2005, we had the exact situation as this year, though not a league game. We played NAU in the dome 1 week after winning the title against SIU. And we won that game.

[jegbomb52]

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Now it's half and half

If you want my honest opinion those games should be between at-larges as well.

[Chitown Panther]

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Neither....Crick

For whatever reason, I call it "Blackhawk Creek".....

But everything else I say "Crick"....

Everything on a golf course is a "Meandering Stream".....

[run&blade]

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I don't think UNI earned a bye, I also don't think the 4th place team out of the CAA did either.

[Cannic88]

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or coke

kaboom

its soda pop in Virginia

[Blue42]

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Also...so lets say we lose Saturday (hopefully we won't have to worry about it) do we not put up 2010 under the playoff qualifier?

If not, then would this be the first time a conference champ from an autobid conference didn't make the playoffs?

We won the conference outright and earned the automatic bid to the playoffs.

Of course we are a playoff qualifier.

The rest of this is pretty silly. It's a 20 team field.

[Cat80]

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The game is not part of my season ticket packet, I had to buy a ticket, if we win we move on to another game. Yup, it's a playoff game.

[95UNIGRAD]

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By the way....here are the final Sagarin conference rankings for Div 1 FCS teams..

Conference Ratings
1. Colonial,2. Missouri Valley,3. Big Sky,4. Southern,5. Great West,6. Southland
7. Ohio Valley,8. Northeast,9. Ivy,10. Patriot,11. FCS Independents,12. Big South
13. Southwestern,14. Pioneer,15. Mid-Eastern

So....the number 2 toughest rated conference in Division 1 FCS football does not get a bye but the 7th rated conference, the OVC, both of their teams do? The weakest conference in the Mid-Eastern(MEAC) and their conference champ Bethune Cookman gets a first round bye but the MVFC champ doesn't? Wow.....just wow...!

I agree with both you and Panther Sheik.....which is exactly why this whole scenario is so interesting to talk about.