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  • #1

    Final AGS Poll

    AGS Final Regular Season Poll

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    Any Given Saturday Poll Top 25
    Week 12, 11/21/2005

    (First place votes in parenthesis)
    1. New Hampshire (34)
    2. Appalachian State (2)
    3. Furman
    4. Hampton (2)
    5. Texas State
    6. Northern Iowa
    7. Georgia Southern
    8. Montana
    9. Southern Illinois
    10. Cal Poly
    11. Richmond
    12. Eastern Washington
    13. Youngstown State
    14. Eastern Illinois
    15. Brown
    16. Montana State
    17. Nicholls State
    18. Grambling
    19. Massachusetts
    20. South Carolina State
    21. Illinois State
    22. Colgate
    23. Lehigh
    24. Lafayette
    25. North Dakota State
    Others receiving votes (minimum of 5 votes): Hofstra (23), Coastal Carolina (18), James Madison (12), Western Kentucky (8)

    MOST SIGNIFICANT WIN OF THE WEEK: Lafayette
    MOST SIGNIFICANT LOSS OF THE WEEK: Montana
    Back to where we belong. Time to get to business with beating EWU! Bring some cool clothing to the game on Saturday, I have a feeling it might be a tad warm in there!
    If computers ruled college basketball the way they do football, we'd have skipped all this March Madness monotony and just waited a month for the Kansas-Kentucky title game. And watched Northern Iowa play Cornell in the Poulan Weedeater Bowl. ~ Dwight Perry The Seattle Times
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  • #2
    Originally posted by UNIAlum95
    Bring some cool clothing to the game on Saturday, I have a feeling it might be a tad warm in there!
    hopefully warm from Erik Meyer and Co pass attack!

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    • #3
      Originally posted by EWUAlumni
      hopefully warm from Erik Meyer and Co pass attack!
      I'm thinking it will be about 80F in the dome from the heat! Hope your boys are ready to play in the tropics! Lookin' forward to a good game.
      If computers ruled college basketball the way they do football, we'd have skipped all this March Madness monotony and just waited a month for the Kansas-Kentucky title game. And watched Northern Iowa play Cornell in the Poulan Weedeater Bowl. ~ Dwight Perry The Seattle Times

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      • #4
        How does Lafayette get the last bid to the playoffs ranked #24 and Youngstown is #13 and doesn't make it in? I don't get it?? Why does GFC get absolultely no respect??

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        • #5
          Originally posted by GoCats05
          How does Lafayette get the last bid to the playoffs ranked #24 and Youngstown is #13 and doesn't make it in? I don't get it?? Why does GFC get absolultely no respect??
          I would be IRATE if I were a YSU fan. YSU thinks they're ready for I-A, so maybe the MAC will let them in.

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          • #6
            How does Lafayette get the last bid to the playoffs ranked #24 and Youngstown is #13 and doesn't make it in? I don't get it?? Why does GFC get absolultely no respect??
            I have watched Lafayette twice this year. While they are pleasant to watch (well behaved kids), they run at about 60% speed to most I-AA teams in the playoffs. This represents what is wrong with the current playoff system. We like to say that I-AA has a playoff with the top 16 teams, but in reality it is not close. Does anyone think Eastern Illinois/Lafayette/Hell...UNI for that matter could beat Illinois State? I think having conference champions get automatic bids is wrong also. Does that make you one of the top 16 teams? No, it just makes some conferences feel better about themselves (i.e. Patriot League). Also, making a game against Drake or Princeton count as much as Georgia Southern is insane. I don't care that YSU played 2 division II teams, are they a top 16 team. I think so. Lafayette...well both sportsnetwork and myself say not even close.

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            • #7
              Luther, do you honestly think Ill State deserves a shot at the National Title, when they can't even win their own league...especially in a year where almost half the league teams finshed tied for first? Comon.

              Yes, weak teams win weak leagues, but unless you're going to even all conferences out (meaning we'll see fairly few interesting games during the regular season) so all conference champions are coming from parity...or only give auto bids to specific leagues some commitee things are 'good' and take them away from leagues they don't think are good (and be prepared to live with wherever they place the Gateway).

              Coming from a school who has, to the best of my knowledge, never gotten in as an at-large, we should be glad they give an auto-bid to champions. You have to give league champs a reward for being excellent. Hell, I'd set it up so all 8 league champs host first-round games, in my perfect world.

              Maybe Lafayette isn't up to 1AA par, but they obviously beat plenty of 1AA competition, and that can't be objectively dismissed.

              If YSU wants to move up to the MAC, let em. They can't win the Gateway's autobid, let em go see if they can not win the MAC as well.

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              • #8
                Luther, do you honestly think Ill State deserves a shot at the National Title
                Deserve? I don't know about deserve, but I do think they are one of the top 4 or 5 teams in I-AA.

                Maybe Lafayette isn't up to 1AA par, but they obviously beat plenty of 1AA competition, and that can't be objectively dismissed.
                I tend to dismiss any non-scholarship I-AA wins.

                Coming from a school who has, to the best of my knowledge, never gotten in as an at-large, we should be glad they give an auto-bid to champions.
                There have been years when UNI did not win the gateway, but were easily a top 16 team, but no playoffs.

                If YSU wants to move up to the MAC, let em. They can't win the Gateway's autobid, let em go see if they can not win the MAC as well.
                A little harsh, huh? Well, YSU does need a little humbling sometimes! I take it back...good dig on YSU!
                Last edited by Luther_Heggs; 11-21-2005, 11:17 PM.

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