FCS Playoffs

[LongTimeCatFan]

Let's do away with the first round bid.


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Let's just do away with the first round

[77matcat]

Hmmmm. Every one gets participation ribbon?


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[PapaG]

Championship went through the big sky again.
Sam Houston vs ndsu.
Nsdu for 5

More like ran over the Big Sky. Big Sky schools have a long way to go to even compete for a national title, and thoughts of any Big Sky program moving up to FBS anytime soon should be over until things improve.

SUU getting screwed out of a home game did t help, either. By far the best team in the conference this year with physical lines on both side of the ball.

SUU also ran into a team that got hot at the right time, Sam Houston, who is now in the semi's.

If the committee had watched SUU during conference play at all, they would have seen it should have been SUU with the seed and not PSU, even though PSU beat them.

UM getting a home game is an automatic thing these days if they're in the playoffs, and it's hard to disagree with the reasoning of it. Still, SUU got screwed by having to play Sam Houston on the road in the first round.

Hard to say they got screwed when you bid for home games in the first round. They didn't get screwed any more than susumu got screwed by getting outbid by UM.

They should have been seeded IMO instead of PSU. Conference champ that is treated like trash.

[John K]

Let's do away with the first round bid.


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Let's just do away with the first round

I agree completely. I was always opposed to expanding beyond 16 teams, for several reasons. For one thing, I don't like the 3-week break between the semi-finals and the championship game, and I don't really like byes either. It also feels a bit watered down when a 6-5 team gets an at large bid. I do think it's funny that some of the ESPN talking heads are against expanding to 8 teams for the FBS playoffs, because "it's just too many games". In 12-game schedule years for FCS, teams could theoretically play as many as 17 games now. Even if FBS expanded to 8 teams, they'd never play more than 16 games.

[onceacat]

Its hard to argue that a 6-5 team with wins over 3 teams in the playoff field (Eastern Ill, South Dakota State, and UNI) and only 1 loss to a team not in the playoffs (5-6 Youngstown St) is somehow "watered down. They also won their first round game-again, suggesting that maybe, just maybe, they actually belonged in the playoffs.

I think 24 teams is about right. It lets pretty much every team that deserves to be in, along with every conference champ. Out of 125 teams, only 24 make the cut, which seems about right. Its a long shot away from "everyone gets a ribbon." Even the NFL lets in a 8-8 team from time to time.

Crikey, why don't we change March Madness to 48 teams again, like it was back in the good old days.

[lakesbison]

Let's do away with the first round bid.


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Let's just do away with the first round

Amen. 16 teams seed them all. High seed gets home game, makes the regular season more important.

Let's face it, each year in the Fcs there's maybe MAYBE 8-10 teams that can win it

[Cat Grad]

Let's do away with the first round bid.


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Let's just do away with the first round

Amen. 16 teams seed them all. High seed gets home game, makes the regular season more important.

Let's face it, each year in the Fcs there's maybe MAYBE 8-10 teams that can win it

Six or maybe eight teams. Right now it's almost as big a crock as the basketball tournament. I mean, come on, 1966 was the last time a team won the tournament that wasn't from a major conference. The only chance of a mid-major making the elite eight or possibly final four is if a coach has ties to a Calipari type coach and gets some of their kids who won't see significant play time.

[allcat]

Let's do away with the first round bid.


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Let's just do away with the first round

Amen. 16 teams seed them all. High seed gets home game, makes the regular season more important.

Let's face it, each year in the Fcs there's maybe MAYBE 8-10 teams that can win it

Six or maybe eight teams. Right now it's almost as big a crock as the basketball tournament. I mean, come on, 1966 was the last time a team won the tournament that wasn't from a major conference. The only chance of a mid-major making the elite eight or possibly final four is if a coach has ties to a Calipari type coach and gets some of their kids who won't see significant play time.

So Butler does not count?

[Cat Grad]

Let's do away with the first round bid.


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Let's just do away with the first round

Amen. 16 teams seed them all. High seed gets home game, makes the regular season more important.

Let's face it, each year in the Fcs there's maybe MAYBE 8-10 teams that can win it

Six or maybe eight teams. Right now it's almost as big a crock as the basketball tournament. I mean, come on, 1966 was the last time a team won the tournament that wasn't from a major conference. The only chance of a mid-major making the elite eight or possibly final four is if a coach has ties to a Calipari type coach and gets some of their kids who won't see significant play time.

So Butler does not count?

Case in point. Perfect example of transfers.

[onceacat]

Let's do away with the first round bid.


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Let's just do away with the first round

Amen. 16 teams seed them all. High seed gets home game, makes the regular season more important.

Let's face it, each year in the Fcs there's maybe MAYBE 8-10 teams that can win it

Six or maybe eight teams. Right now it's almost as big a crock as the basketball tournament. I mean, come on, 1966 was the last time a team won the tournament that wasn't from a major conference. The only chance of a mid-major making the elite eight or possibly final four is if a coach has ties to a Calipari type coach and gets some of their kids who won't see significant play time.

No way are there six teams that can beat NDSU. And 4 of the teams that can are from the MVFC. I guess you might as well get rid of the whole thing.

[Cat Grad]

Let's do away with the first round bid.


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Let's just do away with the first round

Amen. 16 teams seed them all. High seed gets home game, makes the regular season more important.

Let's face it, each year in the Fcs there's maybe MAYBE 8-10 teams that can win it

Six or maybe eight teams. Right now it's almost as big a crock as the basketball tournament. I mean, come on, 1966 was the last time a team won the tournament that wasn't from a major conference. The only chance of a mid-major making the elite eight or possibly final four is if a coach has ties to a Calipari type coach and gets some of their kids who won't see significant play time.

No way are there six teams that can beat NDSU. And 4 of the teams that can are from the MVFC. I guess you might as well get rid of the whole thing.

Yeah, but the present playoff joke won't put the entire MVFC in the playoffs, so you're correct. But as a sidebar, isn't it great the Big Sky denied NDSU their application to our powerful conference of touch football strictly enforced by our officials?

[lakesbison]

NDSU Richmond is gonna be a blast & must see TV.

1.64 Million watched NDSU/UNI last week, im guessing this 1 will be more thanks to an East Coast team.

I got NDSU 31 Richmond 16. NDSU defense will limit them to 3 FG"s and pull away with its Run game, east coast teams just dont have the big ol midwest boys on the lines.