Cats @ Utah Tech Predictions

[Camo_Cat]

If y'all don't mind, I'm gonna cower & shiver over here in the corner while visions of 2006 run thru my mind. As soon as we get at least a three TD lead, I'll come and join the rest of the party. Damn, that Chadron game still gives me night sweats.........

You can come out. There is no Danny Woodhead waiting for us.

Yeah, I'm pretty confident that this team has a completely different psyche than that 2006 squad. Beating CU and then losing to Chadron was the ultimate definition of Mike Kramer football. And Coach Daly won't let our guys take a game off.

But I remember being more dejected about losing that game than I was happy about the win over the Buffs. We've got a good thing going here; our boys will keep it rolling this weekend!

[CodyCat]

40-10 good guys.

Cats roll but miss 2 PATs...

Nope 100% on kicks.

1-2 on FGs

MSU wont even attempt a FG in this game.

[JDoub]

If Cats win out aren't they almost guaranteed at least the 2 seed. We will have beat the gris and ether SDSU or NDSU would have an FCS loss because they play each other. Somebody tell me if I am missing something.

Just think of the FCS Championship as the MVFC / Big Sky Challenge

[JDoub]

500 rushing yards Bobcats

One of the shortest 2nd halves (time wise) in the history of college football

2 defensive takeaways

Cats 50-12

[canyoncat]

Slower start than what we fans will like. Cats have too much talent and a better attitude than 2006. Cats win 49 - 10.

[Prodigal Cat]

If Cats win out aren't they almost guaranteed at least the 2 seed. We will have beat the gris and ether SDSU or NDSU would have an FCS loss because they play each other. Somebody tell me if I am missing something.

You're missing 2022. Cats won every FCS game they played. The only loss was to FBS OSU. They got the 4th seed below NDSU who had lost their FBS game AND at home to conference foe SDSU. I do think there is a scenario where the loser of the Marker is still seeded above a 12-0 Bobcat team. One of those scenarios is the team that loses in Fargo later this season gets a win this weekend so both teams finish 11-1. Not likely but COULD happen.

[BobcatBuiltTexan]

If Cats win out aren't they almost guaranteed at least the 2 seed. We will have beat the gris and ether SDSU or NDSU would have an FCS loss because they play each other. Somebody tell me if I am missing something.

You're missing 2022. Cats won every FCS game they played. The only loss was to FBS OSU. They got the 4th seed below NDSU who had lost their FBS game AND at home to conference foe SDSU. I do think there is a scenario where the loser of the Marker is still seeded above a 12-0 Bobcat team. One of those scenarios is the team that loses in Fargo later this season gets a win this weekend so both teams finish 11-1. Not likely but COULD happen.

Admittedly I am new to all of this but is there a possibility that in 22 that NDSU was a better team so regardless of record they were ranked ahead of us. If we are winning handedly throughout the season and are undefeated I see us being the top ranked team. I think it's just as much about how you are winning as it is if you are winning.....just my newbie take on things.

[catatac]

If Cats win out aren't they almost guaranteed at least the 2 seed. We will have beat the gris and ether SDSU or NDSU would have an FCS loss because they play each other. Somebody tell me if I am missing something.

You're missing 2022. Cats won every FCS game they played. The only loss was to FBS OSU. They got the 4th seed below NDSU who had lost their FBS game AND at home to conference foe SDSU. I do think there is a scenario where the loser of the Marker is still seeded above a 12-0 Bobcat team. One of those scenarios is the team that loses in Fargo later this season gets a win this weekend so both teams finish 11-1. Not likely but COULD happen.

I see what you're saying, and yes I think the Cats got hosed last time but I think that scenario is slightly different. I don't think there is any way that BOTH SDSU and NDSU would get seeded higher than the Cats if we are 12-0 and they're both 11-1. If that happened, we might have to get the government involved.

[BleedingBLue]

If Cats win out aren't they almost guaranteed at least the 2 seed. We will have beat the gris and ether SDSU or NDSU would have an FCS loss because they play each other. Somebody tell me if I am missing something.

You're missing 2022. Cats won every FCS game they played. The only loss was to FBS OSU. They got the 4th seed below NDSU who had lost their FBS game AND at home to conference foe SDSU. I do think there is a scenario where the loser of the Marker is still seeded above a 12-0 Bobcat team. One of those scenarios is the team that loses in Fargo later this season gets a win this weekend so both teams finish 11-1. Not likely but COULD happen.

Admittedly I am new to all of this but is there a possibility that in 22 that NDSU was a better team so regardless of record they were ranked ahead of us. If we are winning handedly throughout the season and are undefeated I see us being the top ranked team. I think it's just as much about how you are winning as it is if you are winning.....just my newbie take on things.

The thought process is solid here; however, the committee doesn't use any sort of logic and has contradicted themselves several times in the past few years when it comes to seeding and who gets home games in the first round. Record against the FCS has been something they have said is a big factor in their decisions and disregarded their own philosophy in this case. NDSU may have been better, but the seeding and who gets in and who doesn't is based off the results of the year. The committee is pretty good about making themselves look stupid in that regard. There is a major bias when it comes to NDSU.

[BobcatBuiltTexan]

If Cats win out aren't they almost guaranteed at least the 2 seed. We will have beat the gris and ether SDSU or NDSU would have an FCS loss because they play each other. Somebody tell me if I am missing something.

You're missing 2022. Cats won every FCS game they played. The only loss was to FBS OSU. They got the 4th seed below NDSU who had lost their FBS game AND at home to conference foe SDSU. I do think there is a scenario where the loser of the Marker is still seeded above a 12-0 Bobcat team. One of those scenarios is the team that loses in Fargo later this season gets a win this weekend so both teams finish 11-1. Not likely but COULD happen.

Admittedly I am new to all of this but is there a possibility that in 22 that NDSU was a better team so regardless of record they were ranked ahead of us. If we are winning handedly throughout the season and are undefeated I see us being the top ranked team. I think it's just as much about how you are winning as it is if you are winning.....just my newbie take on things.

The thought process is solid here; however, the committee doesn't use any sort of logic and has contradicted themselves several times in the past few years when it comes to seeding and who gets home games in the first round. Record against the FCS has been something they have said is a big factor in their decisions and disregarded their own philosophy in this case. NDSU may have been better, but the seeding and who gets in and who doesn't is based off the results of the year. The committee is pretty good about making themselves look stupid in that regard. There is a major bias when it comes to NDSU.

What I'm hearing is there us the bama rules, lol. It happens with the fbs all the time. They say one thing but it typically boils down to if you are a team that has a history you will always get the nod over another team. Thing I love about sports is you always have a charge to just go out and beat them...seems like we just need to line up and Molly wop whoever is in front is... leave no doubt we're the best

[BleedingBLue]

If Cats win out aren't they almost guaranteed at least the 2 seed. We will have beat the gris and ether SDSU or NDSU would have an FCS loss because they play each other. Somebody tell me if I am missing something.

You're missing 2022. Cats won every FCS game they played. The only loss was to FBS OSU. They got the 4th seed below NDSU who had lost their FBS game AND at home to conference foe SDSU. I do think there is a scenario where the loser of the Marker is still seeded above a 12-0 Bobcat team. One of those scenarios is the team that loses in Fargo later this season gets a win this weekend so both teams finish 11-1. Not likely but COULD happen.

Admittedly I am new to all of this but is there a possibility that in 22 that NDSU was a better team so regardless of record they were ranked ahead of us. If we are winning handedly throughout the season and are undefeated I see us being the top ranked team. I think it's just as much about how you are winning as it is if you are winning.....just my newbie take on things.

The thought process is solid here; however, the committee doesn't use any sort of logic and has contradicted themselves several times in the past few years when it comes to seeding and who gets home games in the first round. Record against the FCS has been something they have said is a big factor in their decisions and disregarded their own philosophy in this case. NDSU may have been better, but the seeding and who gets in and who doesn't is based off the results of the year. The committee is pretty good about making themselves look stupid in that regard. There is a major bias when it comes to NDSU.

What I'm hearing is there us the bama rules, lol. It haired with the fbs all the time. They say one thing but it typically boils down to if you are a team that has a history you will always get the nod over another team. Thing I love about sports is you always have a charge to just go out and beat them...seems like we just need to line up and Molly wop whoever is in front is... leave no doubt we're the best

100% But as others have said 12-0 with an FBS win and 4, maybe 5 ranked wins may not overcome the Champions bias in the committee room.

[Prodigal Cat]

Admittedly I am new to all of this but is there a possibility that in 22 that NDSU was a better team so regardless of record they were ranked ahead of us. If we are winning handedly throughout the season and are undefeated I see us being the top ranked team. I think it's just as much about how you are winning as it is if you are winning.....just my newbie take on things.

To answer your question about winning handily. The day the committee came out with those seeds the Bobcats beat the absolute brakes off the gris (a playoff team) 55-17. Yes there were a few games the Cats struggled, @NAU, Home versus Weber (another playoff team), but NDSU and SDSU had squeakers by none playoffs teams as well that year.

Cats had to travel to to Brookings to play the Jacks in a bitter cold snap while the Bison hosted UIW and they nearly lost (there was a blown fumble call at the end that decided the game). It should have been UIW coming to Bozeman and NDSU traveling to Brookings. It's my opinion that the committee wanted a DSU's rematch in the title game and set the bracket up for that rather than doing a true resume based seeding job. My point here is it happened once, it could happen again.

[BobcatBuiltTexan]

Admittedly I am new to all of this but is there a possibility that in 22 that NDSU was a better team so regardless of record they were ranked ahead of us. If we are winning handedly throughout the season and are undefeated I see us being the top ranked team. I think it's just as much about how you are winning as it is if you are winning.....just my newbie take on things.

To answer your question about winning handily. The day the committee came out with those seeds the Bobcats beat the absolute brakes off the gris (a playoff team) 55-17. Yes there were a few games the Cats struggled, @NAU, Home versus Weber (another playoff team), but NDSU and SDSU had squeakers by none playoffs teams as well that year.

Cats had to travel to to Brookings to play the Jacks in a bitter cold snap while the Bison hosted UIW and they nearly lost (there was a blown fumble call at the end that decided the game). It should have been UIW coming to Bozeman and NDSU traveling to Brookings. It's my opinion that the committee wanted a DSU's rematch in the title game and set the bracket up for that rather than doing a true resume based seeding job. My point here is it happened once, it could happen again.

gotcha....i guess i'm that one guy who is like throw all the monkey wrenches at me. If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball!!!!! It makes the winning so much sweeter, when you know they aren't helping you, you know without a doubt you are the best. Again maybe I'm that guy that just doesn't allow for that type of thinking to permeate in my brain. If we win out, they may hose us...eh oh well....we're good enough...go beat em in spite of, win the NC and they now they have nothing to say to us.....

[BleedingBLue]

Admittedly I am new to all of this but is there a possibility that in 22 that NDSU was a better team so regardless of record they were ranked ahead of us. If we are winning handedly throughout the season and are undefeated I see us being the top ranked team. I think it's just as much about how you are winning as it is if you are winning.....just my newbie take on things.

To answer your question about winning handily. The day the committee came out with those seeds the Bobcats beat the absolute brakes off the gris (a playoff team) 55-17. Yes there were a few games the Cats struggled, @NAU, Home versus Weber (another playoff team), but NDSU and SDSU had squeakers by none playoffs teams as well that year.

Cats had to travel to to Brookings to play the Jacks in a bitter cold snap while the Bison hosted UIW and they nearly lost (there was a blown fumble call at the end that decided the game). It should have been UIW coming to Bozeman and NDSU traveling to Brookings. It's my opinion that the committee wanted a DSU's rematch in the title game and set the bracket up for that rather than doing a true resume based seeding job. My point here is it happened once, it could happen again.

gotcha....i guess i'm that one guy who is like throw all the monkey wrenches at me. If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball!!!!! It makes the winning so much sweeter, when you know they aren't helping you, you know without a doubt you are the best. Again maybe I'm that guy that just doesn't allow for that type of thinking to permeate in my brain. If we win out, they may hose us...eh oh well....we're good enough...go beat em in spite of, win the NC and they now they have nothing to say to us.....

To this I say take a look at the road records of playoff teams, especially QFs and SFs. It isn't pretty.

[BobcatBuiltTexan]

Admittedly I am new to all of this but is there a possibility that in 22 that NDSU was a better team so regardless of record they were ranked ahead of us. If we are winning handedly throughout the season and are undefeated I see us being the top ranked team. I think it's just as much about how you are winning as it is if you are winning.....just my newbie take on things.

To answer your question about winning handily. The day the committee came out with those seeds the Bobcats beat the absolute brakes off the gris (a playoff team) 55-17. Yes there were a few games the Cats struggled, @NAU, Home versus Weber (another playoff team), but NDSU and SDSU had squeakers by none playoffs teams as well that year.

Cats had to travel to to Brookings to play the Jacks in a bitter cold snap while the Bison hosted UIW and they nearly lost (there was a blown fumble call at the end that decided the game). It should have been UIW coming to Bozeman and NDSU traveling to Brookings. It's my opinion that the committee wanted a DSU's rematch in the title game and set the bracket up for that rather than doing a true resume based seeding job. My point here is it happened once, it could happen again.

gotcha....i guess i'm that one guy who is like throw all the monkey wrenches at me. If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball!!!!! It makes the winning so much sweeter, when you know they aren't helping you, you know without a doubt you are the best. Again maybe I'm that guy that just doesn't allow for that type of thinking to permeate in my brain. If we win out, they may hose us...eh oh well....we're good enough...go beat em in spite of, win the NC and they now they have nothing to say to us.....

To this I say take a look at the road records of playoff teams, especially QFs and SFs. It isn't pretty.

Well I think with the expansion and "new" seeding model it may level itself out. Again I get it but if gon be the best prove you are the best, not the best under certain circumstances. Again I think vastly different than most people.

[Bobcat 1963]

CATS 52
Utah Tech 13

[BleedingBLue]

Admittedly I am new to all of this but is there a possibility that in 22 that NDSU was a better team so regardless of record they were ranked ahead of us. If we are winning handedly throughout the season and are undefeated I see us being the top ranked team. I think it's just as much about how you are winning as it is if you are winning.....just my newbie take on things.

To answer your question about winning handily. The day the committee came out with those seeds the Bobcats beat the absolute brakes off the gris (a playoff team) 55-17. Yes there were a few games the Cats struggled, @NAU, Home versus Weber (another playoff team), but NDSU and SDSU had squeakers by none playoffs teams as well that year.

Cats had to travel to to Brookings to play the Jacks in a bitter cold snap while the Bison hosted UIW and they nearly lost (there was a blown fumble call at the end that decided the game). It should have been UIW coming to Bozeman and NDSU traveling to Brookings. It's my opinion that the committee wanted a DSU's rematch in the title game and set the bracket up for that rather than doing a true resume based seeding job. My point here is it happened once, it could happen again.

gotcha....i guess i'm that one guy who is like throw all the monkey wrenches at me. If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball!!!!! It makes the winning so much sweeter, when you know they aren't helping you, you know without a doubt you are the best. Again maybe I'm that guy that just doesn't allow for that type of thinking to permeate in my brain. If we win out, they may hose us...eh oh well....we're good enough...go beat em in spite of, win the NC and they now they have nothing to say to us.....

To this I say take a look at the road records of playoff teams, especially QFs and SFs. It isn't pretty.

Well I think with the expansion and "new" seeding model it may level itself out. Again I get it but if gon be the best prove you are the best, not the best under certain circumstances. Again I think vastly different than most people.

I get what you are saying, but the new seeding model won't matter in the QFs and the SFs. It's almost always the #1 and #2 seed in the title game, or the team who hosted a SF if one of those happen to get knocked out. The Cats win against Sam Houston in 2021 on the road was their first road playoff win in... decades I think. Road teams win a QF once a year it seems like, road teams don't win SF games. Hasn't happened since 2016.

[MSU01]

To this I say take a look at the road records of playoff teams, especially QFs and SFs. It isn't pretty.

Well I think with the expansion and "new" seeding model it may level itself out. Again I get it but if gon be the best prove you are the best, not the best under certain circumstances. Again I think vastly different than most people.

I get what you are saying, but the new seeding model won't matter in the QFs and the SFs. It's almost always the #1 and #2 seed in the title game, or the team who hosted a SF if one of those happen to get knocked out. The Cats win against Sam Houston in 2021 on the road was their first road playoff win in... decades I think. Road teams win a QF once a year it seems like, road teams don't win SF games. Hasn't happened since 2016.

Since the playoffs expanded in 2013, home teams have a 31-13 record in quarterfinal games and a 18-4 record in semifinal games. I think that home field in those rounds is even more crucial now than it was a decade ago with so much of the top FCS talent clustered in Montana and the Dakotas. Unless I'm forgetting one, NDSU has only ever lost one home playoff game despite playing dozens of them over their run of championships. SDSU has a shorter history but has been dominant in their recent home playoff games.

[catatac]

Admittedly I am new to all of this but is there a possibility that in 22 that NDSU was a better team so regardless of record they were ranked ahead of us. If we are winning handedly throughout the season and are undefeated I see us being the top ranked team. I think it's just as much about how you are winning as it is if you are winning.....just my newbie take on things.

To answer your question about winning handily. The day the committee came out with those seeds the Bobcats beat the absolute brakes off the gris (a playoff team) 55-17. Yes there were a few games the Cats struggled, @NAU, Home versus Weber (another playoff team), but NDSU and SDSU had squeakers by none playoffs teams as well that year.

Cats had to travel to to Brookings to play the Jacks in a bitter cold snap while the Bison hosted UIW and they nearly lost (there was a blown fumble call at the end that decided the game). It should have been UIW coming to Bozeman and NDSU traveling to Brookings. It's my opinion that the committee wanted a DSU's rematch in the title game and set the bracket up for that rather than doing a true resume based seeding job. My point here is it happened once, it could happen again.

gotcha....i guess i'm that one guy who is like throw all the monkey wrenches at me. If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball!!!!! It makes the winning so much sweeter, when you know they aren't helping you, you know without a doubt you are the best. Again maybe I'm that guy that just doesn't allow for that type of thinking to permeate in my brain. If we win out, they may hose us...eh oh well....we're good enough...go beat em in spite of, win the NC and they now they have nothing to say to us.....

To this I say take a look at the road records of playoff teams, especially QFs and SFs. It isn't pretty.

Correct. Home field advantage is a REAL THING. Especially if you're in Brookings, Fargo, Bozeman, or Missoula. When people say playing at hi=om in these places is worth between 7 and 10 points, that's not a joke. So... if a team more deserving of a #1 or #2 seed gets screwed out of their spot by a team with a lesser body of work, due to politics and\or MONEY, well that is an absolute travesty. Yes I know it happens, but it is incredibly unfair.

[catatac]

I know I'm helping to perpetuate all this silly speculating when we have 11 regular season games left, but we will know a lot more after tonight, and then Saturday night's games. I'm assuming NDSU and SDSU both lose, and if they do then the Cats absolutely without a doubt control their own destiny for getting a #1 or #2 seed. If someone tells me there's a chance a 10-2 DSU team gets seeded over a 12-0 Cat team with our schedule, then I don't know anything about anything. LOL