Selection Committee Rankings (11/9)

[Professor Chaos]

Georgia Southern and App St are just going to halftime now on ESPNU so the new rankings should be out soon. I'll update this post with them when they show them.

Here they are:

1. JMU
2. JSU
3. UCA
4. NDSU
5. SHSU
6. Elon
7. SDSU
8. Wofford
9. South Dakota
10. North Carolina A&T

[mamberso]

I'm old enough to remember when a game between App and Southern mattered.


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[TheKingpin28]

Georgia Southern and App St are just going to halftime now on ESPNU so the new rankings should be out soon. I'll update this post with them when they show them.

I completely forgot about it. If NDSU drops below 4, then that will be an eye opener.

[Professor Chaos]

Borderline amazed that they actually talked about the FCS a bit this week. Showed highlights from the SDSU/NDSU and UNI/USD games along with giving some details on upcoming big games amongst top 10 teams (they mentioned NDSU/USD and Elon/JMU).

[Southern Bison]

Borderline amazed that they actually talked about the FCS a bit this week. Showed highlights from the SDSU/NDSU and UNI/USD games along with giving some details on upcoming big games amongst top 10 teams (they mentioned NDSU/USD and Elon/JMU).

JSU & UCA pass the Bison? Their SoS is weak compared to any MVFC team.

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[Professor Chaos]

JSU & UCA pass the Bison? Their SoS is weak compared to any MVFC team.

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I'd say the Bison still can move back to #2. It's obvious that the committee still likes USD at #9 so with a win there I think they can impress. The committee chair called out the quality of the MVFC as well in his blurb (or "interview" as they called it) this week so I'd have to imagine an outright MVFC championship would mean something to them.

[TheKingpin28]

I'd say the Bison still can move back to #2. It's obvious that the committee still likes USD at #9 so with a win there I think they can impress. The committee chair called out the quality of the MVFC as well in his blurb (or "interview" as they called it) this week so I'd have to imagine an outright MVFC championship would mean something to them.

I was not able to watch, but from this, what you are saying is if #4 NDSU beats #9 USeD and then a T15/20, the odds are that they will seed NDSU opposite of JMU, and then if SDSU wins out, at 7 to ensure a bottleneck of Valley teams on one side and a rematch of the best game in FCS football if both teams win out? (I had to, the Marker Game is just something as big as Casey's Breakfast Pizza with Extra Bacon. ) I could see WIU "sneaking" into the 8 spot, to satisfy the MVFC rule, and to ensure USeD, NDSU, SDSU, and UNI on one side for "bus trip" purposes and then send both schools to rematches.

NDSU-USeD: 303 Miles
NDSU-UNI: 455 Miles (NGTH)
NDSU-SDSU: 190 Miles

SDSU-USeD: 116 Miles
SDSU-UNI: 353 Miles

So I could see a OVC team (EIU if they beat APU next week to end the season) vs UNI game and the winner goes to SDSU since UNI is "too far" from NDSU which creates another bus trip if UNI wins and then the USeD vs BS/San Diego winner gets sent to Fargo with the hopes that USeD wins to recreate a matchup, but another cost saving bus trip, with all of those teams within bus range for the following week (except NDSU-UNI)

EIU vs UNI = Winner VS SDSU

USeD vs BS/SD = Winner vs NDSU

Winner of Game 2 vs Winner of Game 4

So looking at 4 out of 5 potential bus trips is too hard for the committee to pass up and make it work like this.

[JSUSoutherner]

I was not able to watch, but from this, what you are saying is if #4 NDSU beats #9 USeD and then a T15/20, the odds are that they will seed NDSU opposite of JMU, and then if SDSU wins out, at 7 to ensure a bottleneck of Valley teams on one side and a rematch of the best game in FCS football if both teams win out? I could see WIU "sneaking" into the 8 spot just to ensure USeD, NDSU, SDSU, and UNI on one side for "bus trip" purposes and then send both schools to rematches.

NDSU-USeD: 303 Miles
NDSU-UNI: 455 Miles (NGTH)
NDSU-SDSU: 190 Miles

SDSU-USeD: 116 Miles
SDSU-UNI: 353 Miles

So I could see a OVC team (EIU if they beat APU next week to end the season) vs UNI game and the winner goes to SDSU since UNI is "too far" from NDSU which creates another bus trip if UNI wins and then the USeD vs BS/San Diego winner gets sent to Fargo with the hopes that USeD wins to recreate a matchup, but another cost saving bus trip, with all of those teams within bus range for the following week (except NDSU-UNI)

EIU vs UNI = Winner VS SDSU

USeD vs BS/SD = Winner vs NDSU

Winner of Game 2 vs Winner of Game 4

So looking at 4 out of 5 potential bus trips is too hard for the committee to pass up and make it work like this.

EIU is out. The only possible OVC At Large is APSU.

[PantherRob82]

JSU & UCA pass the Bison? Their SoS is weak compared to any MVFC team.

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Really? I haven’t heard anything about SoS. Explain more.

[OhioHen]

JSU & UCA pass the Bison? Their SoS is weak compared to any MVFC team.

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They could put NDSU at 2 and keep SDSU at 7 to guarantee a quarterfinal matchup. Would you prefer that scenario to the Bison seeded to play SHSU and the Jacks to play JSU?