Quote Originally Posted by UncleSam View Post
I took the time to do a little research and the above statement is not factual. Here's who Big Sky teams (other than Montana) played in their 1st and 2d round games since the last non-Montana team (EWU) was able to advance to the semi-finals way back in 1997.

'98 - none
'99 - GSU 72 NAU 29
'00 - Delaware 49 Portland St 14
'01 - Sam Houston St 34 NAU 31
'02 - McNeese St 21 Montana St 14
'03 - UNI 35 Montana St 14
'04 - EWU 35 SIU 21
'04 - 2d round - Sam Houston 35 EWU 34
'05 - UNI 41 EWU 38
'05 - 2d round Texas St 14 Cal Poly 7
'06 - Montana St 31 Furman 13
'06 - 2d round - ASU 38 Montana St 17
'07 - EWU 44 McNeese St 15
'07 - 2d round - ASU 38 EWU 35
'08 - Weber St 49 Cal Poly 35
'08 - 2d round - Montana 24 Weber St 13

There have been 15 playoff games involving Big Sky schools other than Montana and with the exception of this year, none of those playoffs games were vs other Big Sky or so called western teams.

If your looking for an excuse as to why Big Sky or western teams (other then Montana) have fairly poorly in the playoffs, you'll have to look someplace else.

It does look like things are improving out west as over the last 3 yrs a team other than Montana has won a 1st round playoff game. Hopefully that trend will continue.


http://www.fcspreview.com/history.html
That's the problem when dealing with the bandwagon people - most don't realize that FCS football has been going on for more than just this year and that's there's plenty of history. Nice job pulling that together.