Quote Originally Posted by Professor Chaos View Post
Sorry if you take offense to this but the SWAC as a whole, not just a few teams, needs to upgrade their game if an 8 win SWAC team that doesn't win their league is going to be a playoff team. Last year 9-2 McNeese missed out and I'd argue the SLC was head and shoulders above the SWAC last year.

Also, isn't the SWAC title game done? So, presumably, the 2nd best team in the SWAC would be eligible for the playoffs if that isn't Grambling or Southern?
I don't take offense to what you said here at all. It's honestly objective and could be said about the MEAC as a whole too. It's theoretically possible for the SWAC to land At-Large bids. But for that to happen, teams overall have to drastically improve their OOC scheduling, and win those games. If Alcorn, Alabama A&M, Pine Bluff, Jackson State, Valley, Prairie View, and Texas Southern gave themselves a winning record collectively against quality OOC competition, they could give themselves compelling resumes for bids. If they do that, the 2nd place team in either division could have a compelling argument to get in at 8-3 or even 7-4.

The MEAC has to do this too, and to many of their member teams, they do schedule quality teams. But that doesn't matter if they don't win.

Overall, it's a tough thing to do when you're also looking to schedule games that maximize your school's athletic budget, not just the football program. Oftentimes, most of us are looking for FBS money games, compelling classics or looking for FCS teams that will pay to play.