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the current tiebreaker:
1. Head-to-head Competition
2. Record against common CONFERENCE opponents in descending order
3. Record against common NON-CONFERENCE opponents
4. Sagarin Rating
5. Coin...

Idaho State let Cal Poly back in it. Poly scored quickly on the opening drive of the 2nd half, down 17-14.

7 Cal Poly
17 @Idaho St., halftime
CP scored on its last drive and will receive the 2nd half kickoff.

not anymore :)

First drives can be the easiest to score, too. Gotta take advantage.

The problem with taking the top 13 at larges is that it's impossible to know who the last few are. They have to use things like conference standings, schedule strength, big wins, bad losses,...

another Troy Dannen interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCotwOXYY44

some things I pulled out of it:

The number of Division I wins is the main factor. An FBS win helps, but won't overcome...

The committee didn't seem to do much with SRS last year, either. Accurate ratings are tough in football cuz there are so few games and very little interconnecting of schedules. In sports where they...

Five bus rides can save over a million bucks. The cash is in part used for other sport championships that run deep in the red.

Sorry about that, I should have put a [...] for the red part. I cut it because it didn't matter. The rule is "An unopposed ball carrier obviously altering stride as he approaches the opponent’s...

I took a shot at drawing the neutral zone line and can't say if 2 guys encroached or not. It's too blurry to say precisely where the ball, foot, and hand are. The guy by the far sideline is the...

Several UC live ball fouls can get the live ball penalty. They're dead ball if someone on the sidelines commits it.

SRS is a heavily changed and hopefully improved RPI. It uses win-loss differential which means a 9-3 record gets an advantage over 8-3. It can end up being a disadvantage where the extra win was at...

4th down was correct. It's crystal clear in the rulebook. I have no doubt that it was highstepping for no good reason I'm ridiculously biased for Poly.

The only fixes that I'd call realistic are either to strike the rule or to lessen the yards stepped off (bring the ball back to the spot or penalize less yardage -- 5 yards would have been a 1st down...

The refs understand just fine. Nobody on defense was positioned where either possibility could be the case. All he had to do was keep running in open space for an easy TD.

Oh yeah, true. *erase*

Maybe it should be, but that isn't how the rule is written or enforced these days. When it's that obvious, the refs will toss flags everytime. "Really? Really?!? *toss*"

And then there is...

It wasn't a first down because it is a live ball penalty and the ball ended up on the 18.

The rule interpretation says mere highstepping rates the flag and 15-yard penalty.

official NCAA interpretation of the rule: "Third and 15 at the B-20. Eligible A88 catches a pass at the B-18 and heads for the goal line. At the B-10 he goes into a “goose step” and continues this...

Does Big Sky's head-to-head tiebreaker require all of the teams in the tie to have played each other? I can't find anything official on that. It's good for EWU if so, NAU if not.

I'd say he has Eastern Washington, Montana and Cal Poly winning out, too. Montana and Cal Poly are real iffy to do that.

He might have SELA winning Southland with a couple of possible seeds...

Craig Haley's bracket where he seeds after guessing how future games will go
http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot/news/newstest.aspx?id=4735465

South Dakota...

highstepping video
http://www.ksby.com/news/cal-poly-earns-fifth-straight-victory-with-35-27-upset-of-no-8-9-montana-state

I wouldn't want to be him at the next practice.