Starting the playoff thread, would do a poll if I knew how lol.
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Starting the playoff thread, would do a poll if I knew how lol.
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Will be interesting to see which UCA team will show up.
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
FIFY ... let's sandbag each other all week !!!Originally Posted by BEAR
No sandbagging. Maybe you need to look at UCAs schedule this year. Beat Western Kentucky and Austin Peay but get blown out by Southeastern Louisiana and Nicholls. Plus add the close comeback wins over the rest of the conference and you will see I meant it depends on which team will show up.
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
I won't even be trying to sandbag .. we went 8-4, but didn't play like an 8-4 team. Hell, we should have gone 9-3, but when I compare this 2019 team to our 3 prior 6-5 teams .. I don't see much difference. This year, we were lucky the lower half of MVFC fell off and we avoided laying any eggs until game 12. Allowed us to play a lot of lackluster games and still win comfortably most of the time. We had one real nice win, couple of ok wins, and couple of bad losses to very good teams. Our pass game has let us down almost all year. But our defense and run game ensured we went 8-4. Things were just getting very tense on offense competing for the 8th seed that you guys wound up getting.
Now the pressure is off us, and we played much looser today. Our big advantage was in the trenches ... and that will probably decide our next game in terms of which offense imposes their will .. or not. But it will be UCA pass game against ISUr run game from offensive standpoint. That and we have a pretty potent defense at times .. stout against run, and dominant pass rush at times. Our cover guys are good size and do a respectable job .. so it will be interesting to see how they hold up against your pass game.
Southland passes a lot as a conference .. so the big question for our defense will be how it hold up against team that passes 65% of the time. And just the opposite for UCA .. how will they hold up against a team that runs 90% of the time, since our starting QB went down early game 11.
Should be quite a contrast on display next saturday .. all for an all expenses paid trip to Fargo in December !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you guys love to pass and suck at running.
we love to run and suck at passing.
we love to play defense and really get after the QB.
If the latter happens, I like our chances. If not, might be a rough day for us.
I like UCA's chances if they can keep the pass game consistent, even if they have their slow start. This should be a really good game. I expect the score to be fairly close.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." Samuel Johnson
UCA too complete IMO for ISU
well they rank 111th in rushing offense, which was 10th of 11 Southland teams; and 39th in run defense, good for 5th in conf.
total offense they rank 52nd in total offense, and 7th in conf; total defense they rank 84th in FCS, good for 7th in conf.
passing offense QBR, they rank 25th, good for 3rd in conf; passing defense QBR, they rank 69th in FCS, good for 5th in conf.
So while UCA has been winning most of their games, it's not like theyve been dominating, other than a strong pass game in a conference whre most teams like to pass.
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