2021 Fall Playoffs Round 1: UT Martin @ Missouri State

[MSUDuo]

After such a long drought and how this program has languished....I hope you guys roll!!



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I wish the price point on the tickets was lower so that we could pack Plaster full but I won't be missing this for anything!

[JSUSoutherner]

This should be a landslide for the Bears. But I've seen the Bears lose games they shouldn't and I've seen UT-Martin win games they shouldn't. Jason Simpson does an excellent job out there with fewer resources than just about anyone and I suspect he'll have the team ready to play.

So this game should be all Bears but a closer than expected game wouldn't surprise me.

[Mfergy4]

We were probably 1 win shy of being seeded (though I think we still should've been) but I'll be damned if this isn't the most I've ever been excited for a Bears game!!!

Dude make me a liar and blow up the score board!

[MSUWineGuy]

I’m just hoping for a competitive game and for all those kids to have fun.


and for Missouri State to win by 70.

[Chalupa Batman]

This would be one of the bigger upsets of the first round if UT-Martin pulled it off. Hopefully, Missouri State uses being robbed of a national seed as motivation and not feeling disappointed.

I'll be there to watch my first in-person FCS playoff game.

You weren't robbed. Many other years you would've gotten a seed but this was an unusually tough year to get a seed.

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This will be a 30 point blowout.

FIFY

[mvemjsunpx]

Missouri State is probably the best team playing this week (they should've been a seed), and UTM is just a good-but-not-great team with 0 notable wins. The Bears should win pretty easy.

[JSUSoutherner]

Missouri State is probably the best team playing this week (they should've been a seed), and UTM is just a good-but-not-great team with 0 notable wins. The Bears should win pretty easy.

Teams that lose to Youngstown State don't deserve seeds.

[MSUDuo]

Teams that lose to Youngstown State don't deserve seeds.

Because seeds are solely based on a single game...

[Professor Chaos]

I wish the price point on the tickets was lower so that we could pack Plaster full but I won't be missing this for anything!

I believe there is an NCAA rule that schools cannot charge lower for the playoffs than they do for their cheapest regular season game since the NCAA gets 75% of the net gate receipts for playoff games. I believe it's for this reason that NDSU still has one regular season home game each year where tickets prices are ~$30 for endzone and ~$40 for sidelines when all the rest of the games are at least $10 per ticket more than that now.

[MSUDuo]

I believe there is an NCAA rule that schools cannot charge lower for the playoffs than they do for their cheapest regular season game since the NCAA gets 75% of the net gate receipts for playoff games. I believe it's for this reason that NDSU still has one regular season home game each year where tickets prices are ~$30 for endzone and ~$40 for sidelines when all the rest of the games are at least $10 per ticket more than that now.

Well, we had $3 tickets against UNI so there was no worry of going lower.

I'm afraid $20 is going to be steep for the casual fan in Springfield