Quote Originally Posted by taper View Post
WIU didn't even bid that year. They were 6-5 and IIRC had already put away all their equipment when they were selected. A last week win against #5 SDSU got them on the bubble.
Pretty much, yeah. We thought maybe we had an outside chance at being selected due to SOS, although until then, no 6-5 team had ever received an at-large bid. Adding to that, we were not in a financial situation to be putting forth much of a bid anyway and probably figured that anyone we were likely to be matched up with, we would be outbid by, so we didn't submit a bid. Getting Dayton was a pretty big surprise to us since EIU was also an unseeded team in the playoffs that year and Chattanooga also might have been bus ride distance. This was that bracket: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/football/fcs/2015