The Sicatoka

Idaho and Weber should be together (600 mi < 1200 mi) because of Item 2, and the caveat of Item 6. They are not. Why? Can @Hammersmithexplain this?

Google says Moscow to Ogden by car is 600 miles. That would let them fly. By the way, Ogden to Grand Forks is double, 1200 miles. Now read Item 2 again. (Rare is the time @Hammersmithis to be corected, but this is one.)

@FightingSU as we speak ...

He admitted MT. Beyond that it's not mine to disclose.

Either 'george' is a good hacker (and server/IP bouncing) or he's somewhere near ------, MT.

So now the FCS committee is at BIll Swerski's in Chicago and running hypotheticals to make decisions? "Now, gentlemen, let me ask you this: What if Da Bears were all 14 inches tall, you know, about so high? Now, what’s your score of today’s game?"

Dominic Gonnella --> Tyler Hoosman 2.0? I had to link his ESPN page; his NDSU page is gone like yesterday.

Massey ratings applied to 2022 FCS bracket delivered by NCAA: Left side (27 v 41) v 2 (28 v 37) v 9 (30 v 44) v 8 (4 v 15) v 3 Right side (10 v 19) v 5 (25 v 13) v 6 (11 v 18) v 7 (20 v 93) v 1 Looks like Massey4 took the short end and got no bye. Oh, wait, that's Weber.

Please expound. Examples appreciated.

Current Massey: 1-20 (bold did not make 24 team field): SacSt SDSU Mont St Weber St NDSU Samford Inc Word W&M HolyCross Montana Furman UC Davis Idaho Jacksonville St UND UNI Jackson St Elon SEMO Richmond Others: 25 SE Louisiana 27 Delaware 28 New Hampshire 30 EKU 37 Fordham 41 St Francis 44 Gardner Webb 93 Davidson

Seven wins minimum is the criteria ... until it's not. Then, Better bid is the criteria ... until it's not. Then, Performance is the criteria ... < wait for it, it's coming > ... And each time the criteria changes it seems to be UND that is damaged by it. Once is curious. Twice is coincidence. Thrice? It's a pattern, not a coincidence.

( stogies and scotch ) <<< analytics Sorry if you were told there'd be no math.

Still, it's quite the finger in the NDSU eye by Sproles.

Prima facie it is suspicious. Nichols. Now.

Narrator: For those unaware, the Kootenai were a tribe indigenous to the area today known as Montana.

There be some hot Penguins in Ohio.

Epic burn.

@Gothmog, prima facie the NCAA screwed UND ... again. Before: Lower bid (by one slot) but actual safe for student athlete facilities (versus dressing in tents). So it's the bid, right? Now: Better bid but "performance" criteria wins the decision. If I'm wrong, please explain it.

At risk of repeating myself:

'tis so. https://masseyratings.com/cf2022/5035

There are better ways to cheat.

Because Charles E. Kupchella dared stand up to them once. Bureaucracies have long (and vindictive) memories. This is the perfect stab. Change your name or else. You can't mandate that. Yes we can, and if you don't, no home playoffs. We'll change but begrudgingly. Oh, by the way, the playoff criteria changed; no home playoffs for you.

Brad Berry needs to get his house in order.

This makes one wonder how long such hijinks and shenanigans have been afoot in NCAA FCS playoff seeds and what their impacts have been.