The Sicatoka

Assuming that bracket was a straight 1-16 seeding weave, 1-16 are ... SDSU SHSU JMU Jacksonville St Delaware North Dakota NDSU Weber St S Illinois EWU Missouri State Sacred Heart Davidson VMI Monmouth Holy Cross

https://masseyratings.com/cf/fcs/games?dt=20210424 Massey expects all home teams to win. Massey sees the closest game of round one being EWU at NDSU. The Massey list from expected closest to expected blowouts: EWU@NDSU SIU@Weber Monmouth@SHSU MoSt@UND VMI@JMU SHU@Delaware HolyCross@SDSU Davidson@JacksonvilleSt

Was. Fixed. I looked at the UND game and saw MoSt and got fooled by a prediction bracket. (Should've picked up the error of SDSU at 2, instead of 1.)

A cleaner view is here: https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/football/fcs/2021

@jimdahl @jimdahl @jimdahl Let see if that works like this ...

How long has it been since NDSU was not champ or co-champ of the MVFC? Asking for a friend ...

Ya gotta win four games. I’d rather team feel slighted than satisfied.

Watched Fargo and Waterloo last night. Dane Montgomery needs another year of juniors to get stronger along the walls. He was decent on draws was technically sound as a center. It might be Waterloo's style of play but at times I thought Luke Bast was playing forward. He was up the ice a lot. But even in a game that was over, and down a man to a major, he made an amazing play to stop a tap-in power play goal.

Gotten notice for your six month booster yet?

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Um ...

Herald says "cousin". https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/4439021-jake-schmaltz-cousin-jordan-and-nick-commits-und

So you're saying they could have really used ... "... a quality loss ... " (c)UNI Somebody had to say it.

They did ... by not raising prices.

I like your words, but unless you can tell me this year's "Stogies, Scotch, and Smoke-filled Room" selection committee admittance password (to the backroom at the BreakWind, um ..., WindBreak, at the Fargo Flying J*) I'm not believing until Sunday morning and the release of the bracket. *defending champion always hosts the smoke-filled room selection committee meeting in a most glorious locale

Earl Weaver looks down from above and smirks.

Cartman ... is that you?

I get the frustration and the desire to play, but it's too late to get MoState to GF for Saturday. Honestly, it was too late at noon Monday. MoState has done no prep; they probably have been doing light drills and little contact this week knowing no game. It would not be fair to them on Wednesday night to tell them be in GF for a game Saturday afternoon. Put the blame where it goes: if YSU was going to bail they should've said so noon Sunday. If YSU had done that, it would be up to the MVFC and fair to both teams should the league reschedule MoState @ UND. That said, there's no way knowing if the MVFC would've done the reschedule. My guess is they would not have. Why? Should UND lose at home the MVFC probably only gets two teams in; this way three teams in the playoffs is more likely.

Last time we had that much time between games we won four in a row.

Unbelievable. It's not even Covid, just weak sause. https://valley-football.org/news/2021/4/14/football-mvfc-cancels-youngstown-state-north-dakota-game.aspx Then again, also in that link ... Hang it.

Looks like the one-transfer (with no sit-out year) rule, and the transfer portal, are becoming the new reality right about now.

Good grief ...

WMU may have just become the pre-season favorite.

It's almost like it aligns to enrollment or alumni populations. Whodathunkit.