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Current look at the seating chart for 12/03

This was a season turning performance before their series against Michigan State. I want to wait until the Christmas break to fully evaluate the team, but there's so much promise. Their schedule the last 8 has been absolutely brutal and 2-4-2 is not a good record, but they haven't been that far off in the games they've lost. Wolanin is an absolute stud and Shaw has been better his sophomore year than I expected. The sophomore class as a unit has stepped up and the freshman are getting used to the grind. Get to 9-4-2 with a sweep next weekend and they are on par with early season projections.

I think the best possible situation would be both UND and SDSU getting seeds, regardless if UND is higher. If SDSU wins, that looks to be the likely scenario.

Same

William & Mary comes up big! Now onto SHSU / UCA.

TERRIBLE clock management, that play call on 3rd down was awful too. Run the damn ball and bleed the clock.

I'll never understand the lack of clock management skills from college coaches. Why W&M took a timeout on 3rd and 4 at the beginning of the play clock when the clock was running is beyond me. That single handily cost them 3 points as Richmond kicked a FG with 4 seconds left in the half. Richmond 13 W&M 6 Half W&M has had the play in the red zone 3 times and only has 6 points. The big story line for the second half is if Richmond's QB is out for the day.

W&M has looked better as the game as progressed. Should be a fun finish. Richmond 10 W&M 3 5:44 Left Q2

Richmond 10 W&M 3 -- Huge holding them to a field goal, W&M's defense isn't good.

See bracketology thread, there's a link.

Richmond 7 W&M 3 -- Richmond moves down and scores with little trouble. Not sure if W&M's offense has picked up a yard yet.

Q1: W&M 3 Richmond 0

Richmond fumbled opening kickoff, was recovered by W&M. W&M 3 Richmond 0

That's a really good point that I didn't really think about before you said it. Of course teams (like SDSU last year) have probably been the 9 team sent on the road, but this is the first year that everyone knows for a fact who the #9 team is. Given that both are flights, I would think that they'd match whoever is #9 and #10 (UND, SDSU, Richmond, UCA) with teams that they could outbid. It would look really bad to have UND go play at Montana. Great point.

I feel good that UNI is playing for their playoff lives, not just trying to play spoiler (& playing at home). I'd bet on UNI beating SDSU, so hopefully the entire SDSU jumping UND discussion just turns out to be mid-week chatter.

NDSU losing will have no effect on UND or anyone looking at the 7 & 8 spot, they'll just drop down to #4 or #5 and everyone else will shuffle up a spot.

I can see arguments for both SDSU and UND. I keep pointing to Tuesdays rankings, because imo, if you think SDSU has a better resume, then you put them at #9, UND #10. Winning against a team that would finish under .500 should not move a team ahead of anyone. If that happens, UND fans will have the right to be upset.

Yes we would, not sure why I did that, fixed on my original post.

Add Richmond @ William & Mary at 11am. Nice separation between each games start times. Richmond @ William & Mary - 11am UCA @ SHSU - 2:30pm SDSU @ UNI - 4pm If two out of the 3 teams that are in bold win, UND is a lock for a seed. If only one wins, then it'll be interesting. IMO, I'm still not sold that Richmond or SDSU would get a seed before UND with a win on Saturday. Would prefer there not to be a discussion though with both losing on Saturday. Love the start times to these games!

Poly / Griz should be an open and shut case. There's really no argument to be made for Griz > Poly. Poly has the head to head win, best win out of either team (SDSU), much stronger SOS. Arguments can be made when it comes to SDSU / UND and who is higher. Not one for Poly / Griz.

Wouldn't that be something, this years committee is Quality wins > bad losses, last years was Bad Losses > Quality wins.

Who knows how it'll end up, but I'll have a huge problem if this scenario plays out. I think there's an argument for both UND and SDSU to get the #8 seed, it's basically a coin flip. It wouldn't be so much with SDSU getting the seed that would be infuriating, it'd be with them jumping UND to get it. It would be them beating a team that would be 5-6, while UND had a bye. If you think they have the better overall resume, then you vote them #9 this week and I have no problem with it.

Were there any surprises from the selection committee last night? Especially in the 7-10 spots? Maybe Central Arkansas jumping Richmond, but everybody had to figure that UND would be 9 and SDSU would be 10, right? So, the committee's rankings come out, like most had to have expected and all of a sudden it appears SDSU is a lock to jump UND with a win over a team that would end up being a game under 500? What changed between Tuesday (day) and after the updated committee selections came out? I guess I'll wait to see what the national guys have to say, but found the local reporters reactions really weird. Were they surprised SDSU was #10? If SDSU would jump UND with a win, wouldn't it make more sense to just put them #9 this week? Would make everything less messy. Maybe it's a how the game is played situation. If SDSU wins by 6 or less, than they'll stay behind UND. If they win big, then they'd jump. I'd really like someone that knows what's going on to break down the scenarios.

New Playoff Projection from Craig Haley. Tonight is obviously more important where they are ranked, but Craig seems to be as knowledgeable as it gets (believe he was the only one who predicted that UND wouldn't make it last year).

Montana is still a really tough team to play when they are at home. They've struggled a lot though on the road, so a lot of playing Montana is where.