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FCS playoff committee chair Jermaine Truax explains why Montana Grizzlies made the field https://406mtsports.com/college/big-sky-conference/university-of-montana/fcs-playoff-committee-chair-jermaine-truax-explains-why-montana-grizzlies-made-the-field/article_648e48aa-69ee-11ed-a05a-5b8c74acc4e0.html So let me get this straight. Here are the reasons Montana made it into the playoff field: - "Quality loses" against the best teams in the Big Sky - Loses were when their QB was out, so....MAYBE they would have won - "Success" against MVFC teams (even though those teams finished 9th and 10th in the conference standings" - "Success" against a Southland team that finished the season 4-7 - "Student athlete experience" - The finanacial bid wasn't a factor. Got it. Makes perfect sense. Well deserved Montana!!

Silver lining....This has provided a nice distraction from arguing about the game result Saturday to arguing about the playoff committee decisions!!

Remember, against Montana St, Weber had 4 punts that were snapped over the head of the punter and all resulted in a safety. This is defintiely one aspect of the game UND has the edge in considering all our punt and kick blocks this year.

Disagree. Committe members aren't watching tape of national anthems of games. Come on. And, how many people say "Sioux" at the end of the anthem at football games? The 20 students in their hockey jerseys?!

When you really break it down, it's better to be on the road in the playoffs than sitting at home not playing at all.

You guys are all "Selection Deniers"

SEMO went 9-2 and won thier conference. They have to go on the road against a 7-4 Montana team that finished 6th in their conference. So in that matchup, they went with the highest bid not game performance. So why use one citeria in one scenario, and a differenct criteria in the other?! That's the fustrating part.

The Selection Committee basically awarded Weber the 9 seed and gave them a home playoff game.

Clearly bids don't mean anything. If you are going to award teams based off "team performance" than just seed every team in the field to remove all doubt.

I would too if I had to play for Entz! Surprised they lasted this long!!

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Bids will be made public I assume. So before we rip in Chaves and the bedding, let’s wait and see the numbers first.

On the road to Weber.

NDSU gets the 3. Different side of the bracket as Montana St and SDSU. If you are a Bison fan, couldn’t ask for a better scenario.

Not sure what offense that was, but that was not the Fighting Hawks offense I’ve seen all year. WTF was that Danny?!

Tell me the worst case scenario for the first half. We are watching it.

#LGH

UND wins, gets seeded, NDSU has to play on Thansgiving weekend, if they win they come to the Alerus Center!! Now that would be pretty good!!

Bold Prediction alert. If UND scored more points than NDSU on Saturday, they are going to win.

Yeah, Youngstown plays Southern Illinois. So not sure what Kolpack is talking about. Muct have been looking at last weeks game. (Which Missouri State won) If Youngstown wins and UND loses, they have pretty similar season: - Both 7-4 - Both 5-3 in the MVFC - Both with an FBS loss - Both teams "bad losses" would be teams thatlikely finish 5-6 What pushes UND over the top is their SOS is going to be much higher than Youngstown. Plus, oh I don't know, WE BEAT THEM!! And on the road. If 3 MVFC teams make the playoffs, the 3rd is almost certainly UND, no Youngstown. (In my unbiased humble oinion )

For those that are looking to see what the banter is over on Bisonville about this game, I suggest you don't waste your time. YOur typical not taking us seriously, this game means more to UND cause they think we are their rivals, and othe stuff that us utter nonsense. Makes you really appreciate the people over here on Siouxsports. Sure we have our random thread drifing moments, but at least we can have a thread and even with fans of another schoola nd have a confversation. Just a complete dumpster dfire over there. I can't imagine what it would be like on there if they lose on Saturday!!

If a 7/4 UND team given our strength of scheduled and owho we lost to does not make the playoffs, I will be shocked. It would be more shocking than when we were left out in 2015 in my opinion.

If we win, we are in, but I doubt that will get us seeded. Too many 1 and 2 loss teams that would be ahead of us. If we beat the Biuson, I think that definitely knocks them out as a seeded team.

NDSU definitely beatable. We are good enough to win and NDSU is bad enough to lose next weekend.

Salukis and Penguins both lose. We are in.