Sioux94

I think Fruechte is on the hot seat, but if the offense gets hot the rest of the way.....he'll probably be back. Im hoping for a clean game by the offense this week to get back on track and that we are saying Jerry football again....in a positive manner.

We basically gave USD 16 points, and our offense was bad that day too....and it was still close in their house. Doubt USD keeps it close in Fargo. Indiana State had just beaten SDSU, so USD beating them doesn't mean much IMO without their starting QB. USD may have turned a little bit of a corner....but I dont know if its as much as it may seem.

Assuming we win the next two, we have to hope for the 7 or 10 seed to stay out of NDSU bracket. Mercer is #7 on that one., interesting when I look at their schedule, their game against UC Davis on August 23rd was canceled. But now they play Auburn the last weekend of the season on November 22nd. So they will likely have another loss, but an FBS loss. They have one FCS loss 15-10 to Presbyterian at beginning of the season. Mercer lost 31-7 to NDSU in playoffs last year.

Right...either 8 or 9 would suck.

Whatever happens....I just dont want the #8 seed, that would be worse case scenario. Which then means its also probably the most likely to happen.

Neither are at least 14 other teams on that bracket. It's all speculation, but its fun....we are fans....that is what we do.

I agree with that. As playoff committee is going to look at the season as a whole. Where rankings sometimes depend on your last few games. If we beat SDSU pretty easily, I think we will be at least considered for top 8.

Depending on how rest of the year goes, there could be a couple of coaching changes in the off season. There won't be any though mid-season. I get the frustration of a few who said the OC should be gone by Monday, zero chance that was gonna happen or even during the rest of the season.

A long time friend from High School who went to NDSU and has SU season tickets said our defense is annoying, which is of course a compliment. We were texting some during the game....he said he felt like we were a top tier team the way we were playing. Win the next two, and hopefully still be on opposite side of the bracket as NDSU.

Unfortunately I have to agree. Defense played a monster game, we aren't holding them to 15 again in the Fargodome. NDSU is the better overall team, but we had a chance for the upset and blew it. If we played them in the Fargodome in the playoffs, I dont think its as close as last Saturday. That said, we have proven we can play well on the road under Schmidt, so not saying we couldnt win, but I sure wouldn't be betting on it.

I know Im crazy, but Im still holding out hope that we finally win one of these close ones in the playoffs against a good team. Need to win the next two first.

When they run blitz off the edge because everybody in the building knows the play call....that is on the OC. Before the snap I was like, are we really going to run the QB keeper up the right side again? I was wondering, maybe there is a wrinkle built into thus formation. Nope, same exact f'ing play as we ran the previous 4th down.

Poor scouting to not have our OL be ready for the SU DL shift. We had 3 false starts....in our own building due to this. Did they not see this in film, and maybe have the scout team due this in practice so they were used to it??

Yeah, in a game like this.....needs to be loud on every down.

Yes he will be back by the time we play them is what I understand.