Polls

[Nodak78]

Sam Herder has a good podcast with chairman of the selection committee.  Sounds like each voting member can weight each piece of information how ever they want to.  Eliminate bias.  No way.  Coaches poll could no weight or huge weight by individual members.

https://herosports.com/fcs-podcast-playoff-committee-chair-jermaine-truax-bzbz/

 

[SiouxFan100]

???????

wont move down 

[SWSiouxMN]

I'll say 16-17

[BarnWinterSportsEngelstad]

The Bookies will put the home team Bison as favorites.
? B, how appealing will the points be?

[Und246]

Possibly 15 or 16

[Dustin]

#11 on Massey

https://masseyratings.com/cf/fcs/ratings

[The Sicatoka]

12 hours ago, BarnWinterSportsEngelstad said:

The Bookies will put the home team Bison as favorites.
? B, how appealing will the points be?

Whatever it needs to be to make the books balance and take their vig. 

[BarnWinterSportsEngelstad]

16 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

Whatever it needs to be to make the books balance and take their vig. 

They lay the line down before a bet is made.

Then after bets start they may try to balance the book.

[The Sicatoka]

The opening line is set (guessed) to balance the incoming bets. If the first guess is off they move the line to restore balance.

It’s all about the vig. The house ain’t doing this as a public service. 

[BarnWinterSportsEngelstad]

Public service, take a breath.
Holy Moly.

[Sioux94]

13 hours ago, Und246 said:

Possibly 15 or 16

I don't think it will be that high....I  would guess 8-9. 

[Oxbow6]

Herder has UND at 20

[BarnWinterSportsEngelstad]

9 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

Herder has UND at 20

Ouch.
That's not good enough, need better tomorrow.

[SiouxFan100]

 

School	Big Sky	Overall
Sacramento State	7-0	10-0
Montana State	7-0	9-1
Weber State	5-2	8-2
Idaho	5-2	6-4
UC Davis	5-2	6-4
Montana	4-3	7-3
Portland State	3-4	4-6
Northern Arizona	2-5	3-7
Northern Colorado	2-5	3-7
Eastern Washington	1-6	2-8
Idaho State	1-6	1-9
Cal Poly	0-7	1-9

[forksandspoons]

44 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

Herder has UND at 20

He’s a Bison fan doing what he can to keep UND out. 

[UND-FB-FAN]

35 minutes ago, forksandspoons said:

He’s a Bison fan doing what he can to keep UND out. 

I completely agree. I have never been fooled by the “Hero Sports” masquerade. It’s quite sickening. 

[SiouxHawkGuy]

The clowns over at fcs fans nation have North Dakota out of the bracket. 

[UND1983]

29 minutes ago, SiouxHawkGuy said:

The clowns over at fcs fans nation have North Dakota out of the bracket. 

I am dumber for having watched that. They like EKU's resume more than like 4-5 other teams. 

[The Sicatoka]

Per Massey, this time next week UND will have played the second toughest schedule in FCS (behind only USD) and will have no fewer than 7 wins. 

______________________________

Herder: "When you have a weaker SOS (Holy Cross 72nd, Jackson State 114th), I need to see you dominate and outclass inferior opponents." Sounds good. But what about when you have a monster SOS and 42-7 (InStU) a weaker opponent on their field. 

[forksandspoons]

Just win on Saturday!!

[homer]

22 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

Per Massey, this time next week UND will have played the second toughest schedule in FCS (behind only USD) and will have no fewer than 7 wins. 

______________________________

Herder: "When you have a weaker SOS (Holy Cross 72nd, Jackson State 114th), I need to see you dominate and outclass inferior opponents." Sounds good. But what about when you have a monster SOS and 42-7 (InStU) a weaker opponent on their field. 

I have read a post on this board from a “real” UND fan that our SOS is only inflated because #1 SDSU was on it………. 

[forksandspoons]

 

[forksandspoons]

I find it hilarious that all of a sudden people are pushing for the best conference in the country every season to only get two teams into the playoffs 

[siouxfan512]

This is where the polls can get frustrating and even a single loss can be such a setback (SIU). That knocked us back out of the polls after we were already in and now we have had to claw and scratch just to get back to 17. Even with a win against NDSU, how much could we really move up? We would definitely move up a bit (maybe even get a vote in the coaches poll) but how much? A seed would be in play, but how high of a seed? As of now NDSU looks to the #3 (which is absurd) .... so UND should be at least that if we hit 8-3 with a win over the Bison and a tougher SOS , right? So wrong, I'll bet even with a win this weekend we slide in as the #8.

[SiouxHawkGuy]

MVFC usually gets 4-5 teams in. “Oh wait UND is in 3rd place... only 2 this year.”