Division II Football Committee - 27FEB2006

[SiouxMD]

Football committee proposes new set of selection criteria - 27FEB2006

Goto "View The NCAA News Online " at the bottom of the page...

"Since the quality-of-winning-percentage index no longer will be used in selection of teams for Division II championships beginning in 2006-07, the Division II Football Committee focused during its February 8-10 meeting in Indianapolis on elements of the selection criteria for its upcoming championships.

Committee chair Bob Boerigter said the group has relied on the tool to help fill the bracket for the football championship. But since the index

[jimdahl]

If the recommendation is approved by the Division II Championships Committee, games against Division I-AA opponents will no longer be a part of the primary criteria in the selection process.

If a Division II institution competes against a Division I-AA sponsored team, it will still be evaluated, but it won't carry the same weight as it used to. Previously, institutions could rely on games against Division I-AA programs as a way to improve strength of schedule.

Argh, the two year window of sanity seems to have closed. Looks like we missed our last chance to play NDSU ever again, unless we reclassify.

The recommendation calls for the primary criteria to be an institution's Division II won-loss record and its Division II strength of schedule. These won't be the only ingredients to the formula, which will consist of a worksheet that will be studied in depth by the committee.

"Of course, we continue to look at head-to-head competition and results against common opponents," said Boerigter, director of athletics at Northwest Missouri State University. "As we begin to evaluate the Division II won-lost record, we're trying to determine how they did against teams with a .500 or worse record, or teams with a better than .500 record.

Sounds sort of like a poorly defined PWR -- RPI + common opponents + H2H + TUCs (+ antiTUCs???), though with arbitrary weighting and smoky room fudge factors.

[RD17]

I do know the football committee was giving serious consideration to allowing each school to "exempt" one non-D2 game from playoff consideration. So UND could play a I-AA school and it wouldn't count at all towards the playoff selection process. From reading the article, apparently that didn't make the cut this time around but I would be willing to bet it is there next year.

The part that really bothers me is that they wait until after everyone has scheduled to tell us what the selection criteria are going to be. I don't understand why this stuff can't be taken care of in November or December.