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Playoff predictions

get'em_griz said:
Honestly, this whole talk of MSU being 7-0 reminds me a lot of when the Griz started 5-0 a few years back, and then the train just derailed. Think we lost 2 or 3 games the rest of the year.

The Griz started 5-0 thanks to a weaker opening schedule and then got punched in the mouth in the 2nd half of the season. Bobcats benefited from a weak opening schedule to go 6-0. We'll see if they can maintain it in the second half.
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Well, we also lost our starting QB for 2 of our hardest road games, and the back half of our schedule that year was much harder than their remaining schedule this year.
 
ilovethecats said:
What season was that?
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2022. We were 5-0 to start, lost to Idaho, then played @ #2 Sac and @ #5 Weber in back to back weeks with our backup. Then we got clobbered in Bozeman by the #3 cats.

Much more similar to your schedule last year than your schedule this year.
 
uofmman1122 said:
2022. We were 5-0 to start, lost to Idaho, then played @ #2 Sac and @ #5 Weber in back to back weeks with our backup. Then we got clobbered in Bozeman by the #3 cats.

Much more similar to your schedule last year than your schedule this year.
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Ah yes. All my years jumble together. That was a tough finish. Did remind me of ours last season.
 
ilovethecats said:
Ah yes. All my years jumble together. That was a tough finish. Did remind me of ours last season.
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No worries, it's tough to keep track of other teams' results.

If you asked me what your season was like in 2022 before the brawl, I don't think I could tell you in much detail lol
 
uofmman1122 said:
No worries, it's tough to keep track of other teams' results.

If you asked me what your season was like in 2022 before the brawl, I don't think I could tell you in much detail lol
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We literally went 2-4 in the second half of the season and were like the last team in the playoff field.
 
get'em_griz said:
Honestly, this whole talk of MSU being 7-0 reminds me a lot of when the Griz started 5-0 a few years back, and then the train just derailed. Think we lost 2 or 3 games the rest of the year.

The Griz started 5-0 thanks to a weaker opening schedule and then got punched in the mouth in the 2nd half of the season. Bobcats benefited from a weak opening schedule to go 6-0. We'll see if they can maintain it in the second half.
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did that 5-0 include a FBS win (even a weak FBS) and a ranked FCS win?
 
Griz til I die said:
Well to be fair to Idaho, their entire QB room is injured. All 3 of them have shoulder injuries. If they had Jack Layne available like you guys had Tommy available, that would've been a hell of a game. I feel bad for them. If they don't get one of their QB's back healthy in a hurry, they may squander their season away
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Ok you can try to say they could’ve kept up but if you weren’t at the game there were high winds. It made passing very difficult and I don’t think Layne would’ve been successful on deep balls, like at all. There was a lot of wind. So lets quit with this stupid narrative that Idaho wasn’t good. The cats demolished a very good defense and shut down a dangerous offense.
 
Money! said:
Ok you can try to say they could’ve kept up but if you weren’t at the game there were high winds. It made passing very difficult and I don’t think Layne would’ve been successful on deep balls, like at all. There was a lot of wind. So lets quit with this stupid narrative that Idaho wasn’t good. The cats demolished a very good defense and shut down a dangerous offense.
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I never said the cats weren’t good, and I did watch the game. The QB who they relied on who was gutting it out through an injury couldn’t complete any pass. Probably because he was in a lot of pain. Hence why they decided to go with the third string before he also got hurt in that game.

Had Layne been available, I guarantee you he could’ve at least completed short and medium passes, and could’ve got things going with his legs a bit. Does that change the outcome? Probably not, but it does make for a more interesting game. Hell, any healthy QB for Idaho makes it a more competitive game
 
Money! said:
Ok you can try to say they could’ve kept up but if you weren’t at the game there were high winds. It made passing very difficult and I don’t think Layne would’ve been successful on deep balls, like at all. There was a lot of wind. So let’s quit with this stupid narrative that Idaho wasn’t good. The cats demolished a very good defense and shut down a dangerous offense.
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Nobody ever plays in the wind and completes a pass right? Is this what Sixx has told the fanbase after the last 3 seasons? We don’t throw the ball in case we play in a windy game? Seems the kickers made it work. Tommy made throws.

And Idaho has a dangerous offense? They were averaging 21 points coming into your game and limped in with their 3rd string QB. Cummings is averaging 5.3 a carry, but not hard to shut down when you can stack the box and there’s not a threat of passing.
 
Wolf777 said:
Nobody ever plays in the wind and completes a pass right? Is this what Sixx has told the fanbase after the last 3 seasons? We don’t throw the ball in case we play in a windy game? Seems the kickers made it work. Tommy made throws.

And Idaho has a dangerous offense? They were averaging 21 points coming into your game and limped in with their 3rd string QB. Cummings is averaging 5.3 a carry, but not hard to shut down when you can stack the box and there’s not a threat of passing.
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Yeah, Idahos offense isn't great. Their defense appeared to be great up until they played the cats though.
 
Znelson15 said:
herosports.com

2024 FCS Bracketology 2.0 — FCS Playoff Predictions (10-21-2024)

Bracketology 2.0 for the 2024 FCS playoff bracket, including the seeds, auto-bids, at-large bids, and which teams are on the bubble.
herosports.com herosports.com

This weeks playoff predictions, def wild to see how herder sees it laid out still
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That's an interesting bracket. I think that would be a really good draw for us. We would dust Drake in the first round no problem (essentially a bye week) and then a SEMO team with the same QB we saw just 2 years ago. They have a good team but the OVC is very weak and they don't exactly have any great wins. I think we would win that game in rather comfortable fashion. Then Mercer in the quarters who suddenly doesn't look as tough after getting bulldozed this past week. We'll learn a lot more about Mercer this weekend when they play WCU. Then it would be off to the Fargo Dome in the semis which would obviously be a very tall task, but who knows, maybe the Griz come out of this bye week and they're a completely different team.

Of course, a lot of things are gonna change between now and Selection Sunday, but that would be a very interesting Playoff path. Interesting to look at a hypothetical like that.
 
Posted this in the wrong thread, but I'll put it here, too:

Our path forward is pretty clear.

5-0 (10-2) to end the year, and we're the likely 3 or 4 seed, depending on how things shake out.

4-1 (9-3) with a loss to the cats gets us a top 8 seed, probably even if we're absolutely flavor blasted again in bozeman. Losing another game, but beating the cats is likely the same outcome.

3-2 (8-4) with losses to Davis and the neighbors (I believe this is what Herder thinks will happen) gets us about where he has us: a low seed somewhere around 12-16.

2-3 (7-5) and we might just barely limp into the playoffs like we did in 2022, but it's certainly not a lock, and we're probably right back to where we were as a fanbase after the 2022 season.

Worse than that, and it'll be rough in Griz nation.
 
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