Yes you’re 3-0 which is great to exit non conference perfect. MSU is 2-1 and took a few injuries already. But that “perfect” goes only as far as the record. Last year 3-0 for the gris looked like a ton more offense and even better defensive play and everyone knows how last year finished. These forums were riding the highs of slapping pioneer schools upside the head. Now they’re spending most their time justifying close games with Butler and D2 Ferris state.
What I see is a 3-0 that if you threw in a decent team like a top 25 FCS school or FBS, you wouldn’t be 3-0. You can sit here and shout 3-0 from the roof tops. But everyone in the media, and outside fan bases see a lack luster 3-0. No, I’m not saying the gris can’t figure it out and yes You can point to random years where a bad team played MSU, UM, or whatever team you want close. But that’s just confirmation bias and reaching. I can list just as many years where bad teams played a better team close and the better team didn’t go to the national championship. I can point out years UM crushed bad teams and didn’t go to the national championship. So picking the 1-2 seasons out of the 100 year history isn’t productive.
There’s no room for error, Ferris is D2 and won’t count in the win column for the committee. If you don’t beat your ranked opponents you could be looking at a 6 FCS win season with an even lower SOS than last year.
What will 200 yards of total offense get you against MSU, SS, UCD, Idaho? I think that’s the question reasonable fans are asking on this page. You can’t kid yourself and say “well Ferris would beat SS,UCD,WSU,MSU,Idaho”. But that’s not productive.
SS just beat FBS Stanford, Idaho beat a pretty bad Nevada none the less still FBS, WSU was closer to Utah than we thought, and MSU was a pixelated review away from beating SDSU. If a national championship is the goal. This team hasn’t produced a result that warrants that believe outside of fandom. Which in that case, cheer loud and proud.