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IdaGriz01 said:
I would say it is one of those years were at least half the field was very mediocre.
IdaGriz01
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Sorry ... I'm into words. Even if you eliminate the automatic bids from crappy conferences, the committee picked the best -- in their judgement -- 15-20 teams out of 124 possibilities. "Mediocre" means "moderate to low quality." That does not accurately apply to a selection of the most capable (say one out of seven) teams -- however flawed you may view the process.grizindabox said:
Considering that we were three fumbles away from being seeded, I think it’s safe to say the field was pretty down this year.grizindabox said:
Yeah. Pretty underwhelmed by this years playoffs. Really, the only two teams I think are championship caliber are South Dakota State and North Dakota State. The winner of that game wins the title. It wouldn’t surprise me if this is the year SDSU pulls it off.
hm.grwn.grizfan said:
After seeing today’s beat down I don’t think South Dakota state has much of a chance even though they did only lose to them earlier in the season by i think only one score.
IdaGriz01 said:
I just think that FCS was very mediocre this year with only 10 to maybe 12 good to really good teams. The CAA for the most part was mediocre, MSU was mediocre...When 6 and 7 win teams are getting at-large bids in the playoffs, it demonstrates how poor of a year it was.
IdaGriz01
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I take your point, although there are lot's of people who could -- with some justification -- call that "parity."grizindabox said:
Me ... I'm not enough of a football expert to to say, based on a year-to-year comparison by memory, that only 10 to 12 FCS teams were "good to really good." But we watched a lot of FCS football this year ... and we saw some damn good football, across all of 1-AA. We also saw a lot of top individual talent on a lot of teams. I would venture to say that there will be the usual numbe, if not more, FCS players being drafted into the NFL.
Luckily, none of that is relevant. The reality -- "why you play the game" -- is that the Big Sky has 3 teams (out of 8) moving on wwith a chance to play for a Nattie.
BelierPeaux
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kemajic said:
That's almost every year outside of the few times SHSU was respectable.
Thought IW looked cold and miserable and really didn’t want to be playing in Bozeman. I would wager if they hadn’t lost there starting qb and the game was played in Texas they would would have easily beat the cats. Same thing with Nichols played well for awhile but they were also bothered by the cold.
USDSU has no chance against UNDSU. They can’t even beat UNI. Why even play the remaining games? Hand the trophy over to the champs. Until next season when UM returns to past dominance.
GoldenEagle
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Dutch Lane said:
It was 36 degrees and dry. Nicholls State just got beat in the second half by a superior team. Griz fans know what that feels like. :lol:
Yeah, we've beaten down more overmatched, underwhelming Southland teams in the playoffs in December than you've had playoff games in total. You could say we know how it feels.GoldenEagle said:
IdaGriz01
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My favorite (before most -- all? -- current Griz players were born): 1995, Stephen F. Austin came to town and it was really, really cold. Why the favorite? (There have been others.) I changed a business trip to fly back into Missoula rather than IF (cost me extra, but so what?) and arrived late on Friday night ... right when the SFA cheer squad was just coming in. I still remember this distressed, plaintive voice: "Seven degrees?!!!! That's not a temperature." (But, of course, it was.)uofmman1122 said:
Final score, 70-14 Griz, and it could have been worse.
