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Oldngrizzly: Play & Players of Game Montana/SDSU + FCS Playoff Notes

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oldngrizzly

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Offensive: Kay Li Ah Yat, outstanding play in this one

Defensive: Solomon Tuliaupupu, very strong defensive play throughout

Special Teams: several different players made contributions but Finch came out on top

Play Of Game: Statue of Liberty Ah Yat/Gillman- a thing of beauty

My take on round two games that had the outcome I thought was likely or possible:

Montana/SDSU: I expected the griz would win. SDSU is not the team of old. Montana played a strong game but their opponent was a 14 seed for a reason.

NDSU/Illinois State: not as big of upset as made out to be. Illinois played the bison close in their first game and after watching the NSDU box scores throughout the season it seemed they were beatable

Cats/Yale: played out as I expected. Yale was good enough to get here but not good enough to win

Tarleton state / North Dakota : Tarleton state is good and could make a deep run while ND is not

Villanova/Lehi: it was a good even matchup with Villanova coming out on top

South Dakota/Mercer: Mercer was overrated as usual - South Dakota blowing them out not expected but watching game film it is clear why

SFA/Abilene C: bottom line SFA has a good QB who wants a Griz matchup in the worst way and could give the cats all they can handle

UCDavis/R.I. : FCS eastern teams have a tough time hanging with western teams. Most belong in D2 .I questioned if UCDAVIS should be in the playoffs but now I also question if R.I. should have been and certainly not with a bye.
 
I’d like to see a replay clip of that Statue of Liberty play. Where on the replay reel is it?
 
PDXGrizzly said:
I love that Pease was the WR coach at Boise when that play was made famous against Oklahoma. You know who else was on that staff? Jeff Choate.

Coaching is a small world…
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Yeah. Petersen was the head coach. Think Bryan Harsin was the OC when Pease was WR coach.
 
GriznMN said:
In what world is a game played at your house and you lose by 17 points, close?
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Did you watch that game? It was a 2 pt game going into the 4th qtr. Ndsu finally broke away with a couple swing plays going their way and they capitalized. It was apparent ndsu was better, but we saw that ISU could play with them.

I for one after rewatching that game and a few of both teams more recent games, was calling for this upset. Its hard to beat a team twice at this level, and there wasnt as big if a gap between teams that NDSU usually has against teams they pair up with twice in a year.
 
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My tailgate is better said:
Did you watch that game? It was a 2 pt game going into the 4th qtr. Ndsu finally broke away with a couple swing plays going their way and they capitalized. It was apparent ndsu was better, but we saw that ISU could play with them.

I for one after rewatching that game and a few if both teams more recent games, was calling for this upset. Its hard to beat a team twice at this level, and there wasnt as big if a gap between teams that NDSU usually has against teams they pair up with twice in a year.
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Fair enough. I didn't watch NDSU/Ill. St. I did watch NDSU/YSU and that told me everything I needed to know about NDSU. However, didn't think they would lose to Ill. St. in Fargo
 
GriznMN said:
Fair enough. I didn't watch NDSU/Ill. St. I did watch NDSU/YSU and that told me everything I needed to know about NDSU. However, didn't think they would lose to Ill. St. in Fargo
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I looked at the box score and except the 5 interceptions, the difference in yds was huge on Ill St side. NDSU didn't break 300 with 62 rushing was what I remember. The interceptions was the only thing that kept this close.
 
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