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Playoff Committee Poll

griz4life said:
This logic by the NCAA's Stan Becton is priceless. Remedial college math has failed Stan badly. And, Central Washington's only loss of the season is to Montana. They would do fine in FCS.

"While the Brawl of the Wild will ultimately decide which team is ranked higher at the end of the season, we can get a good gauge of what the committee is valuing in the difference in the ranking of the two teams.

Even though Montana State has two losses — one FBS and one FCS — they still rank in front of the undefeated Grizzlies. What stands out between the two are the number of FCS wins. Montana State has seven FCS wins while Montana has just eight FCS wins because the Grizzlies played a non-DI opponent, Central Washington.

That Central Washington game lessens Montana's strength of schedule, which likely places the undefeated Grizzlies behind their in-state rival, even though Montana has a win over a talented North Dakota squad."
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Ah, yes, I can see how 7 FCS and wins and a loss at home is better than 8 FCS wins and no losses. Makes perfect sense. What an idiot. What a fuckin’ idiot.
 
Let me see if I have this straight....

The GRIZ have the better record, more DI wins, and yet it's that they only have 8 DI wins that's hurting them?


Isn't that a little like saying one person has $10,000 dollars and another has $100,000. But of that $100k, $5,000 of it is in Canadian dollars, so then the first person is richer?
 
EverettGriz said:
Let me see if I have this straight....

The GRIZ have the better record, more DI wins, and yet it's that they only have 8 DI wins that's hurting them?


Isn't that a little like saying one person has $10,000 dollars and another has $100,000. But of that $100k, $5,000 of it is in Canadian dollars, so then the first person is richer?
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Nailed it. Griz will likely slip to #4 if they win out. The more home FCS losses, the higher the seed. It’s written right there plain as day.
 
griz4life said:
This logic by the NCAA's Stan Becton is priceless. Remedial college math has failed Stan badly. And, Central Washington's only loss of the season is to Montana. They would do fine in FCS.

"While the Brawl of the Wild will ultimately decide which team is ranked higher at the end of the season, we can get a good gauge of what the committee is valuing in the difference in the ranking of the two teams.

Even though Montana State has two losses — one FBS and one FCS — they still rank in front of the undefeated Grizzlies. What stands out between the two are the number of FCS wins. Montana State has seven FCS wins while Montana has just eight FCS wins because the Grizzlies played a non-DI opponent, Central Washington.

That Central Washington game lessens Montana's strength of schedule, which likely places the undefeated Grizzlies behind their in-state rival, even though Montana has a win over a talented North Dakota squad."
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He says this, but yet this is his bracket prediction. Is this dude bipolar or what? He had the scats at a 10 seed on 10/27. He's nothing but a parrot that can't count IMO.
 
Leon Costello is on the committee that is why MSU is ahead. It won’t matter at the end of the season anyway. I don’t see how the Cats at 9-3 will be able to have a top 3 seed over so many teams with better records. The polls always reward mediocrity when is comes to the Cats this is nothing new.
 
5280Griz said:
Leon Costello is on the committee that is why MSU is ahead. It won’t matter at the end of the season anyway. I don’t see how the Cats at 9-3 will be able to have a top 3 seed over so many teams with better records. The polls always reward mediocrity when is comes to the Cats this is nothing new.
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Leon Costello replaced Kent Haslam after a 5-6 year stint on the committee....
 
Colter_Nuanez56 said:
Leon Costello replaced Kent Haslam after a 5-6 year stint on the committee....
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I can’t find the initial FCS playoff committee rankings prior to 2023 but the Cats were ahead of the Griz in 2023 and 2024. It would be interesting to see how many years in a row now the Cats have been ranked higher in the initial playoff committee poll.
 
https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=2b10...W9mZi1jb21taXR0ZWUtcmFua2luZ3Mtbm92LXVwZGF0ZQ

This link is to an SI article that breaks down the resumes for the top 10. It doesn't do anything to disprove what anyone is saying, specifically, the SoS argument for Bozeman is ridiculously skewed by the blowout game against Oregon. Look at the wins against the top 50! The committee just has it wrong, but it's an easy fix and good bulletin board motivation for the team.
 
catgrizfan said:
Depends. I oftentimes wonder if they honestly don’t have a common understanding of the criteria. I think some are looking at a team’s work as a whole up to that point. I think some look at how good they think each team is at that moment in time. I think others look to Sagarin and Massey. Sounds like they are subjectively looking at how each team is playing at this point in time. The cats have made a much better case for the number two seed if conference play is more heavily factored in. They are playing better defense and their offense is statistically better in conference play. They have done better against common opponents. Hell, if they were to play the Griz on a neutral field, I think they win (just one guy’s honest opinion…Akem said as much this week too). On the other hand, the Griz have played a better FCS schedule and have a better resume. The Griz defense is rapidly improving - the team is clearly ascending. Like most have said - none of this matters when the Griz win the brawl. Have to take care of business!
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The Cats have been the same thing all year blow out bad teams and choke/lose to playoff caliber teams. I think it won’t be different against the Griz. Davis seems to be dealing with a lot of injuries or they could be a concern for the Cats as well.
 
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Personally I love this. Keep giving this staff and team fuel to stoke the fire. None of this matters come Nov 22.

However, there is no rational justification for ranking a team with 1 FCS loss ahead of a team with 0 FCS losses when they are from the same conference and play the same competition at this point in the season. That’s also not taking into account the other loss. And we know there is no such thing as a quality loss. Clearly this group of committee members uses emotion and hypotheticals more than intellect.
 
Colter_Nuanez56 said:
Think about the reasoning behind putting these rankings out in early October and in early November....there is no reason....other than to generate hype about the FCS playoffs....and the easiest way to generate hype? Create arguments. Easiest way to create arguments? Rage bait the most passionate fan base in the FCS...
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That’s what we should all expect from an NCAA committee. Rage baiting. Wonder if it will motivate two more people to tune in who wouldn’t have otherwise. That’ll move the needle.
 
EverettGriz said:
The committee drinks.
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. . . so speaking of drink

Dill Pickle FCS Committee Poll ranking 10/31/25 11:22pm

1 North Dakota State
2. Lehigh
3. Montana State
4. Tarleton State - tarleton might have naked pics of Pickles & Committee members with farm animals
5. Montana - pickles love the number 5
6. Monmouth
7. Tennessee Tech
8. Abilene Christian - pickles respect ACU
9. Harvard
10. South Dak. St. - pickles disrespect bunnies
11. Nort Dakota - pickles want the Sioux back
12. I-da-Ho - they won a game friday
13. who cares


just a joke
 
Colter_Nuanez56 said:
Think about the reasoning behind putting these rankings out in early October and in early November....there is no reason....other than to generate hype about the FCS playoffs....and the easiest way to generate hype? Create arguments. Easiest way to create arguments? Rage bait the most passionate fan base in the FCS...
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garizzalies said:
Really?
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Yes. I saw a breakdown and couldn't believe it. I crunched the numbers myself and it is true. 5 conference games into the conference schedule and the cats have scored 45.6 ppg and have allowed 10.2 ppg. The Griz have scored 39.6 ppg and have allowed 25.8 ppg. The total point differential between the two in conference games favors the cats by almost 100 points. The offense in games against their two common opponents favors the cats in points per game (41 ppg for the cats vs 35 ppg for the Griz). The defense in those games is even more lopsided toward the cats. I was too lazy to look at when starters were pulled in those games though. The cats have almost certainly left their offensive starters in longer than the Griz due to early season struggles with the QB and offensive line. I caught the end of their last game and their starters were in when they were up 40+ points in the 4th. This will definitely skew the stats.
 
I looked this up and he is right. More total yards, YPG, and avg points in conf.
Surprising initially but not really if you drill down
 
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