The latest GPI is out.

[ronbo]

1. Montana
2. S Illinois
3. N Iowa
4. Delaware
5. McNeese St.
6. W Kentucky
7. W Illinois
8. Colgate
9. Massachusetts
10. N. Arizona

The GPI is a compliation of all the polls and ratings. Ralph at 1AA.org says it is the #1 most accurate way to predict seedings.

If this is true we are in very good shape.

Now let's put an exclaimation point on this GPI by anailating the Cats!

http://www.i-aa.org/section_front.asp?arttypeid=564&session=985JgTXMaZouLTOiYJbjAC0ZaS

 

[Sportin' Life]

So how do these teams sort out by region...I can never figure that one out, because the Griz are always playing someone that doesn't seem to be in our 'region'. I really can't see giving the Griz a top four seed over McNeese St. unless they lose. So if they follow this poll Northern Iowa gets bumped? Ah, ther are still so many mysteries....which set of criteria will be important this year?

 

[griz4life]

The GPI looks great, but there is no way the Griz are going to make the top two, and maybe not the top four, but look for a suspect top three seed to go down early. I'm guessing Woffard, which wouldn't do us much good, but if NAU is healthy with Robinson back and Murrietta throwing lights out, I wouldn't be shocked if the Cowboys were upset.
Selection committees are strange. Does anybody remember when Tenessee State was seeded No. 1 in 1998 because they were undefeated then got blown out by the lowest seeded team in their first game? It happens.

 

[GeauxGriz]

Wasn't that NC A&T? Had a RB named Skip Hicks......

 

[Grizdominate]

Skip Hicks played at UCLA

 

[CrunchGriz]

No, it was Tennessee State, which had several skill players out for the first round of the playoffs.

It was the only time in I-AA history that the first seed lost in the first round.

It also is the capper to the 0-19 record the HBCUs have had in the 25 years of the I-AA playoffs.

Who can blame most of them for having high-grossing "classic" games at season's end instead of participating in the playoffs and getting their a$$e$ handed to them, often on the road?

 

[Jimus]

It's not 0-19 for HBCU's. It's 0-19 for the SWAC. Tennessee State, although an HBCU, is in the Ohio Valley Conference. The MEAC has had some marginal success in the playoffs though, like the aforementioned BCC Wildcats who beat Tennessee State in that game. FAMU even took the first I-AA title against UMass back in the 70's.

 

[ralph]

...Ralph at 1AA.org says it is the #1 most accurate way to predict seedings...

Not seedings, playoff selection. More precisely, playoff at-large selection since the auto bids get you in anyway.

 

[CrunchGriz]

It's not 0-19 for HBCU's. It's 0-19 for the SWAC. Tennessee State, although an HBCU, is in the Ohio Valley Conference. The MEAC has had some marginal success in the playoffs though, like the aforementioned BCC Wildcats who beat Tennessee State in that game. FAMU even took the first I-AA title against UMass back in the 70's.

Oops...you're right, Jimus. I'd seen the "0-19" thrown out there so often I'd forgotten to which group it applied.

Fortunately for the SWAC, they've only had to face the Griz once during the last 15 years. The result? A 48-7 pasting of Jackson State in the '89 playoffs. As SWAC apologists will tell you, though, Jackson State was only the third place SWAC team that year.