(11-15-2021 12:12 PM)DirtyDukes Wrote: (11-15-2021 11:58 AM)jmuwyhamhgawd Wrote: (11-15-2021 11:54 AM)DirtyDukes Wrote: Anyone who thinks the committee will do us any favors in any way hasn't been paying attention for the last 20 years...
...said every fan of every team ever
Are you saying it's not especially true of us? Come on HTP
2015 an 8 seed when we could have easily been unseeded
2016 a 4 seed when we were ranked 5 (ask Soft Houston how they feel about that one)
2017 a 1 seed
2018 right on the brink but left out of the seeds - say what you want about that one
2019 a 2 seed (essentially equivalent of a 1 the way FCS does playoffs without full seeding)
2020 a 3 seed - that one did surprise me, but such a weird season who knows how anything was evaluated
So last six seasons, twice seeded in the top 2, twice seeded above where the polls would have indicated at the time, twice seeded below where the polls would have indicated at the time.
Yeah those Rascati/Landers years we bore the brunt of them only seeding 4 teams a couple times, with way tougher first round matchups than we should have had. That was the format in place at the time, though, with just 4 teams seeded then geographic matchups.
2011 they could have left us out entirely - 8-5 overall, 5-3 in conference, no wins against playoff teams