So, who besides me thinks that New Hampshire did not deserve a playoff berth, especially after losing to Albany 15-0 yesterday? Of course, the fact that the UNH Athletic Director is on the selection committee had absolutely NOTHING to do with it, right? A travesty!

McNeese St. is out with a 9-2 record. They must have played one or more lower division schools. I'm not going to feel too sorry for them because I still remember a certain holding call very late in the playoff game against them.

A team that I wish had gotten in instead of UNH (screw the conference affiliation nonsense: right is right and wrong is wrong) is Austin Peay. This is a team that had lost 29 straight games including the first two this year (to FBS foes) and then reeled off an 8-2 record after that with only one loss in league (to Jax St.). I think that they also had one or two lower division wins but, even so, that would make them 6-2 at FCS level. So why did UNH get in and not Austin Peay? See the first paragraph above. I think UNH is getting too much credit for beating FBS Georgia Southern (only one win this year) and that game was relocated to Birmingham, Alabama because of hurricane Irma. So, again, a travesty.
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An update: I looked up Austin Peay's schedule. They had 3 (!) losses to FBS foes. They had no wins against lower division foes, they were all FCS wins. So, even if you count two of those three FBS losses against them (since everyone loses no credit for one FBS loss) then they still finished 8-3 and were seemingly more deserving than UNH which backed into the playoffs with the benefit of an inside man on the committee.

Seven wins out of the CAA almost guarantees you a spot. The CAA and MVFC are far and away the strongest confereces. If you take McNeese over UNH, the Southland gets four teams in. I don't want to sound to snobby, but there's no way the Southland is a stronger conference and deserves more teams than the CAA. If anything, Delaware has the gripe to make over UNH.

Okay, but Austin Peay is in the Ohio Valley Conference. If they got in, then it would be 2 for the OVC.

Re McNeese: it is Nicholls State that got in at the expense of McNeese (both Southland schools).

Delaware does have a gripe. Not sure how they were left off.

Not saying that UNH deserved in but neither McNeese nor Austin Peay would have been the right replacement

McNeese lost in conference to Central Arkansas and Nicholls (Nicholls is another weak in) both who made playoffs. They beat Florida Tech (a lower division squad) so had 7 D-I wins. They won against SWAC Alcorn State and 6 Southland teams. They didn't play Sam Houston so best win was against 6-5 SELA with all other conference teams they won against in conference under .500.

Austin Peay was supposedly 1st out with Delaware. As you said, they lost to 3 FBS teams (why schedule that way?) and Jax State so no bad losses. The other OOC win was over Pioneer League Morehead State.They beat 3 6-5 teams in conference none of who are ranked.

Eastern Washington was the one likely screwed the most at 7-4. OOC they lost to Texas Tech, NDSU and beat Fordham. They lost to SUU and Weber both playoff teams but beat 7-4 Montana, 7-4 Sacramento State and 4 other teams with a below .500 record

In the Massey Composites https://www.masseyratings.com/cf/compare1aa.htm EWU was 16th ranked (best team out) while McNeese and APU are 30 and 32. UNH was 27.

Very interesting link. Besides EWU which you mentioned, Youngstown St (6-5), Delaware (7-4), Il. St. (6-5), Richmond (6-5), and Montana (7-4) all were ranked higher than UNH. I agree that EWU was probably most deserving but I think the committee lost out on the feel good story of the year by not inviting Austin Peay. EWU has been there before and will be there again. Austin Peay might never get another chance (if their coach is that good then he will quickly be hired away to somewhere else).

Austin Peay should have gotten in on the "Let's Go Peay" chants alone.

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(11-19-2017 02:09 PM)Zorch Wrote:  Very interesting link. Besides EWU which you mentioned, Youngstown St (6-5), Delaware (7-4), Il. St. (6-5), Richmond (6-5), and Montana (7-4) all were ranked higher than UNH. I agree that EWU was probably most deserving but I think the committee lost out on the feel good story of the year by not inviting Austin Peay. EWU has been there before and will be there again. Austin Peay might never get another chance (if their coach is that good then he will quickly be hired away to somewhere else).

UNH got in because of an FBS win against Georgia Southern.

Austin Peay was robbed of a playoff spot imho. Did any 6 win teams get in?

Lehigh is 5-6, having won the Patriot League with a 5-1 record!

I don’t know how much the eyeball test plays into the selection, but in my opinion, New Hampshire looked like the 2nd best FCS team we played this season. JMU of course was first. Delaware, Stonybrook, Elon, Maine and UofR all looked very beatable if a few plays end up differently. JMU and NH dominated. I have no problem with NH being selected. However, I am extremely surprised that Albany shut them out.

UNH offense was the best we saw all season, JMU the best all around team, IMO. UNH felt like a normal offense for us would have been a real shootout. JMU felt like "how are we still in this?"

(11-19-2017 02:34 PM)TribePride52 Wrote:  

(11-19-2017 02:09 PM)Zorch Wrote:  Very interesting link. Besides EWU which you mentioned, Youngstown St (6-5), Delaware (7-4), Il. St. (6-5), Richmond (6-5), and Montana (7-4) all were ranked higher than UNH. I agree that EWU was probably most deserving but I think the committee lost out on the feel good story of the year by not inviting Austin Peay. EWU has been there before and will be there again. Austin Peay might never get another chance (if their coach is that good then he will quickly be hired away to somewhere else).

UNH got in because of an FBS win against Georgia Southern.

Isn't Ga. So. winless? That would be like saying a few years ago "so and so team deserves to be in because they beat Ga. St.", who was probably worse rated that like half of the FCS teams

(11-20-2017 07:53 PM)WMtribe17 Wrote:  

(11-19-2017 02:34 PM)TribePride52 Wrote:  

(11-19-2017 02:09 PM)Zorch Wrote:  Very interesting link. Besides EWU which you mentioned, Youngstown St (6-5), Delaware (7-4), Il. St. (6-5), Richmond (6-5), and Montana (7-4) all were ranked higher than UNH. I agree that EWU was probably most deserving but I think the committee lost out on the feel good story of the year by not inviting Austin Peay. EWU has been there before and will be there again. Austin Peay might never get another chance (if their coach is that good then he will quickly be hired away to somewhere else).

UNH got in because of an FBS win against Georgia Southern.

Isn't Ga. So. winless? That would be like saying a few years ago "so and so team deserves to be in because they beat Ga. St.", who was probably worse rated that like half of the FCS teams

Oddly enough they just won their first game of the season 52-0, over a decent South Alabama squad.

Furman beats Elon 28-27

Elon missed a PAT that proved to be a killer.

UNH and Stony Brook both up.


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