Yep...hell of a celebration for you!

We can’t blow it tonight! Real shot at Nashville now!

Bison down!!! It's a wide open field, fellas. Possibility of more home cooking and rest. Wow.

Hell yea!

Montana State jumping for joy honestly. The one jump they couldn’t get over

Look at these stats...Illinois State threw 5 INT's and still won!

So Davis would host Illinois State next week if they win? I hope the coaches are keeping the team focused.

Was there tule fog last night 8 - 11 PM??

Forecast shows 100% humidity, 8% chance of rain. Will there be ponchos for sale??

Pretty cool that there’s going to be a new team in the final. Nova’s been there once, winning it in 2009. Illinois St made the final in 2014. Then us, Rhode Island and Tarleton have never made it.

definitely not.

Not sure how a home playoff game could feel any bigger, but now tonight’s game does!!!

I feel better knowing that we have most of our first line defense healthy.

Team needs to stay focused and take care of business tonight or they will miss the opportunity to host again next week. Whatever the case, Illinois State is very good. They play big boy football MVFC style.

Let’s gooooo! That 8 seed looking great now. Beat Rhody!

absolutely agree. Both teams tonight have to put hosting a quarterfinal game out of their minds.

There was not tule fog here in Davis during game time. I'm guessing there won't be any tonight, either. But it'll be cold and damp.

Since they started seeding the top-8 in 2013, we've never had 4 of the top 8 lose in the first game. We've already had 3 lose today. Let's hope that's the end of the upsets. The seeded teams have dominated recently (30 of 32 advanced the past four seasons). From 2013-2019, 5 of the 7 years saw 3 of the top-8 seeds lose.

We were given an amazing opportunity today. We BETTER capitalize.

Bison game available on demand now.

Final scores this afternoon:

Illinois State 29 #1 North Dakota State 28
#2 Montana State 21 Yale 13
#7 Stephen F Austin 41 Abilene Christian 34
#12 Villanova 14 #7 Lehigh 7
#11 South Dakota 47 #6 Mercer 0
#3 Montana 50 #14 South Dakota State 29

No road trip to Bozeman/Missoula/Brookings/any of the domes for the rest of the tournament! The huge home advantage that the Dakota and Montana schools hold just got nullified for an entire half of the bracket

I’m totally expecting shredville to show up tonight. With the Rhodys coming from a weak conference we should dominate. We were all bummed that we’re on the bison side of the bracket. We have a great opportunity. Ball out tonight!

Walk up will be interesting.

If UC Davis is fortunate to win tonight's game, then here are the quarterfinals date and time. I think we can rule out the 12pm ET game for being too early. Having the ABC game would be sweet. How do these times affect graduation dates and times?

Quarterfinals
Friday, December 12
9 p.m. ET | ESPN
Saturday, December 13
12 p.m. ET | ESPN
3:30 p.m. ET | ABC
TBD time | ESPN+

We have approximately 1 in 62 chance of hosting Illinois State two weekends from now.

There is still a chance. :smile:

This one aged into a fine wine. Cheers, sir.

Am I reading the bracket correctly. Are we on ESPN+ and the other 3 games are either on ESPN or ABC?!

"We have approximately 1 in 62 chance of hosting Illinois State two weekends from now.
There is still a chance. :smile:"

"This one aged into a fine wine. Cheers, sir."

Let's double down on this. :smile:
According to Massey, UCD has a 64% chance of winning, and Villanova has a 21% chance of winning.
That means we have a 13% chance of hosting two weekends from now.

There is still a chance. :smile:

As a bonus, here were the betting odds to win the FCS championship at the start of the playoffs:
https://www.reddit.com/r/fcs/comments/1p6qij8/betting_odds/

I think we're much better than 100 to 1 now. and we have a chance. :smile: :smile:

North Dakota State: -290 (10 to 29)
Montana State: +550 (5.5 to 1)
Montana: +1200 (12 to 1)
Tarleton State: +1400 (14 to 1)
Lehigh: +4500 (45 to 1)
Tennessee Tech: +5000 (50 to 1)
Mercer: +5000 (50 to 1)
South Dakota State: +5500 (55 to 1)
Stephen F. Austin +5500 (55 to 1)
Abilene Christian: +8000 (80 to 1)
Villanova: +10000 (100 to 1)
North Dakota: +10000 (100 to 1)
Harvard: +10000 (100 to 1)
UC Davis: +10000 (100 to 1)
Rhode Island: +10000 (100 to 1)
South Dakota: +20000 (200 to 1)
Youngstown State: +20000 (200 to 1)
Yale: +20000 (200 to 1)
Southeastern: +40000 (400 to 1)
New Hampshire: +40000 (400 to 1)
Lamar: +60000 (600 to 1)
Illinois State: +60000 (600 to 1)
Drake: +100000 (1,000 to 1)
Central Connecticut State: +100000 (1,000 to 1)
They’re also offering “the Field” at +210.

All times are Eastern Standard Time

Is it possible that we host semis?