Illinois St is the 12 seed.

Give Montana the 13 please and feed them to South Dakota if they win their first game.

You can sign me up for playing Idaho again only because it would mean we won 2 games and then would be hosting a semifinal game.

Also especially surprised they put Idaho at 8 since it means the three Big Sky seeds are all on the same side. MVC got 2 on the same side but SD is on the other half.

Correct. 1-16, 2-15, 3-14, 4-13, 5-12, 6-11, 7-10, 8-9.

A little surprised they didn’t make Idaho 6 or 7. For one I think they had the resume for it. But if they and Mont St both win their first games, they’ll play each other. I know that’s not a huge consideration, if a consideration at all, but I would have matched Idaho up with a MVC team in the QFs.

Well we got the 5. Nothing weird by the committee.

One game for sure. If we get the 4 we’d have 2 home games if we win the first one. If we’re the 5 we only get 1 unless the 4 seed loses their first game.

Before yesterday their best win was over an unranked team. They didn’t play Illinois St. so it was either an 8-2 Drake or 5-7 North Dakota.

That bracket is dumb. Mercer lost to a 4-7 team by 20 points and doesn't have a single ranked win. They're 14th in Sagarin and 11th in Massey. In no universe do they deserve to be above us and South Dakota.

Four 2014 commits — movielover

I think our 2014 commits might have run out of eligibility by now. Lol.

Yes, I know you meant 2024 but I had to make the joke.

Can't see us getting the 5 after that. The computer rankings are going to have SD above us but I think our resume is slightly better than theirs. Just glad we don't have to sweat out getting in or even getting a bye.

Nothing easy for us today. Credit to Sac for not quitting either.

LAN! OH HELL YEAH!

Why did we not just have 1 guy all the way back? We got bailed out by the penalty but that wasn't smart. Could have been stuck at our own 6.

It's fine. We'll be able to run the ball to kill the clock oh wait we're averaging 2.7 yards per carry today. Not good!

Don't let up. We remember what we were able to nearly come back from last week.

I'll take it but that falls into the category of whatever they ruled it on the field, it was going to stand.

That being said, that should have been overturned.

That's incomplete.

Come on boys. Get 7 here for some breathing room.

No. 6 Incarnate Word 10-2 lost to South Dakota St at 3-8 Southern Illinois, 1 ranked win (No. 21 NAU)
No. 7 Idaho 9-3 (assuming they win), lost to Oregon, Mont St, UCD. Beat Wyoming, No. 11 ACU and No. 21 NAU.
No. 8 Mercer 10-2 lost to Alabama and 4-6 Samford, no currently ranked wins
No. 9 Montana 8-4 lost today so they'll drop
No. 10 Richmond 10-2 lost to Virginia and 5-7 Wofford. Beat Delaware who would be ranked but didn't play the other 4 ranked teams in their conference.
No. 11 Abilene Christian 8-4 lost today so they'll drop
No. 12 SE Missouri St 9-3 lost today so they'll drop
No. 13 Rhode Island 10-2 lost to Minnesota and Delaware. 1 ranked win over No. 24 New Hampshire
No. 14 Illinois St 9-3 lost to Iowa, NDST, Missouri St. No ranked wins.

So you would need four of those teams to jump us. You could sell me on Idaho having a better resume and they only lost to us by 2. After that, we've got a better resume than everyone else. Yes, losing to a 4-8 Sac St would hurt. But we've also got a win over Idaho, who will get a bye, and Montana, who will probably get a seed. None of those teams besides Idaho have wins anywhere close to that.

I totally understand the hesitation after the last couple years and hopefully we just win this thing and everything is moot. But one game shouldn't sink a team. Just like beating Sac last year didn't guarantee us a spot either.