You're spot on with that. There's a very good argument that there should be no polls in football until 3-4 games have been played. Because where you start has a huge affect on how you're ranked as the season goes along. Happens at the FBS level too.

Generally speaking people are entertained by my sarcasm. Clearly you're doing it wrong.

Note: that wasn't sarcasm. I really do think you're doing it wrong.

Usually sarcasm is funny. You typically aren't funny.

2019 the schedule killed us. Played an 8-5 Cal and No. 1 North Dakota St in the non conference. Also San Diego who made the playoffs. Then in conference we drew No. 3 Weber, No. 4 Sac, No. 5 Montana St and No. 6 Montana, plus North Dakota, who went 7-5 and made the playoffs. That team wasn't as good as 2018, but with an easier schedule, that team could have gone 7-5 or 8-4 and maybe made the playoffs.

UNI got left out of the playoffs too.

Left out again.

Yeah, we’re probably out. NDSt in the Montana St pod. Unless they want to give us a potential rematch with Montana.

Sac St in against North Dakota. Winner gets South Dakota.

Missed the Idaho spot. No Sac yet either.

I’m looking at that second round matchup with Idaho or Montana State since we didn’t play either one this year. I guess South Dakota also.

They’re really dragging this thing out by showing highlights of games from yesterday.

SDSt
Montana
South Dakota
Idaho
Albany
Montana St
Furman
Villanova

That’s the top 8. Weird not seeing NDSt in there.

If we get left out this year I’ll be annoyed but much less so than last year. At least there’s a logical case for Sac over us. Last year it was “uh, Idaho and Montana won an extra game (ignoring H2H and SOS) and Montana will bring in more money”.

The only thing we have on Sac is H2H. They have better wins and better losses than we do. If Sac played out schedule there’s a decent chance they’re 8-2 besides the Causeway. At best we would likely have been 6-4 with their schedule before the Causeway and probably 5-5.

Random thing I came across. South Dakota St is 11-0 this year, including 8-0 in the 12-team MVFC. There are three bad teams in the MVFC. SDSt didn't play any of those three which means the played and beat each of the next best 8 teams in the conference.

Yeah, losing to a 5-6 and a 4-7 team seems like it will be held against us a bit. Like if you just swapped those to losses to be against Montana St and Idaho, I'm guessing we'd be in easy. Like last year if we were 7-4, swapping out the SDSU loss for a win against a 4-7 team, we would have been in the playoffs. This year we have the extra win but the resume isn't quite as strong.

At least one will make it so we can throw #3 out. Sac was a top-10 team coming into today and this loss won’t drop them that far. I also think it’s unlikely we get in and they get left out. They’ve got a better win and better losses than we do. Clearly the committee doesn’t care that much about H2H otherwise we would have made the playoffs over Idaho last year (not exactly the same since they were 7-4 and we were 6-5). So most likely I would guess both get in. But I could see Sac getting in and us being left out.

We better get a playoff spot now.

Ballgame!

Need to either get a stop or make them use clock. No quick drive here.