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Conference Play

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tomq04

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We made it through the "pre-season", looking at the schedule the only games that even make me cringe slightly is the Griz (cheney) and PSU (portland). I think we are easily looking at a 11-1 or 10-2 record headed into the playoffs. We need to run the tables (11-1) if we want to keep the #2-4 seeds.

Also looking at MSU's schedule it's feasible for them to be co-champions this year, despite losing to us, fun times await!

Go Eags, and please stay injury free!
 
We'll see. We're already pretty banged up and have lost several players for the season. The Big Sky schedule will be a real test of our depth. With the NAIA game this year, we're going to need to win 6 of our next 8 games to make it back to the playoffs. There's a couple games that may be gimme's at this point, but I can see Davis, Montana, NAU, and PSU being tough games.
 
The Big Sky appears to be very weak this season, so I don't think we can afford to lose any games if we want that #2 seed. I doubt NDSU will lose any of their remaining games, so the #1 seed is probably out of reach. I don't think there's going to be any easy games with this defense playing the way it is. What I found telling about the MSU game was that this was a team we blew out last year. Have they really improved that much in one year, or has our defense regressed that much? Maybe a little bit of both?
 
NDSU has one or 2 difficult road games, we have the griz at the inferno.

I do think MS had am awful game last year, and they in fact are better this year. The other facts are that there are really only 10 great teams in the fcs, we don't have much chance of losing our top 8 seed unless we lose 2 games.

SELA and NIU are 2 wild cards that had bad pre seasons but still have high expectations.
 
EWURanger said:
We'll see. We're already pretty banged up and have lost several players for the season. The Big Sky schedule will be a real test of our depth. With the NAIA game this year, we're going to need to win 6 of our next 8 games to make it back to the playoffs. There's a couple games that may be gimme's at this point, but I can see Davis, Montana, NAU, and PSU being tough games.
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Agree with this post completely.

Maybe it's just my pessimism, but I get nervous about every game. I can see reasons we could stumble in just about every one. The start to this season has been one of the most emotional and tense I can remember. I hope they don't have a let down (I felt the had a bit of one after the SHSU game, and was thankful it was WMU we were playing rather than a tougher team). They need to remember they will be every teams "superbowl" this year, and they will be facing everyone's best. We are not sneaking up on anyone. Hope nobody sneaks up on us.
 
dudeitsaid said:
EWURanger said:
We'll see. We're already pretty banged up and have lost several players for the season. The Big Sky schedule will be a real test of our depth. With the NAIA game this year, we're going to need to win 6 of our next 8 games to make it back to the playoffs. There's a couple games that may be gimme's at this point, but I can see Davis, Montana, NAU, and PSU being tough games.
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Agree with this post completely.

Maybe it's just my pessimism, but I get nervous about every game. I can see reasons we could stumble in just about every one. The start to this season has been one of the most emotional and tense I can remember. I hope they don't have a let down (I felt the had a bit of one after the SHSU game, and was thankful it was WMU we were playing rather than a tougher team). They need to remember they will be every teams "superbowl" this year, and they will be facing everyone's best. We are not sneaking up on anyone. Hope nobody sneaks up on us.
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I wouldn't say it's pessimism, but realism. Last year was a nail biter for most of the game with ISU. With the state of our D, VA and crew will need to be sharp every game. I have confidence however that Baldwin will continue to keep our guys in the mindset similar to the Seahawks take, of "One game at a time" and that every game is a championship opportunity.
 
I think we run the table in conference play and we do it easily...

Davis will be tough this weekend considering its our 3rd straight road game and they had a bye last week, but we are a much better team and will get it done.

I think our only other tough games will be at NAU and the Griz. NAU is a shell of a team last year with their horses gone to graduation so i'm not worried, and right now we are a much, much better team than the Griz.

3 of our 4 home games are going to be snoozers. SUU and PSU looked like decent teams coming into the season but they have looked like dog crap so far this year.

The Big Sky looks really down this year and we should run away with the conference title...
 
The Big Sky has looked quite awful in out of conference play. There weren't really any big out of conference wins to speak of. Our win over Sam Houston and Montana State's win over Central Arkansas are the two biggest wins of note, and neither is looking all that good given the Southland looks even worse than the Big Sky.

Poor Southern Utah has their AD schedule them a train wreck and are 0-4 after making the playoffs last year. That schedule is exhibit #1 for why you need your AD to get you something workable. They will be sitting at home come December barring a shocking undefeated run through conference play.

Plus, whattup with NAU losing to South Dakota? That's an ugly loss. Montana looked like garbage against USD and still won reasonably convincingly.

Yeah, a four loss Big Sky team is screwed this year. *MAYBE* Montana or MSU could buy their way in with 4 losses, but even that would be almost unthinkable unless the bottom falls out for a lot of teams in other conferences.
 
EWU, UM, and MSU will likely be the 3 big sky teams in, I don't think anyone else can survive 2 losses to the "big 3" and have the wins to make it.
 
Big sky hasn't looked very strong, but outside the Missouri Valley Conference, who has looked better? SLC has had a poor showing with SELA losing to a bad team, SHSU losing to a division 2 and McNeese having nothing but easy wins and moral defeats. CAA has Villanova, but are their runner ups any better than Montana or MSU? Really any other conference in the FCS only has one good team.

Overall, it looks as if the only conference not having a down year is MVFC. Really, the committee should be granting access to playoffs for all of their teams which meet the requirements.
 
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