It’s 100% a killjoy to repeatedly mention that you think the QB is gone during a playoff run. You have your thoughts. We’re well aware of them. Just let the season play out.

Nova being at 12.8% whereas UCD and Illinois St are a combined 3.9% is nuts. One of the two of us is guaranteed to be in the semifinals whereas Nova has to beat the team that has a 29.7% chance to win the title (according to Opta) just to make the semis. Massey and Sagarin have the three teams as all pretty similar. Seems to me that both us and Illinois St should have better odds than Nova for the simple fact that it's not a lock either of us has to face Tarleton, who is the best team remaining on our side of the bracket.

Montana St seems a bit high too considering their semifinal game will be a tough one if they beat SFA. But them and Tarleton are rightly the two favorites.

I'll take 3 more Pinnick-led wins this year and then he can go play wherever he wants next year.

Just got my tickets. Got my parents to drive up and go to the game also.

Illinois St's only road loss this year was at Oklahoma. They lost to NDSt, Youngstown and Southern Illinois all at home.

On the road they South Dakota and South Dakota St in conference, then won at SE Louisiana and NDSt in the playoffs.

It was definitely cold but at least it wasn't windy. That would have been much worse.

They announced at the end of the game tickets go on sale tomorrow so I would hope that's for everybody and not just season ticket holders. We're still a week out and it shows a high of 54, partly sunny and no rain in the forecast so hopefully with the earlier game we can get more people out.

Oh hell yeah!

No big plays. Make them earn it.

Great quarter. Just need to finish this things off. Love that we’re able to run the ball too.

I like when we score TDs.

Great start to the second half. Keep it up.

Offense needs to finish a bit better. We’re moving ur well, just stalling late.

This game is winnable. Let’s not let it slip away.

We’re in some trouble. They get the ball to start the second half too.

Their RB is going to be a problem. 6-1 and 225.

Offense moving the ball, just can’t finish. Hope these missed chances don’t come back to bite us.

Defense looks good too.

Was that as bad a decision as it looked here? Threw it right to the guy.

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.

I feel your pain. Last year my wife was having a 50th anniversary party on the day of the Illinois St game. We were hosting people at our house before going out to dinner. She did allow me to camp out upstairs and watch the game before dinner at least.

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.