Iowa's punter set the record for most punting yards this year.

Their offense was hilariously bad. Prior to the year the OC (who is the HC's son) had his contract amended to say that if Iowa didn't average 25 ppg this year, he'd get fired. Midway through the year they weren't close to that and the school announced he wouldn't be back in 2024. Iowa managed to win games this year where they scored 15, 10, 15 and 13 points. In 10 of their 14 games they scored 20 points or less. They were shutout 3 times.

Despite that, Iowa still managed to win the Big 10 West which meant they got to play Michigan. The betting line for Iowa's team total in that game was 6.5, meaning the bookmakers weren't sure they'd get a TD. For the first half, their team total was 0.5 points. For reference, when Portland State played Oregon this year, the spread was 48 and total was 64.5. That means the projected score was 56-8. So the books expected Iowa to do as well offensively against Michigan (again, in a conference championship game) as Portland St against Oregon. To the surprise of nobody, Iowa didn't score in that game.

There are no college football games this Saturday. There are two NFL games (1:30 and 5:15). On Sunday, there are 14 NFL games. So it makes total sense that the FCS would choose to have their title game on Sunday at 11 a.m. Like why not do it on Saturday? I'm sure there's some overlap between people who watch the NFL and would also watch the FCS game. Just seems like a stupid choice to hold it on Sunday against the NFL.

Generally speaking, I don't mind gimmick plays. I just think it's a bad idea to throw the ball with a non-QB when if you don't complete the pass, you lose. Plus that play they ran, I'm sure he could have run it if it was open, but there was one guy in the end zone to throw the ball to. Not great! Because something happens and that one guy, let's say, falls down (which he did!), now you're out of options. Run the gimmick play in a tie game. Run it if you're up 5 and you want to go up 7. But when I need a 2 point to keep the game going, I'm going to call my best play. And there's no chance that was one of NDSt's best plays.

What a dumb call. 2nd OT, NDSt runs it right down Montana’s throat for a TD on 3 plays. Then for the 2 point conversion they do a gimmick formation with all the linemen split out to either sideline except the center, they hand the ball to a WR and have him throw it. Just run the damn ball again!

Unsurprisingly this semifinal is a close one.

That's one heck of an ass kicking.

This for sure.

I do think when the Covid year thing passes it will easy up a bit. Rather than 5/6 years worth of kids in college, you'll have 4/5. As for the transferring, I wouldn't mind allowing kids a one time transfer without sitting out. But if you want to transfer a second time, you have to sit out a year. One exception would be if the head coach leaves, then if you want to leave you don't have to sit out a year.

The Albany thing is pretty crazy. Prior to this year they were 2-3 all time in the playoffs. They made it in 1977 (in D III) and then in 2011 and 2019 in FCS. They've now won 11 games this year. They've only done that once ever and only won 10+ games twice in their history. Like our 2018 season seems like an anomaly but we at least had a DII history. Albany has no history and all of a sudden they're in the semis.

Thanks for the info. If he became a Texas A&M fan, he could just keep the same team nickname. Would only have to worry about switching colors.

And yeah, with how big of a fan he seemed to be, I would have thought he'd stick with following UCD, even from afar.

This seems as good a place as any, but whatever happened to aggie6thman? He used to be as active as anyone. I'm hit or miss on how often I come to the site so I may have missed if he left for a particular reason.

I think the selection was less "we need to keep Florida State out" and more "we need to get Bama in there". Because Texas has a solid resume and convincingly beat Bama in Tuscaloosa, they couldn't justify taking Bama over Texas. So Florida State was the convenient solution. I think if Georgia had beaten Alabama on Saturday, they would have taken the four undefeated teams and Texas gets left out.

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.