I don't want to say that Portland State is even a decent, but in terms of quality there seems to be a big difference in quality between them and a team like Northern Colorado. Close against us, close against Idaho. We still should have beat them by more, but they're not awful.
Yep, that's a big boost for us no matter how we finish. It's either...
-another win over a highly ranked team which could help us over one of the MVFC teams if we finish 11-1 or 10-2
-or if we go 9-3, that H2H win could be the tiebreaker for us over a 9-3 Idaho team if it comes down to us and them for the 8 seed.
You know how this board feels about the head-to-head stuff ....
Beating the #8 team on the last day of the season to move to 7-4.......and watching THAT same team go to the playoffs with the same record (and worse conference record).
The committee says rankings don't matter, but I really think that's BS. Being unranked kept us out (and the awful NAU loss).
At least this year we'd likely be ranked, if it comes down to Idaho and Davis being 9-3
I think everyone knows quite well that when Sac State sucks in any sport they can always find a way to beat the Aggies, and then resume sucking thereafter. The exception is if the Aggies also suck at the time. Fear the unsatisfactory hornets.
Northern Arizona at Northern Colorado - 11 am
Portland State at Montana - 12 noon
Idaho State at Eastern Washington - 1 pm
Sac State at Cal Poly - 2 pm
Weber State at Idaho - 5 pm
Montana State at the Aggies - 5 pm
FInal, Cal Poly 26, Sac 23. An Aggie win next week and the Hornets finish last in the Big Sky. (Technically tied with Idaho State, but the Bengals won their head-to-head meeting.)
EDIT: My bad. Slack is tied with Northern Colorado, not Idaho State. The Hornets and Bears did not meet this season. Northern Colorado travels to 2-5 Portland State next week. In another match up of 2-5 teams Weber State hosts Cal Poly. Could be a real log jam at the bottom of the standings.