For those that go to games, is the view from the front row okay? I'm tall so I usually like getting aisle seats but there are some front row seats in 124 available. Just wondering how the viewing experience might be from there.
I feel like the front row is too close/low. It makes it hard to see the sideline plays since the players on the sideline block the view. But it is fun cheering on the guys who are so close!
I think a big reason why a top 8 seed was so surprising to all of us is because the polls, Sam Herder, every FCS expert, etc. did not predict it. But if we looked at the actual committee's most recent top ten rankings, we'd see the following:
#1 NDSU stayed undefeated (#1 seed)
#2 MSU beat #3 UM (#2 seed)
#3 UM lost to #2 MSU (#3 seed)
#4 Lehigh stayed undefeated (#5 seed)
#5 Tarleton State stayed a 1 loss team (#4 seed) #6 SDSU lost to 2 FCS teams not in the committee's top 10 (#14 seed)
#7 Tennessee Tech stayed undefeated in FCS (#13 seed) #8 Monmouth lost to 2 FCS teams not in the committee's top 10 (did not make the field) #9 Harvard lost to 1 FCS team not in the committee's top 10 (unseeded)
#10 UCD lost to the committee's #2 team (#8 seed)
Swapping #4 and #5 after they both kept winning, especially w/ #5 escaping in OT yesterday, is strange. #7 dropping to #13 after staying undefeated is strange.
#10 and #3 are the only teams that lost to a team ranked higher by the committee (incidentally, MSU) and so both of them keeping their relative position in the top ten with game-losers dropping out of the top ten actually shouldn't be that surprising. We were leap-frogged by SFA and Mercer, probably because a loss to MSU is still a loss, but with 3 teams above us suffering bad losses, going from #10 to #8 seems pretty fair.
Today's outcome for UCD is not as head scratching as was the committee's decision to keep us in their top ten after we lost to Idaho State.