Before yesterday their best win was over an unranked team. They didn’t play Illinois St. so it was either an 8-2 Drake or 5-7 North Dakota.

That bracket is dumb. Mercer lost to a 4-7 team by 20 points and doesn't have a single ranked win. They're 14th in Sagarin and 11th in Massey. In no universe do they deserve to be above us and South Dakota.

Four 2014 commits — movielover

I think our 2014 commits might have run out of eligibility by now. Lol.

Yes, I know you meant 2024 but I had to make the joke.

Can't see us getting the 5 after that. The computer rankings are going to have SD above us but I think our resume is slightly better than theirs. Just glad we don't have to sweat out getting in or even getting a bye.

Nothing easy for us today. Credit to Sac for not quitting either.

LAN! OH HELL YEAH!

Why did we not just have 1 guy all the way back? We got bailed out by the penalty but that wasn't smart. Could have been stuck at our own 6.

It's fine. We'll be able to run the ball to kill the clock oh wait we're averaging 2.7 yards per carry today. Not good!

Don't let up. We remember what we were able to nearly come back from last week.

I'll take it but that falls into the category of whatever they ruled it on the field, it was going to stand.

That being said, that should have been overturned.

That's incomplete.

Come on boys. Get 7 here for some breathing room.

No. 6 Incarnate Word 10-2 lost to South Dakota St at 3-8 Southern Illinois, 1 ranked win (No. 21 NAU)
No. 7 Idaho 9-3 (assuming they win), lost to Oregon, Mont St, UCD. Beat Wyoming, No. 11 ACU and No. 21 NAU.
No. 8 Mercer 10-2 lost to Alabama and 4-6 Samford, no currently ranked wins
No. 9 Montana 8-4 lost today so they'll drop
No. 10 Richmond 10-2 lost to Virginia and 5-7 Wofford. Beat Delaware who would be ranked but didn't play the other 4 ranked teams in their conference.
No. 11 Abilene Christian 8-4 lost today so they'll drop
No. 12 SE Missouri St 9-3 lost today so they'll drop
No. 13 Rhode Island 10-2 lost to Minnesota and Delaware. 1 ranked win over No. 24 New Hampshire
No. 14 Illinois St 9-3 lost to Iowa, NDST, Missouri St. No ranked wins.

So you would need four of those teams to jump us. You could sell me on Idaho having a better resume and they only lost to us by 2. After that, we've got a better resume than everyone else. Yes, losing to a 4-8 Sac St would hurt. But we've also got a win over Idaho, who will get a bye, and Montana, who will probably get a seed. None of those teams besides Idaho have wins anywhere close to that.

I totally understand the hesitation after the last couple years and hopefully we just win this thing and everything is moot. But one game shouldn't sink a team. Just like beating Sac last year didn't guarantee us a spot either.

We definitely could drop out. I'm just saying I don't think it's some sure thing that if we win we get 4 or 5 but if we lose we get 9 or lower.

I think we could be. As far as resume's go, there's a big drop off after 5. We might not end up at 5 if we lose, but I think we still deserve a top-8.

They had two guys open in the back of the end zone on that TD. That can't happen.

If the committee uses the ratings, we’re going to be behind. But resume, we’ve got a better one than they do, even with this win. It’s going to be close though.

That’s not good.

NDSt up 21-17 late 3rd.

Glad North Dakota St woke up. Hopefully they can pull out the victory. Everything I've read this week says that South Dakota needs to win to get the 4 seed as long as we beat Sac. Hopefully that's the case and we take care of business against Sac.