FCS Playoffs

Nicholls State beat Southeast Louisiana 44-0 tonight to win the SLC automatic bid to the FCS Playoffs. Now we need to beat McNeese and UCA to beat ACU to have any chance of an at-large bid.

 

That’s interesting. I was kind of hoping y’all lose to a McNeese and we make enough of a statement against UCA that we get the invite over UIW.

 

Truth be known, I don’t think it makes much difference what either of us do. UIW will get the at large bid over either of us. I base this on the press UIW is getting and brackets picked by folks who keep up with the historic thinking of the selection committee.

 

All three of us would have 6 wins in the eyes of the committee. Games against sub D1 teams don’t count. UIW will have only two losses. ACU and Lamar have three losses.

 

Your six game winning streak could possibly, maybe be a factor. Our convincing win over conference champion Nicholls could help us. But I don’t expect either factor will be enough to sway the committee or pick us over UIW or choose Both UIW and one of us. They might just choose an with Mo Valley team over any of us since UIW doesn’t have 7 wins either.

Congratulations to Nicholls. The winner of the LU/McNeese game will have seven wins if that is really important to the committee although one of Lamar's would be against a non-D1 school. In Lamar's case they have a head to head win over IW. If McNeese wins I believe they will get an at large spot as they got snubbed last year with nine wins and have a win against fellow FCS school Northern Colorado in the non-conference. As for LU, ACU and IW, none of these has a history to get any help from, so the only way in was to earn it which none did outside of the conference. Both LU and ACU will have a seventh win but that will be against a D-2 or lower division school. IW will only have six wins no matter what and all of those are in conference. IW might get a little help as both of the non-conference games they've played were against FBS schools and they're located in a large city. Edited November 16, 2018 by geezer

Video from NCAA on the procedures to pick the teams:

That’s interesting. I was kind of hoping y’all lose to a McNeese and we make enough of a statement against UCA that we get the invite over UIW.

 

Truth be known, I don’t think it makes much difference what either of us do. UIW will get the at large bid over either of us. I base this on the press UIW is getting and brackets picked by folks who keep up with the historic thinking of the selection committee.

 

All three of us would have 6 wins in the eyes of the committee. Games against sub D1 teams don’t count. UIW will have only two losses. ACU and Lamar have three losses.

 

Your six game winning streak could possibly, maybe be a factor. Our convincing win over conference champion Nicholls could help us. But I don’t expect either factor will be enough to sway the committee or pick us over UIW or choose Both UIW and one of us. They might just choose an with Mo Valley team over any of us since UIW doesn’t have 7 wins either.

 

I was watching the NCAA video on how they pick the teams. If both ACU and LU win Saturday then they could both make the tourney and play against each other in the first round since they didn't play against each other during the regular season. Of course that would mean IWU would get royally screwed by the NCAA and the NCAA really was desperate to get 3 SLC teams in the tourney. Not going to happen but fun to think about.

I still think the SLC only gets 1 team in, even though UIW, ACU, and Lamar have intriguing resumes.

In looking around I found this site and it seems to have good reasons for it's projections. It was last updated on November 11th, so things can change after this weekends games. https://www.dratings.com/predictor/ncaa-football-predictions/fcs-playoff-projections/

At this time all you can do if you’re Lamar is to cross your fingers and make some phone calls if you know someone. Obviously at this point you are basically having to petition to put you in over UIW who won a share of the SLC championship but won’t get the autobid due to playing 8 conference games vs everyone else playing 9. Here are a few points I would argue for Lamar over UIW:

 

• Head to Head win October 13th

 

• LU may be one of the hottest teams in the country having won 6 in a row.

 

• 4 of those 6 were against teams either in the top 25 at the time of the game or now.

 

• Lamar’s 3 FCS losses were by a combined 30 points (10 points per game). UIW’s 2 FCS losses were by a combined 33 points (16.5 points per game)

KAB, please contact Born this morning and go over your points with him and ask him to make some phone calls. You laid out a nice case.

Bullshit

Never mind

That’s big time right there!

We are in!!!

What a difference 6 weeks can make

Not by a TV, who do we play & where?

Thought for sure when UIW popped up Lamar was out. I am over the moon right now! Congratulations to coach Shultz and this team.

Not by a TV, who do we play & where?

 

@ Norther Iowa

Here is the player’s reaction

 

WE’RE IN!!!! @LamarFootball is headed to their first ever FCS Playoffs appearance!!! Cardinals will head to Northern Iowa next Saturday!! #WeAreLU #TriangleTough pic.twitter.com/Htd58atIGA

— Lamar Cardinals (@LamarAthletics) November 18, 2018

Congrats to the cards !! Let’s go show we belong !!!

It's the long awaited rematch of the 1964 Pecan Bowl!

We and Incarnate Word 2 of last three in .Nichols is hosting.When we win play sixth seed.At least playing in dome on turf not on frozen field like in Montana.Their record for attendance about 17,000.

It's the long awaited rematch of the 1964 Pecan Bowl!

 

Nice!!

Congratulations to the Cards, I'm really glad they got in. Now I just hope for a great game. On IW do they cancel there game with Iowa State (scheduled for Dec 1) now or do they wait and see if they win the first round?

We got us a football team. LU FOOTBALL IS BACK, BABY. All I have to say is, WE WANT DUKE.

 

 

ON second thought, you just have to know and relish that this ain't sittin well ,with the cowbells,across the Calcasieu.

Only thing I know about Northern Iowa is Bruce Jenner is probably their most famous alumni.

A hearty congratulations to coach Schultz, staff and players. Let's run this win streak up to 11!!!