No competing D1 schools for borderline recruits, + local kids tend to be big, rural farm kids who are raw in HS and develop in college. sdsu OL and DL are mostly homegrown and then they get RB from other states
Why was Nebraska good in the 90s? Keep them farm boys home and hang around for 4-5 years and develop.
SDSU should see a significant step down this year. I really don’t expect them to be nearly as good. Preseason #1 seems more legacy ranking than anything. Don’t expect them to win again.
I'll never forget Coastal travelling Montana in the playoffs. Their fans came onto the Coastal message board saying how our players wouldn't be able to handle how cold and loud it is at their place. That our players were just too used to warm and sandy beaches. It did not end well for Montana.
FCS Playoff Committee Top-10 (Oct. 30): 1. North Dakota State (8-1, 5-0 MVFC) 2. Montana State (8-0, 4-0 Big Sky) 3. South Dakota State (6-2, 3-1 MVFC) 4. South Dakota (6-2, 4-1 MVFC) 5. UC Davis (7-1, 4-0 Big Sky) 6. SEMO (8-1, 5-0 Big South-OVC) 7. Idaho (6-3, 3-2 Big Sky) 8. Mercer (7-1, 4-1 SoCon) 9. Incarnate Word (6-2, 3-0 Southland) 10. Montana (6-2, 3-1 Big Sky) FCS Playoff Schedule: First Round: Nov. 30 Second Round: Dec. 7 Quarterfinals: Dec. 13-14 Semifinals: Dec. 21 FCS National Championship: Jan. 6, 2025 (7 p.m. ET, ABC) https://www.si.com/college/fcs/fcs-football-playoff-committee-reveals-2024-top-10-rankings
2021-2023 Final Bracketology Accuracy: 22/24 seeds correct, 69/72 teams in the field correct Seeds 1. North Dakota State 2. Montana State 3. South Dakota State 4. UC Davis 5. Mercer 6. Idaho 7. UIW 8. Richmond 9. South Dakota 10. SEMO 11. Tarleton State 12. Rhode Island 13. Villanova 14. Montana 15. Stony Brook 16. UT Martin Auto-Bids Big Sky – Montana State Big South-OVC – SEMO CAA – Richmond MVFC – North Dakota State NEC – Duquesne Patriot – Lehigh Pioneer – Drake *SoCon – Mercer Southland – UIW UAC – Tarleton State *Clinched auto-bid At-Large Bids Ordered from most likely to least likely to get in. Seeded teams who are not their conference’s auto-bid will be at the top. South Dakota State (seed) UC Davis (seed) Idaho (seed) South Dakota (seed) Rhode Island (seed) Montana (seed) Villanova (seed) Stony Brook (seed) UT Martin (seed) Illinois State Last 4 In Chattanooga ETSU Abilene Christian Eastern Kentucky Bubble Teams Left Out Ordered from the best chance to make the bracket out of this group to the worst chance. 25. Northern Arizona 26. Southeastern Louisiana 27. William & Mary 28. Western Carolina 29. Central Arkansas 30. Tennessee State 31. NC Central 32. New Hampshire
Yes no shot. They needed to win out to get in which I think they easily could have having 8 FCS wins. No idea what happened today. We went last week and they looked great. Artopoeous has been injured but he doesn’t play defense.