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Spiderlegs:
YSU football can go 9-3 and still miss the playoffs.  Here's how:

NDSU--no losses
UNI--loses to NDSU
SDSU--loses to NDSU and UNI
YSU--loses to NDSU and SDSU (third loss: Illinois)

Under this scenario, YSU finishes 4th in the MVFC due to the tiebreaker. Given recent history, do you really think the FCS selection committee will send 4 teams from MVFC into the playoffs?

Ah, you say, but look at the Illinois game.  Yes, look at the Illinois game--no movement in the polls for YSU.  The world is saying "meh" over what it saw Saturday--only YSU fans think that the result is good. Instead, FCS selection committee will look at the Duquesne/Butler/St. Francis trifecta and ask why YSU had such a weak non-conference schedule. 

penguinpower:
Excellent points.   The one factor that could help us is all of the attention that Patty Viverito has made about the MVFC getting the perennial screw job by the playoff committee.   Now there has been national attention made by her and others so they will likely take 4, but even if we win SIU could still be in the mix because we don't play Northern Iowa.

I just connected the dots on why the UNI athletic director held the two lower level fcs games against us last year.......it is because they are playing two  85 scholarship teams this year.  He was positioning because he knows the odds of going into conference play with two losses and they could easily end up with 3.  UNI has to  play NDSU as well.

YSUinBoston:
There is no way on Earth this team goes 9-3.

Wick250:
Any team from the MVFC, the Big Sky, or the CAA that finishes 9-3 (or 8-3 most years) will automatically go with the 24 team field.  8-4 (or 7-4 most years) opens the door to politics.  I don't think that the selection committee will admit three teams from poor conferences again any time soon.  There is no love for us nationally, but the NCAA has been blasted repeatedly in the media for selecting three teams from the terrible OVC last season.

Also, the gap between the MVFC and the rest of the FCS world might actually get larger this year.  The CAA already has two awful losses to the NEC.  The Southern Conference has evaporated as a national player.  The bottom of the Big Sky is very bad.

Spiderlegs, as Power mentioned, you left out Southern Illinois in your equation.  They are probably better than SDSU, especially since SDSU lost their quarterback for at least six weeks.  I expect the MVFC will get four spots this season.  Whether we are one of those four is the open question.  We won't get a real feel for that until the Missouri State game.

Dmorton:
I wouldn't worry, we're not going to win nine games anyway!

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