**FCS (formerly I-AA) Football Playoff Thread**

[wh1t3bread]

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Not the largest stadium, but the largest "bid". This typically works out to be the largest stadium, though.

Yeah, it's strange.

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Exactly. More seats usually means more gate revenue and more concessions which = more money. I believe there are some other factors taken into consideration such as facilities quality, etc. But it really does come down to the money.

[wh1t3bread]

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Honestly, this year's field are all pretty solid picks except for UNH. Should have been Norfolk State IMO

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Yeah. I can't really complain about any of the picks. Flipping UNH with any of: Norfolk State, Villanova, Holy Cross, Albany, Alabama A&M or even non-scholly Dayton would have been okay with me.

But really I don't think any of those teams are more deserving than UNH. UNH ranks 16th in GPI. That's ahead of all those teams I just mentioned. Sagarin has UNH ranked higher than all those teams except Nova.

UNH also has 3 of their 4 losses to playoff teams (JMU, Richmond, UMASS). They beat another playoff team, Delaware and FBS Marshall. Their resume ain't bad.

The committee did the right thing though, by sending the last team in to the #1 seed, UNI...despite the travel costs.

[MicroBob]

Are we still allowed to talk about how stupid it is that they changed the name from 1-AA to FCS?
I know it's old news but it still bugs the crap out of me.

[yeotaJMU]

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKES

[Karak567]

wow delaware state is bad

[Troll_Inc]

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Are we still allowed to talk about how stupid it is that they changed the name from 1-AA to FCS?
I know it's old news but it still bugs the crap out of me.

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Yeah, I-AA was cool.

Also, we might as well also talk about how awesome the playoff system is here and how gay the BCS system is. If I-A had a playoff system it would make college football playoffs the best sports playoffs in the US....better than the NCAA tournament, profootball playoff, and baseball playoffs.

[wiper]

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wow delaware state is bad

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yep..

after being bombarded for weeks about why delaware/delaware st. haven't played, and it was 37-0 delaware..they're interviewing the old delaware coach, and he's asked, 'why haven't they played'..

he chuckled, looked at the field, and said, 'well, i think you're looking at ONE of the reasons...'

HAHA!

[MSUcougar]

Unfortunately I don't pay as much attention to 1-AA as I did when I was in school (Montana State), but the playoff system sure is exciting... I was at the Montana - Montana St. game last weekend and was pretty impressed with the Grizzlies overall. They're gonna be tough to beat, especially at home...

[Quicksilvre]

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Are we still allowed to talk about how stupid it is that they changed the name from 1-AA to FCS?
I know it's old news but it still bugs the crap out of me.

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To be honest with you, it's growing on me. At least the new names are properly descriptive; it used to seriously life-tilt me to hear people describing a baseball or a basketball program as being I-AA (when the division only exists for football).

[Needle77]

App state getting extremely lucky that they won that game today vs JMU. We'll see if they can ride this good luck throughout the playoffs. I think UDel could be a team to watch out for the rest of the way. This should be an amazing bracket this year.