SHSU FCS Playoff SemiFinal

[BisonTeacher]

From diaper pants to garter pants. The real question is if shsu loses will they make semi final runner up t shirts?

[Bison20]

I’m not arguing any of that... just the terrible 4th quarter team I don’t comprehend or does it logically make sense
They quite simply are not a championship caliber team

They have almost blew the last two games in the second half. Up 41-7 against usd at halftime, usd got it to 44-42 in the 4th quarter before losing. They were up yesterday big at halftime and Kennesaw had a chance to the the game with a minute left. I think that's y he says terrible 4th quarter team. They usually get big leads and barely hold on to win. If they get down a couple touchdowns they tend to quit. It's been their style to quit once they get down

[noryan34]

They have almost blew the last two games in the second half. Up 41-7 against usd at halftime, usd got it to 44-42 in the 4th quarter before losing. They were up yesterday big at halftime and Kennesaw had a chance to the the game with a minute left. I think that's y he says terrible 4th quarter team. They usually get big leads and barely hold on to win. If they get down a couple touchdowns they tend to quit. It's been their style to quit once they get down

You can see it in there body language when the going gets tough. QB yelling at his receivers. Defenders yelling at each other when the give up a big play. Coach yelling at the refs when his team doesn’t get a so so whistle. If ndsu gets up early I don’t see any fight or composure in this team to come back. They had what seemed like 5 personal foul penalties late in that game

[Bison 4 Life]

You can see it in there body language when the going gets tough. QB yelling at his receivers. Defenders yelling at each other when the give up a big play. Coach yelling at the refs when his team doesn’t get a so so whistle. If ndsu gets up early I don’t see any fight or composure in this team to come back. They had what seemed like 5 personal foul penalties late in that game

I remember the last time they came to the dome. Highly touted athletic QB who was going to give the Bison big problems. Second play from scrimmage was a Kyle Emauel sack and it was all downhill from there.

[ByeSonBusiness]

Still doesn’t answer how they consistently make deep playoff runs

Lack of depth at this level.

[Hammerhead]

Still doesn’t answer how they consistently make deep playoff runs

They usually get to play Big Sky teams in the playoffs. LOL

[gumby013]

Sam’s national stat rankings. Some of the defensive ones are startling.

http://stats.ncaa.org/teams/113738

[noryan34]

Sam’s national stat rankings. Some of the defensive ones are startling.

http://stats.ncaa.org/teams/113738

Few things that stand out. Avg 33 yards per punt. Giving up over 21 first downs a game. And around 80 penalty yards a geme. For comparison NdSU is 37/11/44.

[gumby013]

Sagarin just updated. Bison up to #36. Sam at #104. Predicts a ~20 point spread.

JMU at #55. SDSU at #56.

[Professor Chaos]

Sam’s national stat rankings. Some of the defensive ones are startling.

http://stats.ncaa.org/teams/113738

These are all out of 123 teams.

107th in total defense allowing 438.8 ypg
94th in rush defense allowing 180.2 ypg
And this is the big one - 112th in average TOP at 27:50

SHSU is going to need a Montana circa 2015 FCS Kickoff effort offensively to have a chance at winning (and hope NDSU's defense has the same issues as they did that game too). I just don't see how SHSU's high powered offense is going to be able to get enough plays/possessions to get it done. You can never say it's impossible for a team to win but boy does it seem like this matchup favors NDSU in so many different ways.