A new and better FBS thread

[Rock]

Kelly green is for UN_ posers.

At least half of Grand Forks is in a cool state.

[Rock]

Tm

i miss chubs corp

[NDSU92]

Wait until you see how they seed the CFP.

If our MWC "friend" who likes to tell us we don't have an opening there is correct, Utah State would have gotten the G5 bid.
And like he said, they weren't even the best G5, just the one that would have been selected.

The committee is going to find a way to make that G5 bid the 12 seed facing off against Bama and OSU, at their house.
When they proceed to get pummeled, that will be the excuse moving forward to limit the G5 to one bid.

That token bid is just there to make it look like they are being inclusive. This is rigged for the P5.

You might want to check how a 12 team bracket looks. There’s literally nothing they could do to schedule us against Bama or any top four seed… that’s the beauty of a 12 over a 16 team bracket.

Was Cincy not ranked #4 last year from a G5? Am I missing something?

Go undefeated, win your conference, beat at least one good p5 in non-con. You’ll be in the playoff

[MWC]

American sports are rarely fair and equitable. It is survival of the fittest and nobody is in the charity business. The reality is there are less than 10 programs capable of winning the national title most years. Sometimes a Cinderella will emerge but that school will likely come from a P5 conference. The view I see on this board frequently is this makes the other schools across the country an afterthought. That would include most of P5 too.

I understand your desire to move up to FBS and challenge yourself. If you really like the MW and you truly want to play those schools that is one thing. However, if you think the MW should just take you because you dominated FCS or that the conference is desperate you are wrong. The MW is about a lot of things. While they would be absolutely delighted to be in the top 6 they are also delighted to get multiple teams in the NCAA's.

You certainly could be invited to the MW but if you think it greases the wheel for you to be a big national story and not an "afterthought", your are delusional.

The conference a school is in doesn't make you a success. It is up to the individual schools to make their own hay.

[ByeSonBusiness]

Explain. Seems to work okay for your favorite team.

**whom NDSU, who is very much UNLIKE UTAH f*ing State. Would thump repeatedly on overdrive. Like a Robotic Bison.**

ND doesn't just put their games online. So no, it doesn't "work okay" for them.

[daddy daycare]

American sports are rarely fair and equitable. It is survival of the fittest and nobody is in the charity business. The reality is there are less than 10 programs capable of winning the national title most years. Sometimes a Cinderella will emerge but that school will likely come from a P5 conference. The view I see on this board frequently is this makes the other schools across the country an afterthought. That would include most of P5 too.

I understand your desire to move up to FBS and challenge yourself. If you really like the MW and you truly want to play those schools that is one thing. However, if you think the MW should just take you because you dominated FCS or that the conference is desperate you are wrong. The MW is about a lot of things. While they would be absolutely delighted to be in the top 6 they are also delighted to get multiple teams in the NCAA's.

You certainly could be invited to the MW but if you think it greases the wheel for you to be a big national story and not an "afterthought", your are delusional.

The conference a school is in doesn't make you a success. It is up to the individual schools to make their own hay.

I have no idea why MWC would want NDSU at the moment.

[BigHorns]

You might want to check how a 12 team bracket looks. There’s literally nothing they could do to schedule us against Bama or any top four seed… that’s the beauty of a 12 over a 16 team bracket.

Was Cincy not ranked #4 last year from a G5? Am I missing something?

Go undefeated, win your conference, beat at least one good p5 in non-con. You’ll be in the playoff

What you are missing is Houston, UCF and Cincy are all P5 next year.
Find me another G5 in the top 25 right now.
If you can't climb into the top 12, you're not getting anything anything but the low seed.

It will be the "top G5" slotted against whoever is #5 ... and it still won't be pretty.
And there is no way 1 P5 win is going to get you in playing in CUSA, unless that P5 is Alabama and you smoke them.

[Professorbum]

I have no idea why MWC would want NDSU at the moment.

They wouldn't. Can we talk about how to make CUSA work? I get the downsides, but like it or not, CUSA is the only FBS conference who might be remotely interested in us right now.

[Professorbum]

What you are missing is Houston, UCF and Cincy are all P5 next year.
Find me another G5 in the top 25 right now.
If you can't climb into the top 12, you're not getting anything anything but the low seed.

It will be the "top G5" slotted against whoever is #5 ... and it still won't be pretty.
And there is no way 1 P5 win is going to get you in playing in CUSA, unless that P5 is Alabama and you smoke them.

You're looking at this as a one-off. Do this 2-3 years in a row, along with winning bowl games, and yes we would get in. Absolutely.

[taper]

They wouldn't. Can we talk about how to make CUSA work? I get the downsides, but like it or not, CUSA is the only FBS conference who might be remotely interested in us right now.

Get 4-7 midwest teams to jump as a group and form CUSA North division. I'd support that. Going CUSA by ourselves is a death sentence. Anybody wanting that is completely insane.