Quote Originally Posted by steelbison View Post
Could not disagree more. Remember the days when Youngstown was decent. UNI was very good. Illinois State gave us all we wanted. SDSU has been good forever. Now it’s basically SDSU and a bunch of tomato cans.
I'm willing to be convinced that I'm wrong, but the data just isn't supporting that the MVFC is down at all.

Most playoff wins by a conference in the playoffs by year (7 or more). As you can see, the MVFC is likely to tie the all-time most playoff wins in a single year by a conference:

2014 MVFC 10
2023 MVFC 9
2021 MVFC 8
2015 MVFC 8
2016 CAA 8
2017 MVFC 8
2019 MVFC 8
2004 A10-S 8
2008 CAA 8
2009 CAA 8
1990 Ind 7
1991 Ind 7
2018 MVFC 7
2016 MVFC 7
2022 MVFC 7

SIU and YSU both curb-stomped their first round opponents this year, and the MVFC is at an all-time high for playoff wins, so imo the only way the MVFC is down, is if the whole FCS is down, but I'm not sure that's supported by the data. I mean, Georgia Southern was the greatest program in FCS history before NDSU came along, and they never beat a P5 team during their run. NDSU might be down - I mean, there is no way on earth NDSU should have lost to that Arizona team, but that's NDSU being down, not the FCS being down. Maybe the 2010's was the golden age of FCS football?


Colorado will be an interesting test.