Some Questions About Division I-AA Teams.

[Zoo]

Hi guys, i'm just wondering of you guys can answer these questions for me. :) (They have really been bothering me as to why I can't figure out. xlolx )

1.) Why don't Division 1-A teams go to a Division 1-AA team's stadium when they meet?

2.) Why do Division 1-AA teams usually get blown out by Division 1-A teams 75%-85% of the time?

3.) How often do Division 1-AA teams move up to Division 1-A?

Thanks. :thumbsup:

[youwouldno]

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[rmutv]

1. Division I-A teams pay I-AA teams because there is usually a huge difference in talent. D-I teams get an extra home game to pad their attendance figures and budgets while I-AA teams have the very off chance of an upset and the prestige of playing a top-notch team.

2. See huge talent difference and a lack of recruting money for the smaller I-AA teams.

3. Not often.

[Tod]

Are you a I-AA fan, or a I-A fan? :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[Tod]

Hi guys, i'm just wondering of you guys can answer these questions for me. :) (They have really been bothering me as to why I can't figure out. xlolx )

1.) Why don't Division 1-A teams go to a Division 1-AA team's stadium when they meet?

2.) Why do Division 1-AA teams usually get blown out by Division 1-A teams 75%-85% of the time?

3.) How often do Division 1-AA teams move up to Division 1-A?

Thanks. :thumbsup:

Who's your team?

[*****]

Hi guys, i'm just wondering of you guys can answer these questions for me. :) (They have really been bothering me as to why I can't figure out. xlolx )

1.) Why don't Division 1-A teams go to a Division 1-AA team's stadium when they meet?

2.) Why do Division 1-AA teams usually get blown out by Division 1-A teams 75%-85% of the time?

3.) How often do Division 1-AA teams move up to Division 1-A?

Thanks. :thumbsup:1. I-AA teams will not pay what most I-A teams can make at home. This often works between all teams regardless of divisions or subdivisions.
2. They don't.
3. Not very often.

[Zoo]

I'm a fan of both, but I lean more to Division 1-AA. My team is Montana, but again, I like alot of them. :thumbsup:


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Yeah, I kind of really don't know.xlolx

[Tod]

I'm a fan of both, but I lean more to Division 1-AA. My team is Montana, but again, I like alot of them. :thumbsup:


Yeah, I kind of really don't know.xlolx

Where are you from?

[Zoo]

Where are you from?

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. :nod:

[UMass922]

2. They don't.

1. What's the all time I-AA vs. I-A win-loss record, and what's the average point differential?

2. If we roughly define a "blowout" as a game decided by three or more touchdowns (let's just go with the nice round number and say 20+ points--and we can certainly debate what kind of point spread constitutes a "blowout," while acknowledging that the final margin is not always indicative of how closely the game was played), what's the percentage of I-A "blowout" wins?

Not trying to be fussy skeptic/contrarian/anti-I-AA troll here, just genuinely curious.

[*****]

1. What's the all time I-AA vs. I-A win-loss record, and what's the average point differential?

2. If we roughly define a "blowout" as a game decided by three or more touchdowns (let's just go with the nice round number and say 20+ points--and we can certainly debate what kind of point spread constitutes a "blowout," while acknowledging that the final margin is not always indicative of how closely the game was played), what's the percentage of I-A "blowout" wins?...1. I don't know but I think 85% blowouts is not right.
2. I don't consider 20 points a blowout, maybe 35. I don't know but I think 85% blowouts is not right.

40% were this week:
Texas 56, Sam Houston State 3
Hawaii 44, Eastern Ill 9
Boston College 22, Maine 0
Wake Forest 34, Liberty 14
Iowa State 28, Northern Iowa 27

[UMass922]

1. I don't know but I think 85% blowouts is not right.
2. I don't consider 20 points a blowout, maybe 35. I don't know but I think 85% blowouts is not right.

40% were this week:
Texas 56, Sam Houston State 3
Hawaii 44, Eastern Ill 9
Boston College 22, Maine 0
Wake Forest 34, Liberty 14
Iowa State 28, Northern Iowa 27

It's not worth making too much of a fuss over, but I think 35 is rather generous. I'd maybe compromise at 25--at that point, we're talking a (minimum) four-possession game, after all--but even at 20, face it: if you lose by that much, you most likely got your butt handed to you. (Granted, in some 20-point games the winning team might have busted loose for a couple late touchdowns to produce a deceptively wide margin--but I imagine that, in a large sample of almost three-decades' worth of games [which is what we'd be looking at here], those are probably cancelled out by 20-point games that weren't even that "close" [e.g., the losing team lowers the final margin by scoring a couple garbage-time touchdowns against the opponents' second- or third-stringers].)

Obviously in this week's sample of games, 35 vs. 20 is an important distinction, since it means the difference between 40% blowouts and 80% blowouts.

Regardless of the semantics of "blowout," though: if this week's games are representative of the long-term (and obviously I don't know whether they are or not)--that is, if roughly 80% of games between I-A and I-AA teams have resulted in a 20+ point victory for the I-A team--then I think it's fair to say that, on the whole, I-AA has not been terribly competitive with I-A in head-to-head matchups: which is to say, the original-poster's assumption would be correct. (Again, I'm of course just playing with "ifs" here, and would be curious to see the actual numbers.)

[ravens]

It's not worth making too much of a fuss over, but I think 35 is rather generous. I'd maybe compromise at 25--at that point, we're talking a (minimum) four-possession game, after all--but even at 20, face it: if you lose by that much, you most likely got your butt handed to you. (Granted, in some 20-point games the winning team might have busted loose for a couple late touchdowns to produce a deceptively wide margin--but I imagine that, in a large sample of almost three-decades' worth of games [which is what we'd be looking at here], those are probably cancelled out by 20-point games that weren't even that "close" [e.g., the losing team lowers the final margin by scoring a couple garbage-time touchdowns against the opponents' second- or third-stringers].)

Obviously in this week's sample of games, 35 vs. 20 is an important distinction, since it means the difference between 40% blowouts and 80% blowouts.

Regardless of the semantics of "blowout," though: if this week's games are representative of the long-term (and obviously I don't know whether they are or not)--that is, if roughly 80% of games between I-A and I-AA teams have resulted in a 20+ point victory for the I-A team--then I think it's fair to say that, on the whole, I-AA has not been terribly competitive with I-A in head-to-head matchups: which is to say, the original-poster's assumption would be correct. (Again, I'm of course just playing with "ifs" here, and would be curious to see the actual numbers.)

I don't even want to try to define blowouts but I would guess we lose 90% of the games by an average of roughly 20 points.....BUT the other 10% of the games we pull MAJOR upsets before huge crowds and go home with more loot than we make the whole rest of the season.....How sweet is that?

[RadMann]

rmutv: Both I-A and I-AA teams are "Division I".