Squealofthepig
November 23rd, 2013, 03:22 PM
We're just a few hours into a fantastic Saturday lineup, and already we have two major scores that affect the field (not including Furman, which still depends on Samford):
Maine 3, @New Hampshire 24
Liberty 56, @Charleston Southern 14
Maine's safely into the playoffs regardless, so this only affects their seed (that's a different conversation). But, what do you do with CSU and UNH now?
CSU is 10-3 (thirteen games!), with eight D1 wins (@Citadel, @Campbell, @Norfolk State, @App State, @VMI, vs. Charlotte, @Presbyterian, vs. Coastal Carolina). If you read that again, you'll notice that only two of those games are at home. However, the last two weeks have really put a hurting on the resume: a 27-10 loss at Gardner-Webb (which I think most could overlook), and now a 56-14 loss, at home, to Liberty.
UNH has been hard for me to gauge, but at 7-4 with 7 D1 wins, they have to be in the conversation: D1 wins vs. Colgate, Rhode Island, Nova, Stony Brook, JMU, Albany and Maine. Their losses can't be considered bad (FBS Central Michigan by 3, @Lehigh, @Towson, @W&M).
With Furman possibly snagging a spot, let's say the last spot is between these two. Who would you put in?
Maine 3, @New Hampshire 24
Liberty 56, @Charleston Southern 14
Maine's safely into the playoffs regardless, so this only affects their seed (that's a different conversation). But, what do you do with CSU and UNH now?
CSU is 10-3 (thirteen games!), with eight D1 wins (@Citadel, @Campbell, @Norfolk State, @App State, @VMI, vs. Charlotte, @Presbyterian, vs. Coastal Carolina). If you read that again, you'll notice that only two of those games are at home. However, the last two weeks have really put a hurting on the resume: a 27-10 loss at Gardner-Webb (which I think most could overlook), and now a 56-14 loss, at home, to Liberty.
UNH has been hard for me to gauge, but at 7-4 with 7 D1 wins, they have to be in the conversation: D1 wins vs. Colgate, Rhode Island, Nova, Stony Brook, JMU, Albany and Maine. Their losses can't be considered bad (FBS Central Michigan by 3, @Lehigh, @Towson, @W&M).
With Furman possibly snagging a spot, let's say the last spot is between these two. Who would you put in?