Will an 8-3 GSU team make the playoffs?

[GSU Eagle]

Granted this is very hypothetical at this point, considering we are only 4-3 right now. Our last 4 (3 of which are at home) are vs. Citadel, at South Dakota St, vs. Furman and vs. Morehead St.

Will we win all 4? I would say the odds are probably against it, but it could happen.

What would be the odds of a 8-3 GSU team making the playoffs?

[asu70]

IMHO, an 8-3 GSU team makes the playoff.

[galojay]

Too much ball to be played at this point. A lot is riding on the A-10 and Gateway and how many bids they hog.

[Chi Panther]

An 8-3 GSU makes it every year....

[AppGuy04]

8-3 gsu makes it, that would be 2nd place in the socon

7-4, with 2 losses to app and furman, doesn't make it

[ISUMatt]

IMO an 8-3 GFC gets in no matter if it is YSU, UNI, WKU, SIU, or ILS

[th0m]

IMO an 8-3 GFC gets in no matter if it is YSU, UNI, WKU, SIU, or ILS

What about 8-3 UMass, JMU, UNH, W&M or Hofstra (all teams with 1 or 0 conf losses, and 1-2 total losses)?

[Cocky]

A one loss CCU or a two loss Cal-Poly will get the bid first.

[gsugt1]

Granted this is very hypothetical at this point, considering we are only 4-3 right now. Our last 4 (3 of which are at home) are vs. Citadel, at South Dakota St, vs. Furman and vs. Morehead St.

Will we win all 4? I would say the odds are probably against it, but it could happen.

What would be the odds of a 8-3 GSU team making the playoffs?

If we go 8-3 we are in. A win over #2 Furman at the end of the season would be huge boost for our playoff hopes.

[AppGuy04]

If we go 8-3 we are in. A win over #2 Furman at the end of the season would be huge boost for our playoff hopes.

with the way things are going, they will be #1 soon

[89Hen]

What would be the odds of a 8-3 GSU team making the playoffs?
GSU at 8-3 is a lock.

[ChickenMan]

Based on previous history... I'd say GSU is one of three 1AA teams that would likely get a playoff bid nearly every time they finished 8-3. The others... Montana & Delaware.

[AppGuy04]

history should not matter, but it does

:mad: :mad:

[ysubigred]

history should not matter, but it does

:mad: :mad:

I agree but an 8-3 GSU means playoff's. Wasn't to long ago an 8-3 YSU team was in also :bawling:

[youwouldno]

Well at 8-3 GSU would have 2 conference losses, which isn't so bad. Certainly a lock for the playoffs.

[DemiGS]

I say we don't belong in the playoffs. Let a team that's really hungry and playing their hearts out get the spot. This is a typical Sewak (unprepared - underachieving) team that will fold against the first team that pushes us.
If we don't make it, maybe it will start opening some eyes to the quality of coaching in the 'boro. Should we be left out, then the tradition of mediocrity will be apparent under the current leadership.

[HensRock]

I agree that an 8-3 GSU is a virtual lock for the playoffs. Since the advent of the 16-team format, UD has never been left out of the playoffs at 8-3 even with 1 Div-II on the schedule every year. This happened on 4 occasions in '86, '93, '96, and 2004. In 1994 we were left out at 7-3-1.

Somehow we snuck into the 1988 playoffs at 7-4 and a Div-II LOSS !
I don't think that will ever happen again.

[SoCon48]

A one loss CCU or a two loss Cal-Poly will get the bid first.

If GSU wins out, including beating Furman in November, and after facing the SoCon schedule as well (including a 49-7 win at Elon and 45-7 over WCU) as well as I-AA mainstays Northeastern and McNeese, the committee would have to be stoned not to take them.

[ChickenMan]

I agree that an 8-3 GSU is a virtual lock for the playoffs. Since the advent of the 16-team format, UD has never been left out of the playoffs at 8-3 even with 1 Div-II on the schedule every year. This happened on 4 occasions in '86, '93, '96, and 2004. In 1994 we were left out at 7-3-1.

Somehow we snuck into the 1988 playoffs at 7-4 and a Div-II LOSS !
I don't think that will ever happen again.

Yankee Conference auto bid got the Hens in in '88.

[WMTribe90]

Times are changing and competition for playoff spots is increasing. For example the defending champs, JMU, would likely miss the playoffs at 8-3 if they lose to WM because they played a DII and a realtively weak OOC slate. GSU is a near lock at 8-3 given their respectable schedule strength and histoty.