FCS Playoffs. ( CAA. Is WEAK )

[gofurman]

CAA was given 4 teams in playoffs. 4 !

Home teams today went 5 - 3 Overall.
So only 3 teams lost at home. 2 of those 3 losses were CAA teams

Playing at Home UNH lost by THIRTY ONE (!) to
UT Martin. Good grief.

Then Undefeated in CAA play - Richmond - lost at home also…. To Lehigh. Oh, their one regular season FCS loss ? Was to bottom tier SoCon Wofford.

[gofurman]

On other hand. I’m watching Montana as always. … where are we?

[FUBeAR]

Should have been 3 of 4 CA Teams losing

Officials reversed an EKU fumble-recovery Defensive TD that was obviously NOT an incomplete pass giving the game to Villanova, who won by 5. They also wrongly reversed an obvious & called targeting at the Villanova goal line at the end of the game when EKU was going in for the game winning score. Both critical game-changing reversals of clearly correct calls made on the field and both in Villanova’s favor. It was nearly as bad as the Officials’ call in Samford @ Furman in ‘22.

And, the CAA Team that did win legitimately, Rhode Island (who will play at Mercer next Saturday), just barely escaped a 7-5 NEC Central Connecticut State team, 21-17.

CAA Teams, despite their padded records, deserved 0 At-Large bids.

And 6-2 in the Big Sky Northern Arizona looked worse, by far, than any of the bad CAA Teams, losing 24-0 to Abilene Christian…and it wasn’t nearly that close. ACU, playing with their backup QB, who threw 3 drive-killing picks, also killed themselves all day with drive-killing penalties. With a clean game ACU beats NAU 56-0. PFL Champion, Drake (beaten 43-29 by Tarleton today), would easily beat NAU by 2 scores. Below the top 3 or 4, the Big Sky is VERY PFL-like. It was really hard to believe NAU is a scholarship Team.

[gofurman]

Should have been 3 of 4 CA Teams losing

Officials reversed an EKU fumble-recovery Defensive TD that was obviously NOT an incomplete pass giving the game to Villanova, who won by 5. They also wrongly reversed an obvious & called targeting at the Villanova goal line at the end of the game when EKU was going in for the game winning score. Both critical game-changing reversals of clearly correct calls made on the field and both in Villanova’s favor. It was nearly as bad as the Officials’ call in Samford @ Furman in ‘22.

And, the CAA Team that did win legitimately, Rhode Island (who will play at Mercer next Saturday), just barely escaped a 7-5 NEC Central Connecticut State team, 21-17.

CAA Teams, despite their padded records, deserved 0 At-Large bids.

And 6-2 in the Big Sky Northern Arizona looked worse, by far, than any of the bad CAA Teams, losing 24-0 to Abilene Christian…and it wasn’t nearly that close. ACU, playing with their backup QB, who threw 3 drive-killing picks, also killed themselves all day with drive-killing penalties. With a clean game ACU beats NAU 56-0. PFL Champion, Drake (beaten 43-29 by Tarleton today), would easily beat NAU by 2 scores. Below the top 3 or 4, the Big Sky is VERY PFL-like. It was really hard to believe NAU is a scholarship Team.

Go Mercer ! Beat uri