SOCON WEEK 10

[AllTimeFU]

And yes, I realize it could be a purely academic exercise, but if we win out and Samford beats Chatt and Western... I think that's five two loss teams on top of the league.

Interdasting.

Can you lay that out in a chart … something like this…

Ok so it would not happen but I will tell you the most interesting scenario I see - and I'm not saying it happens, but what a headache...

Furman runs the table.
Mercer runs table but loses to Furman last game.
Both are two loss in the SoCon. And we own the H2H. But...
Sam runs the table. And, WCU loses to SAM/ETSU, ETSU loses to MER/FU, and UTC loses to WCU SAM.
So, SAM, FU and MER are only 2 loss teams and FU AND SAM have the H2H with MER..

Do they have to find a way for us to play SAM? Some other tiebreak? Coin flip?

(YES I REALIZE HOW UNLIKELY BUT POINT IT, THERE IS STILL SOMETHING TO PLAY FOR AND THE SAM GAME COULD STILL BE A BIG DEAL)

OK … got it. So, your scenario, with a few non-determinant, discretionary adds by FUBeAR would look like this…


And, in this scenario, whichever Team won a (currently) hypothetical game between Samford & Furman would gain a share of the SoCon Championship AND capture the SoCon Autobid (because 3-way tie w/Winner of FU vs. SAM being 2-0, Loser would be 1-1, and Mercer would be 0-2). If Furman lost that hypothetical game, @ 6-6/5-3 would almost certainly not receive at an At-Large bid. And, if Samford lost, @ 7-5/5-3 (w/FUBeAR granted win over TTU), would have a highly remote shot at an At-Large bid.

In this event, FUBeAR would wager that both Teams would want to resolve the issue and only Mercer (who would get a playoff bid @ 9-2 FCS) might object, but the Bears would really have no ‘standing’ to object. However, FUBeAR feels, neither Team would want to resolve it with a coin toss (or similar) and this would probably give Mercer some standing to object because the Bears would retain the higher winning % if no actual game is played. So, FUBeAR would wager that Furman & Samford, over Mercer’s fuming, yet probably standing-less objection, would resort to an old HS Playoff Tiebreaker standby …

THE MINI-GAME!! (if the NCAA will allow AND just be willing to ‘slot’ “SoCon Autobid - Furman or Samford” into the bracket)

So…FUBeAR would bet that Samford would come to Furman on Monday Evening 11/25 (both exhausted and sore from their amazing respective wins over WCU & Mercer) and do something like this (GHSA Mini-Game rules)…

GHSA TIE-BREAKER MINI-GAME PROCEDURE (Modified for the college game by FUBeAR)
1. The game will consist of two ten-minute halves. Standard NCAA game rules (including OT) and scoring are used.
3. There will be a five-minute intermission between the halves.
4. Each team will be given 2 timeouts in each half.


Y’all ready?

LET’S DO IT!!!

1 aspect of the scenario has a good start. WCU loss to ETSU was part of the FUBeAR scenario grid above. WCU starting QB Gonzalez not expected to play today.

Beat VMI!!