12:30

[DeepPurple]

I guess it will be show and tell on ESPNU today at 12:30. Regardless of what happens, this has to be the best turn around season ever at Furman. We controlled what we could last night in Macon, Ga.
Happy Thanksgiving.

[The Jackal]

I guess it will be show and tell on ESPNU today at 12:30. Regardless of what happens, this has to be the best turn around season ever at Furman. We controlled what we could last night in Macon, Ga.
Happy Thanksgiving.

If we don't make the post season, our efforts at Mercer will have nothing to do with it. The committee just needs to determine whether they are going to dock us for 1 horrific quarter of football at ETSU or playing with a backup QB against a fully healthy Elon team.

[DeepPurple]

Our strength of schedule has to help us, but it is out of our control today. You would have never thought a month ago we would share the SOCON championship.

[The Jackal]

Our strength of schedule has to help us, but it is out of our control today. You would have never thought a month ago we would share the SOCON championship.

It likely won't end up this way, but there are many that think Furman has a stronger case for postseason play than ETSU. Finished with the same conference record, Furman had a tougher schedule, and ETSU has 7 D1 wins to Furman's 6. ETSU's extra win came over a GWU that half the SoCon hammered this season (and Furman likely would have too).

[Jasper]

I guess it will be show and tell on ESPNU today at 12:30. Regardless of what happens, this has to be the best turn around season ever at Furman. We controlled what we could last night in Macon, Ga.
Happy Thanksgiving.

If we don't make the post season, our efforts at Mercer will have nothing to do with it. The committee just needs to determine whether they are going to dock us for 1 horrific quarter of football at ETSU or playing with a backup QB against a fully healthy Elon team.

It's amazing how things like that awful meltdown will come back to haunt a team. The fact of the matter is that we know that Furman is a better football team than ETSU. That is not to say that ETSU is a bad team nor diminish the improvements they made in their program. They also had a lot of breaks go their way this season in winning all those close games. Our game was not one of those breaks, however. We lost that on our own accord. I am afraid that the committee will not look past that win for them and decide not to put 3 SoCon teams into the playoffs.

[Paladin91]

Our strength of schedule has to help us, but it is out of our control today. You would have never thought a month ago we would share the SOCON championship.

It likely won't end up this way, but there are many that think Furman has a stronger case for postseason play than ETSU. Finished with the same conference record, Furman had a tougher schedule, and ETSU has 7 D1 wins to Furman's 6. ETSU's extra win came over a GWU that half the SoCon hammered this season (and Furman likely would have too).

ETSU will get the edge over Furman as an at-large. They beat Furman and lost to Samford by a slightly lesser margin (both games late in season). The bigger question is whether the selection team takes 3 SOCON teams. If they do, FU is in. If not, we're out.

[fufanatic]

I’m always curious how many resources the committee has and how in-depth they look at each team. Losses to Clemson, Elon, ETSU and Samford are nothing to sneeze at. Three on road and Samford is the worst loss, but they have one of best QBs in FCS history statistically, beat every SoCon co-champ and we played without our starting QB for most of the game. Also didn’t have starter for first two games of year. We beat auto qualifier Wofford handily, won 6 of 7 and had a game cancelled due to things out of our control. Believe an FBS committee with unlimited resources would have us in ... just hoping the FCS committee does its due diligence.

[apaladin]

I’m always curious how many resources the committee has and how in-depth they look at each team. Losses to Clemson, Elon, ETSU and Samford are nothing to sneeze at. Three on road and Samford is the worst loss, but they have one of best QBs in FCS history statistically, beat every SoCon co-champ and we played without our starting QB for most of the game. Also didn’t have starter for first two games of year. We beat auto qualifier Wofford handily, won 6 of 7 and had a game cancelled due to things out of our control. Believe an FBS committee with unlimited resources would have us in ... just hoping the FCS committee does its due diligence.

I think this is the biggest question, just how long, deep do they look at each team. Furman positives:
Conference champion
Won 6 of 7
Ended on 4 game win streak.
Won playoff game last year.
Strength of schedule.

[MNORM]

AGS Poll Results - WEEK 12 SELECTION SUNDAY POLL - 2018 SEASON



11/18/2018



Rank Team: Points Votes
1 North Dakota State Bison 2075 83
2 Eastern Washington Eagles 1929
3 Weber State Wildcats 1834
4 Kennesaw State Owls 1807
5 South Dakota State Jackrabbits 1782
6 UC Davis Aggies 1594
7 James Madison Dukes 1576
8 Colgate Raiders 1502
9 Maine Black Bears 1446
10 Princeton Tigers 1263
11 Wofford Terriers 1122
12 Nicholls State Colonels 1104
13 Towson Tigers 985
14 Jacksonville State Gamecocks 893
15 Stony Brook Seawolves 823
16 Dartmouth Big Green 785
17 North Carolina A&T Aggies 725
18 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens 555
19 Elon Phoenix 552
20 Indiana State Sycamores 496
21 Montana State Bobcats 457
22 Furman Paladins 331
23 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks 300
24 East Tennessee State Buccaneers 266
25 Northern Iowa Panthers 178


26 Incarnate Word Cardinals 144
27 Lamar Cardinals 138
28 San Diego Toreros 123
29 Idaho State Bengals 88
30 Monmouth Hawks 34
31 Rhode Island Rams 18
32 Duquesne Dukes 17
33 Samford Bulldogs 11
34 Illinois State Redbirds 6
35t Alcorn State Braves 4
35t Chattanooga Mocs 4
35t Eastern Kentucky Colonels 4
38 Harvard Crimson 3
39 Northern Arizona Lumberjacks 1

[gofurman]

So we are about 19. Because three teams ahead of us aren’t going - Ivy League Princeton and Dartmouth. And NC A&T

[gofurman]

Nobowls abs AGS HAVE been top two
Predictors. Both have us in

[youwouldno]

No playoffs. Weakness of SoCon clearly showed - CAA got 6, Southland 3, etc.

[fufanatic]

Says a lot that Incarnate Word and Lamar got in and 6-5 Northern Iowa. Very disappointing. The SoCon needs to do some reflecting.

[Paladin91]

Not surprised - noted that ETSU would get in before us. If we had played Colgate and won I think we would be in - that cancellation killed us.

At least there's basketball.

[apaladin]

When Incarnate Word came up first at 6-4 I knew we didn't make it. Goes to show the committee doesn't look that hard at bubble teams.