Our Playoff Future

[purplehorse123]

I don’t know whether we will still be in top 8 or not.

Possibility A-If say # 8 we would have a bye and then play a very good team at home. That would give Roberto & Huff more time to heal.

Possibility B-At 9 or 10 we would play a weaker team at home next week in the playoffs and either less time for Roberto & Huff to heal or even maybe miss the games.

Regardless we certainly did ourselves no favor today. We gave up a lot of what we had worked for all season.

If we don’t play better than we did today, then none of this really matters. Hopefully this will be a wake up call for us.

I assume the sentiment is we would rather be seeded in top 8 but some might argue we would be better off to get a first round game against a weaker team under our belt?

Glad the loss did not take away out outright conference championship and automatic playoff qualifier position.

[The Jackal]

A lot of the games nationally to this point are breaking our way.

Montana State is getting hammered by Montana.

Delaware lost

Austin Peay is losing.

Even with the bad loss, we are still 9-2, an outright conference champ, with 3 ranked wins, which puts us ahead of a lot of teams in the seed conversation.

[Affirm]

A lot of the games nationally to this point are breaking our way.

Montana State is getting hammered by Montana.

Delaware lost

Austin Peay is losing.

Even with the bad loss, we are still 9-2, an outright conference champ, with 3 ranked wins, which puts us ahead of a lot of teams in the seed conversation.

It will not matter that "a lot of the games nationally to this point are breaking our way". It just makes it worse! It absolutely would have mattered if we had won today as we should have.

[The Jackal]

A lot of the games nationally to this point are breaking our way.

Montana State is getting hammered by Montana.

Delaware lost

Austin Peay is losing.

Even with the bad loss, we are still 9-2, an outright conference champ, with 3 ranked wins, which puts us ahead of a lot of teams in the seed conversation.

It will not matter that "a lot of the games nationally to this point are breaking our way". It just makes it worse! It absolutely would have mattered if we had won today as we should have.

I'm not sure I understand your point.

Furman wants to stay seeded. The games nationally that we needed to go our way to have a good argument for that seed are going our way.

If we had won, then the only conversation would have been whether Montana would have jumped us at #2, which they likely would have.

[The Jackal]

Samford finally did something useful and knocked out Tenn Martin.

[apaladin]

Furman will get a seed, but now instead of staying home they will have to win 2 games in Montana or South Dakota which ain’t happening. WC can now gloat that they took away any chance FU had of going far in the playoffs.

[apaladin]

A lot of the games nationally to this point are breaking our way.

Montana State is getting hammered by Montana.

Delaware lost

Austin Peay is losing.

Even with the bad loss, we are still 9-2, an outright conference champ, with 3 ranked wins, which puts us ahead of a lot of teams in the seed conversation.

It will not matter that "a lot of the games nationally to this point are breaking our way". It just makes it worse! It absolutely would have mattered if we had won today as we should have.

I'm not sure I understand your point.

Furman wants to stay seeded. The games nationally that we needed to go our way to have a good argument for that seed are going our way.

If we had won, then the only conversation would have been whether Montana would have jumped us at #2, which they likely would have.

I think his point is we could have gotten a number 2 seed but we will get a seed regardless of what happens nationally now. Really doesn’t matter if we are a 6, 7 or 8 seed. We totally blew it today.

[Sad Din]

based on todays scores, probably a 5 or 6 seed

with some luck a 4 seed

with the usual Socon lack of respect, 7 or 8 seed

[gman84]

With our score today and Western’s the bias towards the SoCon and seeding was just confirmed. Hate it but can’t argue it !

[The Jackal]

I think it's going to be 1) SDSU, 2) Montana, (3) South Dakota

Currently, Sacramento State is losing, which would be big for Furman. Austin Peay won and have an identical 9-2 record, but Furman has more wins over ranked opponent (I don't believe the Govs have any wins over ranked teams).

You can pencil Villanova in as a seed. Furman arguably has a better resume and more ranked wins.

I presume Delaware and Montana State are out of seed conversation.

Furman should have a better resume than Albany, who is in the conversation.

The one team we could use to lose is North Dakota State.

[The Jackal]

With our score today and Western’s the bias towards the SoCon and seeding was just confirmed. Hate it but can’t argue it !

Right, Furman had their shot and blew it.

At the same time, I think it's a safe argument to say Furman has played well enough this season to warrant having the first round off.

[purplehorse123]

It seems to me that the best two teams are # 1 seed South Dakota State with MANY NFL prospects and Montana who will be seeded # 2. Playing them in frigid weather would be even more daunting. Either of those would be a David vs Goliath venture.

Anybody else we would at least have a chance against.


Maybe it will be like the Texas Rangers in the playoffs. I thought how could they recover from the debacle of losing the last day of the regular season. The rest is history.

We need to flush this game, get guys healthy and figure out how to get better on offense.

I hope our best game this season is yet to come.

Does anyone remember how home games are decided in the first round-bids or higher seeds?

[gman84]

Seeded teams have first round byes. Bids determine which 8 get home games for the other 16 teams.

[FurmAlum]

Right P123. Put this game behind us. The key will be getting Huff and Roberto back and how healthy they will be. If they are then Furman is still a very formidable team. There is still a lot of football to be played. There could be some upsets. If we have to go to the tundra then so be it.

[Sad Din]

this helps

No. 15
@NovaFootball
upsets No. 6 Delaware, 35-7.