Early Projections...

[SuperHornet]

...as posted on the NCAA website, dated 20 OCT 22:

WAC: Stephen F. Austin*
Atlantic Sun: Jacksonville State (ineligible due to FBS transistion status)

SFA will win the ASUN/WAC auto-bid.

Big Sky: Sacramento State

Big South: NC A&T

Colonial: Delaware

Ivy: Princeton (ineligible because the Ivy is hypocritical about football playoffs)

MEAC: NC Central (ineligible due to the Celebration Bowl)

MVFC: SD State

NEC: St. Francis (PA)

OVC: TN-Martin

Patriot: Holy Cross

Pioneer: Davidson (Undefeated St. Thomas is inelibible due to FCS transition)

SoCon: Mercer

Southland: SE Louisiana

SWAC: Jackson State (likely ineligible due to SWAC Championship Game and/or Celebration Bowl)

https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/arti ... -month-out

[clenz]

They project NDSU to get the valley auto?

They are then also projecting SDSU to lost 2 of their final 3 because that’s the only way that can happen as of today.

SDSU has Indiana State, UNI and Illinois State left. They aren’t losing 2 of those. Hell, they aren’t losing 1 of those to create a tiebreaker situation.


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[SuperHornet]

It doesn't say that at all, clenz. The article specifically states that SDSU has the H2H over NDSU and they're not likely to give it up. The only team who can even possibly take the auto-bid from SD State is S. Illinois...at least as of last Wed.

[dal4018]

...as posted on the NCAA website, dated 20 OCT 22:

WAC: Stephen F. Austin*
Atlantic Sun: Jacksonville State (ineligible due to FBS transistion status)

SFA will win the ASUN/WAC auto-bid.

Big Sky: Sacramento State

Big South: NC A&T

Colonial: Delaware

Ivy: Princeton (ineligible because the Ivy is hypocritical about football playoffs)

MEAC: NC Central (ineligible due to the Celebration Bowl)

MVFC: SD State

NEC: St. Francis (PA)

OVC: TN-Martin

Patriot: Holy Cross

Pioneer: Davidson (Undefeated St. Thomas is inelibible due to FCS transition)

SoCon: Mercer

Southland: SE Louisiana

SWAC: Jackson State (likely ineligible due to SWAC Championship Game and/or Celebration Bowl)

https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/arti ... -month-out

Blasted Celebration Bowl I want to see if the MEAC&SWAC can hang with the big boys in the FCS PLAYOFFS.Lets see what happens with the Aggies of A&T.Want to see if Holy Cross can shutdown the Rams of Fordham next weekend.South Carolina St knocked off NCCU 26-24

[SuperHornet]

Dal: Technically speaking, the NCAA hasn't shut the door on any of these guys. The Ivy is only out because of their own hypocritical attitudes about the ability of FOOTBALL athletes to compete in final exams in the midst of playoffs while they have no such qualms about the abilities of BASKETBALL athletes. The SWAC/MEAC have likewise turned down auto-bids for those teams that qualify for the purpose of the Celebration Bowl, but as FAMU proved a couple of years ago, a ranked second-place HBCU can, indeed, take an at-large bid. They haven't always done well when they have it, but I wonder if a deal could be made to allow Jackson State to take the SWAC auto-bid that's generally laid dormant the last few years, and allow the second-place team to take the league spot in the Celebration Bowl. If the way things have gone the last few years in HBCU-land, a second-place SWAC team could easily take the MEAC Champ in the Celebration Bowl. Would you agree with that assessment, dal? If that were to happen, I would fully expect Jackson to make some noise in the playoffs....

[dal4018]

Dal: Technically speaking, the NCAA hasn't shut the door on any of these guys. The Ivy is only out because of their own hypocritical attitudes about the ability of FOOTBALL athletes to compete in final exams in the midst of playoffs while they have no such qualms about the abilities of BASKETBALL athletes. The SWAC/MEAC have likewise turned down auto-bids for those teams that qualify for the purpose of the Celebration Bowl, but as FAMU proved a couple of years ago, a ranked second-place HBCU can, indeed, take an at-large bid. They haven't always done well when they have it, but I wonder if a deal could be made to allow Jackson State to take the SWAC auto-bid that's generally laid dormant the last few years, and allow the second-place team to take the league spot in the Celebration Bowl. If the way things have gone the last few years in HBCU-land, a second-place SWAC team could easily take the MEAC Champ in the Celebration Bowl. Would you agree with that assessment, dal? If that were to happen, I would fully expect Jackson to make some noise in the playoffs....

I hope you are right everyone thought JSU was going to have a cakewalk in the Celebration Bowl but look what happened vs South Carolina St and they barely defeated Campbell University yesterday.I want to see how good Deion is as a HEAD COACH in the playoffs.