WA Griz wrote:App State
Furman
Wofford
GSU
Elon
Citadel
UTC
WCU
Honestly, this whole best conference in fcs garbage has to stop until the bottom half of the SoCon quits pissing their jocks. The top three are always contenders. But I haven't seen a truly balanced SoCon since ETSU made the playoffs 11 years ago. The strong stay strong, the weak are just wrong.
Same crap that was posted on the AGS. 1. Big Sky is just as top heavy..or worse than the SoCon. 2. Apps went thru the 4 play-off teams more easily than 3 or 4 of the the SoCon teams. Oh, that's right, something about rivalries. Like no one is out to get you in the in the play-offs.
I wouldn't call the Big Sky the best FCS conference. The title is something I've seen self-applied to the SoCon by its fans and beat writers. And yes the playoff scores do tend to be more lopsided for the top seeds than their scores against conference opponents, but I've never thought that should be equated to a conference opponent being somehow better than playoff opponents.
Let's face it, a playoff opponent gets less than a week to prepare for you, depending on how fast game film is exchanged. They may have never played you before. They also surrender practice time for travel.
Was Georgia Southern really that that shitty when Montana beat them in the playoffs 45-0? Or Eastern Kentucky 48-0? or Stephen F Austin 70-14? or Troy State 70-7? or Northern Iowa 48-0? I love the Griz, but I'm not going to suggest that those scores would be so lopsided if Montana shared a conference with any of those schools.
Conference rivals know you well and spend a great deal of time scheming and recruiting specifically to beat you.
JCline wrote:
Same crap that was posted on the AGS. 1. Big Sky is just as top heavy..or worse than the SoCon. 2. Apps went thru the 4 play-off teams more easily than 3 or 4 of the the SoCon teams. Oh, that's right, something about rivalries. Like no one is out to get you in the in the play-offs.
I wouldn't call the Big Sky the best FCS conference. The title is something I've seen self-applied to the SoCon by its fans and beat writers. And yes the playoff scores do tend to be more lopsided for the top seeds than their scores against conference opponents, but I've never thought that should be equated to a conference opponent being somehow better than playoff opponents.
Let's face it, a playoff opponent gets less than a week to prepare for you, depending on how fast game film is exchanged. They may have never played you before. They also surrender practice time for travel.
Was Georgia Southern really that that shitty when Montana beat them in the playoffs 45-0? Or Eastern Kentucky 48-0? or Stephen F Austin 70-14? or Troy State 70-7? or Northern Iowa 48-0? I love the Griz, but I'm not going to suggest that those scores would be so lopsided if Montana shared a conference with any of those schools.
Conference rivals know you well and spend a great deal of time scheming and recruiting specifically to beat you.
The year was 1995, Boro. And the short answer is no. GSU was a much better program than that second round playoff score would indicate. They finished the year 9-4 and played their last four games of the season on the road.
9/2/1995 South Carolina State 27-12 W
9/9/1995 @Middle Tennessee 34-26 W
9/16/1995 @Marshall 7-37 L
9/23/1995 Chattanooga 35-9 W
10/7/1995 Western Carolina 42-0 W
10/14/1995 @Appalachian State 17-27 L (App State was SoCon champ in 1995)
10/21/1995 The Citadel 27-0 W
10/28/1995 East Tennessee 16-21 L
11/4/1995 Furman 27-20 W
11/11/1995 @Liberty 7-6 W
11/18/1995 @VMI 31-13 W
11/25/1995 @Troy 24-21 W
12/2/1995 @Montana 0-45 L
