Yeah, they are 0-2 in this, but they played two programs in Houston and Kansas that have far more talent and they played both close - it's not a bad team. Probably won't be Q1 at the end of the year, but likely Q2 which is nothing to sneeze at.
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Fixed it. Normally just leave my errors.m, but that one was causing too much confusion.
Honestly having most of the 3rd round on thursday would be better for the format anyway. Dump your bad games on weds, and give your better teams a bit of rest for the last round instead of having a bunch of teams on their third game in 3 days.
I don't see how this makes sense, even from Players Era's POV. If you're going to pick matchups with zero relationship to the standings, why not make the best games you can? And it's not just us -- Houston and Alabama would be a great game, but instead both teams are matched up against less interesting opponents.
They beat a high powered Monmouth squad by 5 so there’s that too. Joking aside, if we go out and continue to play how we know we can we will take care of business.
We have no one to blame but ourselves.
The tie breakers were very clear:
Overall record
Head to head
Point differential (20 max per game)
Total points scored
Total points allowed
AP rankings
If the tournament matters, then you score and run it up.
If the tournament doesn’t matter, then you dribble it out.
The tie breakers were very clear:
Overall record
Head to head
Point differential (20 max per game)
Total points scored
Total points allowed
AP rankings
If the tournament matters, then you score and run it up.
If the tournament doesn’t matter, then you dribble it out.
Apparently outside the top 4 its all about avoiding past or future matchups and scheduling convenience.
TJ wasn’t going to run it up on his mentor McDermott. Even with NIL on the line. TJ is a good dude.
Syracuse lost in OT to Houston. This game won’t be easy.
Thursday is a massive NFL and CFB day, you don't want to put your top games up against that.
They weren’t great last season either honestly. Altmans course may have ran out at Oregon
If there is anything about this event that is 100% clear, it's that the tie breakers were a total ******* enigma.
Hell, according to the Syracuse University website on event rules, ISU should not be playing Syracuse.
Perhaps the "logic" was to "reward" ISU for coming so close to the extra $ by giving us an "easy" game against an 0-2 squad. We already played Creighton, and UNLV, Oregon/Sds play late tonight so don't want them to have to play in the first consolation game. That leaves Syracuse and Rutgers, and so they matched up Rutgers and UNLV to give the Runnin Rebs the best chance to win a game?
Looks like the 10AM matchup is at MGM this time, just FYI for those going since the first two games were at Michelob Ultra.
