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VA_Seawolf

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Re: Senior Day - vs. Wagner - 1PM
« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2017, 11:13:00 am »
One game at a time. We should have no problem getting by Wagner at home. That program is struggling this year.

I see comments that if we lose to Wagner we shouldn't make the playoffs.... Why? Is that even if we beat Maine?

Even if we lose to Wagner and then beat Maine we would lock up 3rd place in the CAA... are you telling me an 8-3 team, 3rd place in the CAA should not make the Playoffs?!?!?

Why are we being so hard on our program?

The playoff bubble is so competitive this year that a loss to Wagner would raise a lot of eyebrows. You've still got Richmond, potentially a couple of 10-1/9-2 Big South team, a 10-1 MEAC or SWAC team, a bunch of Big Sky and MVFC teams, New Hampshire, Delaware, and Richmond all on that bubble fighting for what may boil down to 4-5 spots between the lot of them. We can't afford to let off the gas now. Not when we're so close. We already avoided the top two teams in the conference this year. It would look terrible if we lost to Wagner who has what? 2? 3 wins.

Agree that playoff bubble is very competitive this year.. one of the reason is very few dominating teams and lot of good teams... it would only get worse in the next two weeks as good teams beat each other up.

FYI, MEAC and SWAC stopped accepting auto-bid to FCS playoffs. They send their champions to Celebration Bowl game.. the only FCS bowl game. Although these two conferences would still accept an at-large bid. I don't think they have any at-large candidate at the moment.

A 10-1 NC A&T would certainly get an at-large bid. Winning that many games against the FCS will get you in, even if the level of actual competition in those conferences are closer to D2 level.