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If we don't make the post season, our efforts at Mercer will have nothing to do with it. The committee just needs to determine whether they are going to dock us for 1 horrific quarter of football at ETSU or playing with a backup QB against a fully healthy Elon team.DeepPurple wrote: ↑Sun Nov 18, 2018 8:56 amI guess it will be show and tell on ESPNU today at 12:30. Regardless of what happens, this has to be the best turn around season ever at Furman. We controlled what we could last night in Macon, Ga.
Happy Thanksgiving.
It likely won't end up this way, but there are many that think Furman has a stronger case for postseason play than ETSU. Finished with the same conference record, Furman had a tougher schedule, and ETSU has 7 D1 wins to Furman's 6. ETSU's extra win came over a GWU that half the SoCon hammered this season (and Furman likely would have too).DeepPurple wrote: ↑Sun Nov 18, 2018 9:05 amOur strength of schedule has to help us, but it is out of our control today. You would have never thought a month ago we would share the SOCON championship.
It's amazing how things like that awful meltdown will come back to haunt a team. The fact of the matter is that we know that Furman is a better football team than ETSU. That is not to say that ETSU is a bad team nor diminish the improvements they made in their program. They also had a lot of breaks go their way this season in winning all those close games. Our game was not one of those breaks, however. We lost that on our own accord. I am afraid that the committee will not look past that win for them and decide not to put 3 SoCon teams into the playoffs.The Jackal wrote: ↑Sun Nov 18, 2018 9:00 amIf we don't make the post season, our efforts at Mercer will have nothing to do with it. The committee just needs to determine whether they are going to dock us for 1 horrific quarter of football at ETSU or playing with a backup QB against a fully healthy Elon team.DeepPurple wrote: ↑Sun Nov 18, 2018 8:56 amI guess it will be show and tell on ESPNU today at 12:30. Regardless of what happens, this has to be the best turn around season ever at Furman. We controlled what we could last night in Macon, Ga.
Happy Thanksgiving.
ETSU will get the edge over Furman as an at-large. They beat Furman and lost to Samford by a slightly lesser margin (both games late in season). The bigger question is whether the selection team takes 3 SOCON teams. If they do, FU is in. If not, we're out.The Jackal wrote: ↑Sun Nov 18, 2018 9:22 amIt likely won't end up this way, but there are many that think Furman has a stronger case for postseason play than ETSU. Finished with the same conference record, Furman had a tougher schedule, and ETSU has 7 D1 wins to Furman's 6. ETSU's extra win came over a GWU that half the SoCon hammered this season (and Furman likely would have too).DeepPurple wrote: ↑Sun Nov 18, 2018 9:05 amOur strength of schedule has to help us, but it is out of our control today. You would have never thought a month ago we would share the SOCON championship.
I think this is the biggest question, just how long, deep do they look at each team. Furman positives:fufanatic wrote: ↑Sun Nov 18, 2018 10:16 amI’m always curious how many resources the committee has and how in-depth they look at each team. Losses to Clemson, Elon, ETSU and Samford are nothing to sneeze at. Three on road and Samford is the worst loss, but they have one of best QBs in FCS history statistically, beat every SoCon co-champ and we played without our starting QB for most of the game. Also didn’t have starter for first two games of year. We beat auto qualifier Wofford handily, won 6 of 7 and had a game cancelled due to things out of our control. Believe an FBS committee with unlimited resources would have us in ... just hoping the FCS committee does its due diligence.