Furman at Montana
Who the heck schedules a 9 pm game on Friday night? Seriously. From a scheduling and seeding standpoint, I feel like Montana always gets an unfair advantage. Yep, we blew our chances in the Wofford game, so we only have ourselves to blame. With that said, go up to Missoula and kick some "A".
My sister is getting married this weekend tooAfurmanfan wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 12:01 pmWhy did my nephew pick this coming weekend to get married???
It’s 7PM local time.Paladin91 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 1:08 pmWho the heck schedules a 9 pm game on Friday night? Seriously. From a scheduling and seeding standpoint, I feel like Montana always gets an unfair advantage. Yep, we blew our chances in the Wofford game, so we only have ourselves to blame. With that said, go up to Missoula and kick some "A".
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I do not believe Montana fans are any more excited about a Friday night game than Furman fans are.Paladin91 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 1:08 pmWho the heck schedules a 9 pm game on Friday night? Seriously. From a scheduling and seeding standpoint, I feel like Montana always gets an unfair advantage. Yep, we blew our chances in the Wofford game, so we only have ourselves to blame. With that said, go up to Missoula and kick some "A".
The Griz fans will turn out in force. Let's send them home unhappy.
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As is my daughter.furpal81 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 1:19 pmMy sister is getting married this weekend tooAfurmanfan wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 12:01 pmWhy did my nephew pick this coming weekend to get married???
The way to this year’s title for this year’s Furman Team is to beat Montana in Missoula this Friday night.gofurman wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 12:54 pmI think FUBeAR disproved this. In FCS this just isn’t the case. One we all know a good start in the polls allows you an advantage. One that we had this yearThe Jackal wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 11:53 pmIf you wanna be the man, you gotta beat the man.
Remember, Wofford went up there in the playoffs and won on their field. Wofford.
Our team has spent the past four weeks in the upstate (bye, two home games, and a short trip to Spartanburg). I gotta imagine they're gonna relish the chance to go show what they've got against Montana.
Besides, we owe them one.
Also isn’t. Montana ONE AND FIFTEEN in the road? So they win titles without “beating the man”. So does NDSU. They never leave home and win championships.
I have no desire to play harder teams on the road. FUBeAR has shown how this - road games vs tough teams - is NOT the way to the title.
The way to the title is easy playing easy teams played at your field.
As someone here posts. We were dead in 2006 when they announced Furman at Montana State
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If we pull out the W on Friday night, then Saturday will mark the first time that I have ever pulled for NDSU lol 
I’m happy with the Friday night game, on National TV , only game on. If Saturday you are competing with a lot of other stuff going on, Would much rather be Friday night than the 10AM kickoff Villanova has. As for Montana fans they don’t care, they are showing up regardless, they played last night at 7 their time and was in full force in the snow.The Jackal wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 1:52 pmI do not believe Montana fans are any more excited about a Friday night game than Furman fans are.Paladin91 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 1:08 pmWho the heck schedules a 9 pm game on Friday night? Seriously. From a scheduling and seeding standpoint, I feel like Montana always gets an unfair advantage. Yep, we blew our chances in the Wofford game, so we only have ourselves to blame. With that said, go up to Missoula and kick some "A".
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Some early musings:
1. Do not expect a single national FCS voice to give Furman a snowball's chance to win this game. The Big Sky cabal has determined Furman was a paper tiger all season and taking up space in the top 10 that should go to another Big Sky team.
2. Looking at their depth chart, we match up with Montana physically on paper. This won't be a game where we are outgunned. Also notable that we are physically a more imposing team than Delaware, who is smaller than we are at a lot of positions.
3. I am glad they won big at home Saturday. My impression is they feel they are invincible at home, particularly against southern/eastern teams. They don't think we can come up there and beat them (though I believe the last SoCon team to come to Washington-Grizzly Stadium walked out a winner).
4. I'll watch some more of their games, but it looks like the Montana offense is going to maybe be a toned down version of Western Carolina/Samford. They'll go with tempo, try to spread you out, and live off explosive plays. Their offense has had some outstanding games recently, but also had periods of the season where they really struggled.
5. Defensively, I think we'll see a team a lot like us. Fundamentally sound, swarm the ball, tackle well, etc.
6. Furman has been really good against tempo teams in recent years. We have a lot of depth and can keep players rotating on the field quickly. It's hard to catch us in bad personnel matchups or wear us down defensively.
7. I suspect neither team will have a done a lot of homework on the other. Furman maybe has done a little more because our second round opponent was a familiar one, while Montana's was a fresh face. Both teams will be running off a short week. I don't know who a quick turnaround favors, if anyone, though I'd hope to see Hicks and Robinson available. They were a huge help Saturday.
1. Do not expect a single national FCS voice to give Furman a snowball's chance to win this game. The Big Sky cabal has determined Furman was a paper tiger all season and taking up space in the top 10 that should go to another Big Sky team.
2. Looking at their depth chart, we match up with Montana physically on paper. This won't be a game where we are outgunned. Also notable that we are physically a more imposing team than Delaware, who is smaller than we are at a lot of positions.
3. I am glad they won big at home Saturday. My impression is they feel they are invincible at home, particularly against southern/eastern teams. They don't think we can come up there and beat them (though I believe the last SoCon team to come to Washington-Grizzly Stadium walked out a winner).
4. I'll watch some more of their games, but it looks like the Montana offense is going to maybe be a toned down version of Western Carolina/Samford. They'll go with tempo, try to spread you out, and live off explosive plays. Their offense has had some outstanding games recently, but also had periods of the season where they really struggled.
5. Defensively, I think we'll see a team a lot like us. Fundamentally sound, swarm the ball, tackle well, etc.
6. Furman has been really good against tempo teams in recent years. We have a lot of depth and can keep players rotating on the field quickly. It's hard to catch us in bad personnel matchups or wear us down defensively.
7. I suspect neither team will have a done a lot of homework on the other. Furman maybe has done a little more because our second round opponent was a familiar one, while Montana's was a fresh face. Both teams will be running off a short week. I don't know who a quick turnaround favors, if anyone, though I'd hope to see Hicks and Robinson available. They were a huge help Saturday.