South Region playoffs

[Llamaguy]

You are right on Bwana.

There are still alot of what ifs though. It really comes down to  how many South region teams head East and who flys to Texas.

[sthrncwby]

Llamaguy, I know in the past they have put teams in different regions.  Who makes that call and why not just take the best 32 teams and randomly select who plays.  The higher rank gets home field.

[mizzou_mafia]

This today in the newspaper closest to the BC Eagles:

"senior wide receiver Brian Awkard expressed his preference for a distant road game if a home game were impossible.

"If we didn't [play at home], it'd be nice to fly to Texas," Awkard said. "If we had to go somewhere, I'd rather fly somewhere and feel like a professional rather than riding on a long bus somewhere.""

Just thought you Texans should know that not everyone wants to avoid ya'll...just all of us that don't get our plane tickets paid for by a school

[tTU719803]

I'd love to see another Bridgewater - Trinity matchup.  Those 3 games in that 3 year span were some of the best football I have ever seen.

[Llamaguy]

Llamaguy, I know in the past they have put teams in different regions.  Who makes that call and why not just take the best 32 teams and randomly select who plays.  The higher rank gets home field.

The Regional Committee will rank their Top 10's Saturday evening after the games and send them to the NCAA Nat'l Committee. The Nat'l Committee will take that info, Pick their 32 teams and adjust for regions that have less than 8 qualifiers with overflow from other regions. Then they seed them but more importantly decide on 1st Rd match-ups based on what is cheapest travelwise for the NCAA.

As for the Top 32, the NCAA has 21 conferences who have automatic bids into the tounament. Unfortunately some of those automatic qualifiers are never in the Top 32. Thus without removing the auto-qualifiers, you will never see the best 32 teams duke it out.

[miz]

I'd love to see another Bridgewater - Trinity matchup.  Those 3 games in that 3 year span were some of the best football I have ever seen.

They were great games.  Now just lose to Millsaps and we'll see ya' next Saturday

[Llamaguy]

Regional Rankings are out:

South
1. Trinity (Texas) 7-0 8-0
2. Ferrum 9-0 9-0
3. Thiel 9-0 9-0
4. Mary Hardin-Baylor 6-1 7-1
5. Wesley 6-0 9-1
6. Bridgewater (Virginia) 6-1 7-1
7. Washington and Jefferson 7-1 9-1
8. Hardin-Simmons 7-1 8-1
9. DePauw 6-1 7-1
10. Hampden-Sydney 7-2 7-2

[pakownr97]

I'd love to see another Bridgewater - Trinity matchup.  Those 3 games in that 3 year span were some of the best football I have ever seen.

TTU,

Did you see the 2001 game at Bridgewater?  That was the greatest football game I've ever seen at any level.

[Matt Barnhart (kid)]

I'd love to see another Bridgewater - Trinity matchup.  Those 3 games in that 3 year span were some of the best football I have ever seen.

Phew ... got that right!

2000: TU 47 - BC 41 (ot)
2001: BC 41 - TU 37
2002: TU 38 - BC 32


Scoring by Quarters (combined):

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
BC	13	27	40	34
TU	21	32	37	32

(overtime TD by TU counted in 4th qtr pts)

[Llamaguy]

Looks like Capital will get a Pool C bid with 2 losses. They are ranked #5 in the North region this week.

New South Region prediction:

1st Rd:

Hardin-Simmons at Trinity
Johns Hopkins at UMHB
Capital at Thiel
Bridgewater at Ferrum (Would reverse sites if Ferrum loses to CNU)

[tTU719803]

Yes, saw all 3 of them.  I agree, the '01 game (despite the outcome) was the best college football game I have ever seen, a close winner over the '02 game. 

That '01 game was a matchup of, in my opinion, 2 of the best 3 teams that season.  You put them, BC, and Mount in a round-robin and who knows what happens.  That Trinity team was better than the '02 team in my opinion.

I can still picture Lutz slipping a near sack by Doran to throw the game winner... ugh.

[PA_wesleyfan]

 I understand all the quirks of the of the playoff pairings. But If Wesley is ranked 5th in the South where would you put them in the East? Unfortunately the way the rankings look they are planning on sending them to Texas again... or will they keep them in the East?
   

Looks like Capital will get a Pool C bid with 2 losses. They are ranked #5 in the North region this week.

New South Region prediction:

1st Rd:

Hardin-Simmons at Trinity
Johns Hopkins at UMHB
Capital at Thiel
Bridgewater at Ferrum (Would reverse sites if Ferrum loses to CNU)

[Hawks88]

So with 2 loss Hampden-Sydney ranked 10th in the south does that mean that Huntingdon is even farther from consideration than previously thought?

[Josh Bowerman]

How 'bout HSU winning each of the last two weeks and continuing to drop in the regional poll. 

What a joke.

[PittTBCW]

I think this week will still have alot to decide in the whole playoff picture. Upsets can happen and etc that will make a major mix up possible. I am looking forward to playoff time I can tell you that much!