FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

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MIAC PICK-EMS
WEEK 2 STANDINGS


WEEK 3
Non-Conference: 2pts
St. Scholastica @ Crown (+25.5)
Augsburg @ Martin Luther (+28.5)
UW-Stout (+10.5) @ Gustavus
Minnesota-Morris (+40.5) @ Carleton

Other games: 1pt
#6 Hardin-Simmons @ #24 UW-Platteville (+10.5)

[SagatagSam]

Here's a good question:

When was the last time the first two spots in the D3football.com Top 25 were occupied by two teams that did not have purple in their color scheme?

I'm going to guess never.

[DuffMan]

Red is the new purple. 

[Pat Coleman]

Here's a good question:

When was the last time the first two spots in the D3football.com Top 25 were occupied by two teams that did not have purple in their color scheme?

I'm going to guess never.

Good one. That is correct!

[Ice Bear]

Red is the new purple. 

The Bear says aloud while drinking seal blood to wash down the caribou he just ate...

"Mother**** Yeah!"

[RoyalsFan]

Interesting twist.  Let's say SJU beats BU in two weeks and then BU beats SJU in the conference championship game.  We could have a two-loss champion and a one-loss runner up.

Maybe that scenario could cause me to rethink my position on the two-division conference structure.

So couldn't that happen even with a one division structure? Say Bethel lost both of their non conference games and wins out and SJU only loses to Bethel. Bethel would be the champion with 2 losses and SJU would be the runner-up with 1 loss when counting all games, which is what your original scenario includes.

[OzJohnnie]

Interesting twist.  Let's say SJU beats BU in two weeks and then BU beats SJU in the conference championship game.  We could have a two-loss champion and a one-loss runner up.

Maybe that scenario could cause me to rethink my position on the two-division conference structure.

So couldn't that happen even with a one division structure? Say Bethel lost both of their non conference games and wins out and SJU only loses to Bethel. Bethel would be the champion with 2 losses and SJU would be the runner-up with 1 loss when counting all games, which is what your original scenario includes.

Did someone shoot your dog last week?  You've been awfully argumentative and literalist lately.

Your scenario hasn't happened in the last 25 years as per the easily accessible d3football.com stats.  Do you have any idea that it has ever happened?  Sheesh.  A meteor could break over Minnesota and smash every school but MAC, making them defacto champions and All Sport superstars, as long as we're dreaming up possibilities that have never happened.

[Robert Zimmerman]

Almost a Duffman-esque performance. Metoriah Faoilu made the Team of the Week on the main page.

DE Metoriah Faoilu, Sr., St. John's
Metoriah Faoliu totaled 11 tackles, including eight unassisted and three and a half tackles for loss, to go along with one and a half sacks and a quarterback hurry in the Johnnies' 37-34 win over nationally-ranked UW-River Falls. Faoliu finished with 11 yards for loss on his 3.5 takedowns behind the line of scrimmage.

[DuffMan]

Almost a Duffman-esque performance.

Ha!  Unfortunately, I'm probably "young" enough that you could still find my stats and see how I pale comparison. 

Congrats to Meta, though!  He had a game!!!

[57Johnnie]

Just received word that DeVaughn Nelson '56 passed away. Us old timers remember what a great wrestler he was for the Johnnies. RIP.

[RoyalsFan]

Interesting twist.  Let's say SJU beats BU in two weeks and then BU beats SJU in the conference championship game.  We could have a two-loss champion and a one-loss runner up.

Maybe that scenario could cause me to rethink my position on the two-division conference structure.

So couldn't that happen even with a one division structure? Say Bethel lost both of their non conference games and wins out and SJU only loses to Bethel. Bethel would be the champion with 2 losses and SJU would be the runner-up with 1 loss when counting all games, which is what your original scenario includes.

Did someone shoot your dog last week?  You've been awfully argumentative and literalist lately.

Your scenario hasn't happened in the last 25 years as per the easily accessible d3football.com stats.  Do you have any idea that it has ever happened?  Sheesh.  A meteor could break over Minnesota and smash every school but MAC, making them defacto champions and All Sport superstars, as long as we're dreaming up possibilities that have never happened.

A bit sensitive here, aren't you? I'm not being argumentative, just pointing out it can also happen with a one division system. Doesn't matter that it hasn't happened before, that is irrelevant. Changing from a 2 divisions to1 division doesn't change the fact that it can happen either way.

[Pat Coleman]

The more non-conference games there are, the greater chance this can happen, really.

[jamtod]

The more non-conference games there are, the greater chance this can happen, really.

Especially with the caliber of teams SJU and Bethel have scheduled for non conference games recently.

[OzJohnnie]

The old format did not include an explicit rematch of the top two sides, specifically creating a split season scenario every single year and an increase in the odds of an overall record incongruity with the conference champion from "theoretical possibility that never happened" to "genuine possibility every time one of the top two teams loses a con-conference game and the other doesn't.".

Are we actually debating this or are you all having me on?

[RoyalsFan]

The old format did not include an explicit rematch of the top two sides, specifically creating a split season scenario every single year and an increase in the odds of an overall record incongruity with the conference champion from "theoretical possibility that never happened" to "genuine possibility every time one of the top two teams loses a con-conference game and the other doesn't.".

Are we actually debating this or are you all having me on?

You are the one who brought this up in the first place. Besides, non conference games have absolutely no bearing on who wins the conference. You say it has never happened before, well guess what, it probably has never happened under a split division format either.  Just don't see that as a reason against a split division.