2025 playoff prognostications

11 — #12 Nova at #5 Lehigh (ESPN+), Nova wins by 2 TDs
11 — #11 USD at #6 Mercer (ESPN+), Mercer
12 — Illinois St at #1 NDSU (ESPN+), NDSU
12 — UND at #4 Tarleton St (ESPN+), Tarleton
12 — #10 ACU at #7 SFA (ESPN+), SFA
1 — #14 SDSU at #3 Montana (ESPN+), Montana
1 — Yale at #2 Montana St (ESPN+), Montana State. The Ivies run is over.
9 — #9 Rhody at #8 UC Davis (ESPN2), Davis wins and shows the CAA is a weak conference,
 
Any insights about the Lehigh vs. Nova game coming up? It will be a tough game for Lehigh, but they had a first round bye. Lehigh will be the fresher team.
 
Man, Mercer runs the table in the SoCon to get a first-round bye as the sole conference rep in the playoffs, and then gets absolutely boat-raced by South Dakota, 47–0.

The CAA may not be what it once was, but the SoCon sure isn't either.
 
Man, Mercer runs the table in the SoCon to get a first-round bye as the sole conference rep in the playoffs, and then gets absolutely boat-raced by South Dakota, 47–0.

The CAA may not be what it once was, but the SoCon sure isn't either.
Maybe our admin made the right decision. All things are possible....
 
Always going to be sour grapes. The only people who wanted to see BYU in the playoff are BYU fans. Who did they play? They got crushed by the best team in their league twice.

ND isn’t part of a conference so they get what they get. Not sure of all the revenue sharing agreements for the various conferences, but certain that one team doesn’t get all the money like ND would. They lost head to head with Miami - case closed.

The farce is that Alabama is in, but that is called recency bias.

I guess everyone can just be happy that there are more teams in the playoff. Definitely didn’t make the football any better.
 
Coach Cahill is the total package. Hoping he will remain at Lehigh and maintain the level of quality he has built there. Attended our game there this year and loved the stadium, surrounding area with a great downtown for food and drinks and most importantly a solid fan base that welcomed us as new competitors. I am now excited about our move to the Patriot League and know in this NIL environment we are in the best place for our football program. I was totally against this move but now see that I was wrong and our administration got it right.
 
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