Northeastern State

[Buffalo/Islander Alum]

NW has a schedule floating around with NSU on it. 10-24-26

That would track. Thanks for the information. Adding Finchwidget .

[Finchwidget]

NW has a schedule floating around with NSU on it. 10-24-26

Isn't Northwest supposed to play Kearney that week? Or did that get moved

[NWHoops]

Isn't Northwest supposed to play Kearney that week? Or did that get moved

Yes they are. Not sure where the NSU talk is coming from...

[Predatory Primates]

My bad, someone posted it on another forum, but idk where they got it?

[Buffalo/Islander Alum]

Isn't Northwest supposed to play Kearney that week? Or did that get moved

NE ST has 10-24 and 10-31 open so 10-31 could be in play for NW and 10-24 in play for UCO.

Edit: Strike the NW comment. They play Kearney on 10-24 and Emporia on 10-31 so it cant be Northwest Missouri.

Time to hedge by bets back towards UCO.

[NWHoops]

My bad, someone posted it on another forum, but idk where they got it?

Just to be clear, my comment wasn't directed at you. I figured you had seen it some place else. Just not sure where those other individuals would have gotten that from. NW is still looking for a home game early in the year. It's always possible there is some rearranging that could be done but NW is still playing UNK on 10/24 as of now.

[the Northeasterner]

Nothing personal but the be game is a no gain for nsu. UCO is all gain. They want the UCO game they still haven't set homecoming from what I can tell. That would be perfect game for it

[GorillaTeacher]

Nothing personal but the be game is a no gain for nsu. UCO is all gain. They want the UCO game they still haven't set homecoming from what I can tell. That would be perfect game for it

I think it’s the other way around. It’s all risk for UCO all gain for NSU. NSU needs more d2 games, they need strong opponents. NSU loses to UCO nobody shrugs. The other way around, UCO gets embarrassed.

[Predatory Primates]

NSU had some really bad years, but have been pretty good the last 2. Their staff has done really well recruiting the portal. I'll be interested to see if they can take that next step and get the HS base to complement the portal talent.


I don't agree that it would be embarrassing for UCO to lose to NSU at this point. The 2 teams are both pretty good. CO had one great outlier year, but has always been in that pretty good, but not a contender category. I think NSU has been in that same category the last 2 years. ( Good enough to beat a top.team here and there, but not regularly) Now it's a race to see if either team can take that next step beyond a hot portal year here and there.

[Buffalo/Islander Alum]

I think it’s the other way around. It’s all risk for UCO all gain for NSU. NSU needs more d2 games, they need strong opponents. NSU loses to UCO nobody shrugs. The other way around, UCO gets embarrassed.

Its not as big of a risk to UCO as it is for NE ST.

UCO can lose to NE St. and still get in with an automatic bid for the MIAA championship.

NE ST. pretty much has to run the table or 1 loss max with only 9 D2 games (See Western Oregon last year).

[GorillaTeacher]

Its not as big of a risk to UCO as it is for NE ST.

UCO can lose to NE St. and still get in with an automatic bid for the MIAA championship.

NE ST. pretty much has to run the table or 1 loss max with only 9 D2 games (See Western Oregon last year).

even if they ran the table last year, they were not going to get in. They needed to schedule real teams, and the committee may not have been able to include the fake Lincoln and the team that was only in their second year of football In the calculations, but they wouldn’t reward them for it either. NSU was better for sure, but should UCO lose to NSU their only shot at the playoffs would be AQ.

Who knows what’s going to happen with the NPI ranking system, but It doesn’t matter if you keep scheduling scrub teams and money games.

[Buffalo/Islander Alum]

even if they ran the table last year, they were not going to get in. They needed to schedule real teams, and the committee may not have been able to include the fake Lincoln and the team that was only in their second year of football In the calculations, but they wouldn’t reward them for it either. NSU was better for sure, but should UCO lose to NSU their only shot at the playoffs would be AQ.

Who knows what’s going to happen with the NPI ranking system, but It doesn’t matter if you keep scheduling scrub teams and money games.

NE St. had the minimum 8 D2 games and they would have made it going 8-0 especially if that record included a West Florida win.

They were only 2 spots away from a playoff spot last year.

I do agree if you are going to schedule scrub teams, you better run the table.

Miami, OH. is the perfect example of that in NCAA basketball this year.

Also agree on the AQ route if UCO does lose to NE St.

[Predatory Primates]

I think NSU scheduled pretty much every good team they could find. Indy scheduling is tough.

[Buffalo/Islander Alum]

I think NSU scheduled pretty much every good team they could find. Indy scheduling is tough.

Completely agree.

They scheduled 3 playoff teams from last year (UTPB, West Florida, and Truman) and 2 others that are no slouches (Delta State and West Alabama).

Rescheduling UCO gives them the advantage of getting SOS from several different leagues.

It could work the other way and some of those teams could go the other way but going 8-1 with a D2 schedule should get a really good look.

[GorillaTeacher]

I think NSU scheduled pretty much every good team they could find. Indy scheduling is tough.

Agree on the scheduling, the metrics may have had them 2 spots away? But that’s why there was a committee, and I don’t think I there was a shot barring a late collapse by multiple teams ahead of them. I think the committee would have taken another GAC team over NSU, no matter what the numbers say.

that Could change this year with the NPI being the selector and no longer using a committee.