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Originally Posted by 23Skidoo
This is DIA, not DIAA/DII/DIII --
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What you're saying is that it's quite acceptable because it happened to be YSU? Seems to me YSU maybe didn't deserve to be there in the first place, but JT's team proved they only need to be hot for 1 part of the season to get the championship in a playoff system -- and his big game preparation came through for them.
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My dip[censored] alarm just went off, so I had to come back and see why.
The level of competition doesn't determine which playoff format to use. You think I-AA and III are about the same level?
Evidentially YSU deserved to be there, because they ended up beating three higher seeds to win the title...looking back, I think the year was 1997, not 1993, when they were ranked outside the top eight at the end of the regular season yet made the playoffs. The reason why they made the playoffs despite being outside the top eight was because their only two losses were to conference foes Northern Iowa and Western Illinois, both of who finished ranked higher than YSU and both losses were only by three points (the loss to WIU was the last game of the regular season which dropped them out of the top eight). Despite being stuck in the Gateway Conference, which was head-and-shoulders above any other I-AA conference, they still finished 9-2 including a 21-point blowout of a MAC team. They were totally deserving of a playoff spot and proved it by winning three consecutive playoff games--including the title game--on the road.