Thanks to I-AA teams every I-A conference exited week one at or above .500.

If we're not counting the bowl games 1/4th of the non-conference schedule is complete sans a few exceptions where teams played in conference this week.

This is one of the more important weeks for us. We have a very difficult schedule this weekend as a league. If we can exit this week at .500 or better we have a very good chance of being one of the top G5 leagues - at least in terms of computer type rankings.

But here is a question if anyone knows this (and I don't mean guesses), because I have researched this for several weeks now and cannot find an answer to this question. Playoff distributions are going to be allotted based on a number of different criteria. We've been through what those are before and one of them is performance based. I cannot figure out how the powers that be are going to determine how the G5 conferences are going to be ranked at the end of the season. Does anyone have that answer?

For example, is it going to be an RPI based formula?
Is it going to be the "eye test."
Will Bill Hancock draw our names out of a hat since he probably doesn't know all five conference's names anyway?
Will it include the bowl games?
Or is it just the bowl games itself and only the bowl game results that will determine the rankings?

It's just not clear what the methodology is going to be to rank us at the end of the year and considering there are so many millions of dollars at stake the NCAA or whoever runs college football needs to be more transparent about that.

(09-02-2014 07:15 AM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  Thanks to I-AA teams every I-A conference exited week one at or above .500.

If we're not counting the bowl games 1/4th of the non-conference schedule is complete sans a few exceptions where teams played in conference this week.

This is one of the more important weeks for us. We have a very difficult schedule this weekend as a league. If we can exit this week at .500 or better we have a very good chance of being one of the top G5 leagues - at least in terms of computer type rankings.

But here is a question if anyone knows this (and I don't mean guesses), because I have researched this for several weeks now and cannot find an answer to this question. Playoff distributions are going to be allotted based on a number of different criteria. We've been through what those are before and one of them is performance based. I cannot figure out how the powers that be are going to determine how the G5 conferences are going to be ranked at the end of the season. Does anyone have that answer?

For example, is it going to be an RPI based formula?
Is it going to be the "eye test."
Will Bill Hancock draw our names out of a hat since he probably doesn't know all five conference's names anyway?
Will it include the bowl games?
Or is it just the bowl games itself and only the bowl game results that will determine the rankings?

It's just not clear what the methodology is going to be to rank us at the end of the year and considering there are so many millions of dollars at stake the NCAA or whoever runs college football needs to be more transparent about that.

Who does FAU play this week?