“It is what it is. Whatever the committee is going to seed, they’re going to seed,” said Sam Houston head coach K.C. Keeler on the NCAA FCS Football Championship Selection Special. “All I know is that we’re undefeated. We were No. 3 in the country last year, No. 4 the year before. I have a better team this year, so I think we’re excited to play anyone in the country. If we have to go on the road, we have to go on the road. ... We’ve had a phenomenal year, a historic year. We’re ready for that second season.”
A sticking point is that the Bearkats, whose No. 1 ranking in the STATS FCS poll was undervalued by the selection committee and was No. 5 in the playoff committee’s rankings, manhandled a Central Arkansas team that the committee valued higher (No. 7) than its No. 11 ranking in last week’s STATS poll.
Sam Houston forced five turnovers and crushed the Bears 59-23 in Saturday’s regular-season finale at Bowers Stadium.
Additionally, in the Simple Ratings System, what is essentially computer rankings that the selection committee uses as a tool in the decision-making process, the Bearkats are No. 4 behind North Dakota State, Eastern Washington and Jacksonville State — James Madison is No. 7.
“We just took apart the No. 6 or 7 team in the country. We took them apart,” Keeler said. “We were up by 43 (points) with 30 seconds left to go in the game and they call a timeout to see if they could get a score.
“I don’t think it will affect (the Bearkats) one iota. Some of the greatest victories I’ve ever had have been on the road in the playoffs. ... So if we have to go on the road, we’ll go on the road. All I know right now is it’s either Weber State or Chattanooga. Our kids will not have a bracket or where the other games might be. It doesn’t really matter. If we don’t win this one two weeks from now, the season’s over. That’s how we look at it.”
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