CAA Champions

[spiderjpo]

Great day to be a Spider. Physical domination of our state rival and finishing undefeated in the CAA. Great crowd and great performance by our team today. Tomorrow will speak volumes of what the national scene thinks of the CAA. Hoping for a bye and top 8 seed. This team deserves it. 10 game winning streak and beating whoever we play should be enough but we will see. Physical domination today by both lines and a shutout of the team that wants to be like us but just can’t get it done!

 

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[Eight Legger]

So they're taking two 10-2 teams from one-bid leagues and seeding them but not seeding the 10-2 champion of a 4-bid league? Make it make sense.

 

[SFspidur]

So they're taking two 10-2 teams from one-bid leagues and seeding them but not seeding the 10-2 champion of a 4-bid league? Make it make sense.

The CAA is seen as a bit of a paper tiger conference, with teams able to rack up gaudy records without necessarily having to face many other good teams because there’s so many schools.

Good enough to earn a decent number of bids, but nobody able to really stand out by running a gauntlet of quality teams.

But no, I’m certainly not sold on UIW or Mercer either.

Our Wofford loss hurt us badly.

 

[Eight Legger]

I get that, but we still beat a team in Delaware that would have been ranked in the top 15 all year, a 7-5 Towson team and a W&M team that had a shot at the playoffs with a win today. Half of our conference wins are against teams in the top half of the league (if you exclude us). And hopefully we have made it abundantly clear to the committee that we changed QBs after the first two games and then proceeded to win 10 straight.

 

[ncspiderfan]

The CAA is seen as a bit of a paper tiger conference, with teams able to rack up gaudy records without necessarily having to face many other good teams because there’s so many schools.

Good enough to earn a decent number of bids, but nobody able to really stand out by running a gauntlet of quality teams.

But no, I’m certainly not sold on UIW or Mercer either.

Our Wofford loss hurt us badly.

Mercer has a good defense and did beat the next three best teams in SoCon. Incarnate Word and Spiders might well be 8 & 9
I want to think a 10-game win streak carries some weight with the committee.

 

[Ferrum Spider]

I get that, but we still beat a team in Delaware that would have been ranked in the top 15 all year, a 7-5 Towson team and a W&M team that had a shot at the playoffs with a win today. Half of our conference wins are against teams in the top half of the league (if you exclude us). And hopefully we have made it abundantly clear to the committee that we changed QBs after the first two games and then proceeded to win 10 straight.

I want a top 8 seed as bad as anyone. I think Spiders get the nod over UIW, but haven't made it easy with that loss to Wofford and 3 point wins over 3 bad teams.

 

[Eight Legger]

Wofford was 5-7, UIW lost to Southern Illinois, who went 4-8. So slight edge to us there, IMO.

 

[SFspidur]

SIU was top 10 at the time of their game, but obviously didn’t live up to that early billing. MVFC is obviously really tough sledding, so I don’t know that Wofford would be considered a better loss.

 

[Eight Legger]

Hopefully they're not getting credit for what a team was ranked at the time. SIU stunk. They should have never been ranked eighth.