2024 Playoffs

[Bozemaniac]

His last four seasons have been:

• 72 attempts for 640yds this season (12 games)
• 85 attempts for 689yds in 2023 (9 games)
• 170 for 1,071 in 2022 (12 games)
• 113 for 716 in 2021 (13 games)

I'd be curious how much his decreased rushing attempts have been due to a combination of Chambers' absence and Humphrey's production.

Speaking of utilization/injuries, anyone know if there were any injuries sustained by NDSU, USD, or 'cats in their games?

I know Fargo media is still beating the Wisniewski may play drum.

Don't know about USD/NDSU.

For MSU, only new injury I think is #2 RB Julius Davis. That one might be serious enough to go past the first round bye, and I think he only just came back from an injury earlier this season. Humphrey was previously injured at Davis and was limited yesterday. I think their #1 receiver FB/TE Jones was also previously injured (I don't think he got hurt yesterday), but he did have two catches. Hard to say if he was limited in any way since they only had like 6 caught passes yesterday out of maybe 10 passing plays.

[jakejc795]

Doesn’t seem like they run him as much as in 2021. It’s similar to Mark where he ran a bunch early in his career but not as much now. Looks like they passed a decent amount against UC Davis as well so they’re not one dimensional.

His last four seasons have been:

• 72 attempts for 640yds this season (12 games)
• 85 attempts for 689yds in 2023 (9 games)
• 170 for 1,071 in 2022 (12 games)
• 113 for 716 in 2021 (13 games)

I'd be curious how much his decreased rushing attempts have been due to a combination of Chambers' absence and Humphrey's production.

Speaking of utilization/injuries, anyone know if there were any injuries sustained by NDSU, USD, or 'cats in their games?

I know Fargo media is still beating the Wisniewski may play drum.

[Roy]

Massey composite SDS MTS, NDS, SD, UCD, ID, MT and IW.

[JacksFan80]

I haven’t watched one bobcat game. Do they still run Mellot as much as they have in the past? If they do the odds of him making it through a playoff run are probably not great.

Doesn’t seem like they run him as much as in 2021. It’s similar to Mark where he ran a bunch early in his career but not as much now. Looks like they passed a decent amount against UC Davis as well so they’re not one dimensional.

[22jack]

My gut tells me this

1-MSU
2-NDSU
3-SDSU
4-USD

NDSU has the best overall body of work over USD and SDSU with more D1 wins, more currently-ranked wins, a tougher strength of schedule, and a better FBS loss.

This is probably how it should be but I hope we are 2.

[MontanaRabbit]

I haven’t watched one bobcat game. Do they still run Mellot as much as they have in the past? If they do the odds of him making it through a playoff run are probably not great.

[MontanaRabbit]

Prior to last night I thought the seeding was pretty clear.

NDSU
MSU
SDSU
USD

Now we’ve got a mess. MSU is the clear cut #1. After that it gets messy. If you go SDSU, NDSU, USD the win last night meant nothing for USD. If you go SDSU, USD, NDSU you drop the bison 3 spots for 1 road loss. If you go USD, NDSU, SDSU the Jacks are penalized for smoking Misery St on the road.

SDSU has been the leader in Sagarin all year. I have to think that gives us an edge for the 2.

[NCJack]

Matchup wise, I think the jacks match up the best with Montana state and worst with usd. That is without factoring home vs away.
I think Montana state has the best running game but I’m not as concerned about us against the run anf I believe Mellott is the most limited passer of the three QBs.
i think usd’s offense is very balanced on all levels and their DL is their biggest strength which makes them the worst match up for us.

I think these teams are all very close in the end, excited to see it play out either way. Go Jacks!

[SoDakPirate]

The conspiracy theorist in me believes NDSU will get the 2 seed( Matt Larsen the NDSU AD is the chair of the committee). If they are 2, I hope we drop to 4 and potentially go to Montana rather than Fargo. As stated before, the Augie game does us no favors.

[Cowbell]

If the selection committee keeps in front of them the question "Who is playing the best football right now?' then easily SDSU hits the number 2 position. We have beaten the last four opponents by a combined score of 176 to 32.

[filbert]

My top 4 seeding:
1 - Montana State (unbeaten, duh)
2 - South Dakota State (highest Sagarin, best defense, offense really playing well now)
3 - South Dakota (Beat #4, took #2 to overtime)
4 - North Dakota State (Lost to #3, last-minute win vs. #2 at home was a long time ago in football time)

[jbjack]

yes playing Augie was idiotic!! it is an absolutely NO WIN scenario for the Jacks!! that said they were probably a LOT better competition than one of our common OOC opponents, Drake. final point being Augie gave us good competition, but we gain absolutely nothing by playing them

Didn't we have a cancelation resulting in Augie getting scheduled?

[jakejc795]

Playing Augie was dumb. Never do it again.

I'd be interested in learning if teams share details on attempts made to schedule non-DII opponents.

[TrackJack]

This is the metric that I fear.

NDSU 10 FCS wins
SDSU 9 FCS wins
USD 8 FCS wins

There are other metrics though but this is why we should never play D2 teams. NDSU refuses to do it anymore.

Playing Augie was dumb. Never do it again.

[bigticket1]

in the postgame interview, Jimmy said he believes the Jacks have best point differential in the country. true? would that be a big factor in overall seeding?

I can say if you look at the MVFC Co Champs and the differential in the games among the three teams, Bison come out on top with a +3 total, Jacks second at -1 (would have been zero if they are allowed to kick the extra point in OT vs usd), usd comes in 3rd at -2

I see a few predictions already have MSU at the 1 seed. understandable, but I do not think that is a guarantee

Conference games point differential : SDSU - Points for - 309, against - 78 : NDSU - PF-308, PA - 114 ; USD - PF - 307, PA - 131..