From the Delaware FB board

[tomumar]

Hey, I saw this on the Delaware football board, gohens.net--Look down to the Patriot league and see who they list as believing they'll make the play-offs!

If the season ended today I believe the committee would take 42 teams before they'd take UD. Now, that being said that number will whittle down as the season plays it's last 3 weeks, but I doubt highly the number will get below 20...

Here they are:

Big Sky: Montana & Montana St
Big South: Liberty & Stony Brook
CAA: Maine, UNH, Towson, JMU, ODU
Great West: Cal Poly, Southern Utah
MEAC: Norfolk St, Morgan St, SC State, Bethune Cookman, FAMU, Hampton
MVFC: N Dakota St, UNI, Illinois St, Indiana St, YSU
NEC: Albany, Duquesne
OVC: Tenn Tech, EKU, Jax St, Tn-Martin, Murray St
Patriot: Lehigh, G'Town
Southern: GSU, Wofford, AppSt, Furman, Samford, Citadel
Southland: Sam Houston St, Central Arkansas, NW State
SWAC: Jackson St, Alabama A&M

espn.go.com/college-football/sta ... _/group/81

[theexorcist]

They don't list the Hoyas as believing that we'll make the playoffs. As a Blue Hen fan (really, this year GU has a better to chance to make the playoffs than UD), I feel qualified to comment. Note - there's actual relevance to Georgetown at the bottom!

Short backstory - Delaware has not had a good year (or at least a good year for Delaware). They're currently 5-4, with three losses to I-AA schools and one to Navy. Notably, they also have a win over a Division II school (West Chester) who basically functions as the Hens' St. Leo.

If Delaware wins out (there's a good chance - both Richmond and Villanova are having awful seasons), the question is whether the Hens make the playoffs.

The above post is wrong on at least one point - the SWAC doesn't participate in the playoffs.

With that said, there's a list of 39 schools that the poster thinks will be taken before Delaware. This is a problem since the playoffs only take 20 schools.

Based on strength of schedule, however, at least some of the schools (Liberty, Stony Brook, Albany, Duquesne, and Georgetown to start, as well as at least half of the MEAC schools) probably won't get in over a 7-4 school that's done very well in the CAA (considered by far the toughest I-AA conference), even if they have a better record. That still leaves a lot of other schools in contention for those last few berths, just like the NCAA basketball tourney. If the Hens do win out, should be interesting.

Now to the Georgetown part. Lehigh has one loss - to New Hampshire in overtime. If Georgetown upsets Lehigh and gets the auto-bid, Lehigh (if they then beat Lafayette) has what should probably be a better resume than the Hens. So, if Georgetown wins, Delaware's in a tighter spot (yes, in case you're curious, I'm rooting for the Hoyas - Delaware shouldn't have let it get to this). Consider us the 6-10 MAC team that gets hot and makes the finals - if we win, we take away a spot from a bubble team.

[CTHoya08]

Did you really need to use a 6-10 MAC team as the example?