Here's a play Wofford's Stephon Shelton would like to forget. He fields a kickoff by Northern Iowa's Tyler Sievertsen in the end zone during Saturday's Division I-AA playoff game. Instead of taking a knee and ending the play, Shelton walks casually in the end zone before Zach Cutkomp of UNI knocks the ball out of his hands.
The ball rolls around the end zone for several seconds before Phil Wright of the Panthers pounces on it for a touchdown. It turned out to be the winning score in Northern Iowa's 28-21 win at Cedar Falls, Iowa.
And yes, you read that correctly. It was a playoff game. They actually have a playoff system in place in all levels of college football except Division I-A. Shocking, I know. Perhaps some day they will get with the program and see that the only proper way of conducting a postseason is to use rankings and computers to determine the best two teams.
It's not called D-IAA, it's called FCS and nobody cares about it or whatever playoff system they have.
But, since you like playoff football so much, why don't you just report on that from now on?
Posted by: T-Bone | December 05, 2011 at 07:38 AM
The FCS would love to have a bowl system, but no one is willing to pay those teams 6 or 7 figures to show up and play games at a neutral site
Posted by: Alex | December 05, 2011 at 08:18 AM
They have a playoff system, but nobody shows up to watch these games, so is it really a playoff?
Posted by: spreadoption | December 05, 2011 at 09:24 PM