The Wiz of Odds

Idiot Play of the Week — in a Playoff Game, No Less

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.

We're Not Quite Done With Poster Schedules

Each year, the Wiz showcases poster schedules from Division I-A teams. The feature is one of the most popular on the site, with 78 of the 120 I-A teams having their efforts displayed this year.

But there's another class of football, one that actually crowns a champion through a playoff rather than a phony weeding out process called the Bowl Championship Series. We're talking I-AA, and this year several teams submitted posters. Today, we showcase their efforts.

The first poster is from Cal State Monterey Bay, and if you're asking how the Otters (yes, that's the school's all too cool nickname) are doing this fall, keep asking. The school doesn't have a team, but according to Benjamin Mayberry, the marketing coordinator for Monterey Bay, one of best-selling T-shirts in the campus bookstore is an Otter football T.

Since no team exists, the school has adopted the slogan, "Still Undefeated." Mayberry took the concept of Otter football to another level and created this poster, which he sent to the site. That's the kind of dedication we're looking for!

The rest of the posters are in alphabetical order after the jump. As always, click an image for an enlarged view.