How do they select MW championship host?

Sat Nov 19, 2016 5:25 pm

How is the team chosen to host the MW championship?

I thought I read/heard the MW championship host was chosen strictly on ranking, not head-to-head, conference record or anything else. Is that correct?

Even if we win next week, I could see SDSU still staying ranked ahead of us with only 2 losses to our 3 and get to host if it is on ranking even though we have the head-to-head

Sat Nov 19, 2016 5:35 pm

that's correct......we need North Tijuana State to lose next week if we want to host

Sat Nov 19, 2016 5:36 pm

Highest ranked team hosts

Sat Nov 19, 2016 5:42 pm

roozy wrote:Highest ranked team hosts

Well, we just knocked them off their high horse (some of them really needed it), and will go back up ourselves.

Plus, we play UNM. If we beat them, it should give us another bump up.

Sat Nov 19, 2016 5:43 pm

Gonna do something I hope I never have to do again.... Next Saturday I will be rooting for the CSU Rams.... barf

Sat Nov 19, 2016 5:52 pm

ItSucksToBeACSURam wrote:Gonna do something I hope I never have to do again.... Next Saturday I will be rooting for the CSU Rams.... barf

I actually think CSU could beat those f-word...can't believe I am saying this, but I too will be rooting for CSU next week. I just threw up in my mouth.

Sat Nov 19, 2016 6:00 pm

Go Rams!!!!!!

Sat Nov 19, 2016 6:01 pm

CowboyNV wrote:
ItSucksToBeACSURam wrote:Gonna do something I hope I never have to do again.... Next Saturday I will be rooting for the CSU Rams.... barf
I actually think CSU could beat those f-word...can't believe I am saying this, but I too will be rooting for CSU next week. I just threw up in my mouth.

Well, you could just root against SDSU...

Sat Nov 19, 2016 6:02 pm

I honestly only care about one thing at this point: winning in Albuquerque.

We started talking about the Championship game after the win two weeks ago, and then we lay a huge freaking egg on the road to a much worse team than Lobos. Apodaca can definitely burn us hard, and we just lost Appleby.

Sat Nov 19, 2016 6:02 pm

The division champion with the higher College Football Playoff ranking going into final week of regular season is designated as the host school unless it loses its final regular season game. If the latter occurs, or neither team is ranked in the latest available College Football Playoff rankings, then the following procedure is used:[2]

Team with better composite ranking among selected computer rankings
Head-to-head record
Record versus common conference opponents
Winning percentage against the next-highest placed common conference opponent and proceeding through the conference, with placing based on:
Placement within the division
Overall conference record
Composite of selected computer rankings
Coin toss

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Sat Nov 19, 2016 6:03 pm

I think it's possible to host if we win and they also win

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Sat Nov 19, 2016 6:26 pm

So 3 possible sites- Boise, San Diego, or Laramie.

Wyoming beats both of those teams and has the best conference record and prob the smallest chance of hosting?

Sat Nov 19, 2016 6:33 pm

Coeur d' Alene wrote:So 3 possible sites- Boise, San Diego, or Laramie.

Wyoming beats both of those teams and has the best conference record and prob the smallest chance of hosting?

queue Craig Thompson with the Mr. Burns gif....."Excellent".

Sat Nov 19, 2016 6:35 pm

Coeur d' Alene wrote:So 3 possible sites- Boise, San Diego, or Laramie.

Wyoming beats both of those teams and has the best conference record and prob the smallest chance of hosting?

The loss to EMU and UNLV are really biting us in the ass. EMU could easily have been different, if Vigen had opened up the playbook for that game. And for UNLV, we just needed one more stop. Or to go for two at the end of regulation or overtime.

Sat Nov 19, 2016 6:35 pm

I'm more scared of the UNM game than I am about where the championship game will be held

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Sat Nov 19, 2016 6:44 pm

laxwyo wrote:I'm more scared of the UNM game than I am about where the championship game will be held

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Me too it was just a general question out of curiosity since we are 1 game away now, and I live far enough away that I would have to fly to either destination, so was just trying to understand how it was chosen so I could see what travel arrangements I might need to make in a week.

Cue the "only focus on the next game" comments as well, but luckily I don't play on the team, so probably ok if I consider travel arrangements even if the team is not

Sat Nov 19, 2016 6:48 pm

laxwyo wrote:I'm more scared of the UNM game than I am about where the championship game will be held

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To be sure. And with Appleby done for the remainder of the season, along with Granderson, that opens two very big holes up front that the backups need to try and fill in.

Sat Nov 19, 2016 7:10 pm

fromolwyoming wrote:
laxwyo wrote:I'm more scared of the UNM game than I am about where the championship game will be held

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To be sure. And with Appleby done for the remainder of the season, along with Granderson, that opens two very big holes up front that the backups need to try and fill in.

And somebody in the secondary had a concussion today as well...

Sat Nov 19, 2016 7:59 pm

Asmodeanreborn wrote:
fromolwyoming wrote:
laxwyo wrote:I'm more scared of the UNM game than I am about where the championship game will be held

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To be sure. And with Appleby done for the remainder of the season, along with Granderson, that opens two very big holes up front that the backups need to try and fill in.
And somebody in the secondary had a concussion today as well...

Is it confirmed he's done? His twitter said he'd be back....

Sat Nov 19, 2016 8:03 pm

ItSucksToBeACSURam wrote:Is it confirmed he's done? His twitter said he'd be back....

I don't think that's what he meant.

It's a torn MCL. He's done.