[coolhandluke]

LU Denied Playoff Berth Again
Lynchburg, VA- November 22, 2009

It seems that there may be a slight amount of bias on the part of the FCS playoff selection committee. For the third year in a row, the Liberty University football team was denied an at-large bid into college football's only Division I tournament.

In 2007 and 2008, Liberty was considered to be a "bubble" team who heard the disappointing popping sound on Selection Sunday. Many Flames fans recall the pain of November 23, 2008 when LU's 10-2 team was denied a bid after defeating #12 Elon on the last day of the season.

The same fans must be craving that feeling after what took place this evening. Liberty, ranked #1 in all FCS polls, once again failed to get the nod from the committee. After one of the most incredible upsets in college football history against West Virginia to open the season, the Flames went on to defeat defending FCS national champion James Madison and cruised to another undefeated Big South Conference season.

"We just didn't think their strength of schedule was strong enough," stated the head of the FCS selection committee. "We are also under a financial obligation to the CAA this year that no fewer than seven teams from the conference are to be given bids. When all the pieces fell into place, Liberty was left as the last team on the outside looking in."

www.libertygotscrewedbythecommitteeagain.com

That is kinda funny. After what happened tonight I feel like we could go undefeated and still not get picked

No that is hilarious. I could actually see that happening. I think if we beat WVU and then our only loss is to JMU, we still would be left out of the playoffs. And if our only loss is to WVU then we probably will still be a bubble team...

[JMUDukes]

I thought you might like that.

if it takes a Liberty loss next year to gain a NC this year, let us be blown out of Lynchburg.

[flamesfilmguy]

I thought you might like that.

if it takes a Liberty loss next year to gain a NC this year, let us be blown out of Lynchburg.

I like you. No homo

[jcrew4]

The heck with Maine, what about 8-4 Texas State! Check out there schedule. What a joke.

[Schfourteenteen]

The heck with Maine, what about 8-4 Texas State! Check out there schedule. What a joke.

Auto bid they won their conf.

[Ed Dantes]

Maybe it's not the Big South conference. Maybe it's just us. I mean, no one had a problem giving Coastal Carolina an auto-bid in 2006, even though they lost to a a 5-6 team and a 3-8 team that year.

[01LUGrad]

That was my point with the 2009 article.

[FlameNForest]

Maybe it's not the Big South conference. Maybe it's just us. I mean, no one had a problem giving Coastal Carolina an auto-bid in 2006, even though they lost to a a 5-6 team and a 3-8 team that year.

It's definitely an anti-Libery bias. And it's been that way through the years in many areas, whether it was trying to gain admittance years ago into the Southern Conference. Now they're taking about anyone (Elon, UNCG, Wofford), but they wouldn't touch us with a ten foot pole. And it's the same with certain teams in the area in I-AA that still won't schedule us.

No doubt if any other Big South team had a 10-2 record with our same results they'd have gotten in. That's just the way it is.


But there's not much we can do about it til we get an automatic bid.