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CCHA expanding into South Dakota with addition of Augustana University
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Garrett Raboin, proven right here as an assistant coach on the College of Minnesota, has been named head hockey coach on the CCHA’s latest member, Augustanta College, which can begin enjoying within the 2023-24 season. (Picture courtesy Augustana College)
MARQUETTE — Regardless of formally forming lower than a 12 months in the past, the eight-team Central Collegiate Hockey Affiliation introduced Tuesday that it has added a ninth member.
Augustana College of Sioux Falls, South Dakota — close to the Minnesota border and about 200 miles southwest of Minneapolis — was unanimously accepted by the CCHA, which incorporates the seven colleges that broke away from the Western Collegiate Hockey Affiliation final summer season and NCAA Division I newcomer St. Thomas of Minnesota.
That’s in keeping with an emailed information launch from the CCHA.
The WCHA breakaway colleges are Northern Michigan College, Michigan Tech, Lake Superior State and Ferris State in Michigan; Bowling Inexperienced State in Ohio; and Minnesota State-Mankato and Bemidji State in Minnesota.
The Vikings — who transitioned its identify from Augustana Faculty to Augustana College in 2015 — are an NCAA Division II establishment in most different sports activities, much like the 4 Michigan members of the CCHA, together with NMU.
However Augustana officers stated within the CCHA’s announcement that they’re planning to hitch Division I in most or all sports activities via their strategic plan, named Viking Daring: The Journey to 2030. It contains targets associated to athletics, particularly becoming a member of D-1, student-athlete assist and neighborhood engagement.
Already, Augustana broke floor in October on Midco Area, touted as a brand new, state-of-the-art hockey area that can seat a minimum of 3,000 with a number of suites and different premium seating choices. This and the brand new hockey program is being funded by presents from numerous donors, led by T. Denny Sanford, Midco and Sanford Well being.
The announcement stated that Augustana won’t play hockey within the 2022-23 season, then play two years of a “transitional” schedule starting within the fall of 2023 earlier than enjoying a full CCHA schedule for 2025-26.
The Vikings have already employed a head coach, Garrett Raboin. Like NMU head coach Grant Potulny, Raboin is a former assistant coach on the College of Minnesota. The brand new Augustana coach simply completed his fourth season with the Gophers after a six-year stint in the identical place at one other Minnesota college, St. Cloud State of the Nationwide Collegiate Hockey Convention.
NMU athletic director Forrest Karr, who’s the CCHA Administration Council chairman, was fairly constructive concerning the league’s growth.
“Our planning is concentrated on what is sweet for the convention and what’s going to advance the convention,” Karr stated within the CCHA launch. “Our website go to workforce went to Augustana College in November and we have been impressed with the high-quality tutorial applications, distinctive athletic amenities and glorious neighborhood assist.
“Augustana College is constructing a sustainable hockey program that can add worth to the CCHA and place the convention for future success.”
These sentiments have been echoed by CCHA Commissioner Don Lucia and league Board of Administrators Chairwoman Religion Hensrud, who can be president of Bemidji State.
“The CCHA helps the continued development of faculty hockey and is worked up to just accept Augustana College as our ninth member,” Lucia stated within the league e mail. “Sioux Falls is a confirmed hockey neighborhood and the dedication Augustana College is making to Division I hockey is spectacular. Our members sit up for aiding Augustana College of their transition to varsity hockey and the CCHA over the subsequent few years.”
For instance of the Sioux Falls space’s assist for hockey, the Sioux Falls Stampede is a member of the 16-team U.S. Hockey League, listed because the nation’s solely Tier I junior hockey league that has had six consecutive years with a minimum of 30 NHL draft picks and in 2021-22 had greater than 400 NCAA D-I faculty commitments.
“We’re very happy to welcome Augustana College into the CCHA,” Hensrud stated. “The dedication Augustana College has to tutorial excellence mirrors that of all of the groups within the CCHA and can add to our general excellence as a league.”
Augustana has a report of athletic success, with 5 NCAA nationwide championships whereas competing within the Northern Solar Intercollegiate Convention, a largely Minnesota league in NCAA Division II.
The Vikings have gained 4 nationwide titles since 2010 and completed within the prime 20 of the Division II Learfield Director’s Cup standings for eight of the previous 9 years.
Academically, Augustana persistently leads the NSIC in all-academic honorees and has had 44 Educational All-America honors over the previous decade, the CCHA launch acknowledged.
The CCHA additionally introduced that Augustana turns into a full voting member instantly, and can play a transitional schedule in one other 12 months, beginning in fall 2023 with 16 video games — one sequence towards every authentic CCHA member — in each 2023-24 and 2024-25 earlier than enjoying a full league schedule for 2025-26.
“As Augustana launches the primary faculty hockey program in South Dakota, we’re grateful to the CCHA for welcoming our college, town of Sioux Falls, and the complete state to NCAA Division I competitors on this thrilling sport,” Augustana President Stephanie Herseth Sandlin stated. “We’re thrilled to hitch the CCHA — the league and its members are dedicated to excellence, participant growth and the expertise of student-athletes and followers.”
“We started this tutorial 12 months with three targets for our hockey program and with this invitation we now have now achieved all three — finalize the design of Midco Area, rent a head coach and discover a convention dwelling,” Augustana athletics director Josh Morton stated. “Becoming a member of a league that has shortly established itself as a nationally aggressive convention means rather a lot and we sit up for including to the excellence of the CCHA in 2023 as we carry the best stage of faculty hockey to Augustana College.”
Augustana was based in 1860, has an enrollment of two,100 and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Regardless of the identical nickname because the close by Minnesota Vikings NFL workforce, these Vikings’ college colours are navy blue and gold.
Data compiled by Journal Sports activities Editor Steve Brownlee. His e mail deal with is sbrownlee@miningjournal.web.
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Videos: Gundy, Players Recap Win against South Dakota State
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STILLWATER — The Oklahoma State football team beat South Dakota State 44-20 on Saturday to start the season 1-0. After the game, Mike Gundy, Ollie Gordon, Alan Bowman, De’Zhaun Stribling, Collin Oliver, Korie Black and Trey Rucker met with reporters to recap the game.
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South Dakota State vs. No. 17 Oklahoma State live stream (8/31/24): Watch college football, Week 1 online
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The South Dakota State Jackrabbits face the No. 17 Oklahoma State Cowboys on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 (8/31/24) at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Fans can watch the game with a subscription to ESPN+.
Here’s what you need to know:
What: NCAA Football, Week 1
Who: South Dakota State vs. Oklahoma State
When: Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 (8/31/24)
Where: Boone Pickens Stadium
Time: 2 p.m. ET
TV: N/A
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Live stream: ESPN+
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Here’s a college football story from the Associated Press:
Y’all ain’t played nobody!
It might as well be college football’s slogan. Debates about strength of schedule are part of the fabric of the sport, like marching bands, cheerleaders and tailgating.
With the size of the College Football Playoff tripling in size from four teams to 12 this season — including seven at-large bids — expect the arguments over the relative difficulty of teams’ schedules to increase exponentially.
The posturing and politicking has already begun.
“This is the NFL of college football in my mind,” Nebraska coach Matt Rhule said during Big Ten media days. At Southeastern Conference media days, the NFL was also invoked when the topic steered to schedules.
“As coaches we want to play the best. People forget that when you’ve spent time in the NFL, every week was like that,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. “So when Texas and Oklahoma came into the conference, every schedule was going to get harder.”
The debates aren’t just about which conferences are the best. With super-sized conferences of 16-18 teams, the differences in strength of schedule within leagues can be significant.
The CFP selection committee uses a strength-of-schedule rating provided by SportSource Analytics that includes components such as wins and losses, scoring differential and game location.
Balancing who you played with how you played will be harder than ever.
“There’s a weight on the committee that’s new. I want to see how the committee processes that,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said during spring meetings. “And my encouragement is that this, ‘Well, we have an undefeated team so they’re in’ is not the standard. It never was the standard. Obviously, that stirred up controversy last year.”
Toughest schedules in the Power Four
There are dozens of data-based rating systems to measure the relative strength of college football teams, and all have some type of schedule-rating component.
The AP took three systems — ESPN’s SP+, FEI and KFord Ratings — and averaged their strength of schedule rankings for all 134 Bowl Subdivision teams to determine where each Power Four team’s schedule ranks nationally (all games, not just conference games, are factored in).
Using those projections, SEC teams on average will be facing the toughest schedules this season.
The average strength-of-schedule ranking among the 16 SEC teams is 11.2, from Florida (a unanimous No. 1 among all three systems) to Missouri at 36.7.
Half the teams in the SEC have schedules with an average national ranking of 10 or better, including No. 1 Georgia at 3.7. No. 11 Missouri is the only SEC team with an average schedule-strength ranking below 25.3.
Rating the rest
The Big Ten, now including Southern California, UCLA, Oregon and Washington, is next with an average strength-of-schedule ranking of 26.9 among its 18 teams.
Purdue’s 7.7 average ranking is the highest followed by No. 23 USC at 9. Big Ten favorite No. 2 Ohio State’s average is 34. No. 3 Oregon’s is 26.7.
The ACC and Big 12 are about the same. The 17-team ACC has an average strength of schedule ranking of 49.9. The 16-team Big 12′s average ranking is 47.3.
Assessing strength of schedule
Straight up rankings can be deceiving. How to quantify the difference between facing the sixth-ranked schedule and 26th?
Brian Fremeau, the creator of FEI, does it three ways, asking three questions: How many games would an elite team lose facing a particular schedule? How many would a good team lose? How many would an average team lose?
AP used FEI’s strength of schedule ratings based on good teams in its composite rankings, since good teams are going to be the ones in the CFP race.
Based on FEI projections, the difference between playing Georgia’s schedule (rated 3.4 among the hardest in the nation) and Ohio State (34) is about one more loss for a good team against the Bulldogs’ slate. The difference between Alabama’s schedule and Big 12 favorite Utah’s is about two losses for a good team against the Tide’s.
If these schedule strength projections held — they will change throughout the season — it would then be reasonable to compare an 11-1 Utah to a 9-3 Alabama.
Reasonable to compare doesn’t necessarily mean the one with the tougher schedule should automatically be ranked higher.
“I don’t judge a team on its schedule. I judge a team on how it performs against a schedule, or my system does. And that is a little more of a nuanced take then, ‘Well, we played a tougher set of opponents than you did, therefore, we’re better,’” Fremeau said. “There’s a bit of a balancing act between the two.”
Intraconference debates
The SEC and Big Ten are both bigger and division-less for the first time. That necessitated new tiebreaker procedures to determine which teams qualify for conference title games featuring the top two teams in the standings.
Within the guidelines is an acknowledgment that the rigor of conference schedules will vary when teams are playing barely half the league. After head-to-head and record vs. common opponents are used to break ties, both leagues go to results that favor the team that fared better against the better conference opponents they play.
The ACC, a year ahead of the the SEC and Big Ten in abandoning divisions, has a similar nod within its tiebreakers to strength of schedule.
ACC Associate Commissioner Michael Strickland said the conference used 10 years of data that measures the success of its football teams to help create a new schedule rotation that would be competitively balanced. But the ACC also to had weigh travel now that Stanford, California and SMU are members, as well as protecting some traditional annual rivalries.
The ACC’s fourth two-team tiebreaker is combined winning percentage of conference opponents.
“Our head football coaches suggested that we insert that during our review process,” Strickland said.
The CFP choices
The CFP field announced Dec. 8 will be comprised of the five highest-ranked conference champions, regardless of league, and seven at-large selections. There is no limit to the number of at-large bids a conference can receive.
The most interesting comparisons for the CFP selection committee might end up being between the many conference rivals that do not play each other in the regular season.
What to do with a 10-2 Missouri and a 9-3 Alabama (composite strength-of-schedule ranking, 9.3)? Or Iowa (37) at 10-2 and Michigan (16) at 9-3? Over in the ACC, what would happen while assessing a 10-2 Virginia Tech (68) and a 9-3 Florida State (30.3)?
“Especially when we’re picking (seven) teams now, we’re looking at the loss column with a bit more scrutiny,” Fremeau said. “They’re going to be debating teams like that with a one or possibly two-game difference in record, but a comparable difference in expected schedule rating and they’re going to have that debate about which one they value more.”
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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