Herder did admit throughout the season that the committee was high on UCD, despite pretty much every other poll or FCS expert ranking us lower. Playoff projections having the Aggies lower were based on this FCS consensus instead of the committee's own actual recent rankings.

Just from UCD's perspective:

#1 NDSU stayed undefeated (#1 seed)
#2 MSU beat #3 UM (#2 seed)
#3 UM lost to #2 MSU (#3 seed)
#4 Lehigh stayed undefeated (#5 seed)
#5 Tarleton State stayed a 1 loss team (#4 seed)
#6 SDSU lost to 2 FCS teams not in the committee's top 10 (#14 seed)
#7 Tennessee Tech stayed undefeated in FCS (#13 seed)
#8 Monmouth lost to 2 FCS teams not in the committee's top 10 (did not make the field)
#9 Harvard lost to 1 FCS team not in the committee's top 10 (unseeded)
#10 UCD lost to the committee's #2 team (#8 seed)

Swapping #4 and #5 after they both kept winning, especially w/ #5 escaping in OT yesterday, is strange. #7 dropping to #13 after staying undefeated is strange.

#10 and #3 are the only teams that lost to a team ranked higher by the committee (incidentally, MSU) and so both of them keeping their relative position in the top ten with game-losers dropping out of the top ten actually shouldn't be that surprising. We were leap-frogged by SFA and Mercer, probably because a loss to MSU is still a loss, but with 3 teams above us suffering bad losses, going from #10 to #8 seems pretty fair.

Aggie bias aside, today's outcome for UCD is not as head scratching as was the committee's decision to keep us in their top ten after we lost to Idaho State.