Jacksonville State earned the No. 1 ranking in the coaches and media polls this season and the FCS Playoff selection committee rewarded the Gamecocks for their efforts Sunday morning.
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First-round games involving Valley teams find South Dakota State at Montana and Eastern IL at Northern Iowa. “So a few of us just kind of get the luck of the draw and a few things you cant control”.
NDSU has won eight in a row in the series, including five straight in Fargo and two second-round playoff games, in 2012 and 2014.
North Dakota State will play the victor of the South Dakota State-Montana game in the second round.
1 seed for the first time in school history.
The Grizzlies and Bison brawled in a classic on August 29 in Missoula, a 38-35 victory for the home team in ESPN’s FCS Kickoff.
The Redbirds, who have a 9-2 record and shared the Missouri Valley Conference championship with North Dakota State, were given the No. 2 seed.
IL State is the No. 2 seed and undefeated McNeese State is seeded fourth.
Portland State, with whom Montana tied for second in the Big Sky, is the league’s top-seeded program and the only Big Sky squad to receive a first-round bye. Not only that, but the T-birds must go on the road against Sam Houston State (8-3), the Southland runner-up.
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Then, of course, we have the team that everyone has not been able to knock from the perch the past few seasons, the North Dakota State Bison.
