r/fcs • u/bearsandbearkats Sam Houston Bearkats • Baylor Bears • Nov 23 '25

Game Thread FCS Selection Show Thread - 11am CST - ESPNU

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Big Sky Montana State
CAA Rhode Island
MVFC North Dakota State
Northeast CCSU
Ohio Valley Tennessee Tech
Patriot Lehigh
Pioneer Drake
SoCon Mercer
Southland SFA
UAC Abilene Christian
Yale

THE BRACKET

Seed Team Home Away
1 North Dakota State 16 SLU Illinois State
8 UC Davis 9 Rhode Island CCSU
4 Tarleton State 13 Tennessee Tech North Dakota
5 Lehigh 12 Villanova Harvard
3 Montana 14 South Dakota State New Hampshire
6 Mercer 11 South Dakota Drake
2 Montana State 15 Youngstown State Yale
7 SFA 10 Abilene Christian Lamar

11 teams have secured their spots and there are 11 teams waiting to see if they get an invite to the FCS playoffs.

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u/Windows_66 Iowa Hawkeyes • Drake Bulldogs Nov 23 '25

Harvard got shafted so hard by their loss that they don't even get a seed, and now we're facing South Dakota again.

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u/SoxVikePain North Dakota State Bison Nov 23 '25

Getting shafted implies they got screwed unfairly, which they did not. They should be happy to be in at all.

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u/Windows_66 Iowa Hawkeyes • Drake Bulldogs Nov 23 '25

Yeah, you're probably right. I'm just not excited to face South Dakota again.

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u/JonSnow4525 Youngstown State Penguins Nov 23 '25

Agreed. SIU is a better and more deserving team than Harvards weak ass ten game schedule

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u/rprofilet Cornell Big Red Nov 23 '25

Reminding the thread that the Ivy schedules were planned before they became playoff eligible :/

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u/JonSnow4525 Youngstown State Penguins Nov 23 '25

Tough shit. They have got one auto bid and no at large until they start to play full schedules

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u/skedeebs Yale Bulldogs Nov 23 '25

Apparently not.

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u/rprofilet Cornell Big Red Nov 23 '25

As a fan of a team who hasn’t had a winning conference record since ‘05, I’m just here for the analysis… wish I could see my team even begin to enter the playoff picture.

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u/join_the_creed Montana State • Washington Sta… Nov 23 '25

Ehh SIU only had 6 D1 wins and some ugly Salukicides