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Imagining the 2017 FCS Playoffs as a 68-Team NCAA Tournament Bracket

HERO Sports by HERO Sports
March 13, 2018
Imagining the 2017 FCS Playoffs as a 68-Team NCAA Tournament Bracket

The FCS​ Playoffs have already expanded far beyond what the FBS​ has (four teams? really?), but what if things got even crazier? Like March Madness crazy.

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Let's just go all out and make the FCS Playoffs a full 68-team bracket in honor of March Madness.

Using last year's playoff field, the Top 25 and BennettRank, we came up with an approximation of the top 68 teams in the country heading into the FCS Playoffs last year, and pitted them against each other. (Note: we made this as fun as possible by including all FCS programs, even those who don't participate in the playoff or played in the Celebration Bowl).

What would the FCS Playoffs look like if it were a 68-team, March Madness-style bracket? Now you know:

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MORE: FBS VERSION — A 68-Team CFP Bracket

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Here's the 68 teams and their seeds:

Seed JMU Region NDSU Region JSU Region UCA Region
1 James Madison North Dakota State Jacksonville State Central Arkansas
2 Southern Utah Wofford Sam Houston State South Dakota State
3 Stony Brook North Carolina A&T Western Illinois Weber State
4 South Dakota Elon Samford Grambling
5 Northern Iowa McNeese Kennesaw State Eastern Washington
6 Yale Illinois State Furman New Hampshire
7 Monmouth Nicholls Austin Peay Northern Arizona
8 Columbia Sacramento State Richmond Delaware
9 San Diego Central Connecticut State Western Carolina Montana
10 Howard Southern NC Central Youngstown State
11 SE Louisiana Bethune-Cookman Montana State/UC Davis Colgate/Villanova
12 Dartmouth UT-Martin Mercer Towson
13 Duquesne Alcorn Penn Princeton
14 Tennessee State Charleston Southern Prairie View A&M Southern Illinois
15 The Citadel Idaho State Eastern Illinois Harvard
16 Lehigh/Drake Butler/Valparaiso Bryant Hampton

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