My take:
Elon
Wofford @1. North Dakota St
SE Missouri St @8. Nicholls St
Western Illinois
Maine
Stony Brook @4. Colgate
Duquesne @5. James Madison
Towson
North Dakota
Northern Iowa @3. South Dakota St
Eastern Tenn St @6. Kennesaw St
Jacksonville St
San Diego
Weber St @7. UC Davis
Incarnate Word @2. Eastern Washington
Delaware
First Four Out:
Idaho St
Montana/Montana St Winner
Furman
North Carolina A&T
Originally Posted by GOD
NC A&T is leading the MEAC. Would they turn down the Celebration Bowl this time?
They're technically still tied with FAMU atop the MEAC standings and FAMU beat them head-to-head.
FAMU lost to South Carolina St last Saturday but due to some bad blood between the MEAC and Hampton around Hampton's abrupt departure from the conference last offseason that FAMU/SCSU game didn't count against the conference standings. As I understand it was basically put in place as a conference mandated OOC game so Hampton wouldn't be able to schedule either team as an OOC game. It's complicated... but the bottom line is if FAMU beats Bethune-Cookman next weekend they get the Celebration Bowl invite.
I don't know what you want me to say, the FCS isn't very deep this year. I like those teams and then there are a few teams that I could make a case for Towson, Delaware, Maine, Elon, Nicholls, UCD and maybe Colgate(depending on how their FBS game shakes out). That said a lot of these teams have had some clunkers, only NDSU has a sterling resume which is kind of bizarre.
NDSU to the FBS always. In all ways.
Haley's bracket echos what I mentioned early, beware of how seeding affects the bracket...NDSU-SDSU-EWU overloaded on one side...
NDSU to the FBS always. In all ways.
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The committee likes to "spread the wealth" when it comes to the seeds. Which is why I don't see SDSU getting the 2 seed.