College Sports Journal Sagarin FCS Playoff Predictions–Oct. 21
Using the Sagarin ratings from this week alone to project the FCS playoffs, along with the automatic bid for the conferences that receive a bid, the following would be the playoff teams. These teams are seeded 1 through 24 for the 24 teams that make the FCS playoffs.
As a reminder, the following conferences receive an automatic bid, while 14 teams are selected as at-large picks.
Big Sky Conference Big South Conference Colonial Athletic Conference (CAA) Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC) Northeast Conference (NEC) Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) Patriot League Pioneer Football League Southern Conference Southland Conference
Top 25 Rankings with playoff spot with the conference name indicating the automatic spot for its conference and then the 14 at-large spots also listed. See the full Top 25 with the hyperlink:
1 | North Dakota State | MVFC |
2 | James Madison | CAA |
3 | South Dakota State | At-Large 1 |
4 | Montana | Big Sky |
5 | Sacramento State | At-Large 2 |
6 | Northern Iowa | At-Large 3 |
7 | Weber State | At-Large 4 |
8 | Villanova | At-Large 5 |
9 | Illinonis State | At-Large 6 |
10 | Eastern Washington | At-Large 7 |
11 | UC Davis | At-Large 8 |
12 | Montana State | At-Large 9 |
13 | Kennesaw State | Big South |
14 | South Dakota | At-Large 10 |
15 | Furman | SoCon |
16 | Towson | At-Large 11 |
17 | Youngstown State | At-Large 12 |
18 | Idaho State | At-Large 13 |
19 | Sam Houston State | Southland |
20 | Idaho State | At-Large 14 |
21 | Tennessee-Martin | OVC |
22 | Central Connecticut St. | NEC |
23 | San Diego | Pioneer |
24 | Holy Cross | Patriot |

Originally from LaMoure, North Dakota, Kent is a 1996 graduate of North Dakota State University. His prior writing experience is over 15 years having previously worked with D2football.com, I-AA.org, and College Sporting News before coming to College Sports Journal in 2016. His main focus is college football is the Missouri Valley Football Conference within the Division I FCS. And in 2017, he began also to look at the FBS Group of Five conferences of the American Athletic, Conference USA, Mid-American, Mountain West, and Sun Belt.
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South Dakota has two spots 13 and 14
I think you need another team since South Dakota has two spots 13 and 14