Playoff Bracket Completely Seeded

The week of 9/11/01, games were cancelled across the country. For the playoffs that year, the NCAA decided to seed the Top 4 teams and group everyone else regionally for "safety" reasons. Using the tragedy of 9/11 as the backdrop excuse, the NCAA has continued this money-saving insult to FCS schools denying us a true seeded playoff where teams hundreds of miles apart might play in the first round.

Using TSN, Coach's, and GPI I've ranked the teams 1-20 using the committee's 20 teams. The Top Seed always plays the lowest seeded favorite:

16) Tenn Tech------------1) Sam Houston
17) Norfolk State


---------------------------8) App St
---------------------------9) Towson

-------------------------- 5) Montana
--------------------------12) New Hampshire


13) Maine----------------4) North Dakota St
20) Albany


14) Central Arkansas-----3) Georgia Southern
19) Stony Brook


---------------------------6) Montana St
---------------------------11) Old Dominion

---------------------------7) Lehigh
----------------------------10) Wofford


15) James Madison-------2) Northern Iowa
18) Eastern Kentucky

Top bracket looks a lot tougher than the lower bracket

I would agree. I remember that happening sometimes based on good teams in the same conference beating each other and being ranked lower than other teams based on W-L records. Someone will always get a tough draw or be left out, but I think seeding the whole field is the best way to do it.

Strange that JMU would still play EKU.

Odd. This has NDSU most likely facing Maine. NDSU was supposed to host Maine on 9/15/2001, but it was cancelled due to 9/11.

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Originally Posted by bisonguy

Odd. This has NDSU most likely facing Maine. NDSU was supposed to host Maine on 9/15/2001, but it was cancelled due to 9/11.

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