It’s not just rivalry week in college football. The Football Championship Subdivision playoffs begin on Saturday, with 16 unseeded teams competing for the right to play the eight seeded teams in quarterfinals on December 5.
FCS playoffs 2015 schedule: Times, TV schedule and live stream
College football’s best tournament kicks off on Saturday.
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Here’s the full bracket, via the NCAA:
Perhaps the best game of the first round matches Montana and South Dakota State, teams that lost to No. 3 national seed North Dakota, which has won the last four FCS titles, in the regular season. The major difference between the teams? The Grizzlies, coached by Internet darling Bob Stitt, upset the Bison in a 38-35 thriller to begin the season, while the Jackrabbits fell short in their meeting with the Bison in October. (SDSU did beat Kansas in September ... but that’s Kansas.)
Also taking part in first-round games are New Hampshire and Sam Houston State, which both made the national semifinals in 2014, and The Citadel, which just beat SEC cellar-dwellar South Carolina.
The only other team in a first-round game with an FBS win this year is Fordham, which beat Army way back on September 4.
Every first round game of the FCS playoffs will air on ESPN3. All times Eastern.
FCS playoffs: First round, Nov. 28
Dayton (10-1) vs. Western Illinois (6-5), 12 p.m., ESPN3
Chattanooga (8-3) vs. Fordham (9-2), 1 p.m., ESPN3
Coastal Carolina (9-2) vs. The Citadel (8-3), 2 p.m., ESPN3
Sam Houston State (8-3) vs. Southern Utah (8-3), 3 p.m., ESPN3
Montana (7-4) vs. South Dakota State (8-3), 3 p.m., ESPN3
New Hampshire (7-4) vs. Colgate (7-4), 3:30 p.m., ESPN3
William & Mary (8-3) vs. Duquesne (8-3), 3:30 p.m., ESPN3
Northern Iowa (7-4) vs. Eastern Illinois (7-5), 5 p.m., ESPN3
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