I know --- some don't care --- but I always remember this Sunday as an exciting day to see who and where the Apps played - brackets and possible matchups - All of this is in the past and rightfully so but I still like to watch the playoff games - Looks to be most of the same "usual suspects" ---

FIRST-ROUND GAMES

November 26 at San Luis Obispo, California, 7 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

San Diego (9-1) at Cal Poly (7-4)

November 26 at Villanova, Pennsylvania, 2 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

Saint Francis (Pa.) (7-4) at Villanova (8-3)

November 26 at Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

Weber St. (7-4) at Chattanooga (8-3)

November 26 at Durham, New Hampshire, 2 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

Lehigh (9-2) at New Hampshire (7-4)

November 26 at Youngstown, Ohio, 5 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

Samford (7-4) at Youngstown St. (8-3)

November 26 at Spartanburg, South Carolina, 2 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

Charleston So. (7-3) at Wofford (8-3)

November 26 at Richmond, Virginia, 2 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

N.C. A&T (9-2) at Richmond (8-3)

November 26 at Conway, Arkansas, 3 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

Illinois St. (6-5) at Central Ark. (9-2)

SECOND-ROUND GAMES

December 3 at Fargo, North Dakota, 3:30 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

San Diego/Cal Poly winner at #1 North Dakota St. (10-1)

December 3 at Brookings, South Dakota, 3 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

Sant Francis (PA)/Villanova winner at #8 South Dakota St. (8-3)

December 3 at Huntsville, Texas, 3 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

Weber St./Chattanooga winner at #5 Sam Houston St. (11-0)

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December 3 at Harrisonburg, Virginia, 2 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

Lehigh/New Hampshire winner at #4 James Madison (10-1)

December 3 at Jacksonville, Alabama, 2 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

Samford/Youngstown St. winner at #3 Jacksonville St. (10-1)

December 3 at Charleston, South Carolina, 6 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

Charleston So./Wofford winner at #6 The Citadel (10-1)

December 3 at Grand Forks, North Dakota, 6 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

N.C. A&T/Richmond winner at #7 North Dakota (9-2)

December 3 at Cheney, Washington 4 p.m. (ET) (ESPN3)

Illinois St./Central Ark. winner at #2 Eastern Wash. (10-1)

Television schedules and games times for all rounds of the 2016 championship will be updated at www.ncaa.com/fcs.

Good showing by the SoCon!!! Hope one of those teams win it all.

They should rename it the NDSU Invitational.

I'm about 45 minutes from Harrisonburg. Might make the trip to see them play in two weeks. Although we've moved up, I miss the playoffs.

We miss the playoffs too. Meant extended App football and more weekends in God's country.

I'm totally glad we are FBS. It has been great (winning seems to help lol). But I'm an old fart and I had 38 years of association with the SoCon, so I enjoyed some of the geographic rivals and friends who were alums of those schools that I had over all those years. Never look back! But wish SoCon and its member schools the best of luck (unless we are playing them in some non football sport. And Furman. hate furple lol).

I don't miss being small time one bit but the playoffs were exciting. Being able to see a few more games was great.

JMU has the offense to win it all. We'll see if they or anyone else can stop NDSU.

Thought I read here that the SoCon had fallen so far that it was a one-bid league now. Four teams including one with a bye doesn't seem so bad.

Boy. Sure does look exciting.

I have a feeling NDSU finally breaks through and takes it this year

diehardapp18 wrote:Boy. Sure does look exciting.

I have a feeling NDSU finally breaks through and takes it this year

Yeah they might have a shot. Yawn.

What has happened to Montana? - I know some of you guys have some friends there - they have seemed to become quite mediocre? ---

WVAPPeer wrote:What has happened to Montana? - I know some of you guys have some friends there - they have seemed to become quite mediocre? ---

They struggled to win on the road. 5-1 at home 1-4 away.

I will always miss it.

I always enjoyed the playoffs also but just to keep things in perspective, we now play a 12 game regular season vs. an 11 game FCS season and we go to a bow to make it 13. FCS only offers more games to watch IF the team makes it to the third round of the playoffs. There weren't that many seasons when App actually played more than 13.

Getting 4 teams in the playoffs is good for the SoCon. It helps that the playoffs are now 20 teams but I think people calling it a "one bid" conference were exaggerating. I will always pull for the SoCon teams to be successful and I would love to see one of them upset NDSU....but not holding my breath!

I forgot to include that, in 2018 we will have a Conference Championship game, so the total games will be 14....only one less than our championship years.

Good to see the SoCon doing so well. Would love to see one of them win it all, especially the Citdogs; I developed some good friendships with a few of their fans over the years and for a small, military school to win would be awesome. It will be interesting to see if the Bison can do it again too.