We’re less than a month away from FCS playoff selection Sunday — 25 days to be exact — and the Division I Football Championship Committee has revealed its in-season top 10 rankings of the FCS teams. The rankings were announced Wednesday, Oct. 30 shortly after 2 p.m. ET on ESPN2’s College Football Live broadcast.
The committee used results of games played through Oct. 26, and these in-season rankings serve as a snapshot as to where the committee has teams ranked heading into the final four weeks of the regular season.
The committee consider some of the following criteria (in no order) when selecting at large teams:
- Each team’s won-lost record
- Each team’s strength of schedule
- The won-lost record of a team will be scrutinized to determine a team’s strength of schedule; however, fewer than six Division I wins may place a team in jeopardy of not being selected.
- The committee may give more consideration to those teams that have played all Division I opponents.
- Eligibility and availability of student-athletes for the NCAA championship
- Two predictive methods (Massey and ESPN)
- Two results-based metrics (KPI and ESPN) as a tool for evaluating teams.
Unlike past years, the FCS Coaches Poll and FCS STATS Perform Poll ARE NOT considered.
The committee’s top 10 rankings give insight into which teams are in contention for the first-round byes given to the eight seeded teams in the FCS playoff bracket. For the first time in 2024, teams seeded Nos. 9-16 will also be seeded, increasing the importance of the last two teams ranked in the committee’s rankings. Click or tap here for more on this year’s FCS Championship.
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