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So that's it...2017 season is over. The dynasty continues as North Dakota St won its 6th national championship in 7 years, more on those guys later. The playoffs as a whole were, to quote an old coach "not too stinky" While we got the end matchup everyone hoped for, getting there left a lot to be desired. That's not to say we got a good meal, but if we are being nit-picky about things the playoffs are the equivalent of some dishes not having and seasoning and others have a bit too much. The Bracket This one is the one big gripe from me and almost everyone in the land of FCS. The playoffs this year  were this weird hybrid of seeding with regional requirements that almost guarantees we get conference rematches, an unbalanced bracket, a some team really gets the shaft. This isn't some new problem unfortunately, ever since the playoffs were expanded first to 20 and now to 24 teams, we have seen a bracket and matchups that too often look slanted. In James Madi
So quick, show of hands, who knew there were two games left in the college football season? Anyone? Yea, I didn't think many hands would go up but guess what we had an FCS champion crowned this weekend! I can go into how much it sucked that we had to wait this long for a national championship, and it did suck a lot, but that is for another time and post and/or podcast topic. But we did have the game. Was it an all time classic? No, but it was still a very solid game between two really good teams. It had its sloppy moments, but you come to expect that when you have a month between games. I'll talk about some of the other stuff that has been going on in the world of FCS but for now some notes from Saturday's FCS Championship North Dakota St 17 - James Madison 13 It was surprising how much the D-lines from each team dominated the line of scrimmage. JMU did it with mostly its front four and destroyed the middle of the line of NDSU. But the Bison had to have seen what Weber