Playoff bracket released

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If you’re not able to watch on ESPNews, we’re posting the bracket at the very moment we’re allowed by the NCAA and ESPN. Give us your snap reactions below, or on Post Patterns. Follow @D3football and @D3Keith on Twitter for analysis, and we’ll have a podcast, team-by-team capsules and Around the Nation’s annual Surprises and Disappointments playoff predictions column later in the week.

Enjoy.

http://www.d3boards.com/playoffs/footballbracket2009.pdf

Plus, Advantage Catdome archived the selection show and posted it to YouTube, where you can watch it below:

57 thoughts on “Playoff bracket released”

  1. The outcome of the Monmouth / UST game is going to depend entirely upon whether the Scots apply their considerable talent from the moment the game starts. If they start play on the field with the same flat performance of their past two games, they won’t stand a chance.

    MWC play may have resulted in a lack of intensity by the Scots toward the end of their season. My hope is that they recognize this in themselves and will show up ready to play a complete game, realizing that they can’t expect to wait until the second half before they get serious.

  2. Wow, must’ve struck a nerve, sorry. For the record, I’m actually, I’m pulling hard for the Scots!! To clarify, I certainly wasn’t trying to compare two Monmouth teams separated by 5 years. Rather, I was simply making the point that the MWC hasn’t fared well in the expanded D-3 playoff era (.167 winning percentage as a conference). Good luck on Saturday and make sure 1) your boys double cover UST wide receiver Fritz Waldvogel and 2) DO NOT kick the ball his way!

  3. The outcome of the Monmouth / UST game is going to depend entirely upon whether the Scots apply their considerable talent from the moment the game starts. If they start play on the field with the same flat performance of their past two games, they won’t stand a chance.

    MWC play may have resulted in a lack of intensity by the Scots toward the end of their season. My hope is that they recognize this in themselves and will show up ready to play a complete game, realizing that they can’t expect to wait until the second half before they get serious.

    Any chance that St. Thomas has considerable talent as well?

  4. I’m expecting a really good and pretty close contest here. UST comes from a conference that is quite a bit more difficult and only lost to the #4 team by a FG in OT, but Monmouth has beaten their opponents by a bigger differential and have the advantage of home field.

    It’ll be interesting to see how they match up

  5. Very Interesting how none of the top 10 teams are on Mount Union’s side of the bracket.(except for Wesley). Mount Union plays an easy schedule and don’t play any good teams outside their division and then these bracket creators give them an easy playoff schedule.

    Whoever makes it to the championship from the right side of the bracket will have earned their spot in the championship…and hopefully they are not too beat up to not pull off a win in the championship.

    Hopefully Next Year, the bracket creators will start creating fair brackets by dividing up the top 10 ranked teams throughout the brackets instead of placing them all on one side of the bracket(with the exception of Mount Union). I wonder if these creators of the brackets are Mount Union fans since they always get an easy playoff schedule.

  6. Of course UST has considerable talent as well, and I am sure they will demonstrate that from the first kick-off to the end of the game. My point is, Monmouth may not. They have got to step it up. I have watched them play terrific football from start to finish, but not the past couple weeks.

  7. I submit that Willamette is the best team not to make the playoffs. I know we Wildcats are not unhappy that we don’t have to play them again.

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