[jcmanson]

http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnf ... id=4308710

The expansion of the FCS playoffs from 16 to 20 teams only increases potential storylines for the upcoming 2010 season. Consider these possibilities, for starters:

- As the Big South and Northeast Conference gain automatic bids for the first time, the two champions become matched in the first round, with the Big South champ (Liberty's strong squad?) hosting the meeting.

The Big South and NEC champs bring the number of automatic qualifiers to 10, and the number of at-large qualifiers also has increased by two to 10. The NCAA allows for one-quarter of the field to be seeded, so there will be five seeds (up one from previous years), although behind the scenes the field basically will be ordered 1-20 to determine which teams will play in the first round and which will have byes.

[Chris Lang]

I had to read that twice. At first, I thought he was saying the Big South champ automatically hosts the NEC champion. But that's just a possibility ...

[jcmanson]

I had to read that twice. At first, I thought he was saying the Big South champ automatically hosts the NEC champion. But that's just a possibility ...

Yeah, I guess the way I quoted it kind of makes it look that way.