The 2024 FCS regular season ended in exciting fashion on Saturday with a number of banging finishes in Vermillion and Sacramento.

The 24-team field will be announced tomorrow morning at 11:30 a.m. central time and there will be a serious conversation about who is seeded from one through eight.

The field consists of ten automatic qualifiers and fourteen at-large bids.

For the first time, the field will consist of 16 seeded teams, with the top eight receiving byes in the first round.

Here’s the WDAY/Inforum Bracketology Show and what we expect the field to look like Sunday morning.

TOP EIGHT SEEDS

1. State of Montana
2. State of North Dakota
3. State of South Dakota
4. South Dakota
5. UC Davis
6.Mercer
7. Idaho
8.Richmond

Here are the Dakotas’ resumes:

N.D.S.U
10-2 record
10 Division 1 wins
2 road losses by 6 combined points
Beat SDSU, Illinois State and Tennessee State all playoff teams

SDSU

10-2 record
9 Division 1 wins
2 road losses, one to NDSU
Defeated USD and Incarnate Word, both playoff teams
Played Division 2 Augustana

SOUTH DAKOTA
9-2 record
8 Division 1 wins
1 match cancelled
2 road losses to Wisconsin, SDSU
Played Division 2 Northern State
Victory over NDSU is just a playoff victory

AUTOMATIC BIDS

Big sky – state of Montana

Big South/Ohio Valley – state of Southeast Missouri

CAA Richmond

MVFC – South Dakota State

Patriot Lehigh

Pioneer – Drake

Northeast-central state of Connecticut

Southland – word made flesh

United Athletic – Abilene Christian

SoCon Mercer

FOR BIG BIDS

State of North Dakota

State of Illinois

South Dakota

UC Davis

Idaho

Montana

Northern Arizona

UT Martin

State of Tennessee

Rhode Island

Villanova

New Hampshire

Tarleton State

Eastern Kentucky

Dom Izzo is sports director at WDAY-TV. He started working for WDAY in 2006 as a weekend sports anchor and was promoted to sports director in 2010.