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In the first-round of the College Football Playoff, teams seeded No. 5 through No. 12 will engage in elimination games. The action kicks off with a Friday night showdown between No. 7 Notre Dame ...
The 12 participating teams in the College Football Playoff bracket are the five conference champions ranked highest by the CFP selection committee, and the next seven highest-ranked teams.
Pittsburg State 35, Indianapolis 14: Making their 20th appearance in the Div. II playoffs, the Gorillas (11-1) rolled to a 21-point victory at Carnie Smith Stadium in Pittsburg, Kan.
With the success of the football program in the 1990s, Pittsburg State undertook a $5.8 million renovation of Carnie Smith Stadium in 2000, a further $2.5 million renovation to the west end in 2006 (including the addition of eight luxury boxes), and the addition of a $1.7 million Jumbotron in 2008 (the biggest in Division II at the time).
Pittsburg State defeated Wayne State University, MI, 35-21 to claim its most recent national championship in 2011. During the 2004 season, the Gorillas finished 14–1, losing 31–36 to Valdosta State University in the NCAA Division II National Football Championship .
0–9. 1943 Pittsburg State Gorillas football team; 1946 Pittsburg State Gorillas football team; 1949 Pittsburg State Gorillas football team; 1956 Pittsburg State Gorillas football team
The first round of the College Football Playoff will begin with one game on Friday, December 20 and conclude with three games scheduled for December 21. All times Eastern FRIDAY, DEC. 20
In the program's beginning, the team was known as the Normals, but that changed in the early 1920s when the student body voted to be nicknamed the Gorillas. [2] Since 1924, Pittsburg State's football team has played in Carnie Smith Stadium, named after the seventh head coach at Pittsburg State. Prior to renaming the stadium after Smith in 1986 ...