Illinois State Set To Travel To Southeastern Louisiana For First Round of FCS Playoffs

Football
11/23/2025 12:20:00 PM

Mike Williams

NORMAL, Ill. – The Illinois State soccer gamers and coaches had rather a lot to cheer about Sunday morning contained in the Aaron Leetch Club at Hancock Stadium, because the Redbirds had been chosen to take part within the 24-team 2025 FCS Playoff area. ISU may have a first-round highway matchup at No. 16 seed Southeastern Louisiana (9-3, 7-1 SLC) at Noon CT on Saturday, November 29, in Hammond, Louisiana.

The Redbirds (8-4, 5-3 MVFC) can be making their tenth look within the FCS playoffs (1998, 1999, 2006, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2024, 2025) and seventh beneath the management of head coach Brock Spack. ISU is 11-9 all-time in playoff video games and can be making a second-straight look within the playoffs for the primary time since three-straight berths from 2014-16. Last season, the Redbirds picked up a first-round playoff win at Southeast Missouri State, earlier than falling within the second spherical on the highway to No. 5 seed UC Davis.

Illinois State completed the common season as winners of 4 of its final 5 contests. After falling to FBS foe Oklahoma within the season opener, the Redbirds gained five-straight FCS highway video games to enhance to 11-3 total on the highway over the previous two seasons. The eight-win season for ISU is the sixth for the Redbirds beneath the management of head coach Brock Spack and the eighth at school historical past. Spack is 8-6 within the playoffs because the ISU head coach, together with the group’s magical run to the FCS National Championship sport in opposition to North Dakota State in 2014. 

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