B-CU to host UNH in playoff game

DAYTONA BEACH -- One day after losing their first game of the season and watching their starting quarterback and leader suffer a possible season-ending injury, the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats received a double dose of good news Sunday.

B-CU knew after Saturday's 38-27 loss to Florida A&M in Orlando that it was headed to the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, which start this week. On Sunday morning, the Wildcats found out they will receive a first-round bye and then host New Hampshire on Dec. 4 in the first NCAA playoff game at Municipal Stadium since 2003.

BCU quarterback Matt Johnson possibly out for FCS playoffs

Bethune Cookman University football may be in trouble before its first FCS playoff game next Saturday.

The Wildcats sports media relations department said Matt Johnson, voted the MEAC’s offensive player of the year, is undergoing evaluations and listed as a game time decision for their Dec. 4th playoff game against New Hampshire.

Painful Berth

ORLANDO -- The only thing rarer than a Bethune-Cookman turnover this season has been a Bethune-Cookman loss. As is often the case, the former led to the latter Saturday in the Florida Classic, as the Rattlers handed the Wildcats their first loss of the season, 38-27 in front of 61,712 fans at Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium.

The loss, B-CU's third straight to Joe Taylor and the Rattlers, dropped the seventh-ranked Wildcats (10-1, 7-1 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) into a three-way tie for first place in the conference with FAMU (8-3, 7-1) and South Carolina State (9-2, 7-1). However, the 'Cats won the league's automatic playoff bid based on the MEAC's tiebreaker system.



For B-CU and UNH Wildcats, waiting is the hardest part

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It might require equipment from the science lab to measure which team was more excited about its scenario — 11th-ranked UNH (7-4) or its opponent, 13th-ranked Bethune-Cookman, which will host the Round of 16 game on Dec. 4 in Daytona Beach, Fla.

Bethune-Cookman, the automatic qualifier from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, went 10-1 under first-year coach Brian Jenkins and the selection committee took notice. The MEAC, traditionally a one-bid league, will see another of its members, South Carolina State (9-2), visit Georgia Southern in the newly-installed first round on Saturday.

"It just shows that people have noticed the hard work that this program has put in," said Jenkins...

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