Ferris State Football Ranked Third In This Week's NCAA D2 Super Region Three Rankings

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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University football team has put itself in position to potentially receive its eighth consecutive NCAA Division II Playoff appearance as FSU is #3 this week in the NCAA Super Region Three Rankings. The top seven teams at the end of the regular-season will advance to the Division II Playoffs.

The Bulldogs are third overall behind Grand Valley State (#1) and Pittsburg State (#2) with Ouachita Baptist (#4) and Davenport (#5) behind FSU in the top five.

The second five consists of Truman State (#6), Indianapolis (#7), Harding (#8), Emporia State (#9) and Northwest Missouri State (#10).

This week marks the first week in which teams are listed in ranking order as last week's initial Super Region Three listing featured teams under consideration in alphabetical order only.

The top four teams at the end of the year will all host at least one home playoff game with the #1 team earning a first-round bye and teams #2, #3 and #4 hosting first-round action. The super region rankings will be unveiled again the next Monday for the final time before the final NCAA Playoff selections are announced on Sunday, Nov. 13.

The Bulldogs will host unbeaten Davenport this Saturday, Nov. 5, for a 1 p.m. (ET) Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) matchup at FSU's Top Taggart Field. The contest will pit two teams that are both ranked among the nation's top 15 squads in the national rankings.

Ferris State has made 12 previous all-time NCAA Playoff appearances, including each of the last seven seasons of gridiron action from 2014-21. Prior to the last seven seasons, the Bulldogs had not made the field since 1996.

In 2015, Ferris State recorded its first playoff victory in 19 years with a first-round home triumph over Texas A&M Commerce. In 2016, the Bulldogs advanced to the NCAA Division II National Semifinals for the second-time ever after beating rival GVSU for the Super Region Four Championship. The Bulldogs then made a second-straight trip to the national quarterfinals in 2017 before reaching the D2 National Championship game for the first time in school history in 2018. Ferris State reached the national semifinals and played host to its first-ever home national semifinal in 2019 before blaming the program's first NCAA D2 National Championship in 2021.

FSU is the only GLIAC member school that has reached the playoffs in each of the past seven seasons to date and one of only two in all of Division II football to reach the postseason the past seven seasons along with Northwest Missouri State.

Tickets for this Saturday's home matchup against Davenport are on sale now and can be purchased online in advance at FerrisStateBulldogs.com/Tickets.