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November 23, 2008
Maine football cracks into playoff field

This story keeps getting better.

Maine football defied some pretty long-shot odds to crack the 16-team NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoff field on Sunday night.

Maine (8-4, 5-3 CAA) will face No. 3 seed Northern Iowa (10-2) in a dome in Cedar Falls, Iowa on Saturday at 5:05 p.m. - returning to the playoffs for the first time since 2002.

This despite losing the regular season finale 28-24 to rival Hampshire in Saturday's surprise snowstorm - a loss most thought would lock Maine out of the playoffs.

Maine started the season 2-3, before going 6-1 down the stretch with a cast of characters that has improved by the week.

The Black Bears will practice in Orono this week before heading to Iowa sometime on Friday on a flight the NCAA will pick up the tab for.

Check out the playoff brakcet on the NCAA's website.

Posted by Jenn Menendez at 09:55 PM

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Jenn covers Maine college sports for
the Portland Press
Herald/Maine Sunday
Telegram.

A former Portland Pirates beat writer who has covered two winter Olympics for the paper, Jenn will expand her beat this year to include the University of Southern Maine, St. Joseph's College, Bowdoin College, the University of New England, and Southern Maine Community
College.

She will continue to cover the
University of Maine Black Bears, the state's only division one program.



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